Independent of these casualties, there were other circumstances of peril to be taken into consideration.
It had then its own independent tastes, and ideas, and pursuits.
By the time he was turned fifty, however, his books were selling very well, and he had become 'not only independentbut opulent.
In case of the worst, the Abbé Grant will be my executor in this part of the world, and Mr. Mackenzie in Scotland, where my object has been to make you and my younger brother as independent of the eldest as possible.
This man, however, was evidently as independent as Ram Das, for he nodded, and when Norah brought him food, fell to work upon it hungrily.
As it was he sat back and felt exceedingly independent and pleased with himself.
The Billabong maids were no lessindependent than modern maids generally are, but they had their views about the city gentleman's manner to the daughter of the house.
It was pleasant to be out, in the morning freshness; and there was no need to hurry home, since the scones and tea in the kitchen had made him independent of breakfast.
Because this part of his story is confirmed by an independent witness.
It is not until this point that the journal of Father Hennepin becomes an independent narrative.
He may be known the world over, by his independent way of chewing tobacco.
In coming to Leipsic from Switzerland, I passed through no less than eightindependent states and principalities, viz.
We find there that the Moral Law of Babylonia represents the spirit of Bible Law so accurately that it would be absurd to set up any theory of an independent basis.
A very curious and interesting phase of self-government is that which is supplied by the independent legal system established in various small islands in the United Kingdom.
Minor offences are referred to a court of Correctional Police presided over by a magistrate who is independent of the Royal Court.
Our independentnational legislature was torn from us by means, the iniquity of which, even among English writers, is now proclaimed and execrated.
I am certain of one thing--that the effort to disinter the past is painful to him in itself, quite independent of any painful associations in what he is endeavouring to recall.
However, the confidence would have wavered under an independent collar and wristbands.
Sally had an existence of her own quite independent of her origin.
A house of which every story rotated on an independent vertical axis might have answered--nothing else would.
The Sovereign right of declaring war to, and of making peace with, another independent State, is vested in the King of Great Britain, acting upon the advice of his responsible Ministers in the United Kingdom.
They are not "Independent States" in the full sense of the word.
By what reasoning can a mere expression of opinion by the English House of Commons be interpreted as at once transforming the Colonies into independent Sovereign States?
Had it done so, Austria would certainly have refrained from exacting from Servia concessions to which she could not agree without sacrificing her independent Sovereignty.
As long as three-fourths of the earth will remain independent of the British Empire, under numerous sovereignties, England's pretended domination of the world will ever only be an extravagant dream.
No independent country can become wealthier, happier, and greater, by spreading ruin and devastation around her frontiers.
We are indomitable in our power of independent action, and can in no circumstances consent to live in a world governed by intrigue and force.
The Church and the law alone preserved some degree of systematic organisation and independent character.
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the authority of the Commander of the Faithful had sunk, decade by decade, till the murder of a Sultan who showed an independent policy was as certain as the sunrise.
The external events of the reign, the revolt of Mohammed Ali, the treaty of Adrianople, the creation of Greece as an independent State, important as they were in the history of the Ottoman power, hardly affected Constantinople.
Architecturally the complication of the style, the many independent domes, and the practical separation of the chapels from the central church, illustrate the development of Byzantine architecture in its later stages.
How fine had been the independent life of vagabondage that he had just left, where he could do what he liked, go where he liked, be bound to no one.
In her own drawing-room she would tolerate nothing independent of herself.
A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled theIndependent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.
Objective has come to mean that which has independent exostence or authority, apart from our experience or thought.
According to Kant, a systematic exposition of those notions and truths, the knowledge of which is altogether independent of experience, would constitute the science of metaphysics.
It seems to be independent of any structural lesion.
Among the Babylonish Jews, under the direction of their Patriarch, an independent school of commentators on the Mischna had arisen.
One lesson history enforces inexorably--that there lies a danger to morals in placing reliance on the spirit as an independent guide.
The only trace of independent tradition is in the mention made of Panthera by the Jew produced by Celsus.
The Gospel of St. Matthew, on the other hand, is a diatessaron composed of four independent collections of memorabilia.
The reading in Marcion's Gospel is not only a better one, but it also appears to be an independent one.
It is clear that the Greek compiler of St. Matthew's Gospel must have had two independent accounts of this miracle, one with the warning against blasphemy appended to it, the other without.
This class may probably be subdivided into those which bore a strong affinity to the Canonical Gospel of St. Luke, and those which were independent compilations.
That these are independent accounts I can hardly doubt.
He had the haughty, independent manner of his class, and, although his eye was fiery and reckless, the lower part of his face symbolized power and self-control.
The girl was not only unmistakably American, but of the independent class.
Outwardly she looked as solemn as usual, but, perhaps, even hidden sunshine may warm, for on no day since they left Lyons had the party been so independent of material ills.
So he can beindependent of you in any special case if he deems it desirable.
The death of Henry's father has left him without a support, and he is too independent to burden his mother.
He is chosen without reference to politics, and holds his office independent of party.
In the older American colleges, which were independent of state control, the original course of study was uniform and prescribed, and chapel services were held which the students were required to attend.
Most of the older and larger universities which were at first practically supported and controlled by churches, have now become independent and are maintained by non-sectarian support.
It declared "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.
A supreme tribunal, coordinate with the national executive and legislature, independent and final in its action, is created by the Constitution itself to interpret and apply this supreme law.
Croatia had had her independent life and must be considered as a factor in Yugoslavia; but having come in, like Montenegro, of her own accord, she had not wished to be a separate factor.
Finally most of them settled down in (b), while two others formed an independent group.
The apologists, such as Miss Durham, argue that the other Balkan peoples suffered from a good deal of internal tumult after they had set themselves up as independent countries.
Nowadays, with Austrian and Russian propaganda deleted, there is only that of the Italians, whose proposal to create anindependent Albania (under Italian protection) was at first applauded by some simple folk in 1919.
In fact an isolated, independent Montenegro was no longer needed.
The Italian delegates in Paris had suggested that, in the independent buffer State, Rieka should have a separate municipal status, and that a narrow strip of land should join the buffer State to Italy.
In November 1918 a detachment of thirty Serbs was stationed at Gusinje, what time certain Italian agents put it into the shallow minds of some Albanians that Albania desired to be independentunder Italian protection.
Monsieur Tardieu thought that the town with a large strip of hinterland should become a separate independent State under the League of Nations.
It has become the habit of many Albanians to accept financial assistance from Italy; if an independent Albania is now established these subsidies will be increased--and he who pays the piper calls the tune.
The kingdom of the latter contains the two independent principalities of Hohenzollern (spared on account of some family alliances, I believe) in its bosom.
This is said, however, under the supposition that the elements of anindependent peerage could be found in France, a fact that I doubt, as has just been mentioned.
Although the cantons themselves are only known to the confederation as they are enrolled on its list, many of them are subdivided into local governments that are perfectly independent of each other.
Greece came first, and, in 1829, aided by France, Russia and Great Britain, she became an independent kingdom.
During his long reign he built up Bulgaria into a powerful, independent kingdom, and even assumed the title of Czar of Bulgaria.
Of course, the several European versions and variants have been copied out of one book into another, and independent invention is out of the question.
Philip Nye, anIndependent minister in the time of the Commonwealth, and one of the famous Assembly of Divines, was remarkable for the singularity of his beard.
I have long ceased believing any assertion of a member of the French Government, unless supported by independent evidence.
I observed that I was far too independent a citizen myself to ask any one for a permit to go where I liked, and, as I walked on, the citizen sentinel did not venture to stop me.
Not only was the Whig Party divided within itself, hated by the Radicals, and having a very doubtful support from the independent Liberals, but even the little band called the Peelites had entirely crumbled to pieces.
Lord Derby said, as to the independent support, it reminded him of the definition of an independent Member of Parliament, viz.
He says that with the Baronetcy of an uncle he will succeed to an estate of £5,000 a year, independent of what he has realised by his own professional exertions; and that consequently there would be a provision for a Peerage.
The Government of the day, thinking it useless and impolitic to pursue them there, entered into a capitulation with them and recognised their independent existence.
But then it would be necessary that the Two Sicilies as an independent and separate State should be well governed, and should have an enlightened Sovereign.
The Emperor has, however, named a successor which is really a compliment to the Army and the Alliance--and besides a distinguished and independent man, viz.
They behaved a good deal like his independent Member of Parliament, and tried to aggravate every little mishap in order to get Party advantages out of it.
We must certainly not allow our policy to be mixed up with the miserable German squabbles, but we must acknowledge that Austria, as a member of the Confederation, is not and cannot be independent of them.
Bags was not very good at independent action: his line was action that fell in with other people’s wishes, and he meditated over any possible idea that might suggest itself to him in his new rôle.
It was greater now that he was an independent person in the fifth than it had been when he was Frank’s fag, and in Remove A.
What if the paper added that in the second innings he proved himself as independent of the scorer again?
