It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of sorrow; the evil is not sufficient brought to their doors to make THEM feel the precariousness with which all American property is possessed.
The full import of this term, which always implies a low degree of civilization, is to be inferred from the extent to which it indicates migratory habits, precariousness of subsistence, and imperfect property in the soil.
But perhaps, as the venerable image of the good bishop has grown in clearness before his eye, and attracted his affection more and more, the very vividness of the conception may have rendered him insensible to the precariousness of the proof.
In the second case the precariousness of the tenants' position is obvious; they are mere squatters, who are there, as it were, on sufferance.
He knew conditions sufficiently to know theprecariousness of his wife's grasp on food and shelter.
Then there are the insecurity of happiness, the precariousness of existence, the well-founded fear of the future--potent factors in driving people to drink.
The evil is not sufficiently brought to their doors to make them feel the precariousness with which all American property is possessed.
They help to give precise and permanent impressions which are not dependent for their discovery or for their preservation on the precariousness of human observation or memory.
It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of sorrow; the evil is not sufficiently brought to THEIR doors to make THEM feel the precariousness with which all American property is possessed.
The Crown lands, those of the church, the estates in certain instances of eminent royalists, had been sold by the authority of the late usurpers; and that not at very low rates, considering the precariousness of the title.
One powerful reason undoubtedly operated on Walsingham and other ministers of Elizabeth's court against crushing their party; namely, theprecariousness of the queen's life, and the unsettled prospects of succession.
There was no peril more alarming to this kingdom during the queen's reign than the precariousness of her life--a thread whereon its tranquillity, if not its religion and independence, was suspended.
Not only is he duly sensible of the precariousness of Intrinsic evidence, inasmuch as "the uncertainty of the decision in ordinary cases is shown by the great diversity of judgement which is actually found to exist" (Hort, p.
Perhaps theprecariousness of her situation even turns my anxieties more strongly towards her.
Finally, he has often to pay an extra tax in the shape of a contribution to a benefit society or trades' union, which is really a tax on the precariousness of his employment caused by the gambling of his masters in the market.
Not only is the precariousness of all such Criticism as has been brought to bear against the genuineness of S.
We have indeed heard a great deal too much of the precariousness of this class of evidence: not nearly enough of the gross inaccuracies which disfigure the text of those two Codices.
Indeed, the phrase before us supplies no unapt illustration of the precariousness of the style of remark which is just now engaging our attention.
