The press is indeed so active, that no year passes without accessions to our knowledge, even historically considered upon some of the multifarious subjects which the present volumes embrace.
He passes without notice from one subject to another the most remote, and has been so much too rapid for his editor, that the titles of each chapter, multifarious as they are, afford frequently but imperfect notions of its contents.
The civil or Roman law is comprehended in four leading divisions (besides some later than the time of Justinian), very unequal in length, but altogether forming that multifarious collection usually styled the Corpus Juris Civilis.
He liked to shine in conversation, and there was scarcely a subject which could be mooted in any society, on which his multifarious attainments did not qualify him to say something.
Lord Curryfin, amongst his multifarious acquirements, had taken lessons from the great horse-tamer, and thought himself as well qualified as his master to subdue any animal of the species, however vicious.
Archbishops have reached the zenith of fame and comfort in their Lambeth paradise, their multifarious duties must effectually prevent their ever having time thoroughly to enjoy their "garden of peace.
He found among the multifarious sects of Brahminism many practices and ordinances which he approved of and incorporated or embodied in his new system.
Thence arose those multifarious schools, where were elaborated the many systems, opinions, &c.
Having once entered into the dark way of superstition, man is hurried on in countless false directions by fear, hope, and other passions, in the midst of the daily occurrence of multifarious and unforeseen events and circumstances.
This may be so because my reading was much more multifarious than it had been earlier, or because I was reading always two or three authors at a time.
They respond to the multifarious wants of the whole community.
He wandered with a sense of ease among its multifarious pages, and, in full leisure, brought his information up to date concerning the state of the war and of the country.
The English word "multitude" should, therefore, be understood as signifying multifarious instincts and gifts, which in Nietzsche strove for ascendancy and caused him more suffering than any solitude.
Of all the openings thus transiently disclosed, the one towards which the boat at length shapes its course, with the clear intention of thereabout disburdening itself of its multifarious load, is quickly seen to be of preeminent importance.
On the other hand, I do not wish to exhaust the reader's patience by a long series of multifarious details and conflicting arguments.
It is the duty of this council and its president to regulate all matters connected with the tsekhi, and to see that the multifarious regulations regarding masters, journeymen, and apprentices are duly observed.
It seemed at first sight to reduce the multifarious conflicting facts of human history to a few simple principles, and to evolve order out of chaos.
Englishmen are, as a rule, too much occupied with the multifarious concerns of the present to look much ahead into the distant future.
But these multifarious avocations did not take up the whole of his thoughts.
His multifarious Military businesses come first; then his three Clerks, with the Civil and Political.
The fertility of his inventions, the correctness of his judgments, the celerity of his movements, the extent of his labours in the combined and multifarious business of war and government astonished both friends and foes.
This gossip was part and parcel of that multifarious scandal to which she had just assured her lover that she no longer would lend an ear.
There was no literature, no art, no science, none of the multifarious interests which now divide and absorb the intellectual energies of the community.
And it is not necessary that this preoccupation should concern any side of that multifarious monster we know as "business.
And this shafting, of which the diameter is from two to fourteen inches, sets twelve hundred power-looms going, besides fulfilling all its other multifarious duties.
The quay and landing-places exhibit multifarious signs of life, especially if your arrival occur when the great railway steam-ferry-boat is about to start.
For two years he devoted himself to anxious study of the British Constitution in all its multifarious records.
With all these somewhat multifarious duties, we never hear of a fiscal having a clerk, assistant or deputy.
But there is required in addition, a faculty of arranging his time, so as to meet seasonably the multifarious drafts upon it.
What time has he, wearied by the day's multifarious and exacting labors, for any thorough study of books?
This course, or as close an approximation to it as his multifarious duties will permit, will go far to solve the problem that confronts every librarian who is expected to be an exponent of universal knowledge.
His life was passed in the conscientious discharge of multifarious duties; and in whatsoever aspect it may be viewed, it was a life which it is thoroughly wholesome to contemplate.
Notwithstanding all these multifarious pursuits he never looks like an overworked man, but carries his sixty-three years with a remarkably good grace.
He early displayed great fondness for books, and has ever since found time for private study, notwithstanding the multifarious labours of an exacting profession.
Before us lies the water with its multifarious islands, bays, promontories, and coves, some of which we shall now explore.
It is as impossible for the casual sojourner to grasp the significance of the multifarious historical and literary events which have transpired here as for a few pages to outline them.
Respecting the manner in which he discharged the multifarious and unusual duties of his office, we have never heard anything but commendation.
For three weeks the lawyer and his client were closeted, toiling at the multifarious details of that curious document.
