There is one peculiarity in the chronogram sent by our correspondent, which singularly illustrates a passage in Shakspeare, and by which also it is most amusingly illustrated.
LOWER mentions I can give no more explanation than of many thousands others which have been probably produced by some peculiarity or incidents in the first nominee, or some corruption of a better known name.
Thee was the remarkable peculiarity in his language, that while the happiest study of others is to conceal their art, his simplicity had the manner of art.
For unsullied whiteness and peculiarity of structure it will bear favourable comparison with the most remarkable pillars in the cave.
This peculiarityhas been remarked amongst the natives of the McDonnell Ranges, Central Australia--but nowhere else.
And this peculiarity in the distribution of the metal has been the cause of much disappointment and misunderstanding.
There was one peculiarity in his conversation which was new to me: he never talked down to me, and he was not afraid at times to discuss subjects that in the society to which I had been accustomed were prohibited.
One reason for this peculiarity is that the Ethic was the result of long meditation.
They are not very numerous, perhaps; but as they dart to and fro, and cross and recross before you, their number appears indefinite, and the zigzag peculiarity of their movements can only be verified by the closest possible scrutiny.
And here I may observe also upon a peculiarity that marks the research of certain travellers, somewhat akin perhaps to the taste which induces certain readers to trace history through personal memoirs, in place of studying broader narrations.
Another peculiarity of the guanaco is, the habit of resorting to particular spots for natural purposes.
The figure is occasioned by, or at all events derives much of its significance from, a geographical peculiarity of Jerusalem.
This obvious peculiarity in the writing is not, however, by any means the only obstacle in the way of mastering the text.
He enjoyed the peculiarity of renewing his strength whenever he fell and came in contact with his mother earth; but that Hercules lifted him up and so conquered and strangled him.
This peculiarity may be seen to an almost painful extent at Evreux.
The peculiarity within is that, while the arcade and clerestory are still late Gothic, the triforium between them has run off into Renaissance.
It shares with Oxford the peculiarity of having no one predominant object.
It is specially curious to see how a building which does not differ in any essential peculiarity of style from its fellows assumes a distinct character, and that by no means wholly to its loss, through the use of a somewhat rugged material.
They distribute the genera and species according to some one peculiarityor set of peculiarities (just as a dictionary distributes words according to their first letters), disregarding all other considerations.
The early botanists thought this such a peculiarity that they always called a Fern-leaf a FROND, and its petiole a STIPE.
Its peculiarity lies deeper--in its method of producing that fervour.
Here is the great blessing and peculiarity of Christian morals that they are all brought down to that sweet obligation: 'Do as I did.
But as this peculiarity of premature division never takes place so high up as where the vessel, B, Plate 11, overarches the first rib, F, this circumstance should also have some weight with the operator.
It is a summary at the end of the first century,[42] giving the order according to which the Church was propagated, and it has the peculiarity of being issued by the authority which stood at the head of all.
He remarks "a peculiarity invariably distinguishing the infancy of society.
But there is another peculiarity of this family of trees which is not so innocent, and that is that in the fruit-kernel, and also in the leaves, there is a deadly poison called prussic acid.
In The Land and the Book there is a picture of small branches with cones, and the author says of the cedar: 'There is a striking peculiarity in the shape of this tree which I have not seen any notice of in books of travel.
It is not really set down as belonging to the bread-fruit family," was the reply, "but it certainly has the peculiarity of their milky sap.
This peculiarity of having eyes of different colours is sometimes to be seen in dogs, and very often in cats of the Persian breed, or white cats, but it is very rare in human beings.
This peculiarity admirably fits the galago for the life it leads, as it spends a great part of its time in leaping on the boughs of trees.
But she had one peculiarity which is not set down in the description of Rozinante, to wit: the faculty of diagonal or oblique locomotion.
One singular peculiarityis described by Captain Grey.
The emu is frequently netted by night through a peculiarity in the habits of the bird, that is well-known to the natives, and which is, that it generally comes back every night to sleep on one spot for a long time together.
Of this peculiarity in the serpent the present text of Moses is an evident proof; for he says at the opening of this chapter, "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made.
It is a form of speech particularly beautiful; not only on account of the modesty and reverence it preserves, but on account of the peculiarity of signification it conveys.
His only peculiarity then was that he had greater powers and more acute and exquisite senses than any other living creature.
For he shows in this divine record that the human nature was created by a peculiarity of divine counsel and wisdom, and formed by the very finger of God.
But here also we must offer a remark concerning the grammatical peculiarity of the original language.
An interesting discussion of this peculiarity is in Some Variant Pronunciations in the New South, by William A.
In a single story by Lardner, in truth, it is usually possible to discover examples of almost every logical and grammatical peculiarity of the emerging language, and he always resists very stoutly the temptation to overdo the thing.
It is not possible, on the scale of illustration determined by a book of this size, to illustrate this English peculiarity as clearly as one would wish, but it will be apparent to the seeing eye even here.
This is not a peculiarity of English glass, but a mark of period; as a rule the clump or compact group of personages proclaims a later date than figures isolated against the background.
Illustration: A touch of Pearl's baby-hand] One peculiarity of the child's deportment remains yet to be told.
Unfortunately, the peculiarity of scruples is to alarm people, to make them lose at once the clearing breeze, and then it is indispensable to have recourse to a priest to defend oneself.
In them, it bears relation to their trade or mission; in her, it is a peculiarity of her general nature.
