To determine what makes the offspring of animals or plants tend to be like their parents.
Heredity causes the plants as well as animals to be like their parents.
The Whigs, like their predecessors, the Federalists, were ostensibly the party of national ideas.
No doubt they were in a way an improvement on the Federalists, in that they, like their opponents, the Democrats, stood for a combination between democracy and nationalism.
Like their forbears in England, they begin to do things, because their common sense tells them that such things have to be done, and then at a later date think over the accomplished fact.
What Mr. Roosevelt really did was to revive the Hamiltonian ideal of constructive national legislation.
Their national integrity depends upon fidelity to traditional ideas and forms quite as much as it does upon the gradual modification of those ideas and forms in a democratic direction.
The Tlascalans were strong men used to battle; and though, like their companions in danger, at first bewildered by the sudden introduction to so vast a multitude, they became quickly inured to the situation.
Like their pontiff, each of them wore a gown of black; but while his head was bare, theirs were covered by hoods.
Nor do I like their Opinion, who think a Man happy, because he never had a Wife; I approve rather what the Hebrew Sage said, He that has a good Wife has a good Lot.
In the north-east the people are tall and sturdy, with plain marks of Scandinavian origin, like their sters and dales.
If they, like their consorts, are of royal and divine descent, so much the better; but it is not essential that they should be so.
Generation has followed generation, and the children are as like their father as the successive generations of apes.
They were of the reformed faith all of them, these sea rovers of the early days, and, like their enemies, they were of a very mixed complexion.
It has rekindled hopes which had been long extinguished, that, like their brothers in Hayti, they were on the way to have the islands to themselves.
The Spanish colonists, like theircountrymen at home, smoke everywhere with the usual consequences.
Like their fellow-Moslems in the East, they further learned all the science that the preserved literature of Greece could give them.
The accent here too is perfectly pleasing, intelligible, and expressive; and I like their cantilena vastly.
I swear I think them so like their ancestors, that it is my delight to contemplate the resemblance.
They seemed real glad to see me, though their manners and smiles and hull demeanors seemed kinder new, somehow, like their clothes.
I kinder like the idee of their worshippin' under the blue dome of heaven, though of course I didn't like their idee of worshippin' the created instead of the Creator.
The Anti-Federalists, like their opponents, could only look with favor on one side of this great question.
They were generally men whose judgments he could not but respect, and who, like their class in all countries, were not disposed to consider the aid of civilians in the administration of public affairs as imperatively necessary.
Their horses are, like their cows, of a moderate size.
Their characters are, like their forms, marked by a certain dim resemblance to those of men, but exaggerated to gigantic dimensions, and veiled in mysterious gloom.
Sir Peter held Guernsey for the King, and the young people were, like their father, warm for the royal cause.
In other places, as in Bengal and the Carnatic, they had, like their master, become mere phantoms, and the Company was supreme.
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