They were their own judges of the circumstances under which it became them to pledge to each other "their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor" for the acquisition of the priceless inheritance transmitted to us.
It is all yours, it is the inheritance which has been bequeathed to the last Blanden by his mother and by the ancestral mistresses of this house, there being no living heiress who has the right to these ornaments.
It is concerned with the investigation of the physical, mental, and moral traits of mankind, and especially with the factors of inheritance of desirable and undesirable qualities.
What the eugenic societies aim at doing is to educate the people to realize the far-reaching effects of the inheritance of good or bad qualities, in the hope that such knowledge may exert some influence in the choice of partners in matrimony.
Should these haughty ones effect My death, clandestine, under my own roof, And parcel my inheritance by lot, I rather wish those treasures thine, than theirs.
Of society as represented by a definite upper class, the basis was still inheritance in the form of inherited land.
They denounced it in one form only--namely, land, and land only as the inheritance of aristocratic owners.
Tillie is hungry for books and beauty and love; and she comes into her inheritance at the end.
They rushed into their inheritance of each other and had that day ahead, a day so rare and sweet that it would do to set among the jewels of fair days for all time and for any one.
Hereditivity and Transmission by Inheritance are such universal, everyday phenomena, that most people do not heed them, and but few are inclined to reflect upon the operation and import of these phenomena of life.
Inheritance fixed these habits on the descendants, and finally, by further elaboration, the organs were entirely transformed.
The origin of new species by natural selection, or, what is the same thing, by the interaction of Inheritance and Adaptation in the struggle for life, is therefore a mathematical necessity of nature which needs no further proof.
This phenomenon of Inheritance has hitherto been scientifically examined only to a very small extent, which may partly arise from the fact that the phenomenon is of such everyday occurrence.
In the physiological properties of Inheritanceand Adaptation of organic matter, Darwin discovered the true cause of the genealogical relationship of organisms.
Interaction of the Two Organic Formative Causes, Inheritance and Adaptation.
We are accustomed to look upon these everyday occurrences of Inheritance as self-evident.
We may conclude the consideration of the phenomena of inheritance with the two very important laws of homotopic and contemporaneous transmission by inheritance.
In case of diseases of the lungs, for instance in consumption, this sad transmission by inheritance is well known, and it is the same with diseases of the liver, with syphilis, and diseases of the mind.
It is based in the first instance upon experiences, and by the laws of Inheritance and Adaptation we can positively prove that knowledge a priori and knowledge a posteriori cannot rightly be placed in opposition, as is usually done.
Oh, you think the inheritance a fitting subject for lamentation?
A nameless woman has tricked me out of the inheritance which should have been mine.
Fathers were not allowed to discriminate against a firstborn son and pass the inheritance to another because the mother of the oldest child happened to have lost favor in his eyes.
Inheritance of house and lands is through the mother rather than through the father--a survival of the ancient mother-right.
In ancient Egypt, it is interesting to note that inheritance of property passed not from a father to his son, but to the son of his sister, or sometimes to the son of his eldest daughter.
The law of the Hebrews, while it made provision for inheritance of daughters along with the sons, does not contemplate the dominion of a queen.
But the women of Turkey have been affected less by the literary influence of Persia than by the religious inheritance from the Arabs.
Daughters were allowed inheritance as well as sons, though in earlier times than those of the kings they did not inherit their father's property except there were no sons.
It was not until tribes became sedentary and property was held by individuals that inheritance passed to the male members of the family.
His inheritance provides him a given quality and capacity.
Our inheritance in many ways is precious and wonderful, but our human response can deform it.
He was one of the great benefactors, whose lives and labors become the common inheritance of mankind, and whose names go down through long generations with a pleasant memory.
Then why—since the choice was with himself—should the individual, whose connection with the fallen woman had been the most intimate and sacred of them all, come forward to vindicate his claim to an inheritance so little desirable?
The persons now in the market-place of Boston had not been born to aninheritance of Puritanic gloom.
On the breaking up of the gardes du corps Biran retired to his patrimonial inheritance of Grateloup, near Bergerac, where his retired life preserved him from the horrors of the Revolution.
Marriages or dowries, or the refusal of marriages and the lack of dowries, inheritance through an heiress, the failure of a male succession--in these and in many other ways women have set their mark indelibly upon the trend of history.
Mrs. Carlyle, who owned it as an inheritance from her father, saw the place for the first time in March, 1828.
He might have remained in America all his life, had not a small inheritance fallen to his share.
His adventurous life included a threefold expulsion from hisinheritance of Northumbria, a marriage with the daughter of King Constantine III.
There was no difficulty of inheritance or primogeniture, for all the knight's lands were held in fee-simple, and not in entail, so that he might bequeath them as he would.
At last it was decided to divide the inheritance between the two elder sons, and the knights returned to the chamber where the brave old knight lay dying, and told him their decision.
The practical executive ability of those great women of one, two, and three generations ago should be the inheritance of the Country Girls of to-day, and their faithful examples should be an inspiration to them.
The inheritance of diseased conditions is also influenced by the sex.
The law of inheritance rules in regard to the production of the temperament.
In correcting the evil effects of inheritance on the mind, education plays a very important part.
This form of inheritance is known by the scientific term atavism, derived from the Latin word atavus, meaning an ancestor.
The fourth variety of inheritance is that in which the child resembles neither parent, but the first husband of its mother.
How, it may be inquired, is it in regard to the inheritance of parts mutilated and altered by injuries and disease during the life of either parent?
A full discussion of the important topic of the inheritance of physical and mental traits will be found, and two most thorough and practical chapters on Pregnancy and Confinement are added, most invaluable to every young wife.
The effects of inheritance are perhaps more marked upon the mind than upon the body.
And thus the Treasure Valley became a garden again, and the inheritance which had been lost by cruelty was regained by love.
Though everything remained green and flourishing in the plains below, the inheritance of the three brothers was a desert.
Also I had a regard for Mr. Eustace Meeson, and I knew that he had lost his inheritance through a quarrel about myself.
No, no," he thought; "freedom from all these false relations with the Korchagins and Mary Vasilievna and the inheritance and from all the rest must be got.
I shall dispose of the inheritance in such a way as to acknowledge the truth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inheritance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
