The ideas which Orientals held on the subject of comets renders the connection between the two events very likely, if not certain.
With Arvad it forms the ancient Zahi of the Egyptians, which was then subject to Damascus.
Halévy and Delitzsch, and their views on this subject have been adopted by most historians.
Samalla was at that time subject to a family of which the first members known to history, Qaral and Panammu, shared Yaudi equally between them.
She thereupon entreated me to allow her to relate our present conversation to her husband, and permit them both to confer with me on the subject the next day.
She was as good as her word, and the King discoursed with me on the subject without exhibiting the smallest resentment.
I wrote on the subject to the King and the Queen my mother; but so elated were they both with Marechal de Biron's success that they would not agree to any terms.
I may, perhaps, have the opportunity of considering this subjecton some future occasion.
But it is not, and the same action takes place in our own minds also, only with the difference that it is ultimately subject to that principle of Cosmic Unity of which I have already spoken.
Whence this energy and this ether proceed is not the subject of physical analysis.
I shall say something to the captain on the subject at which you hinted as soon as I get a chance.
I will consider the subject tomorrow," said Christy, as he descended from the bridge.
I beg your pardon, Captain Blowitt, and I will never again remind you of the conversation we had on the subject of audacity," answered Christy, rising from his chair and taking the commander by the hand.
Of course I am subject to your will and pleasure, Captain Passford," replied the guest.
As to the future, miss, I have no reasonable doubt that we shall be able to get the steamer and two schooners we have also captured alongside the Bronx, where all the prizes will be subject to the order of her commander.
He was about to descend from the bridge when Flint spoke to him in regard to the weather, though he could have guessed to a point what the captain was thinking about, perhaps because the same subject occupied his own thoughts.
It is evident that Mulgrum took an entirely different view of the result of the test from that taken by the examiner and the captain; but both of the latter had taken extreme pains to conceal their opinion from the subject of the test.
His present purpose was to disarm all the suspicions of the subject of the mystery, but he would have been glad to know whether or not the man had lingered at the door to hear what was said in regard to him.
From all that I can learn, the Arran must be to the eastward of the Ocklockonee," said Christy, who had given this subject all the thought his time would permit.
It is a quick mail from the latter city to New York, and I may get another letter on this subject before you sail, Christy.
I am satisfied; and I am sorry I said a word," added the subject of all these remarks.
We need not discuss such a subject as you suggest, captain.
Mulgrum is all right in every respect," said he in a loud tone, so that if thesubject of the examination had stopped at the keyhole of the door, he would not be made any the wiser for what he heard there.
Probably he was not the highest authority on the subject of his discourse; but he was sufficiently learned to meet the requirements of the present occasion.
He did not brood over a storm, therefore, but continued to consider the subject which had so deeply interested him since he discovered Mulgrum on his knees at the door, with a rag and a saucer of rottenstone in his hands.
Christy was a rapid writer, and his report was soon finished, for the subject was still very fresh in his mind, and he never attempted to do any "fine writing.
But we have already dwelt at length upon thissubject in speaking of the influence of the mind of the mother over the child at her breast, and need not therefore recur to it.
It has been noticed also that croup runs in certain families, and not unfrequently, children of a ruddy complexion and of a fleshy and apparently vigorous appearance are those most subject to it.
He is aware that a respectable though diminishing class in the community maintain that nothing which relates exclusively to either sex should become the subject of popular medical instruction.
The late medical literature on the subject is abundant.
A second class of women, more numerous than these, but still small as compared with the whole of their sex, are more or less subject to strong passion.
She has been made the subject of public veneration, and sometimes even of religious worship.
In Germany, this is particularly the case, and has led there to a careful study of the subject within the last few years.
When women are no longer hampered by a bodily infirmity periodically returning, they have more time at their disposal, and for obvious reasons they are less subject to be led astray by a too ardent imagination, or by wild flights of passion.
Perhaps the most important part of the subject of inheritance, is that which remains for us to consider in relation to the transmission of disease, or of a predisposition to it.
In leaving the subject of maternal impressions, we will call attention to the manifest difference in extent and degree between the influence of the father and that of the mother over the offspring.
I consider it the very worst thing he has ever produced, perhaps because the subject was really sublime, and for other reasons also.
The father organist has also given me the subject on which I am to extemporize; it is better than any that would have occurred to an organist in Italy.
The subject went pretty well, so I practised passages from the D major fugue, for the organ, from the F major toccata, and the G minor fugue, all of which I knew by heart.
There is a passage on this subject in Beaumarchais, who is censured because he makes his personages utter too few fine thoughts, and has put too few poetical phrases into their mouths.
There were very lively discussions on the subject of Sand, and many expressed great admiration of him; this appeared strange to me, as the occurrence is of such distant date that no one any longer argues on the subject.
I mean to make it the subjectof a scherzo for a symphony.
The remarkable originality of its purpose, and the happy description it affords of American life and manners, still continue the subject of universal admiration.
This threshing-out had been so thorough that there was hardly a subject even of the knottiest description which he was unable to dismiss with a few pregnant words.
He was wont to approach everysubject by the preliminary statement that he had "threshed it out.
He mopped it all into his own sponge, so to speak, and left every subject exhausted.
It could do no good to allude to the dreadful subject again.
With the same noble simplicity he grappled with the difficult and complex subject of temperance, by which he meant total abstinence.
Hester felt that the subject would be quite beyond her powers of explanation if once the gate were introduced into it.
As he often said in his favorite language of metaphor, he "had threshed out the whole subject of agnosticism, and could consequently meet other minds still struggling in its turbid waves.
He knew Lord Newhaven well enough to be absolutely certain that he would mention the subject to no living creature, least of all to his wife.
My dear," said Mr. Gresley, "ignorance is at the root of any difference of opinion on such a subject as this.
But the very nature of the source from which the power of his office is derived is what connects it vitally with the subject of our enquiry.
First, those cities which, after a more or less short resistance, yielded to the rude tactics of the barbarians and were made subject by them, for example Milan and Pavia.
I mean the problems which arise in a state of society where the mass of individuals forming it is made up of two elements, a conquering, dominant one, and a conquered, subject one.
We cannot err if we subject the question to a consideration at once critical and impartial.
It is the cities of the former class that are the subject of this investigation.
This subject is the development of the practice of giving certain immunities and privileges to churches and monasteries, adopted by the Frankish kings, faithful sons of the church, and then followed by all their royal and imperial successors.
He was in no mood to handle the subject delicately; they were alone in the wilds and the situation made for candor.
I have treated this subject with warmth; with more warmth, perhaps, than has served my cause.
For this purpose the best and most recent European works on the subject will be consulted, and selections made from the American newspapers that are devoted or friendly to the cause.
This subject has been ably and repeatedly discussed.
The height is a subject which I have not investigated, but it strikes me that a low chimney is most favourable to drawing well: if any one want an explanation on it, I will give it again; but it cannot be of much practical importance.
Such are the general outlines of our plan; and as we feel no local or political prejudices, they shall never have place in the discussion of any subject which may appear in our columns.
Fire-places, for warming rooms, have been for a long time in use; and the best plan for constructing them continues to be an interesting subject of investigation.
Under the subject of manures the reasons for this will be explained, when treating of gypsum.
The best information on the subject will thus be condensed in a form less unwieldy than a newspaper, and more popular than in scientific books.
Happy alike in the choice of his subject and in the treatment he has bestowed upon it, Mr. Smiles has in these two delightful volumes made another sterling addition to our standard literature.
In preparing his specification, Watt viewed the subject in all its bearings.
On making inquiries, however, he found that the subject had already been taken in hand by J.
It was in the year 1759 that Robison first called the attention of his friend Watt to the subject of the steam-engine.
It was not until January, 1784, that he communicated the results of his long series of experiments on the subject to the Royal Society.
The whole subject of these pictures has recently been thoroughly sifted by M.
Watt, on turning over the subjectin his mind, shortly hit upon a plan, which showed that his inventive powers were unimpaired by age.
It seemed,” said Jeffrey, “as if every subject that was casually started had been that which he had been occupied in studying.
Lavoisier invented it himself, and read a paper on the subject to the Royal Academy of Sciences.
Unlike the works of man, the work of God in relation to this earth was destined to be eternal, not subject to be controlled by any little contingences; nor was it dependent upon fluctuation, or change.
This is a subject which it may be necessary for us to inquire into, in order that we may find out how far man is responsible.
Daniel clearly exemplifies this subject in the following words, in speaking of the judgements that should come upon Nebuchadnezzar.
I would here remark, that a great many events will take place in regard to the renovation of the earth, which it would be foreign to my subject at the present time to detail.
A] [Footnote A: This part of the subject is fully explained in the remarks on the Government of Man, chap.
But others will say that Paul tells us "to be subject to the powers that be.
In order to present the subject in a clear light, I shall briefly point out some of the leading features of the two governments.
It will not be necessary to say a great deal here about the earth, and its organization, for we have touched on this subject before, and it is one about which there should be no dispute among believers in the Bible.
If he governs them, they are under his dominion, subject to his laws, and controlled by his will and power.
To return to the more congenial subject of Oldfield, it is strange that so shrewd a Thespian as Cibber (who seems to have been clever in all things but poetry) was so long in coming to a real appreciation of her genius.
Idle men, who have not been at the pains to accomplish or distinguish themselves, are very apt to detract from others; as ignorant men are very subject to decry those beauties in a celebrated work which they have not eyes to discover.
We were told by young Parker, who took notes of his preaching, that his subject matter on Thursday abounded in good teachings, enforced by appropriate and happy illustrations and striking imagery.
There were many speeches made on the subject of temperance, and on various topics for the advancement of the respective Indian nations.
The subject of the invasion was handled by several of the ablest counselors and the bravest warriors.
I did not say that," he answered, "but as you have started thesubject I must tell you that I think all this has gone far enough.
And though the Squire thought a good deal, he made no further allusion to the subject that night.
The subject matter is well graduated, and includes from the first book simple and entertaining lessons on Nature.
Very soon after he was made Archbishop of Canterbury, and ever since his time there has been an Archbishop of Canterbury, who is not only head of all the clergy, but the highest subjectin the queen's realm.
One evening, Mr. Hale being absent, her mother began to talk to her about her brother Frederick, the very subject on which Margaret had longed to ask questions, and almost the only one on which her timidity overcame her natural openness.
She began to talk on the subject which came uppermost in her mind, after the first flush of awkward shyness.
And presently, Margaret, racking her brain to talk to Fanny, heard her mother and Mrs. Thornton plunge into the interminable subject of servants.
Mr. Thornton and Mr. Hale were both absorbed in the continuation of some subject which had been started at their last meeting.
But as soon as the newly-started subject had come to a close, Mr. Thornton resumed the conversation just where it had been interrupted, and gave Mr. Colthurst the reply to his inquiry.
He could best have illustrated what he wanted to say by telling them something of his own life; but was it not too personal a subject to speak about to strangers?
Mrs. Thornton was silent after this; for her last words bore relation to a subject which mortified her.
She tried to change the conversation from a subject about which one party cared little, while, to the other, it was deeply, because personally, interesting.
And the institution itself, being in debt, was only too glad to get a gratis course from an educated and accomplished man like Mr. Hale, let the subject be what it might.
Balan» romance, contains several facts, which, however abridged and modified, show a great resemblance with those which must have been the subject of the lost portion of the old original.
And like Oberon, that other mediæval hero of popular celebrity,[8] Fierabras has become the subject of a musical composition.
It is to be observed that for the most part the subject wanting is of the same person as the object of the preceding sentence.
As to the following or second part of the «Sowdan», on the whole the same subjectis treated of as in the Ashmole «Ferumbras».
On the whole he doubts whether the holding of land by burgesses subject to communal regulations is generally a very ancient arrangement.
No craft fraternity could be formed without the leave of the municipality, and every Warden took his oath of office before the Mayor, at whose bidding and subject to whose approval he had been elected.
In the thick darkness which still envelopes the subject dogmatism itself is swallowed up.
He challenged one priest after another to treat this subject as if he were standing before his future congregation.
But instead of, as usual, considering on the way the subject he was to treat, his spirit and heart were occupied with the occurrences of the last few hours.
Love as a subject for discussion seemed wholly incongruous in view of the fact that they were running off with Seebrook's money and pursuers might already be hot on their trail.
The roof and walls rang under the downpour and he decided that after all to spend the night in an abandoned house would be fully as heroic as to subject himself to the ruthless fury of the hurricane.
He wondered a little at this but dismissed the subject from his mind to consider the graver business of how to avoid the disagreeable consequences of his encounter.
Owing to the poor lighting of Water Street--a matter that has been a subject of frequent complaint to the city authorities--Yerkes was unable to catch a glimpse of the stranger's features.
In order to be able to correct any false impression that I might have imbibed in my first visit to the valley of the Po, I paid particular attention to the same subject on my return from Egypt.
Every evening and on Sundays and holidays, this street was closed with gates, and a Jew who would venture into any part of the town was subjectto a heavy penalty.
In the evening the Radicals had a meeting in the Hall of Science, where Mr. Bradlaugh addressed them on the subject of religion and social ethics.
It was a great bone of contention between the Puritans and Cavaliers; Macaulay finds it needful to revert to the subject to illustrate the reign of Charles II.
They are extremely suspicious of any enlarged or general views upon so serious a subject as law.
Peter van Paine must have dealt in a compound of the quality of modern Hamburg sherry, a compound that would have been deeply declined by the poorest of those authors who form the subject of the second essay.
Mr. Buckstone simply replied that, while there was no crime subject to capital punishment but that a clergyman had suffered for it, there was no instance of an actor ever having been hanged for any crime.
Thus writes a popular preacher of the conservative sect in theology: recognizing a spiritual fact and conviction which tempts us to analyze and define, as a subject of natural history, the function and fame of the preacher.
Today this medicine is a subject of esoteric humor between my informant and his son-in-law.
The gathering of pine nuts, in contrast to the gathering of other plants, was the subject of a great deal of ritual and, in some degree, of ceremonialism uncommon to most Washo gathering activities.
The terms which they use when discussing the subject in English are somewhat more precise and will be used in this paper.
Witchcraft and sorcery among the present-day Washo is a difficult subject to investigate.
