But whether these various peoples have been Negroes, Hamites, Semites, Indo-Europeans or Mongolians, they have always been pastoral nomads.
The transition to the pastoral stage has meant the substitution of an artificial for a natural basis of subsistence, and therewith a change which more than any other one thing has inaugurated the advance from savagery to civilization.
The power to hold is measured by the power to use; hence the weak tenure of hunting and pastoral tribes.
Hunter and pastoral peoples need far more land than they can occupy at any one time.
In contrast, the absence of any wild fodder plants in Japan, and the exclusion of all foreign forms by the successful competition of the native bamboo grass have together eliminated pastoral life from the economic history of the island.
Sidenote: Pastorallife as a training for soldiers.
This again was a movement of a pastoral people across a tropic to other grasslands, to climatic conditions scarcely different from those which they had left.
The systematic migrations of nomads, their numerous beasts of burden, and the paucity of desert and steppe products determine pastoral tribes for the office of middlemen;[1149] and as such they appear in all parts of the world.
The pastoral tribes of ancient Judea in times of scarcity went to Egypt for grain, which they purchased either with money or cattle.
For example, scarcity of food on the arid plateau of Central Asia makes the Chinese of western Kansu eat butter and curds as freely as do the pastoral Mongols, though such a diet is obnoxious to the purely agricultural Chinese of the lowlands.
So it happened that though the pastoral valley had considerably changed its face, and had much of its ruggedness smoothed away in the course of years, this stretch of heather remained unreclaimed.
If he has a taste for domestic and pastoral scenery, it is gratified as he views the green pastures and meadows, the waving grain-fields, and the occasional gleam of water through the foliage.
Lycidas" is the last flawless music of the English Renaissance, an epitome of classical and pastoral convention, yet at once Christian, political and personal.
The reaction in lyric form showed itself in the decay of sonnet, pastoral and madrigal, in the neglect of blank verse, in the development of the couplet.
As Archbishop of Canterbury he seems to have taken a pastoral interest in the Danish besiegers, for which he was rewarded with indignities and death.
In the English cloisters the monks were still at work and valuable manuscripts were produced; but Canute can hardly have taken much interest in grammars, glossaries, Biblical paraphrases, and pastoral letters.
Alfric's best work was done before the close of the tenth century; he seems to have written his last important work, a pastoral letter, just before the accession of Canute to the English throne.
His paintings are chiefly pastoral scenes, treated in an ideal manner, and display imaginative and poetic genius of a high order.
The house, even the lovely landscape smiling under his windows, the pastoral valley, smooth lake and willowy island, seemed hateful to him.
I had tried to picture the peaceful pastoral life, but all that responded was the echo of that distant summons.
No, she was still in the same place, Katrina explained, but the city had lurched off in another direction, leaving her and Hans and the children undisturbed in their peaceful pastoral life.
On his refusal to accept the nomination, Anselm was dragged to the king's bedside, and the pastoral staff, the symbol of the pastoral office of a bishop, was forced into his hands by the bystanders.
Such were the steps, according to their orderly succession, by which a man consummated the pastoral tie with any particular parish.
Almost every body was contented with the existing mode of creating the pastoral relation.
The system also tends to weaken pastoral authority, to deprive the successors of the apostles, who were sent by Christ to teach all nations, of their lawful influence, and to separate priest and people.
One of the most striking characteristics of Archbishop Fitz-Ralph's pastoral life was his assiduity in preaching the word of God to his people.
It is the second region, called "The Pastoral Zone," in which we are most interested.
I consider it an obligation of my pastoral charge to define to you your conscientious duties toward the power which has invaded our soil, and which for the moment occupies the greater part of it.
But the pastoral letter of Cardinal Mercier restored to the Church its old leadership.
They dwell on the beautiful story of the origin of our faith and the pastoral scenes that accompanied its announcement.
The country around was of that pastoral kind which Walton is fond of describing.
It was humble enough in its appearance for the most pastoral poet; and yet it had a pleasing rural look.
A charming but somewhat superficial sentimentality expressed by means of pastoral subjects results in ornaments on which tokens of friendship are represented in all manner of forms.
He threw himself into the unaccustomed rôle with apparent zest, and seemed on the verge of achieving an unexpected reputation for pastoral piety and devotion, when a fresh blow fell.
Like the L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, Lycidas is laid out on the lines of the accepted pastoral fiction; like them it offers exquisite touches of idealised rural life.
For the world of Paradise Lost is an ideal, conventional world, quite as much as the world of the Arabian Nights, or the world of the chivalrous romance, or that of the pastoral novel.
Mrs. Gay's only brother was John Hanmer, who succeeded to his father's pastoral office among the Congregational or Independent Dissenters at Barnstaple.
Other Poet travelling in this plain highway ofPastoral I know none.
Footnote 12: A reference to "The Mourning Muse of Alexis: A Pastoral Lamentary on the Death of Queen Mary.
Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of thing a Newgate Pastoral might make," Pope once remarked.
I added to it 'A Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce,' as it contained all these several kinds of drama.
Oregon was rapidly passing from the fur trading and pastoral stages of industrial life to that of agriculture.
Great, however, as is the mineral wealth of the Bolivian highlands, it is less on them, than on the development of the agricultural and pastoralresources of the eastern part of the republic that future prosperity must in the long run depend.
This central Peruvian area is to-day, with the exception of the irrigated banks of a few streams reaching the Pacific, the only part of the country where either an agricultural or a pastoral population can support itself.
Like Argentina, Uruguay is destined to be a pastoral and agricultural, not a mining or manufacturing country.
Three days' journey across desolate wastes lay between it and the coast, a coast itself scarcely inhabited, and behind towards the north and east there were only mountain solitudes, over which pastoral Indians roved.
In these, her pastoral tales, she hit on a new and happy vein which she was peculiarly qualified to work, combining as she did, intimate knowledge of French peasant life with sympathetic interest in her subject and lively poetic fancy.
It helped to draw to her pastoraltales the attention they deserved, but had not instantly won in all quarters.
George Sand's pastoralnovels will then have additional value, as graphic studies of a state of things that has passed away.
A correspondent inquires what was the difference between a crozier and a pastoral staff.
Gough says that the pastoral staff found in the coffin of Grostete, Bp.
Query, in regard to the real difference between the crozier and the pastoral staff, on referring to the article headed "Crozier," in the Glossary of Architecture.
From which it may be inferred, that the only existent real difference between the crozier and the pastoral staff is, that the former is surmounted by a cross, and the latter is as it was before the 12th century, viz.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pastoral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
