My own position as a professor of the history of medicine has necessarily made medical science veryprominent in the book.
A prominent American encyclopaedia summed up his character very trenchantly as follows: "He was learned in Canon Law and was remarkable for avarice.
His influence on medicine was not very important, but he occupied a very prominent position among the learned men of the time, and his personal prestige did much to add to the dignity of the profession.
There are manyprominent scientists who have allowed themselves to be drawn into the investigation of spiritualistic manifestations so-called.
He was so distinguished for his medical learning that he became almost at once one of the most prominent of the physicians in Milan.
It was evidently the intention of the Pope that there should be, as a permanent institution in Rome, an astronomical observatory fully equipped and supported by the revenues of the Holy See and with a prominent scientist at its head.
Whatever may be the condition in relation to others, and whatever ignorance and bigotry may imagine such arguments do not apply to those of the race and blood so prominent in this assemblage.
Norton did not remember ever having seen such blazing anger in the prominent eyes.
His eyes, prominentand full and a clear brown, were a shade too innocent.
She could not hear distinctly what they said, but Oscar took a prominent part in the conversation; and a moment after, on his leaving the room, she asked Ella what he wanted.
Another prominent citizen came from Holden, Massachusetts, and he insisted that the town should be called Holden.
The Epimachi, or Plume-birds, take a prominentplace in this category.
Thus I have endeavoured to draw a picture, vague and imperfect, I know, of some of the more remarkable and prominent features of the primeval earth, limiting the sketch to those forms which we know only by their fossil remains.
I so much liked them I determined they should have a prominent place in my garden, and accordingly planted them in my border where they did not miss the sun at all while it shone.
The form of the leaf is perfectly intermediate between the two parents, whilst the coloring is a very striking and pleasing combination of the metallic hue of one parent, with the dark green and prominent white veins of the other.
Smith, of Deanston, first called prominent attention to the fertilizing effects of rain filtered through land, and to evils produced by allowing it to flow off the surface.
His father was a prominent citizen of Greenock, and was at various times chief magistrate and treasurer of the town.
Wives of prominent citizens were seen with shovel and hoe, some of them wearing their husbands' trousers and rubber boots, doing as best they could the work of men.
The selections above are made for the purpose of illustrating the more prominentcharacteristics of the two composers mentioned.
Melody after melody appears in prominent places, but under every one lies the harmonic foundation of the fundamental subject.
I have already briefly referred to that movement, of which the Bohemian Museum is, with the National Theatre, the most prominent architectural expression.
Warfare with Sigismund continued in spite of his great defeat, and the citizens of Prague played a prominent part in it.
In 1393 most of theprominent Bohemian nobles formed a confederacy against Wenceslas, which is known in history as the 'league of the lords.
The story is backed by the indisputable evidence of testimonials and correct addresses of the most prominent people with whom the writer came in contact.
It was a nice fitting khaki suit, with prominent brass buttons, and seemed to be the very thing for the wear and tear of a long journey.
The car was full of gaily dressed people, white being the prominent color, all of whom seemed bent upon some kind of pleasure, judging from their happy faces.
The most prominent thing about the church is the spire, which, as well as the tower, is built of limestone, and surmounted by a cross, the distance from its apex to the ground being about 301 feet.
How to give the poorest and hungriest folk a very good seat in a very prominent place--how to herd them together and piously pen them up in some particular place where everybody can see them--appears to be an object in many religious edifices.
Amber is the most prominent colour in it, and loyalty the principal virtue represented on it.
The pillars supporting the nave are equally plain; the walls and ceiling are almost entirely devoid of ornament: and primitive white-wash forms the most prominent colouring material.
We have recommended the beadle to place this box in a more prominent position, for it is worth looking at as an ornament, even if nothing is put into it.
In Lune-street Chapel, the Ten Commandments occupy a prominent position, and that is a good thing.
It is not to be argued from anything which has been previously said that this city can boast of no prominent intellectual men.
Shreve, lately of St. Louis, for his indefatigable and successful endeavors to improve as well as to enlarge this prominent branch of commerce.
And as Louisville is the only other prominent shipping point for the article, it has, of course, this great advantage over rival markets.
To endeavor to restore this lost time and to replace a part at least of this valuable material, is one of the prominent objects had in view in the preparation of this history.
Mr. Penn of the Advertiser, who had deservedly maintained since 1819 the most prominent rank as an editor in the West, was kind enough to furnish the Journal, at its commencement, with all its exchanges.
There are many reasons why this city should hold prominent rank as a place for manufactures.
The facts above enumerated indicate only the prominent and leading reasons for believing Louisville to be the best tobacco market in the Union.
Many whose names are now prominent in histrionic art took the initiatory steps in their career under Mr. Drake's regime here.
The history of Louisville has thus been brought up to a period when it occupied a deservedly prominent position among western towns.
This establishment, the oldest in the city, also commands a veryprominent position in the western country.
The manufacture of Planes and Edge-Tools in Louisville is not and has not been considered a very prominent branch of trade.
Although I studied under this man for three years, no other experience with him is more prominent than the first.
Dramatic representation should, therefore, have a prominentplace in the schools, particularly in the lower grades.
Because, to do either, you must bring your own name into too prominent notice.
Madeline was about to make known her presence, but her ear caught the fragment of a sentence in which her name held prominent place.
The descendants of Digby are still prominent in England, and O.
Indeed, this view has actually been taken in an article which recently appeared in a prominent magazine.
Indeed certain professors who occupy prominent official positions, assert that they have made great progress towards its attainment.
It resembles a male in having a carapace gritty to the touch, in having prominent white dots posteriorly and in not having a faint mottled and blotched pattern as do females of the same size.
But the most prominent specific character consists in the marked depressions on either side of the blunt median keel, and also in the triangular dilation of that keel behind the front margin of the carapace.
Carapace having prominent ocelli, which are much larger near the center than at the sides spinifer spinifer, p.
The lower Mississippi River valley forms a prominent barrier to the eastern and western dispersal of many kinds of species and subspecies of turtles.
One of the great newspapers the other day invited the prominent American authors to speak their minds upon a point in the theory and practice of fiction which had already vexed some of them.
Edward Everett Hale and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson as prominent authors who encouraged the Nationalist movement eventuating in Populism, though they were never Populists.
The man, with his lean, strong face, long jaw, and prominent chin, was so obviously out of place.
In repose her face was almost severe in its refined beauty, and the set of her lips indicated a certain self-reliance which with years might become more prominent if trouble should arrive.
Official Investigator American Society for Psychical Research It does not necessarily give an occult incident more weight that it was experienced or related and credited by a person whose name is prominent for one reason or another.
During this period, and for some time afterward, she was almost constantly subject to hallucinations, in which the Indian woman played a prominent part.
Prominent in a group on Ptolemy's right hand is Theodotus, Ptolemy's tutor.
But when he took his seat in the cabinet, he found it necessary to enter upon housekeeping and to take a prominent part in society, for which his wife was admirably suited, both by temperament and education.
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