Whenever you mention anything, it baffles you by talking instead about your idea of what you mention; and if ever you describe the origin of anything it substitutes, as a counter-theory, its theory of the origin of your description.
His moral dogma expresses its natural origin all the more clearly the more hotly it is proclaimed; and ethical absolutism, being a mental grimace of passion, refutes what it says by what it is.
The origin of local names of trees is interesting.
Limbs have their origin in the pith of the stems that bear them.
When the portrait phase of image worship developed, pictures of miraculous origin were produced and superstitious practices began to abound.
It seems more probable, on the contrary, that these two titles simply signify the twofold originof the early Christians, namely, from the Jews and the pagans.
Mohammedanism,[476:1] like Judaism and Christianity, had its origin in the Semitic race.
The Greek Catholic view coincides with Rome in asserting the divine origin of the Church.
In the origin of the civilisation of Western Europe three cities have been conspicuous for their contributions--Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome.
The origin of the term sacrament is not very clear.
It was dangerous to make the origin of the Church dependent upon an Emperor's fiat; hence, it was necessary to elevate the See of Rome by clothing the Pope with antiquity, spiritual majesty, and supreme authority.
The order of St. John had its origin in a hospital founded in 1065 at Jerusalem for sick pilgrims of both sexes by Maurus, a rich man of Amalfi.
The Acts of the Apostles and the letters of Paul and others to the first Christian communities tell nearly all any one can know about the origin and organisation of the Apostolic Church.
The purpose has been to show the origin of the Christian Church, its development in organisation, the forces which produced the Papacy, and the marvellous, formative influence of the Roman Church upon the civilisation of Western Europe.
The Samaritans,[45:2] in origin half Jewish and half heathen Babylonian, practised their reformed Judaism about Gerizim under an established Levitical priesthood.
The nasal appearances just noted are present, and if the sphenoidal sinus can be washed out and its ostium temporarily plugged, and pus rapidly reappears, its origin from these cells is probable.
Gummata may develop in the soft parts, but more commonly they take origin in the pericranium or bone.
In those taking origin beneath the sterno-mastoid, there is difficulty in removing them completely on account of their deep attachments, and when they are found to infiltrate the surrounding tissues the attempt should be abandoned.
Less frequently they take origin in the second cleft, and lie below the mastoid process, in which case the cyst is adherent either to the mastoid or to the styloid process.
The lymphatics, which take origin in the synovial layer, pass to efferent vessels which run in the intermuscular and other connective-tissue planes of the limb.
As already stated, the presence of pus in the nose should always direct attention to its possible origin in one or more of the accessory sinuses, especially if the discharge is unilateral.
The surgery of the extremities is so largely concerned with the correction of deformities that it is necessary at the outset to refer briefly to some points relating to the time and mode of origin of these.
A sarcoma usually has its origin in the bones of the skull, and only implicates the scalp secondarily.
If on examination by anterior rhinoscopy, pus is seen in the middle meatus, suspicion should be aroused of its origin in the maxillary sinus, frontal sinus, or anterior ethmoidal cells, as all these cavities communicate with that channel.
Abscesses of pyƦmic origin are usually multiple, and may occur both in the cerebrum and in the cerebellum; they are not amenable to surgical treatment.
Mixed tumours like that described as occurring in the vicinity of the parotid, and taking origin from branchial rests, are sometimes met with in the upper part of the anterior triangle.
Apart from the quotation of a passage in Jorge Manrique's Coplas, the Exposicion del libro de Job offers few indications of Spanish origin and fewer personal touches.
It may just be that there was a confusion as to the origin of the indenture which caused the mischief.
It stands at the beginning of Scottish literature; of its predecessors and contemporaries we have but the names, or possible versions whose place of origin is in dispute.
The origin of the nomenclature is two standing stones said to have been erected in memory of the victory (Nimmo's History of Stirlingshire, ed.
Bower accuses Barbour of misrepresenting the origin of the Stewarts.
Of the cardinal sentiment in the speech, the origin is probably to be found in the familiar story of the Maccabees, referred to more than once in The Bruce.
The origin and development of this association is the subject of Mr. Neilson's article.
On the Originand Structure of Coal,--With full page of illustrations.
For the origin of this slang we turn to glass making, the excellence of which depends upon sand.
An EARL or count was the lieutenant or viceroy of a county, and the geographical term owes its origin to the office.
What the originof this figure may have been does not appear, although the word potent, in the sense of crutch, was common in the days of Chaucer.
Others hunt in the intellectual field; some for the arcana of nature and of mind; some for the roots of words or the origin of things.
It was a favourite crotchet with this writer, that heraldry did not owe its origin to any particular period or nation, but that it sprang from the light of nature.
The origin of the expression 'a coat of arms' we have already seen, as also the cause why heraldric ensigns are borne upon a shield.
Of a similar origin is the =fesse=, a horizontal stripe across the middle of the shield, which represents a sash or military girdle.
Thus, in one short sentence, the origin both of nobility and of its external symbols is summarily disposed of.
As usual with things of long standing, a variety of opinions exists as to the origin of these pithy and interesting appendages to family ensigns.
It would be a mere waste of time to speculate upon the origin of such bearings, which owe their birth to "the rich exuberance of a Gothick fancy"--the fertile source of the chimerical figures noticed in the next chapter.
Esquireship, like knighthood, is a military dignity; and its origin is perfectly clear.
Chaucer uses the word voided in the sense of removed, made empty, and this is probably the origin of the term.
The word "Nickel" used to have many different meanings of questionable origin in the German language.
Modern banking institutions, however, had their originin the twelfth century.
It had its origin really in the ignorance of the people.
But the Japan islands are of volcanicorigin and are very numerous.
These signals had their origin with the red-man, who often resorted to them, and were said to be more successfully practised by our own hunters and riflemen than even by those with whom they originated.
Perhaps the exclusively English origin of the people may have an influence.
I now point you to the chief ground for every Christian man of his belief in the Divine origin of the Bible.
They were accepted as of Divine origin for many generations before they were gathered into any fixed collection.
The origin of such double forms is not far to seek.
Applying his principles to man as a member of a community, he assigns practically the same origin and sanctions to ecclesiastical as to civil government.
King of Sweden, Origin and Progress of his War with Poland, 61, to 67.
This Lady has play'd so extraordinary a Part in the World, that I can't avoid giving you some Account of her Origin and Character.
They say that Rotterdam derives itsOrigin from Ruther King of the Franks.
Since the Origin is from Him, the End is verily in Him.
I am satisfied that all these attacks upon the administration officials have their origin in the long-continued attempt on behalf of the Citizens' Alliance to disrupt the labor organizations of the city.
The beautiful Sakeajah gave her husband but one daughter, and upon her did her parents lavish all those affections which had not their origin in war and bloodshed.
The originand orthography of this name are uncertain.
The National Park Idea--Its Originand Realization 87 Chapter XI.
The real origin is thus left somewhat obscure, but it is probable that the notion that the pass was named for an Indian chief may have some foundation in fact.
The facts which have been brought to light concerning the origin of these forests are worthy of particular consideration.
Many plausible explanations are advanced to account for the existence of subterranean heat, but whatever may be its real origin it is doubtless the same for both classes of phenomena.
Such is the origin of the idea which has found realization in our present Yellowstone Park.
What is its real origin is therefore a good deal of a mystery.
Since they have their origin in speculative ventures, they will be put forward so long as they offer the least pecuniary inducement.
Next comes whatever account is discoverable of the origin of the names, authority being quoted, as far as possible, from the writings of whoever bestowed them.
For this reason we shall go further in search of the true origin of the name, to a locality about which there can be no doubt, no difference of opinion.
His work reaches the public eye through so many different channels, and so often without any acknowledgment of its origin, that the origin itself is very generally lost to view.
The origin of these lava flows has been traced to a few craters, one of which was near Mt.
Darwin's Origin of Species, prepared the scientific mind for entertaining, at least, the idea of man's origin by a natural process of evolution.
This is the old doctrine of the supernatural origin and substantial permanency of the earth and its features.
Even after the great antiquity of the earth and its origin and development by a natural process were generally accepted, still man was believed, even by the most competent geologists, to have appeared only a few thousand years ago.
In the individual it is a delusion, and, like other delusions, an attempt by the reason to explain a disordered feeling; in this case a painful feeling, having its origin broadly in some imperfect adaptation of the organism.
Singularly enough, this modest lady gave the origin to the word "tawdry," so Thornbury declares.
Into the mooted question of the origin of the name of London we need not enter.
Of the well-known story of the origin of the Wars of the Roses within the Temple Gardens it is not necessary here to speak.
If Mr. Bryan is mistaken about the origin of man, and if his antagonists are right, the natural ancestors of the human race were all nut eaters.
Aeolian lyre: the Greeks ascribed the origin of their Lyrical Poetry to the colonies of Aeolis in Asia Minor.