I know that, in the earlier stages of the war, and in a few celebrated cases later, the pipes went into the charge, but I had not the good fortune to be present on one of these occasions.
Casualties, however, were exceedingly heavy, and it was decided in the later stages to keep them out of action as much as possible.
It would be an error of this kind if we closed our eyes to the fact that what first arrests the attention of man, in the lower stages of his evolution, is the survival of others than himself.
Thus, in this the earliest stage, the offender against the custom of the community is outlawed just as effectively as in later stages of social development.
According to this theory, three stages may be discerned in the evolution of humanity when we regard man as a moral being, as an ethical consciousness.
Those three stages may be characterised first as custom, next religion, and finally humanitarianism.
But, in so doing, they have at all times, in the latest as well as the earliest stages of society, been felt to be breaching the very basis of social solidarity, the maintenance of which is the will of the God worshipped by society.
As an article of daily wear it represented many stages of evolution beyond the primitive fig-leaf, being fabricated from a great variety of [Page 50] materials furnished by the garden of nature.
They immediately repaired to her sick room, and by gradual stages prepared her mind for our meeting.
Robb was a tavern keeper, and owned a line of stages with the horses, and lived near Montgomery court-house; Riley carried on blacksmithing about five miles from that place.
The fall of the ground became rapid, but, as usual in such cases, the face of the hill being traversed by stages of inclined planes, blasted by gunpowder in the rocks, the gradients of the road were easy.
Here are vats filled with the new-pressed juice; there vats in the variousstages of fermentation.
There is real humour and a good deal of it in the earlier stages of Syme.
The wit of the early volumes of Punch is in the last stages of decrepitude.
But the antients went farther; and described the same Deity under the same name in various stages of life: and [937]Ulpian speaking of Dionusus, says that he was represented of all ages.
In their early stages of development they often possess a large aftershaft made up of a number of barbs, but these quickly disappear, leaving only the degenerate main shaft.
If arguments founded on these alleged survivals be valid, it may be that the most civilized races have passed through the stages of Exogamy, Totemism and reckoning descent in the female line.
Other formulas are used during other stagesof the proceedings.
But it is unfortunately not a question of playing it so, but on the stages of public theatres, where very often the coarse applause of the friendly ignorant is still more offensive than the envenomed vituperation of the hostile critic.
Tommy's landlady was volcanic in her tastes, and his walls were lined with pictures of Vesuvius in all stages of eruption.
It was predicted in the earlier stages of the war that it would be an easy matter for either side to suddenly mass such an overwhelming force at one point as to enable the attacking party to go through the opposing force like a wedge.
In the early stages of the war, when the Germans drove the left of the French army towards Paris, the world expected an investment of that city.
Acute observations show that during the early stages of flight, before speed is acquired, they depend on the undulating movement of the wings, and some of them acquire the initial motion by flapping.
It is entirely behind the age, and adapted only to the lowest stages of barbarism; and yet thousands of Christian clergymen preach this demoralizing doctrine from the pulpit every sabbath day.
We need an imagination that will not only perceive our castle in all its stages of construction but will picture us in possession.
There is a legitimate use for sand-paper in the finishing stagesof the work on this desk, as there is, in fact, in almost every kind of fine woodwork.
Most beginners in clay modelling will expect, perhaps in the early stages of their work, to be made acquainted with the potter's wheel; for who has not heard of this interesting device?
This problem, like all others in house decoration, involves in its initialstages questions of design.
A template or gauge will be needed to test the work as it progresses from the first rough stages to the finish.
It is in reference to the successive stages of these three world systems that we say that animism in itself was not yet a religion but contained the prerequisites from which religions were later formed.
According to him the division between sacred and unclean does not yet exist in the first primitive stages of taboo.
But in attempting to understand this situation we must beware of interpretations which superficially seek to translate it as an allegory, and which forget the historical stages in the process.
But two examples of taboo ceremonial taken from civilized nations, and therefore from much higher stages of culture, will indicate to what an extent association with these privileged persons tends to preserve ancient customs.
Seemann and Lander have proved beyond dispute that in most stages of rachitis there is less than the normal amount of lime in the urine.
In more advanced stagesthe mucous membrane is pale and shows evidence of catarrh.
Mr. Hutchinson says:[20] "It is almost an acknowledged law that parents in the late tertiary stages do not transmit taint.
The skin is pale, the conjunctiva often stained with bile, and in the later stages oedema of the lids and emaciation come on.
Even those who claim that fats are convertible into sugar in the liver admit that it is only in the most advancedstages of diabetes that such conversion takes place.
I have seen cases of acute rachitis which were {157} the initial stages of general rachitis, and have observed those of local or multiple epiphysitis, mainly after infectious fevers, which were diagnosticated as such.
In its earlier stages it is impossible to recognize cancer of the intestines.
In some cases excessive tenesmus and bloody stools are seen in the early stages of torsion of the bowel.
The flakes of mucus discharged from the bowels in protracted constipation, fissura ani, and in the later stages of cirrhosis of the liver are composed of mucus in which are found imbedded epithelial cells from the colon and mucus-corpuscles.
Dropsy occurs in a large proportion of cases (nearly one-half) during the advanced stages of the disease.
A differential diagnosis between chronic catarrhal gastritis and atonic dyspepsia on the one hand, and the early stages of dilatation of the stomach on the other, cannot be made with any positiveness.
They may represent various degrees either of local evolution, and if so, that may be found to be the best solution, or they may have come in various stages of transmission.
We can find in Europe various stagesof "culture," and these we must trace by slow descent to the lowest rung of the ladder.
These tales represent one or more of the earlier stages of European folk-lore.
As to government, the Egyptian of the first dynasty regarded his king as a demi-god to be actually deified after his death, and this point of view was not changed throughout the stages of later Egyptian history.
The time varies at different stagesof the river's course, but as the civilization of the early dynasties centred at Memphis, observations made at this place had widest vogue.
There is suggested a theory of monads and the conception of the development from simple to more complex bodies, passing through the stages of lines, plain figures, and solids to sensible bodies.
In a word, the Egyptian writing represents in itself the elements of the various stages through which the art of writing has developed.
But they give us glimpses of the early stages of civilization upon which the Egyptians of the dynastic period were to advance.
This is a curiously conglomerate system of writing, made up in part of symbols reminiscent of the crudest stages of picture-writing, in part of symbols having the phonetic value of syllables, and in part of true alphabetical letters.
Around them there has grown up a generation of younger actors and actresses, who to-day adorn the stages of other theatres.
Miss Yost was plump and rosy, with fair hair, and had a merry twinkle in her blue eyes, and she took us by very easy stagesthrough the old-fashioned school-books.
He had, evidently watched some of the manifestations of man in the first stages of his development, and could tell, at least, as much of babies as naturalists could of beetles and bees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
