He had nominated a few bishops, and had won back for them their old places in Parliament; but his bishops remained purely secular nobles, unrecognized in their spiritual capacity by the Church, and without any ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
He revelled in the opportunity for a display of his theological reading; but he viewed the Puritan demands in a purely political light.
He had raised up dependants to carry out a purely personal rule, and it was a favourite who was now treading his will under foot.
His policy was no longer the purely Conservative policy of Parker or Whitgift; it was aggressive and revolutionary.
To him Cecil's death seemed only to afford an opportunity for taking further strides towards the establishment of a purely personal rule.
How many purely mortal beings, do you think, would have come out alive?
To him, the personal element drowned the purely academic interest of the psychological phase in this tragedy.
They are," he said, "not recognized by the law, and that being so your grievance against the Englishman is a purely personal one.
This has already been done with the more purely open-water sediments of Russia and Eastern Asia, where the development of the beds is more normal.
Limestones which are frequently largely of organic origin, are often rich in remains, and muddy deposits more frequently furnish fossils than those of a purely sandy nature.
If he recanted, it might be restored to him purely in mercy.
Released from all the restraint of publicity and unrestricted by the formalities of law, the procedure of the Inquisition, as Zanghino tells us, was purely arbitrary.
The crime he sought to suppress by punishment was purely a mental one--acts, however criminal, were beyond his jurisdiction.
There was one purely temporal penalty which came within the competence of the Inquisition--the designation of the houses which were to be destroyed in consequence of the contamination of heresy.
To begin with mechanics' institutions and other kindred bodies, these are by no means purelyeducational in their scheme of operations.
But it appears that he has never occupied a judicial position, and that his title is purely complimentary, having no relation whatever to the nature of his pursuits either in the past or in the present.
In the exuberance of joy caused by that catastrophe, I felt as if I would like to perpetrate something which should be purely ridiculous, and accordingly I organized upon paper this piratical narrative.
The Bitters are purely medicinal, and they contain no intoxicating element.
We are largely indebted to Mr. Boucicault for her existence, just as we are under obligations to Mr. Fennimore Cooper for a purely sentimental conception of the North American Indian.
The moneys had been borrowed purely to invest them with profit on my behalf: a gentleman's word of honour was pledged to it.
Edward Carpenter has the following to say on this point: "It is a matter of common experience that the unrestrained outlet of the purely physical desire leaves the nature drained of its higher love-forces.
The uterine and abdominal muscular movements are purely involuntary, although the mother may aid in the delivery by voluntary muscular movements.
Lecky thought Americans more prone to give themselves up to a purely literary life than are the English, and cited Prescott, Irving, and others.
I respected and admired them; but their purely religious teaching took but little hold on me; I can remember clearly but two or three sermons which I heard preached in Yale chapel.
In the last five centuries of the empire, under the Comneni and the Palaeologi, court and state are purely Greek.
The first work he published, Uber den altdeutschen Meistergesang (1811), was of a purely literary character.
The purely ecclesiastical rules of law, the Canones, were blended with those of civil law, and thus arose the so-called Nomocanon, the most important edition of which is that of Theodorus Bestes in 1090.
Grimm's famous Deutsche Grammatik was the outcome of his purely philological work.
Of purely practical importance are a few handbooks of navigation, itineraries, guides for pilgrims, and catalogues of provinces and cities, metropolitan sees and bishoprics.
Grimald provides a purely romantic motive for the catastrophe in the passionate attachment of Herodias to Herod, and constantly resorts to lyrical methods.
No: Donne's arguments have no prospective reference or application; they arepurely retrospective.
And for us the choice should have been more purely and severely Grecian; whilst the slenderness of the plot in any Greek tragedy, would require a far more effective support from tumultuous movement in the chorus.
Through the regular surveillance at the gates, Satan passes without objection; and he is first of all detected by a purely accidental collision during the rounds of the junior angels.
She takes the point of view of her time, and dwells always upon the wisdom of veiling the knowledge she claims for her sex behind the purely feminine graces.
Social genius is as purely a gift of nature as poetry or music; and, of all others, it is the most subtle and indefinable.
As a historic figure, she is more remarkable for the variety of her voluminous work, her educational theories, and her observations upon the world in which she lived, than for talents of a purely social order.
Her salon offers a sort of compromise between the freedom of the philosophical coteries and the frivolities of the purelyfashionable ones.
In literature she likes only letters and memoirs, because they are purely human; but the age has nothing that pleases her.
My friends are anxious to learn if there be any purely philanthropic cause you would prefer to support.
Cuts have been made where the reporter's account overlaps the preceding, or where he has become purely rhetorical.
If they are concepts merely, the debate is hollow and of purely academic interest.
That uncompromising attitude was, to a large extent, justified because many articles of the heretical creeds were of purely pagan origin.
It is tantamount to saying that the union of divine and human in Christ is purely conceptual.
It was a semi-pagan theosophy, a product of Greek and oriental, as well as of purely Christian speculation; therefore it was anathema to the orthodox.
The resurrection becomes purely a spiritual change, which even a non-Christian could accept.
The perfection, however, is compromised, and the distinction rendered purely ideal by his further statement that there were "two natures before, but only one after the union.
And I am not a miserable great landed millionnaire, like that poor dear Castleton, who owes so many duties to society that he can't spend a shilling except in a grand way and purely to benefit the public.
I had not lost my time in London: I had kept up, if not studies purely classical, at least the habits of application; I had sharpened my general comprehension and augmented my resources.
Their visit, I gathered, waspurely of a social and pleasurable nature, and my informant spoke at some length of the entertainments arranged for their stay in the city.
The poet is forced to acknowledge that his life has shown only degeneration since he first saw Laura; it was her virtue, not his, which maintained a purely platonic relation between them.
The criticism of the young men was, he assumes, dictated purelyby envy of his reputation.
But in a purely objective consideration there seems no reason to suppose that regulation in behaviour (intelligence) is of a fundamentally different character from regulation elsewhere.
First, I read all the parts of the "Zoonomia" that were not purely medical, and was astonished to find that, as Dr.
Baldwin is very strong in insisting that no full explanation can be given of living processes, any more than of history, on purely chemico-physical grounds.
The Apostle, who throughout maintains his simply independent attitude, mentions his taking Titus with him as a purely voluntary act, and certainly conveys no impression that he also was delegated by the Church.
The separation agreed upon between Paul and the elder Apostles was not in any sense geographical, but purely ethnological.
It is unnecessary to say that this explanation is purely arbitrary, and that there is no ground, except the difficulty itself, upon which their exclusion from the speech can be based.
Herr Andés' book, written purely from a scientific standpoint, will be particularly useful to iron manufacturers, shipbuilders and shipowners.
It is pleasing to note that the practical part is not crowded out with purely 'practical recipes'.
In this recipe there is used in the two last dyes purely wool yellows, which dye the wool the same tint as the fast yellow A dyes the cotton.
I think some small fine, purely nominal, was exacted, and the tie-cutters got into harmonious relations with the Supervisor later.
In fact, literature existed before writing; and writing in itself is of no value from the purely literary sense, except in so far as it preserves and transmits from generation to generation the literary emotion.
I have tried to depict the sort of temptation that besets most artists at this stage of their career: the temptation to abandon the struggle for the sake of a purely sensual existence.
His method was purely deductive, and his science mathematical.
Although it was purely Grecian in its origin and development, it cannot be left out of the survey of the triumphs of the human mind when the Romans were masters of the world, and monopolized the fruits of all the arts and sciences.
His glory is purely intellectual, and it was by pure genius that he rose to his exalted position and influence.
He maintained that neither happiness nor virtue can consist in the attempt to satisfy our unbridled desires; that virtue ispurely a matter of intelligence; that passions disturb the moral economy.
The Praetorian prefects, although, at first, their duties were purely military, finally discharged important judicial functions.
