Led by young lawyers and merchants and young fellows living oninherited incomes?
Six years of striving in the East and abroad to satisfy the restless energy she inherited from her father; and here she was, as restless as ever--yet with everything done that a woman could do in the way of an active career.
Selection, both artificial and natural, singles out certain of these inherited modifications of the psychic activity; it preserves the most useful and rejects the least adaptive.
Just as Christianity borrowed a good deal of its mythology directly from ancient Judaism, so Islam hasinherited much from both its predecessors.
In many thousand species of these protists the specific form which is inherited is relatively constant, and proves the fidelity of their unconscious cellular memory.
The old man came of a stern fighting stock: what wonder that his son inherited his character in this respect.
Hubert bent the knee to the new lord, with all that grace which he inherited from his Provencal blood.
Her face had once been strikingly handsome; Martin inherited her bright colour and dark eyes; but time had set its mark upon her, and often had she felt weary of life.
The King's face indicated excellent health, which he inherited from his father, and as he did not abuse it, it served him admirably.
She was not as beautiful as her mother, not having her regular features, but she inherited her dignified and majestic mien and the power of her glance.
It is not his fault that he inherited his father's passions and that he must fight against them.
Little Pansie was the one earthly creature that inherited a drop of the Dolliver blood.
A third farmer has inherited his farm, not only without incumbrance, but with money at interest.
And so the colonel, with no business incentive, acumen, or adaptability, and with the inherited handicap of a luxurious living standard, made a brave onslaught on his patrimony.
From his mother Garrison had inherited his cool head, steady eye, and the intuitive hands that could compel horse-flesh like a magnet.
He had inherited the seeds from his father; he had assiduously cultivated them by making weight against all laws of nature; by living against laws of God and man.
From her he had inherited a peculiar recklessness and swift daring.
He had no commercial education; nothing but the savoir-faire which wealth had given to him, and an inherent breeding inherited from his mother.
I think my brother inherited from her his alertness of mind and not a little of his quickness of apprehension.
The sober Whiggish turn of mind which I had inherited from my father influenced me greatly in those days.
His father had been Consul-General in Tunis when the influence of Great Britain was supreme, and he had inherited his father's popularity and personal prestige.
She hadinherited great intellectual qualities from her father, Dr.
Moschele inherited less of his pious forefathers' piety and much more of some remote ancestor's business talents, and one day he came home from a distant market bringing with him a dozen cups and saucers and a wash-bowl and pitcher.
His assets were: money enough to take him to Triest, third-class, a large stock of inherited pride, and nothing else.
Leonora May, an imperious beauty, was totally unlike her brother, and inherited the strong will and haughty pride of her father.
The seventeenth lord inherited whatever his sire had been unable to sell: Kirtling heavily mortgaged and stripped of its huge leaden roof (gambled away at hazard) and the wild moors which encompass it.
George Samphire had inherited his father's manner and ideas, the latter tempered, possibly, by life in a cavalry regiment.
I suppose," she said reflectively, "that with us middle-aged women looking on at games is an inherited instinct.
This was probably due to the taste which he had inheritedfrom his forebears--more especially from his father, who had begun the buildings of the New Town.
This was an inherited faculty, and I leave my readers to infer from the following pages whether I have not had my fair share of this inheritance.
Tom Smith inherited his father's tastes, and admitted me to share in his experiments, which were carried on in a chemical laboratory situated behind his father's house at the bottom of Leith Walk.
We do not know anything of the parents of Lady Bertram, but we may suspect that her Ladyship inherited from her mother the soft and cushiony character of which she is a great example.
It seems possible that George's ill-health and that of his father wereinherited from the Howards.
The question ofinherited traits is becoming yearly one of increasing interest, and most striking results come from a comparison of facts upon this subject.
Mr. Beecher had inherited from his father what has been called a genius for friendship.
He had also inherited from the old painter, his father, a small farm in Normandy, but had taken no steps about it, so that the farmer never ceased to pocket the revenues.
The name indicates that they may have inherited some of the fine artistic sense which makes France pre-eminent in the exquisite art of the medallist.
I myself have been chosen by the inherited law of the Thomahlia!
The eyes were almost identical, with the peculiar quality of the iris and pupil that suggested, somehow, a culture inherited out of the centuries.
The fittest survive because they have inherited most clearly the memories of the best means of securing nourishment and escaping enemies.
The victim of ill-fortune and prisoner of despair who breaks the jail of life to escape fate's malice leaves a dark tendency in the blood of his offspring, which again and again proves the terrible power of an inherited weakness.
If such experiences as these are not inherited memories, what are they?
Call this instinct an inheritedmemory and the matter becomes clear.
When the words heredity or instinct are contemplated in their broad sense they mean no more than inherited memory.
For instance, a Dog with a hook tied to his back is taken in a canoe and dropped in the water; it is seldom the unfortunate cur is permitted to swim far before being seized.
On the death of his father he inherited a considerable amount of property, which, however, was lost when Lyons was besieged by the troops of the Convention.
The Turks were the first to make systematic use of them, having probably inherited the idea from the Eastern Empire.
This was Mary Godwin--one who had inherited her mother's power of mind and likewise her grace and sweetness.
Furthermore, she had inherited a small fortune, while Swift was miserably poor, and had nothing to offer except the shadowy prospect of future advancement in England.
From those who had figured in the life of royal courts, he inherited a romantic nature, a love of art, and a very delicate perception of the niceties of cultivated usage.
But there is plenty of evidence to show that normal character qualities are inherited as well as the abnormal.
That abnormal mind is inherited is shown in family insanity in the second, third and fourth generation cases of mental disease.
Family names, we must recollect, are but inherited nicknames; and if the sobriquet were applicable to the ancestor, it is most likely applicable to the descendant also.
The term instinct may be given to the act depending upon inherited structure, an inherited bond, or it may be given to the inherited bond itself.
Our discussion should have made it clear that habit is acquired nature, while instinct is inherited nature.
This means that we must know the instincts and all the other inherited capacities and tendencies.
The circumstances of life determine what we will do with our inherited abilities and characteristics.
Do your studies and observations convince you that the fighting instinct and other inherited responses concerned with individual survival are among the strongest of inherited tendencies?
Muscular responses that are connected with their stimuli throughinherited bonds, by inherited nerve structure, are called instincts.
Briefly, fighting responses growing out of man's selfishness are as old as man himself, and the inherited tendencies connected with them are among the strongest of our natures.
The simpler inherited responses are known as reflexes.
So there were developed in man by the process of natural selection many inherited responses which we group under the head of fear responses.
Perhaps some will say this law was only applicable to the first holder of the slave, that is, the original kidnapper, but not to his successors who might have purchased or inherited him.
The chevalier had inherited his father's warlike qualities, and was, it seems, always ready with his sword.
The father of the poet inherited his estates, and distinguished himself in the career of arms, being cited for his bravery, the character of which bears the impress of the times in which he lived, namely, the end of the seventeenth century.
