A presentation of bread and salt, on a fine wooden dish on which the ladies had painted a picture of the old monastery under whose walls the great Czech national ceremony was to take place.
But the ladies' husbands were there, and everything passed off quietly, even though some wretched fellows took snapshots of the presentation for home production.
The gem of the proceedings was a presentation of two lovely bouquets by the English ladies of Harbin.
The presentation was made at New Year's, ordinarily, and the white child acknowledged it by giving the little black a piece of money and a pair of shoes.
The following paper was prepared by the writer for presentation at the Parliament of Religions, held at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
After much solicitation and persistent urging as to the right of the Church to a hearing in such a gathering, a reluctant consent was finally given for a presentation of the following paper.
In the one case the seven weeks to Pentecost are reckoned from the putting of the sickle into the corn, in the other from the presentation of a first sheaf of ripe corn in the Temple, which falls within the Passover week.
The river of life is the most striking presentation of this general conception of Messianic felicity.
The subject for history is not man's will itself but our presentation of it.
History surveys a presentation of man's life in which the union of these two contradictions has already taken place.
Whatever presentation of the activity of many men or of an individual we may consider, we always regard it as the result partly of man's free will and partly of the law of inevitability.
Yet how superbly direct and bold in the presentation of the narrative, in the realism of the essential details, in all this marshalling of ships and horses and men, in this tragic multiplication of death on the battlefield.
It will become clearly visible as the Divine Drama it is, the embodied presentationof the Soul's Great Adventure, the symbolic Initiation of the Individual into the Spiritual Life of the World.
At the best they merely present the aspect of the moment, the flash of a single facet of life, only to be held in the brain provided one also holds therein many other facets, for the fair presentation of the great crystal of life.
The facts are too well known and too generally admitted to warrant the devotion of further space to a presentation of the evidence.
Presentation copies from his contemporaries were therefore not scarce; and whether the names of the donors were eminent, or as yet but little heard of, the creatures of their thoughts had been preserved with unvarying respect.
The Duke of Buccleugh was the pupil of the great political economist, and so little valued an epic poem, that his Grace had not even the curiosity to open the leaves of the presentation copy.
Cook and Terreeoboo exchanged names as a peculiar mark of friendship, and the ceremony ended by the presentation of the two boat-loads of provisions by a deputation of the priests.
In all this we have a vivid presentation of God's faithfulness to His people whatever might be their outward condition.
In other words, nature's claims were never allowed to interfere with the presentation to God of all the energies of Christ's perfect manhood.
Here we have a most vivid and striking presentation indeed.
The spiritual priest stands with one hand lifted up to God in the presentation of the incense of grateful praise, and the other opened wide to minister, in genuine beneficence, to every form of human need.
Then we have the presentation and acceptance of the sacrifice, in virtue of which Aaron and his sons were anointed and sanctified together (ver.
There should be only the continual presentation of the life of Christ, wrought out and exhibited by the power of the Holy Ghost.
There is therefore a more or less close connection as regards subject matter in all the pre-Columbian codices of Mexico and Central America but the manner of presentation differs among the different peoples of this region.
The presentation of the new-born children by women with bird head-dresses, also occurring in this same section of both manuscripts, is discussed later (p.
When the strongest tones have been presented, we may proceed to the presentation of lighter tones, in the same way.
In the matter of correcting linguistic defects, we will find it helpful to follow the physiological rules relating to the child's development, and to modify the difficulties in the presentation of our lesson.
There therefore remained nothing but the presentation of a book, and I did not feel that any of those available were suited to our method.
But it is easy to explain how the most simple sensations, the least complex organs, are not the first through which to attract the attention in a didactic presentation of sense stimuli.
The difference in the reaction between deficient and normal children, in the presentation of didactic material made up of graded stimuli.
Between a presentation and no presentation lay all the difference between uncrowned queen and a light o' love.
But Queen Charlotte had refused her a presentationat the British court, and the more reputable element of the nobility had followed royal example and given her a wide berth.
The peculiar construction barely permits the presentation of a recognizable life form, and permits it in a particular way, which will be understood by a comparison with the treatment of the human figure in Fig.
It is a sort of checker, an emphasized presentation of the relievo pattern shown in Fig.
In the presentation of natural forms curved lines are called for, and there is nothing inherent in the carver's art to forbid the turning of such lines with the graver or knife.
It places the author at a bound in the rank of those artists to whom we look for the skillful presentation of strong personal impressions of life and character.
A rattling good story, and unrivaled in fiction for its presentation of the American feeling toward England during our second conflict.
Wood dignifies him with the degree of doctor of divinity at the time of his presentationto these preferments.
All the above clubs are open to members of the Association during the meeting of 1886, on presentation of their cards of membership.
The presentation to the Mocenigo of the golden shield, richly inlaid with the arms of Cyprus, had made a pretty scenic episode, quite worthy of dramatic Venice.
Some of these receptions were elaborately and magnificently staged, with presentation of flowers, with dance and music, with triumphal arches, with decorated streets.
In the presentationof figures the execution is bold and dignified.
No less important, however, is the presentation of our own civilization as viewed by an outsider whose standards are not those which, from birth, we have been accustomed to take for granted.
Mr. Lowes Dickinson's book, with its nervous provocative style, its clear and vivid presentation of facts, is a contribution for which we owe him gratitude.
Parade on the Alameda, andPresentation of Colors to the South Staffordshire Regiment, 35 VI.
I enjoyed my visit to this extraordinary structure as much as if I had been a legitimist; and indeed there is something interesting in any monument of a great system, any boldpresentation of a tradition.
The presentation was duly made; but the Comte de Chambord, who had changed his title in recognition of the gift, was despoiled of his property by the government of Louis Philippe.
This church has high beauty and value, but I will spare the reader a presentation of details which I myself had no opportunity to master.
In reality his presentation of tragic passions in their terror and their truth shocked the aristocratic proprieties which were the mode.
Without copious extracts it is impossible to do justice to this masterly presentation of the subject.
Two conditions thus present themselves--namely, the lack of proper exhibits and the improper presentation of certain exhibits.
A Plain Presentation of Fundamental Physical Concepts, and of the Vortex-Atom and other Theories.
Brown Goode that led to its presentation by the State of Massachusetts to the local Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
It must not be thought from the foregoing remarks that these interstate expositions have been lacking in the presentation of the products of their own home industries.
They have had for their immediate purposes the presentation of the products of the region in which they were located to their neighbors, to the nation, and to the world.
She had looked very handsome on the day of her presentation at Court.
A good, wholesome, laughable presentation of some Americans at home and abroad, on their vacations, and during their hours of relaxation.
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