Mankind is perpetually being thrown to and fro between science, and religion, but it advances moro intellectually, morally and physically in proportion as it turns away from religion and to science.
He worked the whole problem by simple proportion and found that man stands in the same relation to woman as God stands to man.
Value was attached to services rendered to the Deity, just in proportion to their hardness and unnaturalness; at this period it was that the old precept to sacrifice to Jehovah the male that opens the matrix was extended to children.
The proportion is similar to that between the 600 Danites in chap.
In proportion as Israel identified itself with the conquered territory, the divinities also were identified.
How then came it to pass that afterwards, as one must conclude from the statements in Chronicles, the Levites stood to the priests in a proportion so much more nearly, if even then not quite fully corresponding to the law?
These they raised to an ever-higher pitch in proportion as their antagonism to the heathen became more pronounced, and as the world became more hostile to them and they to the world.
But this obviously imperfect and inefficient form of government showed a growing tendency to break down just in proportion to the magnitude of the tasks which the nation in the course of its history was called upon to undertake.
Just in proportion as Hellenism showed itself friendly did it present elements of danger to Judaism.
Now in proportion as the executive gained strength under the monarchy, jus--civil justice--necessarily grew up into a separate existence from the older sacred fas.
To sponge the head daily with vinegar and water, in the proportion of half a pint of vinegar to a pint and a half of water, will prevent or cure ring-worms.
Ochre, reduced to an impalpable powder, by triturating it with oil, may then be combined in the proportion necessary to give either a lighter or a darker color to the material.
When there is a tendency to acidity in wine, add to it sugar-candy in the proportion of a pound to every four gallons; dissolve it, and put it into the cask, incorporating it well.
The diet should always be more spare, with a larger proportion of vegetables and ripe fruits, during summer.
Let the heat be in proportion to the article you are about to iron, and be sure to make every part perfectly smooth.
A penny cake of pipe-clay, which must be scraped, is the common proportion to half a lump of whiting.
East India sugars appear finer in proportion to the price; but they do not contain so much sweetness as the other kinds.
The best proportion to use is, five pounds of water saturated with lime, to every nineteen pounds of flour.
Take a sufficient quantity of bread crumbs finely rubbed, add mustard in proportion to the required strength; form a poultice of the proper consistency, by adding vinegar or water.
Because it is deprived of its due proportion of oxygen, and laden with carbonic acid.
When strawberries abound, a quart, or even more, may be used for this preparation; and the proportion of sugar can always be increased or diminished to the taste.
The proportion of soda used should be too small to be perceptible, even to the taste: it will be no disadvantage to use milk with it which is slightly acid.
The proportion is three pounds of bran for every twenty-eight pounds of flour, the bran to be boiled for an hour, and then strained through a hair-sieve.
The other cities in Scotland, though inferior to Berwick, were not without their proportion of trade.
There were both, it is true, with the French army, but so few as to bear no visible proportion to the total numbers concerned.
Conjecture was on the stretch to divine the cause of this phenomenon, and the interest continually increased, in proportion as simple curiosity gradually deepened into the anxiety of uncertain danger.
Some proportion there must be between the sowing of such grain as diamonds or emeralds, and the subsequent reaping, whether by accident or by art.
Because there are few jobs, a large proportion of the work force has left to seek employment overseas.
The country must import a high proportion of its food, mainly from New Zealand.
Services, especially banking, account for a growing proportion of the economy.
His undaunted spirit was, however, inproportion to his vast bodily strength.
The fact was that from the first its means were locked up in landed property to an extent which was out of all proportion to its diminished available capital.
A return of all these would enable us to see what proportion of the Continental army is contributed by us.
I suppose, that, in this case, our proportionof force would not be the half of what I first calculated on.
If the demands of Algiers and Morocco should be in proportion to this, according to their superior power, it is easy to foresee that the United States will not buy a peace with money.
One provision of the bill was, that the expenses of these schools should be borne by the inhabitants of the county, every one in proportion to his general tax rate.
What proportion shall the number of deputies of the Tiers etat bear to those of the Nobles and Clergy?
You will probably find the tribute to all these powers make such a proportion of the federal taxes, as that every man will feel them sensibly, when he pays those taxes.
The lands which had belonged to those who fell in the battle of Hastings, and in the subsequent insurrections of his reign, formed a considerable proportion of the lands of the whole kingdom.
Since his altercation with Madeline, the love he had once thought so ineffaceable, had faded into a dim and sullen hue; and, in proportion as the image of Madeline grew indistinct, that of her sister became more brilliant.
The power she possessed over him seemed exactly in proportion to his impregnability to every one else.
Indeed Aram does not appear to have been a man much inclined to reproduce the learning he acquired;--what he wrote was in very small proportion to what he had read.
The nerve strain is apt to be out of proportion to the enjoyment gained.
Schoolmasters are well aware that if one or two boys faint in chapel and are carried out, the trouble may grow to the proportion of a veritable epidemic.
How sour sweet music is, When time is broke, and no proportion kept!
To the imaginative intellectual, Truth or Fiction are matters of small importance, he judges by Art; but to the general public of limited intellectual capacity, Truth is appreciated out of all proportion to its artistic importance.
He was ill and overwrought, and small things became magnified out of all proportion to their actual importance.
They carry a spiked gauntlet, the terrible marks of which are borne by a largeproportion of the Khevsur faces.
The proportion of tillage to pasturage is roughly as 1 to 2(1/4).
Although most of the horses are used for agricultural work, a considerable proportion are kept solely for breeding.
The proportion of tillage to pasture is roughly as 1 to 2(1/2).
Diseases of the kidney produce alterations in the composition of the urine; either the proportion of the normal constituents being altered, or substances not normally present being excreted.
The proportion of woodland in the county is small.
The efficiency of an army is determined by the qualities of its officers, and may we not expect to have a greater proportion of men better qualified for officers, and possessing the true spirit of military command.
The proportion in the cities, I suppose, would equal New York, which, as we have seen, is one to five.
Or, Proportionof the Proportion of the Population sent to Colored Popu'n Prison.
But for this, a large proportion of our slaves, instead of being instructed orally, would have been taught to read the Scriptures for themselves.
In proportion as you diminish our exportations, you diminish our means of purchasing from you, and destroy your own market.
Look at your prisons and your penitentiary, and behold the fearful preponderance of their black over their white inmates in proportion to the population of each.
The census testifies that the proportion of births is twenty-seven per cent.
Thus, in proportion as Gallia receded from the sun, so did the rate of speed diminish by which she traveled along her orbit; facts to be observed in perfect conformity with the known laws of celestial mechanism.
Throughout an enormously large proportionof the ocean, the bright blue tint of the water bespeaks its purity.
And it is evident that this argument is strong in proportion to the uniformity, the specialization, and the complexity of the processes in question.
So it is with the other animals, and with a large proportionof the plants, as shown by Dr.
They sometimes occasion sharp and almost burning Pain, but in Proportion to the Sharpness and Increase of these Pains, the Head and Neck are remarkably relieved.
Thirdly, the Skin is relaxed; the Tumour of the Face and Neck diminish in Proportion to that Relaxation; and thence the Return of the Blood from the Brain is facilitated, which must prove a great Advantage.
In the same Proportion that Bleeding, moderately and judiciously employed, is serviceable, in that very same an Excess of it becomes pernicious.
A small Proportion of them, to whom I could not give the Vomit, or whose Cases were more complicated, remained languid a considerable Time, though without Fatality or Danger.
The Swelling of the Face abates in Proportion to the scabbing and drying up of the Pustules; and then the Hands are puffed up prodigiously.
The Spectator, who, from being ignorant of one of the Armies being disarmed, would not be able to calculate the Carnage of the Battle, but inProportion to its Noise and Tumult, must be extremely deceived in his Conception of it.
The Rheumatism goes off either by Stool, by turbid thick Urine which drops a great Proportionof a yellowish Sediment, or by Sweats: and it generally happens that this last Discharge prevails towards the Conclusion of the Disease.
A Defect or insufficient Proportion of it, and a general Weakness.
We are not nourished in Proportion to the Quantity we swallow, but to that we digest.
Scarcely a Year passes, without one or another such advertized and vaunted Medicine's getting into high Credit; the Ravages of which are more or less, in Proportion to its being more or less in Vogue.
If the Patient seems gradually, and in Proportion as he takes proper Medicines, to advance into a less violent State, there may be some Hopes.
In both cases the eye has been deceived by gigantic elegance, by the proportion of parts to the whole.
Who shall then affirm that the Turks are ignorant bigots, when they thus evince the exact proportion of Christian charity which is tolerated in the most prosperous and orthodox of all possible kingdoms?
And in proportion as riches and rich men are honored in the state, virtue and the virtuous are dishonored.
During the early part of his purely literary career a large proportion of Warner's collected writings, which then appeared, were first published in the Atlantic Monthly.
Thus it happened that his male figures were the young Apollo, Eros, and youthful satyrs, while a large proportion of his statues represented lovely women.
It means a harmony and proportion of action which corresponds to rhythm in music.
It is also claimed that Pythagoras was the first to lay down clearly the laws of symmetry or proportion which is governed by strict mathematical rules.
For example, the head is small in proportion to the breadth of the breast and shoulders; and because Hercules was a swift runner the sculptor has made the legs too long to be natural.
In proportion to the population of the country, we are daily dispensing with manual labor, and yet we are daily increasing the national production.
I assume it to be true of Massachusetts that the proportion of freehold farmers to the whole population is gradually diminishing, and that the amount of labor performed by each is gradually increasing.
Our laborers occupy a higher standpoint intellectually, and in that proportion their labors are more effective and economical.
And the same gentleman says further, "I think that the proportion of persons discharged from prison by executive clemency, who have subsequently been convicted of penal offences, is very small indeed.
It is of course to be understood that such exercises would be extended over many lessons, be subject to frequent reviews, and valuable in proportion to the teacher's ability to interest children.
There has been an attempt to show that vice has increased in proportion to education.
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