There never were two generations inhabiting the same globe simultaneously with such widely separated points of view.
I will now turn to your letter and answer thepoints on which you touch.
She now shuddered at the thought; but she contended that in their magnificent exclusiveness they could give points to European princes; and that this showed again how when Americans did try to do a thing, they beat the world.
Whether it will be finally so with him in literature it is too early to ask of time, and upon other points eternity will not be interrogated.
Oh, fashion; and personal gossip about society leaders; and recipes for dishes and diseases; and correspondence on points of etiquette.
The boy scoffed at the notion that he was not perfectly well, and he wished to talk with March on the points where he had found Kenby wanting.
But it was precisely in these points that the hotel which admirably fulfilled its other functions fell short.
The road on the left bank of the Tepl is wild and overhung at points with wooded steeps, when it leaves the town; but on the right it is bordered with shops and restaurants a great part of its length.
We have got all sorts of perspectives and points of view.
For a week past, at Carlsbad, the workmen had been building a scaffolding for the illumination in the woods on a height overlooking the town, and making unobtrusive preparations at points within it.
In telling about himself Burnamy touched only upon the points which he believed would take his listener's intelligent fancy, and he stopped so long before he had tired him that March said he would like to introduce him to his wife.
Browning tells the story eight times by different persons, each from a different point of view, and twice more by the same person before and after his condemnation and, of course, from two points of view.
At all these points Browning differed from Tennyson.
He took each woman separately, marking out the points which differentiated her from, not those which she shared with, the rest of her sex.
Many of the points I have attempted here to make are illustrated in Saul.
And if we are asked to compare him to Tennyson, he is inferior to Tennyson at all these points of Form.
The French historian Villemain points out, what will naturally occur to the reader, that many of these arguments were afterwards used with effect by Luther and his followers against the assumptions of the Church of Rome.
Various doctrinal points were also decided, as well as many questions of rank and precedence in the hierarchy, and the establishment of the two new monastic orders of St. Francis and of St. Dominic.
But in the course of the after-years these dear friends quarrelled bitterly, not on personal matters, so far as appears, but on points of doctrine, and fell into such prolonged warfare of angry and stinging words as hurt more than blows.
There is always balance in the purely decorative; in the realistic there is balance if the attention of the beholder is directed simultaneously to the several points of culmination indicated by the rhythm of the picture.
It is certainly true, that as to many points of conduct, women are less nice than men.
He was not at all points the man whom Lord Fawn would have chosen, but for their close connexion.
She knew well that the thing was not really her own; but there were, as she thought, so many points in her favour, that she felt it to be a cruelty that any one should grudge her the plunder.
But since the two robberies, public opinion had veered round three or four points in Lizzie's favour, and people were beginning to say that she had been ill-used.
There are faces which, in their usual form, seem to bluster with prosperity, but which the loss of a dozen points at whist will reduce to that currish aspect which reminds one of a dog-whip.
I should like to have had the case settled as to right of possession," he said, "because there were in it one or two points of interest.
And though he had from the first wished that Lizzie would give up the trinket, he made various points in her favour.
Another lesson is that executive committees ought to attend to their business promptly, and decide knotty points in time for their decision to be of some value--not a month after the contest to be affected has been settled.
The boots are so slightly turned up at the points that they are more like those worn by Babylonian kings than the characteristic boots of the Hittites.
The jetty which sheltered them on their entrance into the harbour of Carthage has left a trace marked by large blocks, which at certain points reach the level of the sea.
The whole edifice was roofed with terraces, on which gilded points were fixed to drive away the birds.
Cyprus, and at somepoints of the Mediterranean coasts, are specimens of those goldsmiths’ works which astonished Homer’s Greeks.
Wacker and Hueck succeeded in producing aortic disease in rabbits which they considered to be in many points quite like human arteriosclerosis.
It is one of the points to determine pulse pressure.
The top line records the points where sounds were heard, the figures above the short vertical lines refer to tones (see text).
On the other hand, the pressure must not be released too rapidly, else one runs over the points of systolic and diastolic pressure and the readings are grossly inaccurate.
Points of view and opinions change from time to time.
Differential tables are sometimes of value in fixing the chief points of difference graphically.
Note how the valves have been curled, thickened, and shortened, the edges of valves being a half inch below the upper points of attachment.
In differentiating between ulcer of the stomach and angina abdominalis the following pointsmay be of service: =Ulcer=.
Is it then improbable that different points of the great mountain range are sensibly acted on from year to year?
Several other persons in the vicinity I found subsequently professed to have seen the same light from different points of view, and described it in a similar manner.
Their weapons are tardes,[193] half a spear in length but not so thick, and the points are tipped with flint.
They tattoo their faces in points and lines, and pierce the lips and ears.
The trunk was a mass of brilliant points of light.
The smoke was thicker than ever, and made a dark background for the points and jets of flame, which leaped through its walls.
Another of a very meek-looking man, with his hair brushed forward over his ears, and a collar the points of which ran up nearly to his eyes, I took it to be William Brown.
It would be interesting to pursue this subject, and there are other points which it would be interesting to touch upon; there must be a good deal for criticism in a book which has been dreamed and re-dreamed for ten years.
In the distance were hills whose outline zigzagged, now into points like a saw, and now into long sweeping curves like a scythe; and these hills were full of narrow valleys, bare as threshing-floors.
On this and other points it must be left to others to say whether he has succeeded or not.
One can say much in a summer day,' said the man; 'but I can't understand what this points to.
The contrast is rough enough, and can be cut across by all sorts of other divisions, drawn from other points of view than that of foreignness and intimacy.
The whole monistic pyramid, resting on points as thin as these, seems to me to be a machtspruch, a product of will far more than one of reason.
In a previous lecture I have talked against the absolute from other points of view.
It gives a set of one-to-one relations between space-points and time-points, which relations themselves are as fixed as the points are.
In these discussions distinct questions are habitually jumbled and different points of view are talked of durcheinander.
If we look more carefully into them, Fechner pointsout that the earth possesses each and all of them more perfectly than we.
Ask what this notion implies, of appearing differently from different points of view.
It is one thing to delve into subtleties by one's self with pen in hand, or to study out abstruse points in books, but quite another thing to make a popular lecture out of them.
The mathematical mind similarly organizes motion in its way, putting it into a logical definition: motion is now conceived as 'the occupancy of serially successive points of space at serially successive instants of time.
He considers in detail the points of difference between us, and shows them all to make for the earth's higher rank.
He pitched away his cigar and twirled the ends of his big moustache into fine points curving upward, which gave him, he imagined, a distinguished and military appearance.
We look at life from different points of view, at different elevations.
By building the streets on the four points of the compass, and by connecting it with royal roadways to the four corners of the kingdom.
It had four beautiful halls facing the four cardinal points of the compass.
Observe the king stands on a rock, and a priest points out to him an eagle on a cactus holding a serpent in its claws.
Least of all could the priests in a time of peace recognise the god of their order in the god of war, and in any case the national, warlike, heroic character of Indra could offer few points of contact with priestly meditation.
The essential points in the Buddhist ethics, the moderate, passionless life, and patience and sympathy, have been dwelt upon (p.
In all essential points these accounts agree with the native authorities, though the view taken is here and there too favourable, in some points too advanced, in others not sufficiently discriminating.
But these new points of view are not thoroughly carried out; the Mahabharata is not consistent about the origin of Krishna or his divine nature.
Covered with boundless fields of snow and extensive glaciers, the sharp edges and points of the highest ridge rise gleaming into the tropic sky; no sound breaks the deep silence of this solemn Alpine wild.
Before walking round the fire the hands of the bride and bridegroom are united with kuca-grass, and the points of their garments tied together.
The Brahmans were wisely prepared to content themselves with this looser form of unity; by thus sparing local life, they might hope to gain the ascendant more easily and readily in the points of chief importance.
There are several points of importance with regard to these pictures, to which we beg to direct the reader's attention.
The culminating points of several of the highest mountains in Australia were fixed, and their geographical positions accurately defined amongst them being Mount Hotham.
Mr. Gosse's exploration did not add much fresh information to what was already known of the district, but it extended the area of explored country, and he was enabled to correctly lay down many of the points discovered by Mr. Giles.
But, as showing the upheaval of the land to the northward, it points out that naturally the flow of irrigation on a large scale will be from north to south.
It is well for us to bear in mind that, as a rule, experienced bushmen do find the best points of new country, and not the worst.
Still following the bend of the gulf, Flinders next ascertained that Cape Maria was only an island (Maria Island) and so with many points up to the northern termination of the Gulf.
The episode of John Burley and the One-eyed Perch not only points a Moral but adorns the Tale.
There are a thousand points at which fortune may intervene.
We were still surrounded by amphitheatre-shaped mountains, with the points to the Sea of Sidon.
The following morning we rode to the top of Jebel Sunnin, one of the three highest points in Syria, and we had another six hours of the Kasrawan, which is called by the Syrians "The road of Genna.
I more minutely describe the entrance into that state wherein the message was received, because it illustrates the preceding discussions, and the communication emphasizes and makes plain many points which have remained unapproachable.
And he was afraid that a method preconceived would give him two points of view in a crisis--and two points of view meant wavering.
I can see other people's points of view too plainly.
I ought to be able to unload enough at ten points off to raise five hundred thousand.
Later in the history of the exchange the chairs were removed and at different points posts or floor-signs indicating where certain stocks were traded in were introduced.
Their points of view altered at varying ratios--hence changes.
Stocks are going to drop to-morrow ten or fifteen points on the opening.
There were many unfavorablepoints in the whole situation.
Just a few pointsbefore I wind up," smiled Cowperwood.
Now, gentlemen, I am not going to enter into a long-winded discussion of these points at this time, since the testimony is going to show very rapidly what the facts are.
Steger followed, and did his best to render the favorablepoints made by Mr. Davison in Cowperwood's behalf perfectly clear to the jury by having him repeat them.
He was a little gray in his complexion now, frightened, for he had already strained many points in his affairs to accommodate his son.
Chapter XLIV Meanwhile the great argument had been begun in the jury-room, and all the points that had been meditatively speculated upon in the jury-box were now being openly discussed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "points" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
