How delightfully natural is the transition to the retrospective narrative!
As I house my bicycle and am shown to my room I take a retrospective glance across Europe and America, and feel almost as if I have arrived at the half-way house of my journey.
All these circumstances developed in them a strong retrospective spirit, so that in the centre of their intellectual horizon stands man in all his varying moods and vicissitudes of fortune.
I feel a retrospectiveshudder run through me when my spirit broods upon the recollection.
When I think of the thousand remorses and fears which my trifling wrong doings caused me, and which from my sixth to my eighth year cast a gloom over my childhood, I feel a sort of retrospective depression.
Previously to entering upon the operations of the season 1810, it may be proper, in this place, to take a retrospective view of the various departments of the work.
The springs of culture, which retrospective patriotism regards, go back in the last instance to cosmic forces.
Rather than live otherwise, and live better, they prefer to nurse the memories of youth and to die with a retrospective smile upon their countenance.
The Renaissance brought back technical freedom and a certain inspiration, unhappily a retrospective and exotic one.
The deeper this retrospective glance the less dogmatic the philosophy.
And if knowledge possesses its object, how can it be knowledge or have any practical, prophetic, or retrospective value?
Retrospective self-consciousness is dearly bought if it inhibits the intellect and embarrasses the inferences which, in its spontaneous operation, it has known perfectly how to make.
Those enfranchised helots thought they were maintaining a heroic state when, in fact, they were only turning its forms into a retrospective religion.
Monsieur de Calonnes always promised that the Arret should be retrospective to the date of the letter, so as to refund to them the duties they had thus been obliged to pay.
I am now promised that it shall be done immediately, and that it shall be so far retrospective to the date of the letter, as that all duties paid since that, shall be refunded.
He felt a great wish to justify himself, and to win Wingfield's retrospective sympathy.
How amazed, above all how shocked and indignant, the man for whom he had so great an affection and respect would feel if he knew the pictures which were now floating before his son's retrospective vision!
His retrospective contemplation has merely to retrace the history of its attainment, or rather to rearrange it in the more pleasing order which he calls ‘logical’.
Why again should it be assumed that the general account thus extracted from a retrospective study of discoveries must at once coincide with the logical ‘ideal of proof’?
The same compression of the throat, the same retrospective anguish, caused me to revolt against man's cowardice which hid under the name of civilisation the most unjust and most protected of crimes.
When getting out of the train I was more dead than alive from retrospective emotion.
Her mind fixed in this desperate hope, she could take no thought of the coming interview; that would have implied a retrospective glance at her last visit to the Grange, and Camelia could not think of herself, nor even of Perior.
It is indeed admitted that the prince may enact a retrospective law, provided it be done expressly; for the will of the prince under the despotism of the Roman emperors was paramount to every obligation.
They deny to the trustees the protection of the law; and they are retrospective in their operation.
What a retrospective law is, has been decided, on the construction of this very article, in the Circuit Court for the First Circuit.
That all such laws are retrospective was decided also in the case of Dash v.
It maintained that the prohibition of the Constitution was levelled only against interferences in individual cases, and did not apply to general laws, whether those laws were retrospective or prospective in their operation.
There is a valuable article on Weldon's book as a whole in The Retrospective Review, 1823, vol.
The fascination of penetrating the strange little world within those high walls, however, ill brooks these retrospective reflections, or thoughts of unpleasant consequences, and I make no hesitation about riding up to the gate.
That last attentive flick of his coat-tail is the finishing touch of an elaborate retrospective panorama we are expected to conjure up of the valuable services he has rendered us, and for which he is now justly entitled to his reward.
He doubted then the propriety of giving a retrospective force to the restriction.
The answer to these objections is that retrospective interferences only are to be prohibited.
I am not sure that I fully appreciate the point raised by "Agnosco," nor the distinction between the prospective and the retrospective "possibility" of such a miracle as the conversion of water into wine.
But the actuating motive has nothing to do with what we, in our retrospective analysis, are pleased to prove.
Here is another bubble ofretrospective analysis to which we apply the needle.
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