We are reminded by the picture or statue of qualities which do not exist in it, but in its prototype in reality.
He was an independent, an “unattached statesman;” the prototype of an element which has now become formidable in our politics, but a character for whom there was no place in those times.
To my thinking this result is but a material prototype of the heavenly estate that shall come to our America when its arid waste of brains and stomachs, usurped by alcohol, shall learn the cooling virtues of this same cold water.
This was Madge Gordon, granddaughter of Jean Gordon, the prototype of Meg Merrilies.
The dragon with the Chinese is the prototype out of which man developed; the dragon is therefore the symbol of the imperial power.
The powerful giant Bhima of the Mahabharata is the prototype of Herakles; but in the myths concerning Herakles we recognise the mere personification of commercial daring and enterprise.
Epimetheus was the prototype of senseless carelessness, and was destroyed by his own folly.
The palm-tree, with its graceful and simple form, served as the prototype of their columns, the capitals of which were either open or closed lotus-buds or flowers.
Garuda, the beautiful bird with a lovely human face attending on Vishnu, is the prototype of the youthful, blooming Ganymede attending on Zeus, not only in similarity of name, but especially in similarity of function.
AMN had only one son, Khunsu (Chous, Chaos, the prototype of Herkules).
Hazard Knowles of Colchester, Connecticut, in 1827, patented a plane stock of cast iron which in many respects was a prototype of later Centennial models (fig.
Each suggests a prototype of the patented forms of the 1840's.
At Barnard Castle, a few miles away, the prototypeof Newman Noggs is still traditionally known, and known as "a gentleman.
William Clerk of Eldin, the prototype of Darsie Latimer in Redgauntlet, "admired through life for talents and learning of which he has left no monument," died at Edinburgh in January 1847.
This very early friend of Scott's was thought by Captain Hall to have been the prototype of Diana Vernon--"that safest of secret keepers.
The new duodecimo is bald and bare, indeed, compared with its batteredprototype that could draw us with a single hair of association.
And occasionally--very occasionally--there is a touch of coarseness in the drawings of Life which suggests the worst features of its German prototype rather than anything it has borrowed from England.
The hut, which is the prototype of the fixed habitation, is derived probably from the screen formed of a series of branches stuck in the ground, as one sees it still among the Australians.
The vengeance assumes then the form of a judicial combat (prototype of European duel).
The last-mentioned of these forms has not been improved on, and the Arab tent of the present day, which is derived from it, differs from its prototype only in its dimensions and the awning set up at the entrance.
It is supposed that from the Egyptian (hieroglyphic and hieratic) writing was derived the alphabet styled the Ph[oe]nician, the prototype of most of the alphabets of the world.
So far their system of self-government appears almost a prototype of our own.
Over and above this, he is the prototype of his unfortunate countrymen during the days of transition.
For the prototype of Maggie also fell among these marauding vagrants, and was detained a little time among them.
Barnum, the prototype of the many performers of that sort who have entertained the public ever since.
Demos is said to have been the prototype of "John Bull," the personification of the Englishman, as he was first exhibited by Dr.
The one is merely a collection of the scratchings of savages, the other is the prototype of modern maps.
Its prototype is to be found in the red ware of the Greek islands.
Another might be taken as the prototype of the modern round-bodied glass water-bottle, or carafe.
It was a development of a still earlier cooking vessel; its prototype of the sixteenth century having a globular body with short-curved feet, and frequently two handles.
Again, Lydus does not expressly say that Mamurius Veturius was driven out of the city, but he implies it by mentioning the legend that his mythical prototype was beaten with rods and expelled the city.
At the same time a sword was in use which was the prototype of the subsequent weapon: it had a long, straight blade slightly tapering from the hilt to the point, where it was cut to an acute angle for thrusting.
Examples of these battle-axes have been found with cutting projections upon each side of the shaft; this was probably the prototype of the bipennis subsequently made in bronze and finally in iron.
This, however, will not bear the test of investigation, for we find that almost every device has had its prototype in past ages, and nearly every idea has been forestalled.
This pièce de renfort may be viewed as the prototype of the “grande garde” of the succeeding century: an excellent example is preserved in the collection of Lord Zouche at Parham.
Its general utility was that of a chisel, a wedge, or a wood-splitting hatchet; in war it was the prototype of the battle-axe.
They also saw, after the Norman conquest, the English race despised and held down by their conquerors, and a species of serfdom in use among the Saxons which had no prototype in their own country.
The soft and tender product of ultra- civilization, or her bestial prototype of a hundred thousand years before her?
As early as 1618, Governor Sir George Yeardley established the prototype of the County Court in his order stating that "A County Court be held in convenient places, to sit monthly, and to hear civil and criminal cases.
Imported to Virginia as a form of courthouse building, this town hall style became a popular prototype for buildings erected in several counties during the first three decades of the nineteenth century.
For the present we merely wish to suggest that the 'secondary elaboration' of the dream content is the prototype of all these system formations[84].
Such hostility, hidden in the unconscious behind tender love, exists in almost all cases of intensive emotional allegiance to a particular person, indeed it represents the classic case, the prototype of the ambivalence of human emotions.
But in that case we must scrutinize more closely the prototype of the neurosis itself which is responsible for having raised this doubt.
The prototype which the paranoiac reconstructs in his persecution mania, is found in the relation of the child to its father.
The state of being in love, so remarkable psychologically, and the normal prototype of the psychoses, corresponds to the highest stage of these emanations, in contrast to the state of self-love.
