With the stern and gloomy sects, who are peculiarly attracted by the character of Deity as delineated in the Old Testament, he had no sympathy.
Friend Hopper, who was always disturbed by irreverent use of the name of Deity, was peculiarly shocked by it under these solemn circumstances.
Her temperament peculiarly required freedom, and chafed and fretted under restraint.
Frederika Bremer was peculiarly delighted by her interviews with him, and made a fine sketch of him in her collection of American likenesses.
She was a spiritual minded woman, always ready to sympathise with the afflicted, and peculiarly kind to animals.
On such occasions, the mother often gave religious exhortations to the children and apprentices, suited to the occurrences of the week, and the temptations to which they were peculiarly subject.
The plain mode of worship suited the simplicity of his character, while the principles inculcated were peculiarly well calculated to curb the violence of his temper, and to place his strong will under the restraint of conscience.
Her manners were affable, and her conversation peculiarly agreeable to young people.
Though attention to prisoners was the mission to which Friend Hopper peculiarly devoted the last years of his life, his sympathy for the slaves never abated.
Your mind is peculiarly adapted to legal investigation, and if you would devote yourself to it, you might become a judge before long.
He seemed to have brought away from this visit a peculiarly vivid recollection of "poor crazy Joe Gibson.
I repeat it, because it illustrates the tenderness of spirit, which has so peculiarly characterized the Society of Friends, and because I hope it may fall like dew on hearts parched by vindictive feelings.
I think I will lie down,” she said, her large blue eyes looking peculiarly plaintive, brimming as they were with tears.
It has been a task peculiarly uncongenial to me, because I, I suppose, know more than any of you here how this money is needed where it ought to have gone.
French immorality had been confronted with a peculiarly German morality; now French free-thought was confronted with a peculiarly German Christianity.
Men began to study the history of their country with an ardour with which it had never been studied before, and a keen eye for all peculiarly German traits.
What is peculiarly characteristic of author, tendency, and period, is the sentimental extravagance to which this introspection leads.
It is instructive to compare with Schleiermacher's some utterances by great authors of other nations on the same subject; they throw what is peculiarly national in his into more marked relief.
Several of his would-be authors, Constantin Constantius and Frater Taciturnus, for example, are scarcely to be distinguished from one another, and there is nothing peculiarly characteristic about their productions.
And the analogies between philosophic thinking and poetic creation become peculiarly striking.
It infuses something of the more instinctive and rudimentary attachments from which it springs into a passion peculiarly exposed to the contagion of rhetoric and interest.
In not a few features now deemed peculiarly American, besides that of honoring the Lord’s day, the State founded by William Penn is the land of first things, and the shining example.
In 1832 he published an anonymous poem, supporting some acts of the government which were peculiarly obnoxious to the Liberal party.
With regard to guarantees, the main incidents peculiarlyaffecting bankers are the following.
Against this is the fact that in folk-lore Christmas is a quitepeculiarly uncanny time.
Shropshire is a county peculiarly rich in "souling" traditions, and one old lady had cakes made to give away to the souling-children up to the time of her death in 1884.
The laying of stress on what happens on New Year's Day is by no means peculiarly European.
The type of man who now stood as dictator and leader by proxy, of the Lutts' faction in the Moon mountain range, was an individual possessing a peculiarly complex and many-sided nature.
It would seem, however, that circumstances are peculiarly favorable to my success in this matter, and I feared lest thou wouldst forbid the undertaking, out of a tender regard for my youth and inexperience.
A peculiarly disagreeable northeast storm, continuing for some time, kept me out of the woods, and it was long after the October moon had fulled that my opportunity came.
Its introduction by the aborigines along our Eastern seaboard has been mentioned; perhaps it has lost vigor since it lost their care, and has disappeared excepting where its environment was peculiarly favorable.
This is peculiarly true when the spring and autumn plumage are different, as in the case of bobolinks, that now are flitting southward as yellow-brown reed-birds.
In and about it were passed many of those peculiarly happy days, the recollection of which grows brighter as the years roll by.
The latter faculty is attributed mainly to a peculiarly highly-developed sensibility to physical contact.
Further, many of the Cham poisons only work slowly and the mischief they cause in the system is frequently taken for disorders which follow anaemia and other illnesses, to which foreigners in this climate are peculiarly liable.
The museum of Tervueren in Belgium is peculiarly rich in specimens of this kind, most of which were collected by the ethnographical expedition sent out from England to the Congo in 1907, under the direction of Mr. E.
But he was peculiarly placed, and he knew the value of royal promises and of royal compacts.
The night was peculiarlybalmy and sweet, and through the window could be seen the exquisite panorama of the gardens and terraces of Hampton Court, with the river beyond bathed in silvery light.
His eyes, rendered peculiarly keen by the imminence of his own danger, quickly perceived a thin fillet of artificial light running upwards from the floor, which at once suggested to him that the door was slightly ajar.
She could not altogether have explained to herself why a sudden disclosure of her identity at this moment would have been peculiarly unpleasant to her.
The Hippopotamus carried its head rather depressed, reminding one of a large prize hog, but with a breadth of muzzle and other features peculiarly its own.
Each channel of sense impressions has an organ, or organs, peculiarly adapted for the excitation of its substance by the particular kind of vibrations through which it receives impressions.
Each set of sensations is entirely different, and the organs and nerves designed to register each particular set are peculiarly adapted to their own special work.
Another Javanese fruit is the doekoe, which on the outside looks like an apricot, but is divided into sections like an orange and has a taste peculiarly its own.
Venice, I feel assured that he is peculiarly fitted to lead his portion of the Christian church in this great endeavor.
No one can visit China without becoming acquainted with a peculiarly oriental phrase called "losing face.
A peculiarly white and very light wood (the Hibiscus tiliareus) is alone used for this purpose: it is the same which serves for poles to carry any burden, and for the floating out-riggers to their canoes.
The neighbourhood of the Rio Plata seems peculiarly subject to electric phenomena.
Each troop is recognized by a few peculiarly marked animals, and its number is known: so that, one being lost out of ten thousand, it is perceived by its absence from one of the tropillas.
Verlot[860] a variety called Rosa cannabifolia, which has peculiarlyshaped leaflets, and differs from every member of the family in the leaves being opposite instead of alternate, suddenly appeared on a plant of R.
A peculiarly loud and strident hollow echoing cry, which was startling in its suddenness and resembled nothing so much as a badly-blown note upon a giant trombone.
It was a place which the echoes peculiarlyadapted for music; and the scene was certainly not calculated to diminish the effect of "sweet sounds.
The surprise with which I received the intelligence of my nomination was not unmingled with painful solicitude; and yet it is proper for me to say that the manner in which it was conferred was peculiarly gratifying.
He is peculiarly happy in the examination of witnesses--that art in which so few excel.
I may have been peculiarly unfortunate in my surroundings, but the children of poetry and novels were very infrequent in my day.
