Both these schools have a limited but absolute perfection of their own, and their peculiar successes can in no wise be imitated, except by the strictest observance of the same limitations.
First, that the peculiar skill of colourists is seen most intelligibly in their work in glass or in enamel; secondly, that Nature herself produces all her loveliest colours in some kind of solid or liquid glass or crystal.
I should have thought so, and should not have felt disturbed, but for the reason that none of the neighbors' geese had that peculiar call--that hornlike tone that I had noticed in mine.
Then their bodies begin to sway from side to side in the peculiar manner that has given this sect its name of Shakers.
Now when old Principle held out a peculiar shaped stone with loving pride, Roy and Dudley pressed forward to look at it.
From time to time he gazed upon the walls and windows as if calculating the chances of escape, when gradually the peculiar and regular design of the panneling caught and fixed his attention.
With a look of peculiar meaning he left the room, accompanied by Father Cipriano.
Slavery, though a great evil, will as little explain the peculiar and extraordinary decline of Italian and Grecian cultivation in the later stages of the Roman empire.
But among the greatest curiosities in this way were some tortoiseshell ponies--for we can call them nothing else--a peculiar race from Uzbek Tartary, which we never remember to have heard of before.
His genius was of a peculiar and extraordinary kind.
We are perhaps offending the gravity of certain of our readers by the extent of this notice; albeit, we have striven to propitiate their prejudices by the peculiar combination and juxtaposition of professions, selected for consideration.
The idea that there were anypeculiar burdens on the land, was a fallacy peculiar to English gentlemen brought up in the school of the corn-laws.
In the meantime General Elliot, aware that inventions of a peculiar nature were in preparation provided against every circumstance of danger that could be foreseen, and his vigilance had the effect of increasing the confidence of the garrison.
This portion of the royal speech was read with a peculiar expression of displeasure by her majesty, never before witnessed in her countenance on a public occasion.
The shipowners agitated thepeculiar burdens on shipping almost as loudly as the landlords complained of the peculiar burdens on land.
There were few events connected with Ireland which possessed any peculiar general interest.
At that moment there came the peculiar sound which indicated a message coming through space, and down the receiving wires.
There it was more comfortable, and he was just dozing off, and beginning to think of getting back into bed, when he was aware of a peculiar sound in the air overhead.
Even the hiding of them was caused by the peculiar condition of his brain.
It was some days after this, and lacking about a week until the meet was to open, when a peculiar thing happened.
It moved slowly about the interior of the shed, and with a peculiar bobbing motion, which indicated that some one was carrying it.
It was the tiny Demoiselle--the smallest craft in the race, and its peculiarstyle of starting was always thus manifested.
This system, with some peculiar additions and embellishments, is the idea of the phalanstery.
The poet's work ispeculiar to the climate in which he lives; every where else the reproduction of his works, having no market value, should be frank and free.
Footnote 23: I mean here by equite what the Latins called humanitas,-- that is, the kind of sociability which is peculiar to man.
And it is here especially that we notice the syncretism which is peculiar to him.
That is the peculiar feature of capacities; the character of genius, the seal of its glory, cannot arise and develop itself, except in the bosom of a great nation.
It designates the quality which makes a thing what it is; the attribute which is peculiar to it, and especially distinguishes it.
Now, as in all diseases, the diagnostic varies according to the temperament, so my madness has its peculiar aspects and distinguishing characteristic.
The slave has no personality, and consequently no wehrgeld [59] peculiar to himself: he is a thing.
Nor is this argument peculiar to the theologians; we find it expressed in equivalent language in the philosophical writings of the materialists, believers in infinite perfectibility.
As regards the shape of the head, peculiar conformation of the ears, and other "stigmata," science long ago demonstrated that these are ordinarily of little or no significance.
It is no wonder, therefore, that subjects whose ideational stores are scanty, and whose associations are based upon accidental rather than logical connections, find the test one of peculiar difficulty.
And it seems to me that this explanation makes clear how it is possible that varieties, which are potentially rich in their peculiar monstrosity, are discovered from time to time among plants when tested by experimental methods.
Eight or ten, or even more, species have been combined into one large and multiform strain, each bringing its peculiar qualities into the mixed mass.
In doing so, they generally assume the peculiar characters that would be expected of them by comparison with allied genera in which they are of normal occurrence.
This fact suggests the idea of a common origin for these anomalies, and would lead to the hypothesis that the original ancestors of the whole family, before losing the bracts, exhibited this peculiar mode of cohesion.
But what is very peculiar and striking is the circumstance, that these stripes do not extend in a longitudinal, but in a transverse direction.
The term recessive only applies to the peculiar state into which the latent character has come in the hybrid by its pairing with the antagonistic active unit.
Sprenger discovered it in the year 1590, and was struck by its peculiar and sharply deviating characters.
Are these dwarfs only the extremes of the normal fluctuating variability, or is their stature to be regarded as the expression of some peculiar adaptive but latent quality?
Hallett, the celebrated English wheat-breeder, tried in vain to improve the peculiar qualities of this valuable production of Le Couteur's.
The question at once comes up as to whether here too we have only instances of partial variability, and whether many of the typical desert-species would lose their peculiar character by cultivation under ordinary conditions.
Some peculiar Australian types are represented on the summit of Kini Balu in Borneo.
It is rather difficult to get a clear conception of the substitution, and it seems necessary to designate the peculiar relationship between the two characters forming such a pair by a simple name.
Our three illustrative examples are good and permanent races, producing their peculiar qualities [372] regularly and abundantly.
Some species arepeculiar to such high altitudes, while many forms from the lowlands have no corresponding type on the mountains.
Of late years several very interesting andpeculiar cases have been examined by MM.
It was natural to ask one's self if the property discovered in salts of uranium was peculiar to this body, or if it were not, to a more or less degree, a general property of matter.
Others, again, such as the study of the compressibility of water, have a special interest, on account of the peculiar properties of this substance.
A particular speed, for instance, is in reality nothing else but a speed, and it is only by the peculiar choice of unit that we can say that it is the space covered during the unit of time.
The anode and the cathode are immediately distinguished in a tube of rarefied gas by their peculiar appearance; and the conductivity does not appear, under certain conditions, to be the same for the two modes of electrification.
He found a handkerchief pressed to his forehead, and above the smell peculiar to a studio, he recognized the strong odor of ether, applied no doubt to revive him from his fainting fit.
You will observe that what is here promised is His own divine guidance and instruction, and you will see at once how appropriate such a promise was under the peculiar circumstances of the case.
It is the peculiaroffice of the Holy Ghost to take of the things of the Lord Jesus Christ and apply them unto us, and without that act of His we may struggle in vain to reach the blessing.
What was the peculiarcharacter of that blessedness?
There are many who have been so utterly unsuccessful in their efforts to rise that they begin to think there is somethingpeculiar in themselves which makes them an exception to the general offer of life and pardon.
It put one in mind of india-rubber, and all the time our new acquaintance gave a peculiar roll from side to side.
By degrees, though, the mental wind changed the course of that peculiar weathercock, one's mind, and I felt better.
Common benefits, are to be communicate with all; butpeculiar benefits, with choice.
The peculiar fascination in the cheque was the facility it afforded for complete and sudden rupture of every tie.
There was a peculiar expression of veiled anger in her eyes while thus engaged, and once the veil was momentarily lifted and anger was visible.
This fact imposes peculiar obligations to economy in disbursement and energy in action.
This is an idea, I suppose, which has arisen in Judge Douglas's mind from his peculiar structure.
Had the election fallen to any other of the distinguished candidates instead of myself, under the peculiar circumstances, to say the least, it would have been proper for all citizens to have greeted him as you now greet me.
This is the rule; and the slave revolution in Hayti was not an exception to it, but a case occurring under peculiar circumstances.
Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years under great and peculiar difficulty.
You will not be surprised to learn that in the peculiar exigencies of the times our intercourse with foreign nations has been attended with profound solicitude, chiefly turning upon our own domestic affairs.
The object was one of great delicacy, in presenting views at the opening of an administration under the peculiar circumstances attending my entrance upon the official duties connected with the Government.
Brown, and imagine that they filled the chair with some peculiar brilliance.
For the present, therefore, I shall restrict myself to the few sentences in which it may be proper to gratify the curiosity of some readers, the two or three in a hundred, as to the peculiar distinctions of this philosophy.
But considering Venice's peculiarposition with regard to the sea and her boasted dominion over it fish are very dear.
It is peculiarfurthermore in being open only for a few weeks in the spring.
I mean that peculiar radiation of impulsive energy issueing from anything really great, vibrating and palpitating from afar, fitting the soul to emotion or enthusiasm.
On becoming himself a condottiere, he joined the Venetians, who were then busy in the field, and against the Milanese naturally fought withpeculiar ardour.
This is an altar-piece indeed, and in it unite with peculiar success the world and the spirit.
They will have peculiar interest to anyone who has read La Vie d'un Patricien de Venise au XVI Siecle, by Yriarte, for that fascinating work deals with Marcantonio Barbaro, who married one of the Giustiniani and lived here.
Yes, but not more so than necessary with a child of Lulu's peculiar disposition.
The negro's body was bare to the hips, and the overseer bore a peculiar whip with a short thick stalk and a number of heavy braided lashes about two feet in length.
The conditions there were peculiar and called for unusual military methods and constant watchfulness in order to insure camp protection.
Our attention was soon attracted by a peculiar sound; a kind of pat, pat, pat, upon the ground.
The ancient residence of Cosmo Vecchio and his successors is a magnificent example of that vast and terrible architecture peculiar to Florence.
The most important of these arguments are those which are based on the peculiar connection between Robin Hood and the month of May.
The other furnishes nothing peculiar except a name: the ceremony is called a hoodening, and the hobby-horse a hooden.
Did not Father Tommaso tell you but yesterday, that it was not right to believe in ghosts or witches, save and except the peculiar one or two it is his business to know about, and who lived some thousand years ago?
A fool and a taborer seem also to have been indispensable; but the other dancers had neither names nor peculiar offices, and were unlimited in number.
The name of Andrea de Ferrara is inscribed on all the Scottish broadswords which are accounted of peculiar excellence.
As the heathen deities contracted an indelible obligation if they swore by Styx, the Scottish Highlanders had usually some peculiar solemnity attached to an oath which they intended should be binding on them.
Louis XI of France practised the same sophistry, for he also had a peculiar species of oath, the only one which he was ever known to respect, and which, therefore, he was very unwilling to pledge.
Weel, as I have said, I have no male issue, and yet it is needful that I maintain the honour of my house; and it is on that score I prayed ye for your peculiar and private attention.
The accessaries of ancient distinction, to which the Baron, in the pride of his heart, had attached so much importance and veneration, were treated with peculiar contumely.
Surprised by a force of a peculiar and unusual description, their opposition could not be long or formidable, especially as they were deserted by the cavalry, and those who undertook to manage the artillery.
No sooner had the gulls fallen into the lake, than Pathfinder dropped the butt-end of the rifle, and laughed in his ownpeculiar manner, every shade of dissatisfaction and mortified pride having left his honest face.
Magnet quickly; for she dreaded a premature display of the old seaman's peculiar dogmatism, not to say pedantry.
The others took another direction, which, after a few minutes of a sharp ascent also, brought them to a small naked point on the promontory, where the eye overlooked an extensive and verypeculiar panorama.
The peculiar state of the weather served to increase the romantic, almost supernatural appearance of the passage.
Jasper was glad enough to change the subject, and the friends separated, each charged with the duty most peculiar to his own station and habits.
And greeting Constant with that inimitable smile of grace and kindness peculiar to her, she walked toward the reception-room.
He stopped in front of a small, mean-looking house; and, when the coach had gone, the prince knocked three times in a peculiar manner at the street door.
Alexander had acknowledged this flattering reception with the affability and the smiling grace peculiar to him; Frederick William, with the gravity and calmness that never left him.
