Unquestionably the lack of books accounts for certain insufficiencies, but I think the peculiarities of the author's own genius are partly responsible.
At due date, the same peculiarities will suddenly manifest themselves throughout the species.
Instead of deciding concerning their own modes and customs by any rule of reason, nothing appears rational, becoming, or beautiful to them, but what coincides with the peculiarities of their education.
We must not only be constantly thinking of the phenomena themselves, but we must be constantly studying them; making ourselves acquainted with the peculiarities of every case to which we attempt to apply our general principles.
Whatever depends on the peculiarities of individuals, combined with the accident of the positions they hold, is necessarily incapable of being foreseen.
There is, indeed, also a certain general resemblance; but peculiaritiesof circumstances are continually constituting exceptions even to the propositions which are true in the great majority of cases.
But the property which is the cause of the chief peculiarities of a class, is unfortunately seldom fitted to serve also as the diagnostic of the class.
Unenumerated differences certainly do exist in some cases; there are families of plants which have peculiarities of chemical composition, or yield products having peculiar effects on the animal economy.
Other peculiarities were the possession of the largest teeth, especially noticeable in comparison with the small jaw, and the smallest known cranial capacity (averaging 1199 c.
From some of the peculiarities of the Achua (Wochua) Negrilloes met by Junker south of the Welle one can understand why these little people were such favourites with the old Egyptian kings.
It is well known that every child inherits from both his parents peculiarities of character, temperament, talent, acuteness of sense, and strength of will.
Each of the higher animal species has a characteristic psychic organ; the central nervous system of each has certain peculiarities of shape, position, and composition.
These animals have other important peculiarities of structure (especially in the chorda and the gut) which show a striking divergence from the other invertebrates and resemblance to the vertebrates.
It appears likely that the habits and peculiarities of the Philharmonic Society suggested to Mendelssohn his favourite style of performance (Vortragsweise)-- certainly it was admirably adapted to meet their wants.
Since this alone of all that you call your "selfhood" is possessed of eternal reality, it is surely a counsel of prudence to acquaint yourself with its peculiarities and its powers.
The same with faces that attracted the artist from their peculiarities of character or expression; a few touches were sufficient as guides for the finished heads and figures.
As the musicians made their way to another corner and began tuning up, she glanced mischievously at Jethro, for she knew his peculiaritiesby heart.
The peculiarities of Cicero's character are nowhere so clearly legible as in his dealings with and words about his daughter.
One of the peculiarities of the yucca wood is its ability to store moisture.
They know its peculiarities and its mysteries; it keeps them and lets them live, and they love it.
The human eye "has adapted itself through the ages to the peculiarities of the sun's light, so as to make the most of that wave-length of which there is most.
There are certain peculiarities in the structure of the Milky Way which lead these astronomers to think that our universe may be a spiral nebula, and that the other spiral nebulæ are "other universes.
He maintains that the leading peculiarities of the immediate precursors of man were wrought out during a long arboreal apprenticeship.
Certain types suited certain areas, and periods of in-breeding tended to make the distinctive peculiarities of each incipient race well-defined and stable.
Peculiarities and changes of climate and surroundings, not to speak of other change-producing factors, would provoke new departures from age to age, and so fresh racial ventures were made.
They however soon imbibed the peculiarities of the Irish character with an increased ability to procure all its gratifications.
And I call them idiomata and not linguas, because they are not different languages, but different properties which are peculiarities (idiomata) of the same language.
They knew it well by certain peculiarities in its construction.
Yet Mary, the admirable, was after all but his "contrast" and his foil: it was for the peculiarities of her opposite that he had finally whetted his pencil.
In language she was uniformly correct, without seeming at all scholastic; she occasionally used the idioms and dialectic peculiarities of those around her, though never with the air of being heedlessly betrayed into them.
Then there is a chapter about the character of the Eldredge of the day, a Catholic, a morbid, shy man, representing all the peculiarities of an old family, and generally thought to be insane.
Of late years, the peculiarities of John Beaumont's prosody have drawn attention to his work.
Beavers are nearly allied to the squirrels (Sciuridae), agreeing in certain structuralpeculiarities of the lower jaw and skull.
In spite of the strong revulsion which I felt against some of the peculiarities of this remarkable man, I for the first time in my life found myself under the dominion of a superior.
Sure eyes and good telescopes soon descry the Yankee ensign floating aloft in lazy folds; and as we come still nearer, those accustomed to observe the shape of sails and set of masts, detect the peculiarities of an old acquaintance.
The comfortable, well-to-do Quaker of the old school still exhibits in use some of their homely peculiarities of garb.
Many peculiarities of the Renaissance in Italy, and of the Renaissance in general, as communicated through Italians to Europe, can be explained by this emergence of the national Italic temperament.
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