The former was confined principally to southern Europe, and did not influence the life or literature of the Scandinavian countries to any great extent.
I wish my influence would make you a little less silly," she had replied.
Subjected to the influence of the atmosphere, it gives but a treacherous support.
Like his father, he was eminently practical, and yet always open to the influence and guidance of correct theory.
When he rose to a more elevated station, and associated with men of the highest position and influence in Britain, he took his place amongst them with perfect self-possession.
But Stephenson’s invention, by the influence which it is daily exercising upon the civilisation of the world, is even more remarkable than that of Watt, and is calculated to have still more important consequences.
The influence of Mr. Pease also secured that a fair trial should be given to the experiment of working the traffic by locomotive power; and three engines were ordered from the firm of Stephenson and Co.
Mr. Brunel warmly espoused the atmospheric principle, and his persuasive manner, as well as his admitted scientific ability, unquestionably exercised considerable influence in determining the views of many leading members of both Houses.
These discussions probably had considerable influence in inducing Stephenson to take the next important step in the education of his son.
Another young man he found industriously working away at his bye-hours, and, admiring his diligence, engaged him for his private secretary, the gentleman shortly after rising to a position of eminent influence and usefulness.
Under the influence of this feeling, he was so far false to his standard of conduct as tentatively to mention Benham's name to Norburn as that of a possible candidate for the vacant post.
Puttock had accepted the office of Minister of Trade and Customs, but not without grumbling, for he had aspired to control the finances of the colony as Treasurer, and considered that Medland underrated his influence as a political leader.
But of course, if I'm going to throw my influence with you, I expect something in return.
He is a living daily disgrace to the uniform we all wear, and yet his influence is so powerful with Sir William that we can do nothing against him.
Will you not, use your influence with him to grant us the customary honours, and spare the officers from the disgrace of giving up their side arms?
A sort of halfway station between earth and heaven, as it were, where the Duca might be purged of any sullying influence gained from human relationships.
There is no doubt whatever that our possession of the cylinder of gold has had great influence on the Duca, and yet--" He paused, taking her hand.
He immediately fell under itsinfluence when they traversed a long lane between rows of brightly colored growing things which filled the air with sweet odors.
All Gori says is that we must rescue Naida and take her away, and must take the Duca away so that he cannot influence the men any more.
This movement extended its existence and its influence also far into the East as well as to the westward.
In the study of handwriting," it has been said, "it is difficult to exaggerate the great and enduring influence which the character of the material employed for receiving script has had upon the formation of the letters.
This Nippur, or the modern Nuffar, is spoken of in the old Sumerian legends as the oldest city of the earth, and the influence of which has been felt by all classes of Babylonian peoples for fully four thousand years.
Truly, the influence of Melinda on Nelly's character was most pernicious.
You are too young to be exposed to her influence constantly, proper as it may be in most respects.
A good aspect of the planets Jupiter and Venus is of material help in counteracting the influence of malefic aspects or evil positions.
The first of these methods is the discovery of Claudius Ptolemy, the famous mathematician and geographer, the author of the Syntaxis, as set forth in his work the Tetrabiblos, or Four Books on the influence of the Stars.
By this it is not meant that they are inoperative, nor that they fail to indicate the events of the month, but their power and degree of influence is subject to the greater influence of superior causes.
The Assyrian records are full of astrological allusions regarding theinfluence of planetary conjunctions and stellar positions.
Its influence on affairs of life is variable, for it always translates the nature of that planet to which at birth it is in nearest aspect (Sect.
This frequently accounts for the fact that men with comparatively unfortunate horoscopes are sometimes found in positions of influence and in the enjoyment of considerable fortune.
Here and there he will find one who is opposed to the belief that the stars have any influence in human affairs.
Both these periods will be fraught with cares and anxieties, and the latter influence will act detrimentally on the health, disposing to attacks of gout and inflammatory action in the system.
When, however, the Sun is afflicted by some planets and assisted by others, there will be only a moderate constitution, and judgment has to be made as to which influence predominates, the good or evil.
Such as are barren imagine that they have only to pass under the suspended body of a gibbeted criminal to become fruitful; the influence of a male corpse, and that even from a distance, will communicate to them fecundity.
If these violent agitations do not create some distemper, they discompose, however, the temperament and constitution of the child, and even influence perhaps its disposition.
There still, however, remains a sufficiency of heat to influence the colour of the natives: for those who are most exposed to it their colour is more yellow than those who live sheltered in the vallies.
To reconcile this benigninfluence of the Nile with the troublesome disorders occasioned by it would be difficult.
This is the most animal part of the human frame, and is constantly under the influence of instinct, and not governed by that of the mind.
The air and the soil have also great influence on the form of men, animals, and vegetables.
There are so many variations in the character of soils, even in the same locality, which exert an influence upon the size and quality of crop that the best variety is usually one that is, in part at least, developed by the individual grower.
The lay of the land has considerable influence upon the time that the soil can be worked, and a gentle slope toward the south or southeast is most desirable for the production of early crops.
While with small doses the influence may not be apparent in an adult in normal health, with a child or an invalid the effect may be of a serious nature.
But with the production of the early crops in the garden, the enthusiasm of the gardeners oozes out under the influence of the summer's heat, and the garden that at first looked so neat in its spring dress becomes merely a weed patch.
One of the most important factors having an influence on the profitableness of market garden crops is that of earliness.
The kind of fertilizer employed has a marked influence upon the character and quality of the vegetables produced.
The condition of the soil in reference to its supply of humus has a marked influence upon the welfare of the melon crop.
To trace out the influence of a frightful and disgraceful crime in debasing and destroying a character naturally high and noble, the guilty person being alone conscious of the crime.
I have felt thisinfluence earlier in some years than in others.
A soul of this kind entering after death into eternal beatitude, shared with its peers, continues along with them to exercise a certain influence on terrestrial souls.
But for all that, he is very necessary to you, and would exert a healthy influence on you, if his false witness did not lead you into error.
This introduced a new element into Islam which for centuries exercised a powerful influence on national culture, and is still partially operative at present.
How great was the influence exercised in general by those ideas for which Hellaj died a martyr's death we learn most clearly from the pages of Ghazzali, who wrote not quite two hundred years later.
The first point worthy of notice in it is the immense popularity of mystical ideas at that time, and the wide influence which they exercised over all minds.
But of all the Mohammedan writers, none bears such distinct traces of Christian influence as Jalaluddin Rumi, the greatest of the Sufi poets, who is to this day much studied in Persia, Turkey and India.
His influence in the first place acts immediately on the Active Intelligences and angels, who in their turn act on souls which in their turn act on our sublunary world.
Similarly with your left-hand companion (carnal concupiscence) whose evil influence springs from insatiable appetite; he is like a famished beast let loose to graze.
In Aleppo, where he finally took up his abode, he seems to have exercised a powerful influence on Prince Malik Zahir, the son of the famous Saladin.
He also betrays the influence of the Perso-Shiite dogma of the hidden spiritual Imams, of whom only one is believed to be on earth at any given time, and he is the highest spiritual and religious authority among his contemporaries.
This story is not entirely beyond doubt, but shows the importance attached by Ghazzali's contemporaries to his influence and teaching.
The fact of my being myself an Englishwoman may possibly to some extent influence my judgment.
I am drawing up my will, and if you will allow me to say so, I cannot admit that anyone has a claim to influence me in the disposition of my Property.
Indeed, miladi, your admirable husband was one of the very first to exert his influence in my favour at Vienna.
And sure enough we never halted, under the persuasive influence of that loaded revolver, till we dismounted once more in the early dawn upon the Nile bank, under British protection.
So great an influence upon our manners and conduct have the objects of our ambition.
But for me, I never could drink, from my childhood, without coming under the influenceof the accursed poison.
No man can put himself under the influence of alcoholic stimulants without incurring the risk of this result.
He goes into the work under the influence of the Holy Spirit; maintaining that the grace of God alone can work a thorough reformation.
The influence of alcoholic stimulants seems to be chiefly exerted in exciting to activity the creating and combining powers, such as give rise to the high imaginations of the poet and the painter.
We may also doubt that the finest poems and the finest pictures have been written and painted even by those in the habit of drinking while they were under the influence of liquor.
Apart from his happy exterior and original manner, one must suppose that the touching position of Savka as an acknowledged failure and an unhappy exile from his own hut to the kitchen gardens also had an influence upon the women.
He was still under the influence of what he had heard in the night, and impatiently awaiting fresh stories.
For some undetermined reason--the influence of the American tourist?
He shows even less of German influence than of English influence.
Its appeal to the national imagination was undoubtedly of the most profound character; it coloured politics for fifty years, and is today a dominating influence in the thought of whole sections of the American people.
But for all its bubbling I see a far more potent influence in the chance discovery of Spencer and Huxley at twenty-three--the year of choosing!
Even in New England thisinfluence made itself felt; there was a gradual letting down of Calvinism to the softness of Unitarianism, and that change was presently to flower in the vague temporizing of Transcendentalism.
It is, indeed, precisely in the works of such men as Mark Twain that one finds the best proofs of the Puritan influence in American letters, for it is there that it is least expected and hence most significant.
Not a complete answer, of course; the influence might have been exerted at second hand.
He sees the throttling influence of an ever alert and bellicose Puritanism, not only in our grand literature, but also in our petit literature, our minor poetry, even in our humour.
In all this dread of free inquiry, this childish skittishness in both writers and public, this dearth of courage and even of curiosity, the influence of comstockery is undoubtedly to be detected.
But that they had more influence in forming his point of view, or even in shaping his technique, than any one of half a dozen other gods of those young days--this I scarcely find.
Rakewell shoots himself to background music which slows in tempo until it is "render'd as dismal as possible" and Virtue proclaims a triumph over the demonstrated "baneful influence of Vice.
Then Virtue returns to ascend with "Liberty and Benevolence" on a cloud, able to relax now that Vice's influence has run its destructive course.
There can be no doubt that this powerful essay, appearing as it did in the leading daily Journal, must have had a strong influence on the reading public.
Probably the clergyman of the parish might exert some influenceover them?
Certainly I agree with you the present American row has a very Torifying influence on us all.
He had a strong influence for good over the younger men with whom he came in contact.
For how could you influence Jupiter Olympius and make him give three and a half columns to pure science?
Dear Sir, I thank you for your interesting essay on the influence of the Geological features of the country on the mind and habits of the Ancient Athenians (This appears to refer to M.
Lastly, the inferior mobility of woman as compared with man has an influence in reducing the average efficiency of her labour.
It is therefore to the development and influence of machinery upon industry that we shall chiefly direct our attention, adopting the following method of study.
In regarding this influence the experienced student of industrial questions hardly requires to be reminded that these must be regarded not merely as causes of low wages, but also as effects.
American statistics yield some striking evidence in illustration of the depressing influence exercised upon male wages by the labour of women and children.
Perhaps the most potent influence in breaking the strength of the morale of the town worker is the precarious and disorderly character of town work.
These must be taken into account in any estimate of the net educative influence of machinery.
It must be recognised that machinery does exercise a certain equalising influence by assigning a larger and larger relative importance to those faculties which are specific as compared with those which are individual.
In considering theinfluence of Machinery upon the quality of labour--i.
His liking for it was perhaps partly due to the fact that its inhabitants received him on more equal terms than were generally accorded to him elsewhere; and this again may be largely attributed to the influence of Mrs. O'Driscoll.
As he did not wish their last interview to be troubled by the influence of their ruined confessional they meet in a little cakeshop near the Parkgate.
But when the restraining influence of the school was at a distance I began to hunger again for wild sensations, for the escape which those chronicles of disorder alone seemed to offer me.
This League, it is believed, can influence scores of thousands of voters.
We have realized that the hour for woman to assert her power has come; she cannot vote, nor does she aspire to that questionable right, but she can influence the votes of the men with whom she comes in contact.
If I have any influence with the Company, matters will be satisfactorily settled.
By her practical acts of charity and humanity, she has come to exert a wonderful influence over the humble citizens of Luzerne County.
Failing to intimidate the farmer, the Trust will bring its influence to bear upon the purchaser--he will either be absorbed or annihilated.
Under the soothing influence of the Sister of Charity, Ethel's composure is restored.
Their work will bring them in all sections of the country and they will be able toinfluence a great number of the people.
He is one of the delegates at large to this convention, and hopes to be able to exert an influence over its deliberations, now that he has won some renown as a speaker.
So it may prove that this Nineteenth Century aggregation of men united for the purpose of benefiting their fellowmen, is of tantamount influence on the human race.
But we can counteract the influence of the labor leaders.
This is done to influence the jury to believe that the deputies had shot in self-defense.
I have really little influence with the men of my own State.
Their combined influence has brought to their support the most contumacious of the delegates.
For, it being conversant about domestic acts, the great instruction of the fable more sensibly affects us; and the characters exhibited, from the part we take in their good or ill qualities, will more probably influence our conduct.
Monsieur Dacier, at a very early period, feels the influence of the personal address, that governs this Epistle.
In both these passages the ingenious Commentator seems, from the mere influence of the context, to approach to the interpretation that I have hazarded of this passage, avowedly one of the most obscure parts of the Epistle.
As the fear of bad influence by strangers; that of catholicism; and many other fears, too tedious to enumerate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "influence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
