Music is the art of auditory implications; but more than this, its last note returns to its first.
An evening primrose, Oenothera tetraptera, has white flowers in its first stage, and red ones at a later period of development.
Fritz Müller's Lantana is yellow on its first day, orange on its second, and purple on the third.
On the contrary, the opening scenes of every chapter in the world's history have been crowded with life, and its last leaves as full and varied as its first.
It is possible, in this case, that the tendency of the black part of the egg to rotate upwards along the surface of the egg leads to a separation of its first cells, such a separation leading to the formation of twins.
A stage with a reduced spiracle does not proceed in development from a preceding stage in which the spiracle shows no reduction: it is reduced at its first appearance.
Even in this, its first form, the work is remarkable for its freshness and charm, and excited a great amount of attention and interest.
If this reasoning is correct, it necessarily follows that this property must have been possessed by living matter at its first appearance on the earth.
In all this, the distinction is not made between faith in its first bud, and faith in its ripe fruit.
There is the department of its first impressions, of its first directions, of its first intellectual and moral formation, of the first evolution of physical and moral life.
Warton says, that " little notice was taken of it, on its first publication.
Delectation is indeed in the appetitive power as its proximate principle; but it is in the reason as its first mover, in accordance with what has been stated above (A.
In this sense, the natural law is altogether unchangeable in its first principles: but in its secondary principles, which, as we have said (A.
But the dahlia itself--what was that in its first estate, in the country in which it was first found in its aboriginal structure and complexion?
Then, raising the bolt, and bringing it back to its first place, the operation is performed in a minute with the greatest economy and convenience.
It has now reached such an altitude, and it shines with such lustre, that our imagination can hardly find the way down to the morning horizon of its life, and measure its scope and power in the dim twilight of its first hours in time.
And the little thing did it with all the fervor of its first notes in the English sky.
I saw his love In its first blossom--saw his fatal passion Take root in his young heart.
It will be also troublesome to recognize the instinct of play in its first trials, seeing that the sensuous impulsion, with its capricious humor and its violent appetites, constantly crosses.
Even the divine part in man, the moral law, in its first manifestation in the sensuous cannot avoid this perversion.
The screw being again put in motion, the balloon was steered to the right, and, following a path parallel to its first, returned to its point of departure.
Such as life is in its first principles, such it is in the whole and in every part.
The life of man in its first principles is in the brains, and in its derivatives in the body.
The answer is twofold, heavy with a weight of apparently utter ruin in its first part, but disclosing a faint, far-off gleam of hope on its second.
Certainly the direct love of Christ, as it was felt by its first followers, is a rare thing among modern Christians.
Mr. Barnard was then elected as its first Secretary, and reluctantly gave up the law and accepted the position at the munificent salary of $3 a day and expenses.
Wisconsin, in its first constitution of 1848, required a local tax for schools equal to one half the state aid received.
He graduated from King's (now Columbia) College in 1761, when the institution was in charge of its first president, the Rev.
Rector of St. Thomas's Church, New Haven, Historian of the Diocese and Biographer of its first Bishop.
The imposition of Apostolic hands is given; the work begun here in 1783 is consummated, and our Diocese rejoices in its first bishop.
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