They were all disguised by the system of camouflage employed by the French Army, and at a very short distance they blend with the landscape and become almost invisible.
Do not let these puzzle-maps go out of fashion; they afford a most useful psychological illustration; the foundation of every organised system of truth is bound up with them.
While there had been no system in his education, his mind was a sort of knowledge junk-shop, wherein he could find almost anything he wanted.
It was a part of thesystem of relays--horses, ship, and wind.
Both simplicity and a clear understanding of one of the most important practical divisions of our subject point toward a revision of the old system of grouping.
They accordingly took the plants and animals of their land and wove them into their religion, by adopting a system of natural symbols too intricate to be here given in detail.
The idea of a supreme being may thus be inferred to have been the foundation of a system which, like many other ancient religions, resorted to symbols, and thence by an easy transition assumed in popular practice the form of idolatry.
With Peru, however, we must in part work backward, by first constructing a system from what we find upon pottery.
It is here, in short, that we have the best opportunity of studying the religious system and symbols of China.
Apart from the dynastic significance of colors, they enter largely into the complex system of Chinese symbolism.
The system of classification which has hitherto been followed has been adopted mainly in view of the modern manufactures of Japan.
But it speaks wonders for the elasticity of oursystem of jurisprudence and the ingenuity of our lawyers that such a case could be invented.
I have endeavoured to bring the evils of our system before the Public in the story of Mr. Bumpkin.
Half-a-dozen solicitors and members of the junior bar could devise such a system in a week.
The lawyers,” said I, “do know better; and all respectable lawyers detest the complicated system which brings them more abuse than fees.
Mr. Bumpkin looked round quite in the wrong direction for ascertaining what was the cause of the sudden shock to his nervous system and his hat.
You can calculate upon nothing in the system but its uncertainty.
This is the ancient system which is now followed at Karnak, and it is the system by which, with the further aid of the wooden machines, the Great Pyramid and its compeers were erected in the days of the IVth Dynasty.
The numbers are of course as purely arbitrary and relative as those of the different thermometrical systems, but they afford a convenient system of arrangement.
In the later periods of Babylonian history tablets were dated in the year of the king who was reigning at the time the document was drawn up, but this simple system had not been adopted at this early period.
This interesting discovery consists of a number of clay tablets inscribed in the proto-Elamite system of writing, a system which was probably the only one in use in the country during the period before the Semitic invasion.
Your unwilling grandmother, ever growing more unwilling as your food assimilated less, then contracted habits of shaking you till your system curdled, and your food would not assimilate at all.
I had recourse to both, and the effect of both upon my system was witheringly lowering.
It is difficult to fix the precise period when they were first made, but it must have been posterior to the 10th century, when Moorish architecture underwent a radical change in its system of decoration.
In one fact every author agrees, namely, that the glass made in those provinces closely resembled the Venetian, and was completely different to the system followed by the Arabs.
Several pottery works were established in Spain in the 18th century, all of them, in the same manner as the earlier fabriques, modified the system of decorating their wares.
He went to Alcora to try a system of gilding and purple which he had invented, which produced an unsatisfactory result.
The general system adopted is a row of stalls separated from each other by the arms; the backs of the lower ones serving as stands for the books which are used by those who sit in the upper range.
The system hitherto adopted of classifying this ware by the localities in which it has been purchased is not a safe one, unless borne out by further evidence.
In the 16th century designs of the Renaissance style alternated with these, although the system and colouring continued the same.
The most interesting Roman remains are at Bath, where a splendid systemof baths has been brought to light.
Another great advantage attending thissystem of warfare is, that the soldier will more cheerfully encounter fatigues and privations, which he knows are to be of short continuance, and must terminate at a certain fixed period.
A system of espionage was established, of which he was the victim.
The doctor thinks his nervous system must have received a shock," my wife said.
The entire calendrical system of the Mayas is based on the cycle principle.
For those unacquainted with Maya arithmetic the following points will explain matters: the Mayas used the vigesimal system of enumeration; they counted by twenties instead of tens.
This class of boys around the old monk represents an educational systemwhich covers all Burma and has unbounded influence.
It is wholly satisfied with the admirable system it already possesses.
For the whole Buddhist system in its earlier forms Warren's admirable Buddhism in Translations (Harvard Oriental Series.
Both felt that the question had ceased to be one for Scotland only; they saw that a concession to the Scots must now be fatal to the political and ecclesiastical system they had built up in Ireland and England alike.
If James cared for the restoration of the Palatinate, he cared more for the system of government he had carried out since 1610; and with that system, as he well knew, Parliaments were incompatible.
Weston, a creature of the Duke, became Lord Treasurer, and his system remained unchanged.
Till May 1641 there was still hope for an accommodation between the Commons and the Crown by which the freedom that had been won might have been taken as the base of a new system of government.
In the same way the chieftains were stripped of their hereditary jurisdiction, and the English system of judges and trial by jury substituted for their proceedings under Brehon or customary law.
Above all he would listen to no words of reconciliation with a religious system in which he saw nothing but a lie, nor to any pleas for concession in what he held to be truth.
To restore the triple league of France, England, and Holland was to restore the system of Elizabeth.
It proved beyond question that thesystem of personal rule which was embodied in these dependent ministers was no passing caprice, but the settled purpose of the king.
But before this could be, Buckingham and the system of blundering misrule that he embodied must be cleared away.
One advantage of such a system would be that it would create more interest in an election.
No one was such an ardent admirer of the manufacturing system which had made us a nation of shopkeepers, and he won the hearts of the manufacturers as he told them that to him they seemed as the very pillars of the State.
Well, that is rather a reversal of thesystem which has made England great by reason of the energy and freedom of her people.
It is impossible that the Allied Powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness.
The American Systemis but the establishment of interstate and international arbitration as the common and usual course of governmental action instead of as a voluntary or spasmodic manifestation of governmental will.
The Declaratory Act of 1766 brought clearly into comparison the political system of America, as opposed to the political system of Europe.
But Watelet was not to be put off, and went on explaining his system gently but firmly: Christophe could not find out anything about the rest of his life.
She managed secretly to save enough money to surprise and delight Olivier with a hired piano, which, on the hire-purchase system became their property at the end of a certain number of months.
Or perhaps he wouldn't feel literary that night, and so he'd invent a system for speculating in wheat and go on pyramiding his purchases till he'd made the best that Cheops did look like a five-cent plate of ice cream.
That was a twelve-grain dose, without any sugar coat, but it sweat more cant and false pride out of my system than I could get back into it for the next twenty years.
Was he interested in a reconstitution of the economic system for the sake of defense against Western powers?
The hsien was the meeting point of the political system and the extra-legal government, generally of a very vaguely organized nature, by which the Chinese managed their own affairs in accord with tradition.
The most vigorous Rassenpolitiker, such as Homer Lea or Lothrop Stoddard,(258) would approve heartily of such a system of calculation in politics.
The educational system was identical with the administrative, except in the case of the foreign dynasties.
It is this: the Chinese, without the elaborate system of expedient fictions which the West terms juristic law, were and are unable to conceive of corporate action.
Sun Yat-sen holds that the Communistic order or even the Soviet System cannot actually be introduced into China, because there do not exist here the conditions for the successful establishment of either Communism or Sovietism.
This too had to be corrected under a system of economic nationalism.
The West possessed a state systemwhich was fundamentally different.
According to the land-control system of Sun Yat-sen the land-owner would himself assess the value of his land.
The consequences of the educational-administrative systemfostered democratic tendencies quite as much as they tended to maintain the status quo.
His system of political thought, therefore, forms a blend of Far Eastern political philosophy and Western political science.
Nor do they fail, on hearing this part of the European system of government related, to charge the institutors of it with a total want of humanity, and to brand them with the names of savages and brutes.
As I do not propose to give a regular and connected system of Indian concerns, but only to relate such particulars of their manners, customs, &c.
It is of no use to attempt to bring about at once; any regular or prescribed system of exercise, requiring such exercises to be carried out in school, because our schools, like our theaters, are what the public make them.
They practiced the most absurd system of asceticism, depriving themselves of natural food and rest, and, of course, the results which followed on a grand scale were just what would follow in the individual.
When these things are fully appreciated, the whole system of education will be revolutionized.
His entire system had received a violent shock, from which it never recovered.
They are forced to follow the present systemby the inordinate demands of parents.
The only sound system of treatment is that which attempts to remove the root-causes of disease by a strict observance of the fundamental laws of health.
Most people know that, in several diseases, medicines and liquid food are injected into the blood, and that they are assimilated into the system more rapidly than if they were taken through the mouth.
Those who do hard labour take three meals, but a system of four meals has arisen after the invention of English medicines!
We generally apply the term "fever" to a condition of heat in the body, but English doctors have distinguished many varieties of this disease, each with its own system of treatment.
The relation between the body and the mind is so intimate that, if either of them got out of order, the whole system would suffer.
In fact it is caused, just like other diseases, by the blood getting impure owing to some disorder of the bowels; and the poison that accumulates in the system is expelled in the form of small-pox.
But if this first expedient shows how naturally a "fiat" money system runs into despotism, the next is no less instructive in showing how easily it becomes repudiation and dishonor.
The evils which we have already seen arising from the earlier issues were now aggravated; but the most curious thing evolved out of all this chaos was a new system of political economy.
This system in finance was accompanied by a system in politics no less startling, and each system tended to aggravate the other.
To detect goods concealed by farmers and shopkeepers, a spy system was established with a reward to the informer of one-third of the value of the goods discovered.
All the previous changes had, at the worst, done no more than to inflict a momentary check on this highly developed system of manufactures.
The result of these measures and of the system of vaccination is seen in the entire freedom of the camps from epidemics.
There is no system of delaying correspondence after delivery or before despatch.
