He is not to feel himself a mere specimen, an unimportant repetition of the type, but as a particular, and in this particularity a significant, expression of the absolute, whose omission would cause a gap in the world.
We suppose the explanation is to be found in the particularity of ritual enjoined by the Buddhist priests, this particularity of ritual having always had a fascination for the multitude.
And the monotony and particularity of her complaints (slight though the complaints were in comparison with their cause) necessarily blunted the edge of compassion.
She sighed when she thought of the innumerable interviews with Mardon, the endless formalities required by the English and the French law and by the particularity of the Syndicate.
The good old man describes the beauty of plants and trees with the same delightful particularity which he spent on his neighbors and the buried dogs.
It is not necessary for the determinist to maintain that he can foresee the whole particularity of the act which will be performed.
The temporal and transitory certainly exists, and may cause us trouble enough, but in spite of that it is no true reality, any more than the particularity of the subject, his wishes and inclinations, are so.
But this virtue is present precisely when no moment, no determination or particularity isolates itself; or, more closely viewed in a moral aspect, it is when no want asserts its reality and thus becomes a crime.
In the forged piece called the Apostolic Constitutions, the apostles are made to enjoin many parts of the ritual which was in use in the second and third centuries, with as much particularity as a modern rubric could have done.
If the historian acknowledge himself to have received his intelligence from others, the particularityof the narrative shows, prima facie, the accuracy of his inquiries, and the fulness of his information.
It is to be remarked, however, that this particularity is only to be looked for in direct history.
The particularity to be remarked is, the situation of the place where prayer was wont to be made, viz.
Of the particularity which we allege, many examples may be found in all the Gospels.
I do not deny that fiction has often the particularity of truth; but then it is of studied and elaborate fiction, or of a formal attempt to deceive, that we observe this.
Since, however, experience proves that particularity is not confined to truth, I have stated that it is a proof of truth only to a certain extent, i.
The chasm between the particularity of the psychical image and the universality of its meaning is not bridged by regarding the content of the image as made up by eliminating unlike elements in a number of images.
We still have to discuss the question as to whether or not the particularityof the idea has a logical value.
The playful simplicity of his conversation and manner, and the particularity of his inquiries about matters and things so insignificant, but which were links in the chain of his memories, I well remember.
Judge Martin was fond of labor, but did not like to do the same labor twice; hence his particularity in examining well both facts and law, in every case submitted for his adjudication.
The German soldiers facing Joffre were acting on general orders printed for them eight years before, and under specific orders which had been worked out by their high command with the particularity of machine specifications.
What particularity in his appreciation of those defenses!
Then I would find myself thinking with the utmost particularityof her face.
The dusty, crude, brick-field desolation of the Rand on the other hand did not really belong with any particularity to South Africa at all.
Such particularity might have been possible for several officers and a draft of men from a ship of war, accompanied by an experienced secretary with a knowledge of shorthand.
The latter now felt in his pocket, pulled out the handkerchief given to him by Michel, and offered it to the captain, who carefully unfolded it and counted the three knots with as much particularity as though they were so much money.
Robert drank the more loquacious he became, recounting his early bacchanalian and amatory exploits in German with a particularity of detail that was most edifying.
Turn all the generalities of His grace into the particularity of your own possession of it.
There is something very remarkable, because for purposes of identification plainly unnecessary, in the minute particularity of the designation which the angel lips give to Jesus Christ.
The forehead, the temples, and more especially the eyebrows of his heroines--these and the part which they play in the expression of emotion, are described by Bret Harte with a particularity which cannot be found elsewhere.
Now, will you describe in as much particularity as you can the nature of the head wound?
Will you describe with as much particularity as you can the wound which you noticed on the President's neck?
The whole is after the manner of the Proverbs of Solomon, only with much greater particularity of details, extending to all the spheres of religious, civil, and domestic life, and giving rules of conduct for the regulation of the same.
Grant, which seemed entirely to engross them, and Mrs. Grant occupied at the tea-table, he began talking of them with more particularity to his other sister.
