This mixed pantheon had its grades of nobles, princes, kings, and each of its members was representative of one of the elements constituting the world, or of one of the forces which regulated its government.
But this prolific and gentle pair were notrepresentative of all the phenomena of nature.
My ambition would be satisfied were I to succeed in creating here a group of individuals not representative of the entire race to which they belong, but only as possibly existing in that race--or those races.
Domizia, the vengeful Florentine lady, plotting against Florence with the tireless patience of an unforgetting wrong, is also a representative sketch, though not so clearly and firmly outlined as a character.
The persons with whom Browning parleys arerepresentative men selected from the England, Holland, and Italy of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The piercing light cast in the poem on the representative creeds of the age is well worthy of serious consideration, from an ethical as well as from a poetical point of view.
If so, Atlanta will have the distinguished honor of having the sole African representative at West Point.
West Point is an academy for the training of young men, presumably representative of the people, for a career sufficiently honorable to gratify any ambition.
This variety of duties in a small college tended to give him that breadth of scientific interest which characterized him through life, and made him perhaps the most representative general man of science in America.
Invading Scotland, Edward met with a feeble resistance, and at Brechin in July 1296 Baliol surrendered his kingdom to Antony Bek, bishop of Durham, as the representative of the English king.
In 1859 the Kataghan Usbegs were expelled; and Mir Jahander Shah, the representative of the modern royal line, was reinstated at Faizabad under the supremacy of the Afghans.
Yet to a certain extent he lacked the representative power and often failed to conceal his art, many pages ringing with artificial tones.
The government of Baden is an hereditary monarchy, with the executive power vested in the grand-duke, while the legislative authority is shared by him with a representative assembly (Landtag) consisting of two chambers.
But now all things were going wrong, and Lady Lufton would find herself in close contiguity to the nearest representative of Satanic agency, which, according to her ideas, was allowed to walk this nether English world of ours.
And then Mr. Sowerby stood back with his sister to make way for the great representative man of the age.
Captain Raphael Semmes was a typical representative of Southern chivalry.
But this paper only represents money, which is itself only a representative of genuine riches, the production of the earth and manufacture.
It is true that it was rather difficult to understand the process by which an albuminous substance could become all at once a living and budding cell.
Clark, of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, who is the only living representative of the old firm of Alvan Clark & Sons.
At this juncture, Thiers and Mignet again asserted their strength and influence by nominating for the throne Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans, representative of what is known as the Younger Branch of the Bourbon dynasty.
This Equality Philip left as his representative in the world a son who was twenty years old when his father was executed.
She came, panoplied with purposeful intent, as the specialised, the expert, the austere representativeof systematic relief.
A local representative of the agency, being advised by telegraph in advance of her coming, met her at the station.
Who took from you the wireless message which you brought yesterday to our stateroom, addressed to the representative of the Sharkey Detective Agency?
A common seaweed, a representative of the algæ, which include the green scum on the top of ponds, and the kelp from which fertilizer is now being made.
In several villages, for example, the people viewed a rainbow as the representative of their war god.
Affairs were discussed and settled in a representative assembly (fono), composed of the leading men of each village or district.
He sent a special representative to Richmond urging the despatch of a committee to confer with the President.
A representative could not be prouder of his election to a seat in the American Congress, than a slave on one of the out-farms would be of his election to do errands at the Great House Farm.
He is not firmly rooted in the truth that only in so far as outward beauty and grandeur are representative of the mind of the possessor, can they count for any thing at all.
In him is soon perceived a prophet of our own age, as well as a representative of his own; and we doubt whether the revolutions of the century be not required to interpret the quiet depths of his Saga.
If only as a representative of the claims of individual culture in a nation which is prone to lay such stress on artificial organization and external results, Mr. Emerson would be invaluable here.
Sidenote: =How he opposed the Stamp Act=] The Boston people elected him to be their representative in the Massachusetts Assembly.
When William and Mary came to the throne of England (1689) they gave New York a representative assembly.
Not for a moment is it to be supposed that to that age, whoserepresentative is listening to them, they are attempting to convey an idea of the Trinity.
This becomes explicit in the second of our representative texts: What then shall one answer the messengers of a nation?
The mass of Isaiah's predictions of the Messiah thus fall within the reign of Ahaz, and just at the point at which Ahaz proved an unworthy representative of Jehovah, and Judah and Israel were threatened with complete devastation.
Yet these are only segments of horizons, and perhaps the prophet reaches the height of his power of expression in the first of the three texts, which we have given as representative of his prophecies on foreign nations (p.
We have promised to gather the circumstances and meaning of these prophecies round three representative texts.
Fairbairn's book is no mere annal, but drama, vivid and full of motion, representative of the volume and sweep of Christianity through the centuries.
Erasmus, still the representative of a powerful modern movement of the intellect, had at length broken finally with Luther, and renewed his former allegiance to the Romish Church.
On the strength of this view, Butzer, the theological representative of Strasburg, sought to make further overtures to the Wittenbergers.
He sent another representative to Germany, with instructions to prevent an outbreak of hostilities.
Humbly, as he had been advised, he prostrated himself before the representative of the Pope, who received him graciously and bade him rise.
Pollich, the first great representative of Wittenberg in its early days, and who died in the following year, said of him, 'This monk will revolutionise the whole system of Scholastic teaching.
In the church Bugenhagen preached a sermon, and Melancthon, who, on the arrival of the sad news, had expressed his grief in a charge to the students, gave a Latin oration as representative of the University.
Isvolsky, Minister for Foreign Affairs, complaining that the statement in question was directed against himself in his capacity of representative of the French Republic in Russia.
The relations between France and Venezuela have been suspended now for several years, and the French representative at Caracas, it will be remembered, was expelled from Venezuela.
He recognizes the inexorableness of the laws under whose workings his nation is slowly, surely giving place to one more representative of the age.
The history of the family of which he is now the leading representative is identified with the fortunes of Oberammergau for a century past.
And a representative with full powers is legally a principal under a different name.
I begged, as a particular favor, England having no representative at Leaphigh, that he would do me the honor to present me, in his capacity of a foreign minister.
The Representative is a more intellectual division, that feels chiefly by proxy.
Why, Pitt was certainly an exception in one way; but then, you will recollect, he was the immediate representative of the tories, who own most of the property of England.
Those of us who sought him had been readers of Nature or the poems, of Representative Men, and of English Traits.
The most representative collections are those of the British Museum and the Guildhall in London, and of the provincial museums at Colchester, Reading, York, and elsewhere.
On the third reading of what was then known as the "East Retford" bill, the first attempt was made in parliament by O'Connell to introduce a new principle into the representative system of the country, viz.
Newspaper proprietorship was then a monopoly; and the argument by which the rich proprietor, the representative of the third class of opponents, sought to maintain his monopoly cannot fail to amuse the newspaper reader of to-day.
Strange State of the English Representative System of those Days.
The only one who says nothing, but seems prepared to act with determination and promptitude, is the representative of England, who is shown in the act of drawing his sword.
The nationalrepresentative assembly, and origin of our parliament.
The Norse assembly, corresponding to a Saxon "Folkmote," or representative council for a district.
The papal thought that Pagan Rome was a goodrepresentative of the Devil is quite right; and the Scriptures return the compliment.
Did He not stand as the Representative of God's righteousness and suffer the penalty of Justice as man's Ransom--that God might be just, and yet be the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus?
When a representative came warning that his death would surely follow failure to recant, and asking him where he could go when all had orders not to harbor him, he replied, "I will abide under the cope of heaven.
The Bishop of Rome, the embryo Pope, the personal representative of Satan.
The eagle is a symbol of wisdom, a fit representative of the Scriptures in which are contained the words of our God.
Pastor Russell as a representativeof the John class.
Since the head is the representative of the body, and its mouth speaks for the body, we find, as we should expect, this feature of Antichrist prominently referred to in the Scriptures.
