For so long a time has that kind of oratorio been regarded by the general public as the only possible kind, that even now immense numbers of persons discuss works like "Gerontius" and "The Apostles" on the old lines.
We have clear proof that it was so from the vegetable soil still remaining, and the numbers of trees the remains of which are embedded in the rock, many of them standing upright as when growing.
The fish is called a Vertebrate animal, because it has a backbone, made up of numbers of separate bones called vertebras.
The empty nets were there; but in Simon's boat was the One who had made the fish, and He caused them to fill the nets in such numbers that the slender cords broke, and both the boats were overladen.
The rational classification of equations must evidently be determined by the nature of the analytical elements of which their numbersare composed; every other classification would be essentially arbitrary.
Let the question be to add the two numbers one and twenty, we answer it by merely repeating the enunciation of the question,[6] and nevertheless we think that we have determined the value of the sum.
The Calculus has the solution of all questions relating to numbers for its peculiar object.
I call abstract are those which express a manner of dependence between magnitudes, which can be conceived between numbers alone, without there being need of indicating any phenomenon whatever in which it is realized.
The work of arithmetic will now consist in taking that formula for its starting point, and finding the number x when the values of the numbers a and b are given.
Every Series, or succession of numbers deduced from one another according to any constant law, necessarily gives rise to these two fundamental questions: 1°.
I would not give you the trouble to do this if I could get them in any other way, but I can not, as all back numbers are gone, and the copy I have has been borrowed and worn, so as to be illegible in many places.
I write to ask you to send me by express what numbers of Stepping Heavenward you have on hand.
The address was published in the Granite Monthly, in the numbers for July, August, and September, 1879, and has been favorably noticed as a work of great labor and research.
Its numbers have largely increased; its pews are at a constant premium; its pew-occupants number men of the highest distinction in the state.
Many of these antiquities command a very high price in the market, their numbers being absolutely limited, and the demand for them steadily increasing.
Ten numbers followed, in due monthly order, but the volume for the year was not completed, as in July, 1830, a new series of The Argus was commenced in Magazine shape and published at a shilling.
We are rapidly improving in many ways, and the gradual introduction of the system of alternate numbering, the odd numbers on one side of the street, and the evens on the other, is an advance in the right direction.
A few numbers of a literary magazine thus named were issued in 1830.
The former alternative was incompatible with the necessary security, and for the latter the numbers of the fleet were utterly inadequate.
Great numbers of the crew had already been killed and wounded by the relentless pounding the ship had received from her enemies, for whom, toward the end, the affair became little more than safe target practice, with a smooth sea.
Had the United States Navy been a force as respectable in numbers as it was in efficiency, the same dictates of expediency might have materially controlled the action of her opponent; might have prevented outrage and averted war.
The working class, which had grown in numbers since 1905, is now separated from the bourgeoisie by a deeper abyss than before.
The numbersof cross-bowmen in our armies appear, however, to have been always relatively small.
The company's tender also came out, and numbers of passengers went ashore in the mere wantonness of paying for their dinner and a night's lodging in the annexes of the hotels, which they were told beforehand were full.
We passed great numbers of swine, feeding on these burs, and now and then a horned animal browsing on the cypress-moss where it hung low on the trees.
The mob wrecked the Queen's Hotel, smashed numbersof windows in Lewis's great emporium, looted the Guardian office, and set fire to the Town Hall.
The advice of the Anarchist leaders in their inflammatory speeches had been acted upon, and in half an hour a number of bomb explosions had occurred in the vicinity, each doing enormous damage, and killing numbers of innocent persons.
Orders shouted in Russian echoed through the ship, numbers of signals were exchanged rapidly with the other vessels, and the sea suddenly became alive with torpedo boats.
But in that terrible rush to escape many delicate ladies were crushed to death, and numbers of others, with their children, sank exhausted, and perished beneath the feet of the fleeing millions.
Russian shells bursting in Stretford killed and injured largenumbers of the defenders.
Carefully packed in the car were large numbers of the most powerful infernal machines, ingeniously designed to effect the most awful destruction if hurled into a thickly-populated centre.
The Canadians had laid mines in front of their trenches, which were exploded just as the head of the Russian assaulting parties were massed above them, and large numbers of the Tsar's infantry were blown into atoms.
Still the enemy by their overwhelming numbers gradually broke down these defences, and, after appalling slaughter on both sides, occupied the city.
Nevertheless, great numbers of stalwart young miners enrolled themselves in the local Volunteer corps, and burned to avenge the affront to their country and their sovereign.
Numbers had already reached our side and were deploying, when our rifles spoke out sharply, and, judging from the manner in which the enemy were exposed, our fire was quite unexpected.
In a million new directions forms of honoured and remunerative social labour are opening up before the feet of the modern man, which his ancestors never dreamed of; and day by day they yet increase in numbers and importance.
The following numbers of The Mentor Course, already issued, will be sent postpaid at the rate of fifteen cents each.
But there is no agreement of the metals with the planets, nor of the planets with the metals, either in numbers or in properties.
As the rock dust is colonized by life forms that gradually build in numbers it becomes soil.
This explanation is oversimplified and the numbers I have used to illustrate the process are slightly inaccurate, however the idea itself is substantially correct.
It supplies large numbers of the most useful types of microorganisms so they dominate the heap's ecology before other less desirable types can establish significant populations.
To increase their numbers it is merely necessary to bring in additional organic matter or add plant nutrients that cause more vegetation to be grown there.
This species does not survive well in ordinary soil and can breed in large numbers only in decomposing manure or other proteinaceous organic waste with a low C/N.
The figures are averages of large numbers of plant samples, including many different food crops from each climate.
Otherwise, the decomposition process will take a very long time because large numbers of decomposing organisms will not be able to develop.
Krasilnikov judged fertility by counting the numbers of microbes present.
Some overly enthusiastic worm fanciers believe it is useful to import large numbers of earthworms.
Appelhof suggests sucking them up with a vacuum cleaner hose if their numbers become annoying.
There were also numbersof old castles and fortresses.
The patients are received for nothing, and numbers who cannot be accommodated in the building itself are supplied with drugs and medicines.
I was glad to leave this melancholy place, and directed my steps towards some of the pleasant gardens, of which there are great numbers in and round Baghdad.
They contain large quantities of salt, and numbers of caravans come annually from Persia and Arabia to procure it.
It is true that there were creepers and orchids, but not in such numbers as in Brazil, and the trees, too, stand far wider apart.
Along the river stood numbers of stone altars, with small bulls, and other emblematical figures, also cut in stone.
I was, however, so fortunate as to see a martyr, to whom great numbers of people flocked.
In the evening we were greatly delighted by numbers of moluscae shining through the water; they looked exactly like so many floating stars, about the size of a man's hand; even by day we could perceive them beneath the waves.
The Chinese are accused of killing numbers of their new-born or weakly children.
But ournumbers changed every evening, as some always remained behind, or others joined us.
The Loyalists came in small numbers before 1783; in larger numbers during the five years following.
After this, numbers seem rather to weaken than strengthen the argument.
Their numbers and influence increased year by year, till, in 1600, they had two hundred sail manned by eight thousand men.
The forest was returning over the fine old estates, and the wild creatures which had not been seen for generations were reäppearing, numbers and wealth were declining, and education and manners were degenerating.
There are numbers of essential and bold steps in this war, and against the enemy, which must, in the ordinary course of events, be taken, as for instance.
The enemy scrambled over the first wall, which we had just vacated, to find themselves in a network of other walls held by our spearmen in a narrow place where numbers gave no great advantage.
They had not seen any of these priests in the town, where no form of worship appeared to be practised, but they had observed men driving small numbers of sheep or goats up the flanks of the mountain towards the forest.
Obviously its soil was of a most fertile character and supported numbers of inhabitants, for everywhere we could see their kraals or villages.
As they came on in numberstoo great for Ipley to stand against, an obscuration fell over all.
But one is struck, among other things, by the keener literary zest of those days, and by the immense numbers of MSS.
I suppose it results from their numbers and their unity of purpose, a sort of collective and corporate wisdom.
