Whatever renders garments unclean at the time of contact, renders hands unclean in a primary degree.
I have suggested the propriety of introducing this alphabet into the primary schools.
But let him be, even by promise, a seer of those primary truths in which the interests of all are comprehended and made identical, and the virtue of his vision will become the assurance of his welfare.
The primary question respecting men is this,--How far are they affected by the original axiomatic truths?
Roads and improved transportation are the fundamental and primary elements of commercial civilization, and until these are obtained permanently, Mexico must look chiefly to her domestic market for agricultural recompense.
The rapidity of the conversion is, however, frequently stimulated by practices much in accordance with the primary kidnapping of the subjects.
Although our written Constitution was successful in itsprimary purpose of facilitating the consolidation of the Confederation, it has not otherwise inspired confidence as a practical administrative device.
They increase up the kindergarten grades and fall off rapidly in the primary grades; are greater with tasks requiring fine and exact movements than with those involving large movements.
Even when contractions reach choreic intensity the best treatment is to throw activities down the scale that measures the difference between primary and secondary movements and to make the former predominate.
To rely upon this first or primary effect, except in instantaneous cases, would be failure.
The constant breathing of the patient for thirty seconds to a minute left him in a condition of body and mind resembling the effects of ether and chloroform in their primary stages.
There is one thing about which, I think, we can all agree, as to these agencies; unless the will is partially and in some cases completely subjugated there can be no primary or secondary effect.
But so long as this is impossible we have no means of distinguishing correlative changes from the primary modifications producing them, unless they happen to arise under our observation.
It is true that in this case the two forms no longer alternate regularly with each other, but the primary form may occasionally appear instead of the secondary form, owing to the action of external conditions.
Herein lies the reason why the primary change cannot exceed a certain amount if the restoration of the equilibrium is not to be quite impossible.
The deeper we go into the me from which it is pretended to deduce such an absurd system, the more we discover the contradiction in which pantheism appears in respect to the primary ideas and facts of our mind.
Impossible, unless you place yourself in open struggle with our primary ideas, with our profoundest sentiments, with the common sense of mankind.
From this we infer that the primary combination of our intelligence consists in the perception of being and not-being.
Hence there is another primary illusion of our mind which presents to us as possible, and even existent, that which in itself is absurd.
Contradiction of Pantheism to thePrimary Facts of the Human Mind 429 XXI.
In this system distinction not only does not exist, but it is impossible; consequently the idea of distinction is absurd; therefore one of the primary facts of our mind is a contradiction.
The specialist in the field will, I hope, easily recognize the sources, primary or secondary, on which such new insights represented in this book are based.
A secondary tribe often took its name from its leader, but it could also revive an earlier "primary tribe" name.
Each governor or admiral made these transfers here, as in the Marquesas and all the islands, with the primary object of lessening native cohesion, of Frenchifying us.
Why we did it I cannot think; perhaps, as I have said, the mystery of the waste and dark had brought out and made primary something wholly mystical in Basil's supremacy.
In short, from these experiments it became perfectly clear that under these circumstances the sense of sight was not of primary importance in guiding the course of the Bat.
When these birds are fishing, the advantage of the long primary feathers of their wings, in keeping them dry, is very evident.
Of Aristotle's ten categories it leaves only the first, Substance, and that only in its narrowest sense of Primary Substance.
Thus two of the primarypassions had to do with good and two with evil.
The four primary passions having been formulated, it became necessary to justify the division by arranging the specific forms of feeling under these four heads.
But further, fire had such a primary as entitles it, if the definition of element were pressed, to be considered alone worthy of the name.
As there were four cardinal virtues, so there were four primary passions.
The other day I was looking at a map of Philadelphia, and at once my thoughts went back to my schooldays and the primary geography in which occurred the question, "What can you say of Philadelphia?
The primary feature of the land policy was the orderly survey in advance of sale.
It is evident that the primary purpose of the public land policy as first developed was to acquire revenue for the Government; but it was also evident that there was a distinct purpose of encouraging settlement.
It would seem therefore as if a primary need of the American people immediately after the Revolution was to get access to their old markets and to carry the goods as much as possible in their own vessels.
It provided for a "league of friendship," with the primary purpose of considering preparation for action rather than of taking the initiative.
Sir Lionel has been a pioneer in the field of thought that looks for the cause of the disease, which, however remote it may be, should not be overlooked as a reallyprimary affection.
However barbarous this practice may seem, its actual performance is only secondary, the primary motive being that the warrior wished to prove that he had been there, engaged in actual strife, and that his enemy had been overcome.
Such as deny the fecundity of the reciprocal cross-breeds of the five chief primary races might err in some points, and be right as to others.
A staltâ, or square of about fifty yards (rather more than half an acre), is the primary standard unit of value.
How many primary planets have been discovered between the sun and the earth?
The impulse of self-assertion appears to be the primary impulse of human nature.
Cases are even known of human beings in whom the secondary sensation occurs with such intensity as to equal the primary one.
Thus, despite its apparent relation to gravity it does not represent, as gravity does, one pole of a primary polarity, with heat as the other pole.
By doing so we proceed in a truly Goethean manner, because we divest the experiment of all accessories which prevent the phenomenon from appearing in its primary form.
Here, red, yellow and blue as three primary colours confront the three remaining colours, green, violet and orange in such a way that each of the latter represents a mixture of the two other primary colours.
Our primaryknowledge of the existence of something we call 'warmth' or 'heat' is due to a particular sense of warmth which modern research has recognized as a clearly definable sense.
Besides primary polarities, there are secondary ones, the outcome of interaction between the primary poles.
We know from earlier considerations that wherever such an interplay between the poles of the primary polarity takes place, we have to do, in geometric terms, with the polarity of sphere and radius.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "primary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
