It is not to-day regarded as conclusive of the theory which, after nearly two hundred repetitions of his experiment, was doubtless considered by Magendie as established beyond question.
This is one of Magendie's celebrated experiments; perhaps the reader fancies that in its modern repetitions the animal suffers nothing, being rendered insensible by anaesthetics?
See then how experienced she is in the domain of the supernatural, how, in spite of her repetitionsand tediousness, she explains wisely and clearly the mechanism of the soul unfolding when God touches it.
In later times, the decoration of the entablature became more florid, repetitions of the uraeos serpent appearing as a cornice ornament.
The celebrity of these works makes it natural that several repetitions of the dove should have been found.
The pattern consists of repetitions of two vertically-arranged groups of fantastic pine-apples and vases with flowers, intermixed with bold rococo bands and large leaf devices.
Malta is noted for producing a silk pillow lace of black or white, or red threads, chiefly of patterns in which repetitions of circles, wheels and radiations of shapes resembling grains of wheat are the main features.
This and subsequent repetitions of the performance at first only amused Emilius, but he presently began to reflect, and perceiving that he also had two legs, he began privately to try how fast he could run.
We find Richardson hard to be borne, and he put far greater vivacity and wider variety into his letters than Rousseau did, though he was not any less diffuse, and he abounds in repetitions as Rousseau does not.
Sidenote: The likeness to Shakspere in The Two Noble Kinsmen, and the repetitionsof him, are likely to be by him.
His earlyrepetitions of sounds are probably largely pleasure in muscle patterns.
And soon he gets enjoyment from listening to repetitions or rhythmic language,--a vicarious motor enjoyment.
Many repetitions will be required before a pathway is worn deep enough to be settled.
This gives us some indication that the early repetitions should be closer together than those at the end of the period.
In general, it is better to spread therepetitions over a period of time.
Shall you make these thirty repetitions at one sitting?
If two repetitions induce a given liability to recall, four or eight will secure still greater liability of recall.
So long as you are forgetting rapidly you will need more repetitions in order to counterbalance the tendency to forget.
You would still have fifteen repetitions of the thirty, and these might be used in keeping the poem fresh in the mind by a repetition every other day.
Suppose you are memorizing "Psalm of Life" to be recited a month from to-day, and that you require thirty repetitions of the poem to learn it.
It requires also a decision as to the precise percentage of repetitions which makes the stamp advantageous.
To cite an example, of the simpler sort: if an item in an order sheet is identical for eight out of ten orders is it better to have a clerk typewrite the eight repetitions along with the two deviations or to use a rubber stamp?
Of course, there are not one or two, but many, items in an order sheet and the repetitions and deviations are not the same for all items.
Then arises the further question, why not have the most numerous repetitions numbered and keyed and thus avoid the necessity of transcribing them at all?
In such streaming exhortations and laments as we find in the Greek choruses and in the adjurations and caoines of the Irish, the breaks and parallel repetitions of a song might lower the passion.
The repetitions in the Poem Games are to keep the singing, the dancing and the ideas at one pace.
He therefore embraced many opportunities of returning to them, and drawing from me repetitions of the narratives, and jotting down notes, from which he then insisted that I should write them out, with a little kind assistance from him.
Art abandoned its endless repetitions of a single theme, and essayed in faltering delight to rival the glorious fragments of those who had made nature their model and had joyed to picture life in all its rich grace and charm.
If Napier had simply considered numbers in themselves, as repetitions of unity, which is their only intelligible definition, it does not seem that he could ever have carried this observation upon progressive series any farther.
In revising it for publication I have striven to rid it of the air of the lecture room, but a few repetitions and didacticisms of manner may have inadvertently been left in.
After the perfecting of the eye-spots, weak repetitions of the latter appeared as black spots on all the segments except the last.
But the repetitions are not mere artistic embellishments; they beautifully correspond to the feelings expressed.
A suppliant is not guilty of vainrepetitions though he asks often for the same blessing, and thanksgiving for answered petitions should be as persistent as the petitions were.
There are beautiful repetitions of the story in the ballads of other nations, and it has secondary affinities with the extensive cycle of 'Hind Horn,' the parts of the principal actors in the one being inverted in the other.
F-I# and severalrepetitions of 85 are of the seventeenth.
Repetitions and compounded copies are not noticed.
For some of the countless repetitions of the idea, see Pauli's Schimpf und Ernst, ed.
At funerals of believers a particular ceremony was exclusively practised by this sect, at which the friends of the deceased sat in a circle facing the priest, making as many repetitions as possible.
Several repetitions of this type exist: they look like studies taken by the pupil from his master, and reproduced to order when death closed the scene, making friends wish for mementoes of the genius who had passed away.
A good fourth of the Codex Vaticanus consists of repetitionsand rifacimenti.
The most famous of the original repetitions is that at Madrid, painted for King Philip II.
Titian is known to have made several repetitions of this charming composition, some of them slightly varied, and the copies are almost innumerable.
The tragicomedies conform most closely to the conventionalities and repetitions of the heroic romances, though they exhibit abundant originality of invention.
His plays, like Massinger's, seem to the reader of to-day repetitions of one another.
Art was to be based on classic precedents, but it was forbidden by the spirit of the new age to remain after medieval fashion satisfied withrepetitions and translations.
There are therefore only 5 senses; they are none other than repetitions of the anatomical systems in the sensation; they are the highest developments which are possible in the lower systems, being the blossoms or heads of such systems.
The zero is an eternal act; numbers are repetitions of this eternal act, or its halting points, like the steps in progression.
The vegetable and animal acids are none other than repetitions of the elemental and mineral acids.
Next come the Whales, Pigs, and Ruminants as the repetitions of the Fishes, Reptiles, and Birds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repetitions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
