Periods of license preceding or following the annual expulsion of demons, 225 sq.
It will be noticed that in this and the preceding case the principle of expulsion is applied for the benefit of an individual, not of a whole community.
Preceding the passage that has just been quoted, Aristotle enumerates all the virtues in order to explain them individually.
In other words, self-government had been the rule and not the exception throughout the centuries preceding 1800.
The British Submarine Flotillas, as shown in the preceding list, comprised in 1914 far more small boats than sea-going ones.
It would happen on this particular day that Madame was not hungry, while Monsieur had a good appetite owing to the more than frugal preceding meal.
The preceding are the only positive distinctions which now remain between the punishment of a slave, and a white person, in those cases, where the latter is liable to a determinate corporal punishment.
Footnote 1: The subject of a preceding Lecture, with which the present was immediately connected, was, An Enquiry into the Rights of Persons, as Citizens of the United States of America.
And as regard or contempt is the natural consequence of those different situations in life, it is easily seen what additional light and evidence this throws on our preceding theory, with regard to all moral distinctions.
Thus possession alone, and first possession, is supposed to convey property, where no body else has any preceding claim and pretension.
This partition between the faculties of understanding and sentiment, in all moral decisions, seems clear from the preceding hypothesis.
Centrally initiated dreams may be due to a kind of automatic excitation of the cerebral regions, especially in the case of those clearly arising from the occupations or sensations of the day or the hours immediatelypreceding the dream.
Already in the period preceding the outbreak of the Civil War the English drama had perceptibly sunk from the height to which it had been raised by the great Elizabethans.
Thus the comic dramatic literature from Jonson to Shirley is unsurpassed as a comedy of manners, while as a comedy of character it at least defies comparison with any other national literary growthpreceding or contemporaneous with it.
The academical drama of the later Elizabethan period and of the first two Stuart reigns by no means fell off either in activity or in variety from that of the preceding generations.
The actors and actresses of the preceding period had striven to give full effect to certain witty utterances of the author, or to preserve and to develop their own personal peculiarities or oddities.
Having no known relation to the preceding is epidemic dropsy, the first recorded outbreak of which occurred in Calcutta in the year 1877.
Then the man started to descend, Frank preceding him.
Like a panorama all the varied events of the preceding twenty-four hours passed vividly through Frank's mind.
The Spring of the year is always the most severe season, for winter consumes the harvest of the preceding summer.
At first she could not distinctly remember the drama which had been performed the preceding night; but when all the events were brought clear to her mind, she sighed deeply.
And as the preceding Semiquaver rang a handbell, this shaked the sprinkle with his fist.
Every thing announced a more important campaign than the preceding had proved in the Low Countries.
But a resolute spirit had compensated for physical weakness, and, uncomplaining, she had borne up against the hardships of the preceding ten hours.
To explain this manoeuvre, it is necessary to retrace our steps, and to follow the movements of Colonel Villabuena after his return to Oñate on the preceding evening.
They had belonged to the Mormon battalion, which, after enlisting in Nebraska for one year, marching to the Pacific by way of the Gila, and garrisoning San Diego, had been mustered out at Los Angeles on the preceding 16th of July.
It crossed the Rockies at Cochetopa Pass, not far above the scene of the terrible suffering in the preceding exploration.
During the day the train moved in two columns, some thirty feet or so apart, each team following close upon the one immediately preceding it in the line.
You might have seen him over all the West in the generation preceding our own.
How different was my attire from every other such occasion the five preceding years!
He apologized for his intrusion, and then gave a very energetic history of the preceding night.
I had not once been to the trial the preceding year, nor seen any of the set since the king's illness.
This day, after our arrival, began precisely the same as every day preceding our journey.
The accounts of the preceding night had been most cruel, and to quit the spot was scarce supportable to him.
He told me he had himself insisted that Colonel Goldsworthy should go to bed, as he had sat up all the preceding night and he had undertaken to supply his place.
As I believe the visit was not, just after those "cordial" looks, supposed to be solely for the lady of the apartment, his reception was no better than mine had been the preceding days!
When this was passed, Colonel Wellbred renewed some of the conversation of the preceding day with me; and, just as he named Dr.
This conclusive stroke so pleased and exhilarated me, that forthwith I said you would both be enchanted, and so forgot all the preceding particulars.
Passed much the same as the days preceding it, the queen in deep distress, the king in a state almost incomprehensible, and all the house uneasy and alarmed.
In the preceding chapter we traced the growth of the Pan-Islamic movement, and in subsequent chapters we shall trace the development of Oriental nationalism.
It might not have begun at all had the Arabs known what had happened the preceding May.
When night came, the bride and bridegroom were again attended to their chamber with the same ceremonies as on the preceding evening.
She went, attended by her women slaves, in the same order as on the preceding day.
At this point, I wish to call your attention to a phase of the aura which I purposely passed over in the preceding chapters.
Illustrating the statements in the preceding paragraph, I would say that the continued presence of red will be apt to set up emotional vibrations of anger, passion, physical love, etc.
Can anyone be in doubt here, if he has read the preceding chapters?
The colors of the human aura, mentioned in the preceding two chapters, and which arise from the various mental and emotional states, belong to the phenomena of the astral plane, and hence bear the name of "the astral colors.
This scale and its key is found in a number of places in the preceding chapters.
The same style has, therefore, been followed which was adopted in the preceding volumes.
It is the vital principle of the modern fire-engine, and renders it distinctly different from all squirts, syringes, and portable pumps preceding it.
L60 to Government, and provided also they contracted a voluntary engagement within the year preceding that in which they became liable to conscription, were allowed to serve only one year instead of five.
Returning to the main road with his guide, Bob traversed the same way by which his donkey had carried him on the preceding day.
He rightly supposed that they would have driven to Salerno on the preceding day, hoping to find him there, and that they would drive back in search of him at the earliest dawn of another day.
Contrast the tone of this canto with the preceding two.
Possibly under the name "Mr. Normandy" Landor disguises Thomas Poole, referred to on a preceding page.
This and the preceding letter supplied by the author.
The preceding documents connected with the arrest are in the Archives Nationales.
Which to the reader of the preceding pages will appear sufficiently naive.
He may, however, afterwards recover himself in the many other parts of his thought, which consist of true propositions, not connected with the preceding errors, and lucid expressions may with him follow upon turbid expressions.
The concept cannot be without expression, the useful without the one and the other, and morality without the three preceding grades.
Intuition is referred to by him as preceding intellective activity and differing from sensation.
Without preceding aesthetic intuitions of the imagination, nature cannot arouse any at all.
But he who observes better and analyses with greater subtlety, discovers that such judgments follow instead of preceding the affirmation of the will; they are nothing but the expression of the already exercised volition.
It is clear from the preceding theorem, that the judicial activity, which criticizes and recognizes the beautiful, is identical with that which produces it.
Michael Bryan died here, and the widow with her family returned to South Carolina just preceding the Civil war.
At one time just preceding a county election, members of the two gangs met at the Joshua Glover saloon in Marion.
The winter preceding they had organized a mock congress with every state represented, in which all the issues of the coming conflict were fully discussed and understood.
We went into the house, which was neat and clean, and told them of our hard experience during the preceding night and day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preceding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
