The origin of the scholastic philosophy--which pervaded Europe for nearly ten centuries--has been traced by the learned Mosheim to the same insular source.
Callirhoe is strong presumptive proof that the latter is a true species, and no climatal or insular modification of the former.
Great Piton' of the Salvages, so nearly resembling, except in its smaller size, one of those from the Canaries that I think it far from improbable that it is a fixed insular state of that insect.
Assistant Insular Architect Juan Arellano, a colleague of the editor on the Dapitan Rizal national park committee, designed the sampaguita decorations.
A memorial school has been built by the Insular Government in his native town.
I have lately been informed by a resident of the Ionian Islands, who is familiar with this phenomenon, that the sea flows uninterruptedly into the sub-insular cavities, at all stages of the tide.
Their insular position and latitude secure an abundance of atmospheric moisture, and the general inclination of surface is not such as to expose it to special injury from torrents.
In 1705 the map in Harris’s Collection of Voyages preserves the insular character of California.
In the Ruysch map (1508) we have the same four polar islands, with the magnetic pole placed within an insular mountain north of Greenland.
De Laet in 1633 mentions having seen early Spanish maps showing it of insular shape.
The insular Yucatan will be observed in the annexed sketch, and what seems to be a misshapen Cuba.
The French geographer Jaillot, in 1694, also conformed to the insular theory, as did Corolus Allard in his well-known Dutch atlas.
Although not lying due south-east of the Solomon Isles, and due north-east of the next Archipelago, they form the insular continuity between the two groups.
The prevailing winds in the Pacific are against a line of insular migration, being from west to east, at all; since for three fourths of the year they blow from America towards Amphinesia rather than from Amphinesia to America.
So also is the influence of the ocean; the insular system of Africa being the smallest in the world, and the African sea-board being the one least indented.
Their insular position,--their wide dispersion equally indicate this.
Dreadful to our minds, dear reader, for we are respectable and insular and we have our prejudices, our glorious insular prejudices.
Insular customs and prejudices among the islanders are various and strange.
It would raise our armaments to such a point as, with the advantages of our insular situation, and long-established warlike fame, would prevent all thoughts of invasion on the part of our enemies.
Practice as an advocate, and push your way to insular preferment?
It was in a large envelope and had come by the insular post.
The mind retires above the noisy world to its Acropolis, and there discusses the great problem of the day; the Insular Enigma.
The insular clue afforded by the latter book deserves further attention, but I can not follow it here.
Evidently the manuscript deserves consideration in the history of the struggle between the insular and the continental hands in Germany.
The script is continental, and may well be that of Regensburg, but it shows marked traces of insular influence, English rather than Irish in character.
The work immediately preceding the fragment is in an insular hand, of the kind practised at various continental monasteries, such as Fulda; there are certain notes in the usual continental hand.
To the insular cynic and the insular moralist they offer an equal opportunity.
Her intentions were no doubt laudable, but the methods she adopted to set the stranger at her ease were not those most likely to endear the insular English to their cousins across the Atlantic.
There is a general tendency among these insular birds to vary more or less from their continental representatives, and this is especially shown by the former having always darker plumage and stronger bills and legs.
No rivals have I in this insular waste, Alone will I govern the isle With a king at my feet, and a court to my taste, And all in the popular style.
These people, although presenting a series of interesting problems to the ethnologist, both from their insular position, and their differentiation from any of the mainland peoples, are still but little known.
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