Muir[2] claims that the Vedic hymns illustrate the natural workings of the human mind in the period of its infancy.
Another incident, occurring after the testimony on behalf of the prisoners had begun, will illustratestill more clearly, if possible, the mental attitude of the Court.
I have seen this used by science teachers to illustrate vibrations or wave lengths; we shall use it later for pictorial purposes.
He translated and enlarged his essay, and committing it to press, started on a pilgrimage through the kingdom, in search of facts to illustrate the character of the traffic, and friends to aid him in its destruction.
An example (the original of which I possess, in the author's manuscript) will best illustrate this particular difficulty.
I have dictated these pages, not to shock my readers, but to possess them with facts in regard to the relation of the mind to the body; and I hasten, therefore, to such portions of my case as best illustrate these views.
The above quoted clauses of their law passed in 1667, nearly fifty years after the establishment of their government, illustrate their ideas of individual liberty.
This correction was entirely lost sight of by the Press, and I was accused by papers all over the country of having falsely accused him of offering toillustrate Dickens.
They lived on good terms with Nature, with whom we have been quarrelling now for some years past; and thus they were prepared to receive such lessons as Nature might give, to aid and illustrate the deeper lessons of Divine Grace.
No anecdote could better illustrate the peculiar gifts, and powers of both men.
The instruction is presented in homely, common-sense fashion, and there are upwards of fifty examples in music type to illustrate the author's meaning.
Cain and Abel, Ishmael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, and now the other children of Jacob and Joseph, attest the power of sin when it enters there, and illustrate the principle that the corruption of the best is the worst.
These two contrasted pictures, the one so mysteriously grand and the other so tragic, may well help toillustrate for us truths that should be burned into our minds and our memories.
But it helps to illustrate the force of these words, and to suggest that they mean this, among other things, that we have to answer for every deed, however evanescent, however long forgotten.
This is, perhaps, an extreme case, but it serves to illustrate the principle.
Used to illustrate the strategic relations of the armies A and B.
The recent war of England and France against Russia may illustrate my meaning; for it has taught us what to expect were either of these nations to wage war against the United States.
Before proceeding further it may be well to illustrate the strategic relations of lines and positions by the use of diagrams.
After defining these terms and explaining their meaning and application, it is deemed best to illustrate their use by reference to well-known and striking historical examples.
He was the first to illustrate a newspaper, and to point out the advantages of illustrated advertisements.
More than any other the practitioner of medicine may illustrate the great lesson that we are here not to get all we can out of life for ourselves, but to try to make the lives of others happy.
These names illustrate what was said on a previous page regarding the field named “the Wong,” at Horncastle.
The following cases are quoted from Taylor[631] to illustratethe above distinctions.
Medicus optimus, medicamentum minimum, is the maxim used in another case to illustrate this point.
One more battle on a big scale remains to be chronicled from the far eastern sector; it may also serve to illustrate the wide divergence that not infrequently exists between official communiqués recording the same event.
In connection with this campaign in the mountains the achievement of a company of French Chasseurs serves to illustrate the heroic and hardy character of these men.
A man may illustrate this for himself by opening his shirt at the collar stud.
The shrines are the centres of story and legend which relate their origin, legitimise their persistence, or illustrate their power.
These examples illustrate how seabirds, both directly and indirectly, help small coastal businessmen earn a living.
These indicators involve a broad spectrum of values and illustrate the critical need for adoption of a strong North American marine bird conservation program.
The center is also perfecting an audio-visual slide presentation that will illustrate how to select the proper cleaning agent, together with the latest bird-cleaning and care procedures.
The following anecdote will illustrate the admirable character of his mode of thinking on such subjects.
It was while Marion was lying with his main force at the camp at Snow's Island, that two circumstances occurred which deserve mention, as equally serving to illustrate his own and the character of the warfare of that time and region.
To illustrate the fierce hostility of Whigs and Tories, a single anecdote will suffice.
Nevertheless it must not be imagined that the amenities were not observed when the men of the races met, for business or otherwise; many anecdotes are told to illustrate this.
Few passages better illustrate how religious ideas and economic needs conspired to bring about the enslavement of both Indian and Negro at this early period.
Our students will understand, of course, that this is not advice to smoke cigars during interviews of importance, but is merely given to illustrate the principle.
So when one is engaged in thinking on a subject, thoughts of things resembling it, or bearing upon it, and tending to illustrate it, come up on every side.
You are too impatient of the complex; and, not enjoying variety in unity, you become lost in abstractions, and cannot illustrate your principles.
Perhaps a note written at this time will illustrate the easy and graceful movement of her mind in this superficial kind of intercourse.
With his sturdy reiteration of his uncompromising idealism, his absolute denial of the fact of human nature, he gave her opportunity and excitement to unfold and illustrate her realism and acceptance of conditions.
It may be well, even at the cost of a digression, to illustratethis primitive superstition by examples.
It may be well to illustratethis comparative indifference to death by a few miscellaneous examples drawn from different races.
The popular number of thirteen having been selected for the latter, the same number of figures illustrate actions without lateral progressive motion.
What is here said about the Aum which is the name of our own God, and the way in which it draws forth the hidden power will serve to illustrate the method in using other words.
It is not possible here to go into the analysis of the roots at much length: I can only illustrate the method which will be found to apply more surely where the roots express most elemental conceptions.
