They are obviously unable to pass over wide arms of the sea, while the necessity for constant supplies of food and water renders sandy deserts or snow-clad plains equally impassable.
To this necessity for specialisation in colour, by which each bird may easily recognise its kind, is probably due that marvellous variety in the peculiar beauties of some groups of birds.
It might, therefore, seem hopeless to show the necessity for their existence on Darwinian principles, and to prove that they are physiologically active organs.
Since virtue attracts friendship, as I have said, if there shines forth any manifestation of virtue with which a mind similarly disposed can come into contact and union from such intercourse love must of necessity spring.
Were it to die, the whole heaven would of necessity collapse, and all nature would stand still, nor could it find any force which could be set in movement anew from a primitive impulse.
How friendships should be dissolved, and how to guard against thenecessity of dissolving them.
For the first cause, if extinct, will neither itself be born again from aught else, nor will it create aught else from itself, if indeed all things must of necessity originate from the first cause.
If then, pain of mind fall to the lot of a wise man as it must of necessity unless we imagine his mind divested of its humanity, why should we take friendship wholly out of life, lest we experience some little trouble on account of it?
Thus while friendship in ordinary life is never to be spurned when it may be had without sacrifice of principle, it is less a necessity than when man's relations with the unseen world gave no promise of strength, aid, or comfort.
On the expectants of office it imposed the necessity of acquiring a character in proportion to their standing, in order that all which they had gained by the good behavior of years should not be lost by the misconduct of an hour.
The constant necessity of similar exertions would increase at once their energy and extent; so that rebellion itself is the parent and promoter of despotism.
When Gnosticism declined in importance, and its theories faded out of recollection, its peculiar phraseology received of necessity a new interpretation.
Obviously the deepest explanation of all this lies in our lack of belief in the necessity for high and thorough training.
Such words have all gained their meanings from human experience, and hence of necessity carry anthropomorphic implications.
Alimentation, that necessity which tyrannizes over men and animals, is not imposed upon the inhabitants of ether.
Memoirs of the life and teachings of Jesus were called forth by the necessity of having a written standard of doctrine to which to appeal amid the growing differences of opinion which disturbed the Church.
But the way of legislation was at first blocked against all projects of improvement by the urgent necessity of passing an Irish coercion bill.
At the same time Europeans were permitted to settle and hold land in India without the necessity of applying for a licence.
His forward policy, it is true, had already excited alarm and criticism at home, while the peace of Amiens had ostensibly removed the chief justification of it--the necessity of combating the aggressive designs of France.
However pacific Minto's policy was, he did not shut his eyes to the necessity of guarding the coasts and commerce of India against the enemy who still dominated Europe, and had not wholly abandoned his visions of eastern conquest.
The ministers professed sympathy with its principle, but would not pledge themselves to deal immediately with so difficult and complicated a subject, perhaps foreseeing the necessity of radical change in the English poor law system.
The necessity of suppressing it, though not apparent to Lord Wellesley, the lord-lieutenant, was strongly felt on both sides of the house of commons.
Unlike Wellington and Eldon, he saw the necessity of accepting loyally the accomplished fact and shaping his future course in accordance with the nation's will.
Perhaps he did not yet fully recognise that war was a necessity of his political ascendency, no less than of his own personal character.
We also know that Wellington himself was more than half convinced of the necessity of concession, and was preparing to strengthen his government for the coming struggle, in the event of Peel feeling bound to retire.
He turns then to another evil, and its cure: "The tendency to deceive ourselves regarding all we wish for, and the necessity of resistance to these desires; .
Its elements must of necessity be gathered slowly from many and scattered sources.
We do not stop to examine what really weighs with us, but on some fancied necessity hasten to do superfluous things.
How I cursed those imperfect mediums which necessity through ignorance compelled me to use!
Maria had thought at first she would rather be alone on the gallery, but this reposeful and tender French girl at once became a necessity to her.
Wachique had busied herself seeking among piles of furniture for candles, which she considered a necessity for the dead.
Something you believed in as you believed in the necessity of neckties.
Out of this mania is born the necessity of illusion--the illusion of direction.
And then he felt the necessityof hiding his shame.
In this way he dimly hoped to make it socially necessary for him to produce the volume and that finally the social necessity of living up to his announcements would overpower the inner restraints.
Overcome with the necessity of keeping pace with the artificial virtues he had created as his God, he was converting himself, to the best of his talents, into an outwardly epicene, eye-rolling symbol of purity.
Keegan, listening uncomfortably to the judge who was ignoring him in his talk but whose audience Keegan felt it a social necessity to remain, tried vainly to capture Fanny's eyes.
Thus he was reduced to the necessity of continual lying in order to vindicate this conviction, more powerful than reality.
By assuring himself of the nobility of faithfulness and of its necessity as a matter of high decency, he vindicated in a measure the fact that he seemed too cowardly to philander.
And Keegan, surrendering himself as a matter ofnecessity to their demands presented the exterior of a sorrowing victim to the dawn.
There were many paradoxical things necessary and most curious of them all was the necessity of showing Aubrey that she loved him.
He hurried away as if some logical necessity were spurring him on.
Besides the necessity of describing this petty trouble, which could only be described by the pen of a woman,--and what a woman she was!
There is a necessity for mutual observation, a common right of search from which none can escape.
How many times have you recoiled from the necessity of a remonstrance, in the morning, on awakening, when you had put her in a good humor for listening!
Constitutional government, a happy mixture of two extreme political systems, despotism and democracy, suggests by the necessity of blending also the two principles of marriage, which so far clash together in France.
Hence the necessity of cleverly distributing the interest in a dramatic work, and of graduating doses in medicine.
We recognized the necessity of closing those bars before that relief work was started, and urged it so strongly on the Government that they agreed to do it.
The notices posted in the public conveniences and other suitable places indicating the existence of the clinics and the necessity for treatment might include a guarded reference to their use for this purpose.
The Committee are impressed with the valuable work done at these clinics, and recommend their extension to other centres as opportunity offers and necessity is shown to exist.
To advise as to the best means of combating and preventing venereal disease in New Zealand, and especially as to the necessity or otherwise of fresh legislation in the matter.
In proportion as I am rendered familiar with my fellow-creatures, or with society at large, I come to feel the ties which bind men to each other, and the wisdom and necessity of governing my conduct by inexorable rules.
The mode therefore in which the advocates of the doctrine of necessity have universally talked and written, is one of the most memorable examples of the hallucination of the human intellect.
In the sobriety of the closet, we inevitably assent to his conclusions; nor is it easy to conceive how a rational man and a philosopher abstractedly can entertain a doubt of the necessity of human actions.
Tis destiny unshunnable like death: Even then this dire necessity falls on us, When we do quicken.
But, when he is called upon to act in the name of a community, and to decide upon a question in which the public is interested, he of necessity feels himself called upon to proceed with the utmost caution.
Hence of necessity it happens in a civilised community, that a vast majority of the species are innocent, and have no inclination to molest or interrupt each other's avocations.
But, though the doctrine of the necessity of human actions can never form the rule of our intercourse with others, it will still have its use.
These are the sentiments dictated to us by the doctrine of the necessity of human actions.
The stripling feels himself called upon to exert his presence of mind, and becomes conscious of the necessity of an immediate reply.
A deliberative council or assembly is aware of the necessity of examining a question again and again.
They are bound, if they would consult their own well-being, to contrive for themselves a factitious necessity, that may stand them in the place of that necessity which is imposed without appeal on the vast majority of their brethren.
It is therefore beyond the reach of the faculty of speech, for me to communicate all the sensations I experience; and I am of necessity reduced to a selection.
The only thing that surprises us to-day is that there could ever have been any question about the necessity of allowing parties to give evidence if it was really desired that they should have justice.
Forgive me all those sins and irregular actions by which I entered into debt further than my necessity required, or by which such necessitywas brought upon me; but let them not suffer by occasion of my sin.
I mention this because I am always told that if I knew anything of business I should understand the necessity of imprisonment for debt.
Or is there some subtle essence in the law that of necessity destroys the favourable microbes that promote peace and goodwill among men?
Unless they are so extravagantly and absurdly naughty as to become a public as opposed to a private nuisance, there is no necessity for the police to tackle the rich.
The imprisonment of people for non-payment of fines is really imprisonment for poverty, and the scandal of it is at last officially recognised and the necessity of reform admitted.
Ye, who live, Do so each cause refer to heav'n above, E'en as its motion of necessity Drew with it all that moves.
Grant then, that from necessity arise All love that glows within you; to dismiss Or harbour it, the pow'r is in yourselves.
Forthwith To hearing and to sight grateful alike, The spirit to his proem added things I understood not, so profound he spake; Yet not of choice but through necessity Mysterious; for his high conception scar'd Beyond the mark of mortals.
Her changes know Nore intermission: by necessity She is made swift, so frequent come who claim Succession in her favours.
Galatians, and "desire to pervert the Gospel of Christ," asserting the necessity of circumcision, against whom the epistle is directed.
We are freed from the necessity of advancing any particular theory, and have here no further interest in it than to inquire whether the narrative of the Acts is historical or not.
It is difficult to conceive that any intelligent Jew could have quoted the Hebrew of this passage to support a proposal to free Gentile Christians from the necessity of circumcision and the observance of the Mosaic Law.
If Paul preached the same Gospel as the rest, what necessity could there have been for communicating it at all?
There is a kind of moral fitness in all things; for where the necessity of invention exists, it is consolatory to reflect that the ability to invent is bestowed along with it.
In fact, they were obliged to get from among the rioters with all possible celerity, and to suggest to the magistrates the necessity of calling ir the military.
A smile came to my lips, and a tear in my eye, when, in her gentle and sensible prattle, she urged on me the necessity of saving forty sous a day, that I might be beyond want or evil temptations.
The narrative, however, was frequently interrupted by excited exclamations from the sturdy Welshmen, and its progress considerably delayed by the necessity for interpretation to those amongst them who did not understand English.
The strength of the fire is regulated by a door, which may be raised or lowered by a winch, to admit of a greater or less supply of fuel, as necessity may indicate.
To support his family during his illness, he was under the necessity of selling a portion of his newly formed collection.
By a divine necessity every fact in nature is constrained to offer its testimony.
They denote the height of the human soul in that hour, and were not fantastic, but sprung from a necessity as deep as the world.
By the necessityof our constitution a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence.
He must not be in any manner pinched or hindered by his material, but through his necessity of imparting himself the adamant will be wax in his hands, and will allow an adequate communication of himself, in his full stature and proportion.
No man can quite exclude this element of Necessityfrom his labor.
What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.
In a day or two more there would be the fêtes for Easter at Amyôt; royal guests were bidden to them; he would of necessity appear and play his part in his own house; he and she would meet with the world around them.
Let me urge on you to see her yourself as little as is consistent with necessity and common kindness, and to have her as much as possible occupied by intellectual pursuits and interests.
But Melville saw no necessity to say all this to his worldly friends upon the sea-terrace of St. Pharamond.
Loswa was acutely sensible of the necessity which exists for any artist who would continue famous and fashionable to make his court to the new sovereigns of the great world, as turn by turn they succeed to their leadership.
It seemed to him that embarrassing complications would of necessity grow up out of so much needless reticence.
That it was sufficiently copious for the purposes of society in the existing condition of arts and manners, reason alone would satisfy us from the necessity of the case.
During July and August I maintained a correspondence with him on the subject of his increasing physical infirmities, and frankly expressed to him the necessity of such remedial measures as seemed clearly necessary.
And if it entailed on you the necessity to lay by--and give up hazard, and not be security for other men--why it would be the best thing that could happen.
Hence the necessity of making the Anglo-Saxon a regular branch of academic education.
The supreme solution is, and always will be, to see in necessity the fatherly will of God, and so to submit ourselves and bear our cross bravely, as an offering to the Arbiter of human destiny.
It is a state of mental reservation in which one lends one's self to circumstances for form's sake, but refuses to recognize them in one's heart because one cannot see the necessity or the divine order in them.
This interlacing of the ten thousand threads which necessity weaves into the production of one single phenomenon is a stupefying thought.
I have never been able to see any necessity for imposing myself upon others, nor for succeeding.
It frees us from the necessity of looking all round a subject, it puts up with every kind of repetition, it accompanies all the caprices and meanderings of the inner life, and proposes to itself no definite end.
Finally, as a peroration, he dwelt upon the necessity for a new people, for a stronger generation, if the world is to be saved from the tempests which threaten it.
The horse, too, is seldom eaten, and never except when absolute necessity compels.
The beaver near the settlement is sad and solitary: his works have been swept away, his association broken up, and he is reduced to the necessity of burrowing in the river-bank, instead of building a house for himself.