This is the reason why the arts have never been subjected to those classifications which form the groundwork of a science.
Education, the groundwork of republican institutions, is encouraged by increasing the facilities to gather speedy news from all parts of the country.
As agriculture is the groundwork of our prosperity, too much importance can not be attached to the labors of this Department.
Hence the holy books or Vedas also form the general groundwork for Philosophy.
Thus here there is a groundwork of a fixed spiritual principle which thus satisfies the needs of the subjective mind; and from this absolute principle all further relationships, duties, laws, &c.
What are the fundamental conceptions which serve as the very groundwork of the whole of science but concepts which are explanations of phenomena and not themselves phenomena?
Agriculture, commerce, and the technicalities of trade were made accessible by hand-books of instruction, which are still in the present day the groundwork of our technological literature.
Such a tone of mind, the groundwork of all man's political capacity, was to be found in abundance at an earlier period.
It is only in the time of our fathers that the peasant has become an independent man, a free citizen of the State: so slowly has the groundwork of German civilisation and of the modern State been developed.
For the very qualities which are his characteristics, enduring systematic industry and strict parsimony, are the groundwork of the highest earthly prosperity.
In the insane various sorts of delusions may be the groundwork on which a tic may later develop.
The groundwork for added states (hysteric, psychasthenic, and others) is here very fertile.
If, now, you keep down the groundwork of your design by comparatively frequent stitches diapering it, you get a pattern in relief, more or less, according to the substance of your padding.
It is not embroidered straight upon the silk or velvet which forms the groundwork of the design, but separately on linen.
To embroider is to work on something: a groundwork is presupposed.
That is itself a web, independent of any groundwork or foundation to support it.
There are passages in all our better histories that stand out in high relief, if we may so speak, from the groundwork on which they are based.
Were that sketch in brown to be sent to a skilful engraver, he would render it the groundwork of by far the most faithful print which the public has yet seen.
It is only just to admit that in this Beth ha-Midrash Zunz laid the foundation of the profound, comprehensive scholarship on Talmudic subjects, the groundwork of his future achievements as a critic.
This ancient fable of the Brahmins was probably the groundwork also of the Grecian fable of the Titan war.
He wished to write a classical epic in twelve books, and not very fortunately chose this simple theme as the groundwork of his operations.
It was to secure the supervision of those capable of bearing arms in Israel, and to afford a groundwork for that organisation.
The father’s despotic tendencies, in him only showing at intervals and immediately restrained and overcome, are in the son the groundwork of his character.
Here, then, we trace thegroundwork of the Phœnician government.
I say all this, however, not to form the groundwork of a conclusion, but only in illustration of a general maxim which is applicable to political questions.
As the human form is the groundwork of the highest training in art, so those mental pursuits are the highest which have man, considered at large, for their object.
Let the conclusion be good or let it be bad, all was in groundworkand in essence strictly on the plane and in the tongue of statesmanship, and conformable to Don Pedro's rule, "What need the bridge much broader than the flood?
That subject being the laws of some phenomenon or some set of connected phenomena; the very phenomenon or set of phenomena in question must be chosen as the groundwork of the classification.
It is to be regretted that hitherto this experience, being accepted in the gross, without due analysis, has been made the groundwork of empirical generalizations most detrimental to the progress of real knowledge.
It really forms the groundwork of Adamnan's Third Book, into which it has been bodily transferred.
His celebrated visions were known to all mediaeval Europe; and it is said they furnished Dante with the groundwork of the plot of the best scenes in the Divina Commedia.
Cormac, apparently furnished the groundwork of the present volume by writing for his son's use a series of maxims or principles on the criminal law of Erin, which were afterwards developed by Cormac himself, and by subsequent commentators.
But the groundworkof the character was the same in both.
The groundwork of the Plain Dealer is taken from the Misanthrope of Moliere.
In the first or mythological there is no historical groundwork at all.
The first groundwork of religious life is love--love to God and man--in the bosom of the family.
The result is to my mind a decision which I fear will not tally very well with our wishes and the views you have formed as the groundwork of the communication at present proposed with Vienna.
He therefore refused to discuss the present proposals, which tended to destroy the groundwork of the Constitution.
The story of the patient Job, fascinating from beginning to end, is the groundwork of the dialogue.
Therefore, as women form the groundwork of society and civilisation, their presence and influence must be beneficial in the same ratio as the civilised is preferable to the savage state.
It is notorious that the crime which is made the groundwork of the divorce, is frequently committed with the most "deliberate and unblushing indifference," for the purpose of enabling the adulterer and adultress thereafter to intermarry.
A formal appeal to the Bible as the one ground of faith, coupled with an assertion of the right of every instructed man to examine the Bible for himself, threatened the very groundwork of the older dogmatism with ruin.
With walnut most of the work will be accomplished with the over-grainer and riggers or pencils, after the groundwork is dry; if portions are stippled with the badger in the first working it will be all the better.
My groundworkfor this marble would be exactly the same as that used for oak--a rich cream colour.
