To understand something of the origins of the town, it is far better to come there for the first time by the river, by the highway that has suffered least change since Rouen was a town at all.
Each relief showed a group in which some living figure is dragged to death by a triumphant skeleton, and chief among them were our first parents Adam and Eve, the origins of death for every generation after.
The legendary originsfirst appear in Nennius and in a number of poems by such writers as Maelmura (d.
On account of its isolated position we might expect to find Ireland in possession of a highly developed system of legends bearing on theorigins of its inhabitants.
It is only in recent years that the Irish legendary origins have been subjected to serious criticism.
Accordingly, just as general Anthropology sought to investigate the originsof races or that of the human species in the very roots of life, so criminal Anthropology searches the origins of defective personality in its social surroundings.
Thus, through single characteristics, through particularities, we may read the origins of races; and recognise which are the constant characteristics and which the transitory ones.
There is something unmistakably illiberal, almost superstitious, in standing on race for its own sake, as if origins and not results were of moral value.
If we turn from origins to ideals, the contrast between social and political democracy is no less marked.
Soul and body would be wholly transferred to that medium where lay the creature's spiritual affinities; his origins would be disregarded on principle, except where they might help to forecast his disposition.
The origins of these four plane co-ordinate systems may be collinear with the axis of the optical system; and the corresponding axes may be parallel.
In this regulation, which was intended to mitigate the usages of war amongst the members of the league, we have one of the origins of Greek interstate law.
For a contrary opinion, see Elton's "Origins of English History.
The originsand history of the Central American herpetofauna.
According to Savage's (1966) interpretation of the origins and history of the American herpetofauna, Agalychnis and Pachymedusa are members of the Mesoamerican fauna, and Phyllomedusa is part of the Neotropical fauna.
Such were the origins of the eight remedies which the Philadelphia pharmacists were to take account of in 1824.
The immediate source of the French writers does not solve for us the problem of the origins of Arthurian tradition; it is a mistake to employ an argument, or use terminology, confounding two distinct questions.
Romance and myth are not the same thing; though their final developments are apt to overlap, their root origins are distinctly different.
With the reader in possession of these facts, we now turn to an account of the origins of the Achæmenian dynasty and the reign of Cyrus the Great.
The record of their rise and decay has an intellectual value; they are in their origins and their course the manifestations of human needs, the instruments of racial temperament, of catastrophic force, of faith and fanaticism.
We desire to know neither origins nor ends, we expect no cosmogony and we look for no apocalyptic vision.
Its originswere deep seated in the life of the people.
Let us note that although wyvern-like monsters, crosses, roundels and other devices appear on these shields, none of them has any indication of true armory, whose origins must be placed in the next century.
The fourth arch becomes the arch of the adult aorta, between the origins of the left carotid and left subclavian, on the left side, and the first part of the right subclavian artery on the right.
Become again an integral part of an organism from which it had formerly separated to become an individual, the male merely returns, to its origins and clearly certifies what they were.
The notion of a rule, the notion of a law, confession of our impotence to pursue a fact into the logical origins of its genealogy.
Thus Voltaire and Rousseau alike framed à priori syntheses of the origins of religion and society.
The battleground is now removed to the problem of the historicity of the ostensible origins of the cult; and scholarly orthodoxy takes for granted many positions which fifty years ago were typical of "German rationalism.
The Origins of Freemasonry: the 1717 Theory Exploded.
The real origins of the Asiatic Brethren are, however, obscure and little literature on the subject is to be found in this country.
In studying the origins of the present system we have therefore (1) to examine separately the history of each of these two traditions, and (2) to discover their point of junction.
Yet in its originsthis idea was possibly not Jewish.
To sum up, then, the origins of the system we now know as Freemasonry are not to be found in one source alone.
But before pursuing the course of the Order through what is known as the "Grand Lodge Era," it is necessary to go back and enquire into the origins of the philosophy that was now combined with the system of operative masonry.
In the account of its probable originsand growth which follows nothing can be further from the writer's wish than to emulate the confident dogmatism of those who claim to have proved or disproved this or that fact or hypothesis.
But of the originals, and of the Legend as a whole, the knowledge is too much limited to those who see in that legend only an opportunity for discussing texts and dates, origins and national claims.
But among the numerous origins of this wonderful time the origin of the short prose tale, in which France was to hold almost if not quite the highest rank among European countries, was also included.
The Christian origins in Stoicism have been widely discussed; for instance, by Chaignet.
To Christian origins in Plato never has justice been done, not even by Bigg.
Had these ingenious discoveries been as simple and as positive as their historians oppositely maintain, these origins had not admitted of such interminable disputes.
There are about half a hundred originsof the name of Britain; some absurd, many fanciful, all uncertain.
It protects theirorigins from the enemies of seeds, it nurtures their growth with the advantage of a still air, it gives them a resting-place for their maturity.
Caesar landed at Deal, but Canterbury fort was the place he had to take; Augustine landed at Richborough, but Canterbury was the place wherein he fixed the origins of Christianity in England.
These loves shut the spiritual degree, because they are the originsof evils.
The best discussion of the English interest in colonization at the opening of the seventeenth century is in Beer's The Origins of the British Colonial System, chaps.
The solving of racial origins must depend on sound scientific induction.
Such origins are so gradual and insidious that they would escape detection even if watched for while occurring; they are noticed only after sufficient differences have developed and become established, which takes generations.
The nose of the western Eskimo promises to be of much importance in the study of Eskimo origins in general.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "origins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
