He is the best authenticated type living of primitive Christian.
In theseprimitive countries things are soon forgotten: life passes away there so rapidly, and is so full of strange incidents, that the events of the morrow obliterate the remembrances of those of the eve.
When he had loaded himself with all he thought he needed, he restored all to its primitive condition, and skilfully removed the traces which might have revealed to others the cache which had been so useful to himself.
John Kinghorn, a great light among the Baptists, and whom, with his spare figure and primitive costume, I always confounded with John the Baptist.
Sometimes we got as far as Halesworth, where they had a Primitive meeting-house with great pillars, behind which the sleeper might sweetly dream till the fiddles sounded and the singing commenced.
At the end of St. Mary Street was a very primitive old town hall, where I gave a lecture on "The Progress of the Nation," the only time I ever gave a lecture in my life.
Accommodations were primitive in the wilderness of the northern counties.
Judge Douglas was thoroughly at home in this primitive environment.
A primitive stage coach plied between the river and Jacksonville.
The idea of a hungry wolf or other beast of prey luring his victims by the promise of a new song or dance, during which they must close their eyes, is also one that would easily occur among any primitive people whose chief pastime is dancing.
This transformation of human beings into stars and constellations is one of the most common incidents of primitive myth.
Their primitive costume had long been obsolete, and their dress was like that of the whites, excepting that moccasins took the place of shoes, and they manufactured their own clothing by the aid of spinning-wheels and looms.
The connection of Thunder and Rain spirits with snakes and water animals is a matter of universal primitive belief and has already been noted.
In nearly every tribal genesis we find the primitive world infested by ferocious monster animals, which are finally destroyed or rendered harmless, leaving only their descendants, the present diminutive types.
The whole primitive pantheon of the Cherokee is still preserved in their sacred formulas.
Send torrents of rain--The belief in a connection between the serpent and the rain-gods is well-nigh universal among primitive peoples, and need only be indicated here.
The same characteristics would appeal as strongly to the primitive mind of the negro.
And when we have made our home on earth as comfortable as it can be made with steam and gas and electricity, are we really so much happier than the Hindu in his primitive homestead?
We are still on the mere surface of Vedic literature, and yet our critics are ready with ever so many arguments why the Veda can teach us nothing as to a primitive state of man.
If they mean by primitive that which came absolutely first, then they ask for something which they will never get, not even if they discovered the private correspondence of Adam and Eve, or of the first Homo and Femina sapiens.
Now, I say again, I do not wish you to admire this primitive poetry, primitive, whether it is repeated in the Esthonian fens in the seventeenth century of our era, or sung in the valley of the Indus in the seventeenth century before our era.
The Lituanian language even as it is now spoken by the common people, contains some extremely primitive grammatical forms--in some cases almost identical with Sanskrit.
Distinct from the worship offered to these primitive ancestors, is the reverence which from an early time was felt to be due by children to their departed father, soon also to their grandfather, and great-grandfather.
It is at once both bestial and divine, the exquisite perfume of Hellenic grace mingles with the savage odour of primitive humanity.
I was struck with the comparative elegance pervading so primitive an establishment.
We had heard of some rather primitive practices among the steerage passengers on board ship, it is true, but had not accustomed ourselves to "uncase" before company, and hesitated to lie down in our clothes.
Better theprimitive Christians were (by no means individually better, but better on the total body), yet they were not in any intellectual sense wiser.
Primitive Christianity was reasonably venerated; and, on this argument, that, for the first three centuries, it was necessarily more sincere.
There was something of the strong, primitive man about him which compelled a youth of my years to listen to his counsel.
The country was primitiveand fascinated them, and they remained.
I had hoped that when I died, this valley would be an open range and as primitive as the day of my coming to it.
I have represented the bandaging and the transporting of the wounded exactly as I have seen it done, and have felt it in my own person when wounded, bandaged, and transported in the most primitive manner.
Who would risk the assertion that Raphael was not a realist in the age in which he lived: that his works did not scandalize many of his contemporaries, whose tastes were formed on the work of primitive masters?
As an instance of this growing illumination, take the fact that in the primitive ages there was no clear revelation of immortality.
Those revelations have a primitive meaning, suited for men of a primitive age.
Moreover they affect her far more forcibly and more variously than she could even suspect; a sharper wit than hers must evidently intervene, helping out the primitive workings of her mind.
All she has is her romantic dream and her plain, primitive appetite; but these can be effective arms, after all, and she may yet succeed in getting her way and making her own terms.
The old house at Freehold, in which John and William Tennent used to preach, is still standing in its primitive simplicity.
You have afforded us the opportunity of arriving at the integrity of primitive times, by entailing a more than primitive poverty upon us.
Would we live as the primitive Christians did, we might, no doubt, have the same assistance vouchsafed us as they had.
We never declared a secession from the Church of Scotland, but only a secession from the judicatories, in their course of defection from the primitive and covenanted constitution, to which we stood bound by our ordination engagements.
I see the logic and admirable sense of his attitude so clearly that even while a primitive root jealousy is eating me up I am so infected by his theory that I don't blame him.
The glamorous light, the sense of something primitive and vital that the ceremony expressed, and the stir at the pulses caused by the sight of many people moved to do the same thing at the same moment, went to his head.
Blanche, too, was slipping into something like love these days; the beauty of their surroundings and something simple and primitive in the boy himself both made the same appeal to her.
England, and a few amateur students of Welsh literature, who think that they shall thereby rise to literary eminence, constitute the clique, which will talk and strut for its day, and then die away into its primitive insignificance.
Look not so scornfully at the primitive horticulture; such gardens are rare in the Bush.
Moreover, torpedoes had then begun to play a part in the war, though still in a very primitive stage of development.
Ten-four meant ten and a half; for in those primitive days knots were divided into eight fathoms.
Chorister blackbird and thrush Together or alternate piped; A free-hearted harmony large, With meaning for man, for brute, When the primitive forces are brimmed.
Rather was what he said a simple setting forth of that primitive Christianity which has its beginning and its ending in a simple faith in an all-pervading, all-protecting love.
It truly was a maccuahuitl, the primitive Aztec sword, but very unlike any description of that weapon that I had ever seen.
Fray Antonio, on the other hand, had held firmly to the ordinarily accepted opinion that the sword was such as I have described above (I must confess regretfully) the primitive weapon to have been.
Some of these I will send for your examination, for they will prepare you for the work you have in contemplation by giving you useful knowledge of primitive modes of life and tones of faith and phases of thought.
The sword that I held in my hand was identical in its essential features with this primitive design; but it was shorter, narrower, and thinner.
The genuine acts of the primitive martyrs, the most valuable monument of ecclesiastical history, have been carefully published by Ruinart.
I would fain beg room among the classics for three primitive writers of the church--St. Chrysostom, Minutius Felix, and Lactantius.
In an instant every desk in that room was vacated, every pane in every window was filled with a face looking out, and I, hastening up behind them, found it difficult to get a view of the street so densely had they crowded round it.
Is not this consciousness a great asset to have in your mind and memory?
They dwell but two miles from a large city, and yet preserve the manners of a primitive people that has always lived in isolation.
He wrote a poem, "The Primitive World," an abstruse, gloomy composition which is very much admired in Holland.
As we look at his pictures a strange primitive instinct of a rural life is gradually roused in us--an innocent desire to milk, to shear, to drive these gentle patient animals that delight the eye and heart.
The evidence in favour of this primitive opposability is considerable.
Some silk is produced and there are a few primitivemanufacturing industries, e.
It is further of interest to notice that in these primitive Mammals the glands are equally developed in both sexes, and it is thought that among the bats the male often assists in suckling the young (see G.
The agora is of unsymmetrical form; its sides are bordered by porticoes, interrupted by streets, like the primitive agora of Elis as described by Pausanias, and unlike the regular agoras of Ionic type.
So far as is at present known, the earliest and most primitive group, the Condylarthra, is a northern one, but whether first developed in the eastern or the western hemisphere there is no sufficient evidence.
But the codex in this developed shape was only an evolution from the early waxen tablets of the Greeks and Romans, two or more of which, hinged together, formed the primitive codex which suggested the later form.
In a primitive state of society leaves of plants and trees strong enough for the purpose might be taken as a ready-made material to receive writing.
With these exceptions manufacturing is in a rather primitive state.
Each cusp of the primitive triangle has received a separate name, both in the teeth of the upper and of the lower jaw, while names have also been assigned to super-added cusps.
Stromer as a primitive structure, of which the original object was to protect certain nerves and blood-vessels.
Soldiers may have espoused it rather than the rival faith, because in the primitive age Christian discipline denied them the sacraments, on the ground that they were professional shedders of blood.
In theprimitive churches the authenticity of this epistle was a subject of doubt.
We receive the first notice of his death from Mr. Hubert Howe Bancroft, who pays the following eloquent tribute to his memory: “Brasseur de Bourbourg devoted his life to the study of American primitive history.
