By this method there is no superstition that could not be defended.
The essential characteristic of the Stoical method was the assertion of the existence of a certain law of nature to which it was the end of philosophy to conform.
It was simply a method of obtaining prosperity, averting calamity, and reading the future.
But this method of assimilation, which culminated in the Gnostics, the Neoplatonists, and especially in Origen, was directed not to the later Stoics of the Empire, but to the great philosophers who had preceded Christianity.
Cousin makes against Locke is, that he investigated the origin of our ideas before analysing minutely their nature, and the propriety of thismethod is one of the points on which Mr. Mill (Examination of Sir W.
The first part was simply borrowed from the Stoics, whose doctrines and method thus passed from the narrow circle of a philosophical academy and became the avowed moral beacons of the civilised globe.
That such a method is not ordinarily adopted must be manifest to all.
The Roman method of conciliation was, first of all, the most ample toleration of the customs, religion, and municipal freedom of the conquered, and then their gradual admission to the privileges of the conqueror.
There are, I conceive, few greater fallacies than are involved in the method so popular among modern writers of judging the immorality of a nation by its statistics of illegitimate births.
It is not, I think, sufficiently observed how large a proportion of such questions are capable of a strictly inductive method of discussion.
This methodof preparing spinach is very much appreciated in Italy, where they add filets of anchovies to it.
If the Arabs explain and justify this method of clipping a horse's coat until it is five years old, they do not attempt to do so for our fashion of docking a horse's tail.
There is, indeed, a third method which is only a modification of the second, and consists in killing the bird while drinking at a stream of water.
The same method is pursued during the last twenty days of December and the first twenty days of January.
This method has this further advantage that if a horse casts a shoe, he can still proceed on his journey, as the sole remains firm and hard.
The method of propulsion is very interesting to watch.
The method of mooring is very rudimentary although practical.
No method could be simpler or more secure for transporting baggage.
There are a few large villages on the banks where the natives exhibit a curious method of hair dressing.
A favourite method was to give a dose of strychnine to a fowl and if it died, the accused was guilty, but if it lived, he was innocent.
Probably this method is a very ancient one indeed, and it is curious that it should resemble so closely the modern Bessemer process for making steel.
A very good method of preserving them is to inject formol into the bodies which at once stiffen out and become rigid in any position they are placed.
This is evidently a simple length of stuff some three or four feet wide and, to the masculine eye at least, its method of support remains a mystery, for no trace of button, hook or pin is apparent.
They are not made as quickly as those fashioned by a machine but the process is a great improvement on the old-fashioned method of brick making in wooden moulds.
The method of moving heavy weights is necessarily very primitive, for, with the exception of a few wheel-barrows, there are no vehicles of any kind here.
Here as usual in the Congo, man is restricted to his primeval method of locomotion.
It is certainly the best way of eating goat's flesh, for any method of cooking seems to extract what little juice it possesses and convert it into a substance resembling old leather.
He had thought out a simple method of elevating Egypt, but the priests maintained that that was the true way to ruin it.
But, holiness, I will use an infallible method by which to find a man whose prayers have the utmost sincerity, and the highest effect.
For lack of the useful hints that here abound, many men murder the truth by their method of presenting it.
Turning this method over reflectively in my mind, I would finally commence the new method which I eventually abandoned for the original plan.
It would generally suggest another and better method of "filling in.
This popular confection is made by a similar method to No.
Curry is an old, old method of preparing meats and vegetables.
Use the same method that is used in making chicken pullao.
Mrs Lee's method of entering a room was in accordance with the advice of the Psalmist, where he says, 'Fling wide the gates'.
Experience, which, as we all know, teaches, will in time lead you into adopting some method by which you may evade this taking of notes.
But while there should be nothing bizarre in our method of furnishing, rooms should reflect the individuality of their owners.
The mistress of a home who desires order, and the tranquillity that comes of order, must insist on the application of method to every branch and department of the household work.
One of the greatest defects in our modern method of treating children is to overload them with costly and elaborate toys, by which we cramp their native ingenuity or perhaps force their tastes into the wrong channel.
Neither of these women is to be congratulated on her method of management.
In reality they are merely shifting their method of self-pleasing.
Method is the oil that makes the wheels of the domestic machine run easily.
The following cases will demonstrate the necessity either of some different apparatus for shaking grates of engines, of greater care in using the apparatus, or of some better method of inspection and repair: A.
And this room, so free from all that was novel and without associations, helped to explain to me why, though his method is so modern and of the moment, his pictures of aristocrats accommodate themselves to ancestral surroundings.
It would be out of place here, perhaps, and far too technical, to define the difference between such a method as Sargent's and say that of Pre-Raphaelitism.
I may have said something perhaps to convey to the lay reader the significance of the particular method of treating his subjects which we identify with Sargent.
If there is not in Sargent's painting courtesy of touch, if his method has not suavity in painting elegant people, this is rather as it should be in an age which trusts implicitly to the dressmaker and tailor for its elegance.
Reality, within the confines of the particular truths to which his method is subject, has been the evident intention all through his art.
Analysis of the war training, however, reveals a point of view and a method of procedure that is definitely designed to develop team-play and to enhance morale whether there be war or not.
The widow explained to her accomplice hismethod of proceeding.
In utilizing the expert's methodof description, I shall improve on it slightly by also indicating the conversation accompanying each play, a feature which is of considerable importance in a game.
So explanatory has the method of letter writing become that it is probable that if Odysseus were a modern traveler his letters home to Penelope would average something like this: Calypso, Friday afternoon.
I have never known this method of keeping the fire alive to fail, except when the watcher dropped off to sleep for ten or fifteen minutes.
A very plain and simple method of making snow-shoes was furnished our readers in Vol.
A handy method of making glue for ready use is to employ common whisky instead of water in dissolving any quantity of glue.
Not until he saw the methodof operation could he begin to figure his course.
Headquarters must have known the method when they assigned us and ordered the equipment they thought we'd need.
In other words, he had what he needed--except for a method of putting all the pieces together to create a bomb.
The method would use Earth's gravity to slow them down to the proper speed.
When they opened the cases brought aboard by the Martians, he would see that the method of blasting the asteroid into a course for Earth was all figured out for him.
A more prompt method still is to destroy the wealth which you take from the tax-payer by good sweeping wars.
I know not whether it be to violate the laws of method to indicate these consequences by anticipation, but I venture to depart slightly from the regular course, in order to obviate the danger of becoming tedious.
For human powers and faculties being the instruments of labour, they found it a shorter method to lay hold of these powers and faculties, than to seize upon their products.
The relative value of their reciprocal services is determined by a method which we shall have afterwards to examine; but the essential principles of the exchange, speaking in the abstract at least, remain intact.
She used first one methodand then another, but she could not decode the brief message.
Fergus has been using every method he can think of to get my guests away from me.
The method of landing the surf boats and the wonderful dexterity with which the natives handle them is worth a whole chapter to itself.
The line was about a hundred feet long and the method of procedure was this: Frank tested the straightness of the line, as accurately as possible with his eye, while Ben and Harry carried it stretched between them.
After two or three more charges the animal seemed to get tired of this method of attack and stood beneath the tree shaking with rage, very much like a bull that has driven a boy to refuge in an apple-tree.
It was evidently the intention of the natives to run him out and then spear him to death--but an unexpected happening put an end to thismethod of elephant hunting.
Not but by the same method a private person must do the same, namely, by doing justly, and fairly, and honestly, by every body.
When the urban Negroes in northern communities had emerged from their crude state they easily learned from the white men their method of solving the problems of life.
Private enterprise was at first depended on to carry out the schemes but it soon became evident that a better method was necessary.
We have in The Worship of Bacchus, the result of a method equally naif and ingenious.
When you look into the French method of paying for the war you get the really picturesque and human interest details.
In one respect her method of financing the war cost differs distinctly from her Allies in the fact that she has received heavy advances from England and France.
There was definite method in these queries, for already the Shadow of Conscription had begun to fall over all England.
If I have caught the reader's eye by promising to illustrate in outline a new methodof writing autobiography, I must not abuse his confidence by putting that method into practice.
Some of the most telling criticisms went to show that while poets of undoubted ability ought to be helped, the method of their selection offers a grave difficulty.
Miss Barham, I warn you, that if you still refuse to give evidence, I must commit you for contempt, as the most lenient method of dealing with you.
Neither of them knew what they had uttered when they parted, but the method of their parting was somewhat strange.
He knew that there was a spirit dwelt in the air of that place which would not suffer any method of the kind to succeed.
With the fullest intentions of knocking him down, I was prevented from moving in many way by the two men who pressed me on either side, and who, by a well-devised method of squeezing their victim, held me as if in a vice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "method" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
