In this course of development from the purely mythical to the historical, the saga may approach no more closely to historical reality than does the purely mythical tale.
When, however, the action expressed by the verb is thought of as more closely related to the subject, the converse order may occur and the verb may directly follow the subject.
When, on a more advanced cultural level, the structure of the body came to be more closely observed, a strong impetus was given towards a progressive differentiation of the corporeal soul.
Now sometimes our neighbor is more closely united to God than we are ourselves.
Hence it is possible for one, out of charity, to wish this man who is more closely united to one, to be better than another, and so reach a higher degree of happiness.
Therefore man also, out of charity, ought to love the better man more than one who is more closely united to him.
Whether he ought to love more, a neighbor who is better, or one who is more closely united to him?
Arrived once more at the junction of the two rivers, and unmolested in our occupations, we had leisure to examine it more closely.
Having satisfied myself on those points on which I was most anxious, we returned to the junction to examine it more closely.
We had already determined on examining it more closely, and this second peculiarity still further excited our curiosity.
But, more closely considered, the departure from the subject retains a real advantage; it has the start by one perfectly justified step.
I like the picture you have on the easel there--may I see it more closely?
One old crone, hideously ugly, but with large, dark piercing eyes, the fading lamps of a lost beauty, chuckled and mumbled as she craned her skinny throat forward to observe me more closely.
In color and external measurements these animals more closely resemble D.
Cranially, this new subspecies is more closely allied to Dipodomys ordii fuscus but in color appears to be much closer to Dipodomys ordii attenuatus from which it differs markedly in cranial features.
Apparently it is more closely related to the subfamily Perognathinae.
But, more closely considered, the contrast between the two is not so sharp, indeed ultimately it runs back into a difference of degree.
But when we consider it more closely, we shall find here also that it is rather a blind pressure, a tendency entirely without ground or motive.
Footnote 18: That there exists a connection between Shiloh and Solomon has often been guessed at and expressed; but expositors have not succeeded well in determining it more closely.
He yet observes us more closely in order to punish us the more severely, when He sees that we are utterly hardened and incurable.
In so far, namely, as the Idea is determined in itself, the relation of the moments in it can be more closely specified, and this relation of the moments to each other is to be conceived of as nothing other than activity.
But this virtue is present precisely when no moment, no determination or particularity isolates itself; or, more closely viewed in a moral aspect, it is when no want asserts its reality and thus becomes a crime.
If the formation of the body be more closely examined, the following peculiarities are remarkable: The head, as the comparison of it with a Greek type at Fig.
Such empaistic work must have been more closely related to surfaces of inlaid metal upon wooden forms than to the statuesque Phoenician sphyrelaton.
Towards the border of Lycia traces of an archaic or proto-Ionic style have been observed, more closely allied to Eastern motives than were the developed temples of Greece.
Of the two subspecies whose ranges do meet that of bangsi, it more closely resembles richardsonii than cicognanii.
Some species of Macrogeomys seem to be more closely allied to the subgenus Orthogeomys and others to the subgenus Heterogeomys.
Nevertheless, the Illinoian Geomys from the Great Plains is more closely allied to the living species of Geomys than it is to the earlier Irvingtonian species.
In the skull, spinifer more closely resembles ferox than muticus, but differs from both ferox and muticus in usually having a well-developed opisthotic-exoccipital spur.
It is thought that, of the living softshells in North America, ferox is more closely allied to Old World forms of the genus than to muticus or spinifer.
Attracted by the great size and artistic workmanship of two bows that stood against the wall close by him, he leant forward and took up one to examine it more closely.
Looked at more closely, there are maxima of conceptions in Russia in January and in April.
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