Martin Luther was not destitute of genius, of learning, or of eloquence; but his violence disfigured his works withsingularities of abuse.
For among the other singularities to which the violence of those times gave rise, it was considered a proof of attachment to the old constitution to be fond of plays, and to reward and harbour those who acted them in private houses.
The singularitiesin phylogenetic history would thus become links in one whole: history proper would become more than history.
He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularitiesproceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
He explicitly declares that 'Elegance, purity, and correctness were not so much my purpose, as in any intelligible manner as I could to rally all those singularities of human life .
Among the many singularities of that very interesting period, one was the number of religious tournaments or disputations that were held all over the country.
But, whatever to a modern eye are the singularities of these Codes, their importance to ancient societies was unspeakable.
These singularities of view were not altered on the partition of the inheritance of Charlemagne among his three grandsons.
I will mention two moresingularities of the Roman Criminal System which were produced by the same theory of judicial authority.
These singularitiesof the dialect render the translation of Hebel's poems into a foreign language a work of great difficulty.
Talking to himself was, indeed, one of his singularities ever since I knew him.
While all men are upon a footing and no singularities are accounted vulgar or ridiculous, every man enjoys perfect liberty.
From this single circumstance, have originated the most barbarous dialects orsingularities in speaking English, which offend the ear, either in Great Britain or America.
Thus small differences in pronunciation at first excite ridicule--a habit of laughing at the singularities of strangers is followed by disrespect--and without respect friendship is a name, and social intercourse a mere ceremony.
These singularities were not unobserved by Constantia.
It appears, as an exception to these rules, that the singularities of Martin Van Butchell have tended more to obscure, than to exalt or display the sterling abilities which even the tongue of envy has never denied him.
The current, says he, must pass, and the distribution of this current on the surface will define a function whose singularities will be precisely those called for by the enunciation.
The flaw in this reasoning strikes us immediately, since we use the abstract term function and are familiar with all the singularities functions can present when the word is understood in the most general sense.
I, 'is my young landlord then the nephew of a man whose virtues, generosity, and singularities are so universally known?
We now found the personage whom we had so long entertained as an harmless amusing companion was no other than the celebrated Sir William Thornhill, to whose virtues and singularities scarce any were strangers.
It is one of the singularities of this unknown person that his writings were numerous, and that no contemporary has ever mentioned the name of Puttenham.
He separated, or he joined; he classed, and he new-named; and not the least curious of his singularities is that of assigning right principles for his wrong doings.
But, on the other hand, the main mass of singularities is a futile and useless mass, by the painstaking accumulation of which the objects of real historical value are overwhelmed and obscured.
One of the most expensive singularities attending the royal feasts in those days, consisted in what they called Intermeats.
This is very difficult to be obtained; for, among other singularities of the ignis fatuus, it avoids the approach of any person, and flies from place to place as if it were animated.
He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Two other circumstances, which have given birth to this trait in the character of the Quakers, are the singularities of their dress and language.
On the subject of language, though the reader may be unwilling to adopt all the singularities of the Quakers, he may collect a lesson that may be useful to him in life.
First, whether the Quakers, in adhering rigidly to thosesingularities which have produced it, are really wrong as a body of Christians?
The above dual generation explains the nature of the singularities of a plane curve.
The theory of compound singularities will be referred to farther on.
The system has singularities, and there exist between m, r, n and the numbers of the several singularities equations analogous to Plucker's equations for a plane curve.
So that, in fact, Plucker's equations properly understood apply to a curve with any singularities whatever.
On the highersingularities of plane curves"; Collected Works, v.
For amongst other charges given to enquire out the singularitiesof this country, the General was most curious in the search of metals, commanding the mineral-man and refiner especially to be diligent.
If I had talents like his, I should despise any suffrage below my own standard, and should blush to owe any part of my fame to singularities and affectations.
I hear he does not succeed in England, where hissingularities are no curiosity.
He is a Gentleman that is very singular in his Behaviour, but his Singularities proceed from his good Sense, and are Contradictions to the Manners of the World, only as he thinks the World is in the wrong.
Daubenton has described with much attention, as well as the other singularities of this animal; Dr.
These singularities were worthy the attention of so able an anatomist as M.
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