This species differs from the similar Lithopera lagena almost only in the complete absence of the three internal radial collar beams inside the thorax, and may be derived from it by their retrograde metamorphosis.
Forty years ago it seemed as ridiculous to timid, time-serving and retrograde folk for women to demand an expurgated edition of the laws, as it now does to demand an expurgated edition of the Liturgies and the Scriptures.
The advance is all along the line; and we need not fear anyretrograde movement to the past.
I will spare the reader the recapitulation of the sufferings endured by the Spaniards on their retrograde march to Quito.
This would be the moment to inquire into the secret or ostensible causes which have led to the retrograde course that is to be remarked in France in the ideas which have been hitherto reckoned as conducive to the advancement of reason.
In the same manner he named the stars of the crab, those where the sun, having arrived at the tropic, retreated by a slow retrograde motion like the crab or cancer.
Let us now trace the history of this organism onwards from the point at which we have arrived in our retrograde researches.
James at length succeeded, by the support of the bed, which happily resisted his retrograde movement, in getting on his clothes; and then all his attention was directed to the comfort of his guest.
He did not proceed directly home, however; but, making a retrograde movement, he fell back upon the place where the fatigued traveller had been seen.
A retrograde movement would cost him thousands of men, even if we did not follow.
It is not, therefore, a piece of inconsistency but rather a deeply felt want, when, where civilization is at its highest, so many demands are made that the division of labor should take a retrograde path.
Many of the socialists take a retrograde step in this respect, in as much as they consider only manual labor productive.
Mill took a surprisingly retrograde step in the doctrine on this point, in his Principles, I, ch.
Well, the moon's nodes retrograde in a similar manner by a movement directed from east to west; only it is a much slower movement.
A few nights more, and the fact is confirmed beyond possibility of doubt, and the extraordinary discovery of the direct and the retrograde movement of Mars has been accomplished.
The enemy in front of Wood having been checked, our whole line east of the railroad executed undisturbed its retrograde movement to a position about three hundred yards to its rear.
This necessitated another retrograde movement, which brought me back to the southern face of Missionary Ridge, where I was joined by Carlin's brigade of Davis's division.
This retrograde movement would also enable me to strengthen my command by Grower's division of the Nineteenth Corps and Wilson's cavalry, both of which divisions were marching from Washington by way of Snicker's Gap.
This retrograde movement was not made without a great outcry from the generals.
His mission excited exaggerated hopes on the part of the Liberals, and exaggerated wrath in the retrograde party--both failing to understand its limitations.
To complete the deception of the enemy the Garibaldian artillery, under Colonel Orsini, was ordered to make a retrograde march on Corleone previous to joining the main force at Misilmeri.
Prussia, whose conservative, not to say retrograde sentiments made it difficult to picture him at the head of what was really a great revolutionary movement, in spite of the militarism that surrounded it.
About noon he commenced his retrogrademarch for Boston.
It will be recollected that he, on the 5th of April, set out from Deep River on a retrograde march to carry the war again into South Carolina, beginning by an attack on Lord Rawdon's post at Camden.
On the 14th of October he commenced his retrogradeand mortifying march, conducting it in the night, and with such hurry and confusion, that nearly twenty wagons, laden with baggage and supplies, were lost.
He turned his face, therefore, toward the lower part of Virginia, and made a retrograde march, first to Richmond, and afterwards to Williamsburg.
Instead of being dispirited by the long retrograde movements, their confidence had increased, and they were ready to obey his every order with supreme confidence in its success.
General Bragg began his retrograde movement toward Chattanooga in June (I think), very wisely concluding to draw the Federals farther from his base before risking another general engagement.
All of the satellites of Uranus have retrograde motion, and their orbits are inclined about 80° to the ecliptic.
It is true that neither the Pythagorean nor the Egypto-Tychonic system required epicycles for explaining retrograde motion, as the Ptolemaic theory did.
This way of looking at the apparent motions shows why each planet, when nearest to the earth, seems to move for a time in a retrograde direction.
He adopted the epicycles and deferents which had been used by Apollonius and others to explain the retrograde motions of the planets.
Its motion was retrograde till January 11th, direct after the 13th.
The attempts of Ptolemy and others of his time to explain the retrograde motion in this way were only approximate.
Copernicus made this rotation of the earth's axis about the pole of the ecliptic retrograde (i.
Sooner if they happened to be retrograde satellites, later if direct satellites.
Flanking maneuvers and retrograde movements, both sometimes profitably employed to decoy the enemy, may frequently be utilized to gain advantageous relative position.
And what was sure to be the result of this confusion, of this retrograde movement, by which society seemed returning to violent means, to the tyranny of might over right?
By rejecting the doctrine of Rousseau, instead of making, according to the vulgar expression, a step in advance, it retrograded; but to retrograde is not always to lose an advantage.
In view of this retrograde movement American women attempted at the Convention in Philadelphia to secure a recognition of their civil rights through the Constitution of the whole federation of states.
But a part of the women, especially those of the liberal and cultured circles, saw the significance of this retrograde step.
And a startling rumour which seemed to come from nowhere, but which, in spite of denials from headquarters, spread like wildfire, supplied a reason for both theretrograde movement and the construction of blockhouses and redoubts.
The comparison of these scenes, which have again relapsed into a savage state, confirms what I have elsewhere advanced relative to the strange and sometimes retrograde nature of civilization in America.
They suspected that Mole was in league with the reactionary politicians Fontanes and Bonald, who were anxious to offer up the Jews as the first sacrifice to their retrograde policy.
These victories were followed by a retrograde movement.
The preacher Kley, in order to have ample material for a discourse, had to use as a starting point the German wars of freedom, which had caused the Jews in Germany to retrograde rather than to advance.
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