The tertium comparationis is not the act of the Divine Artificer, but the willingness of man to yield his will to God like clay in the hands of a potter.
Where did this tertium quid come from, when he had already comprehended everything in the two extremes?
That the mind can conceive of something between the infinite and the absolute, which is neither the one nor the other, but a tertium quid--the conditioned.
There was a tertium quid, should she decide to avail herself thereof.
Every time she caught the deprecating glance of his uneasy eye she fortified herself with the assurance of the existence of the tertium quid.
But to fashion for ourselves any clear and stable notion of a tertium quid that is neither corporate ownership nor co-ownership, but partly the one and partly the other, seems impossible[1166].
We have even established that the existence of this intermediary is directly proved by observation, and from this I have concluded that we do not directly perceive the object itself but a tertium quid, which is our sensations.
There exist, in fact, several systems which propound that the outer world is known to us directly without the intermediary of a tertium quid, that is, of sensation.
Until now we have employed the word in the very vague sense of a tertium quid interposed between the object and ourselves.
Tertium Quid is sometimes flippant in tone, and his neutral attitude seems chiefly the result of indifference or of caution.
Tertium hummed, "The race is not forever got by them that fastest runs, Nor the battle by those people that shoot with the longest guns.
I was sitting with Tertium and Captain Bill, in their stateroom, when a faint smell of fire attracted our attention.
I worked on the bar alone--St. John and Tertium prospected--in vain.
Tertium saw them, and hesitated; he lifted them, and was convinced.
Tertium was awakened by a choking sensation, and found himself lying with his face in a puddle of water almost deep enough to drown him.
In a fit of desperation I went to work on our bank--Tertium prospected, and St. John went to try his fortune once more on American Bar.
I finished it during the whole of Monday, while Tertiumand St. John went up the river to make their first experiment in our new territory.
A hundred wheelbarrows, equal to six hundred buckets, yielded only sixteen dollars instead of thirty; Tertium and St. John were out of all patience, and it was as much as I could do to persuade them to another trial.
We found Tertium domiciliated with Number Four in a tent which the latter had erected with such taste and elegance as might in the mines fairly be termed magnificent.
In law courts no tertium quid is recognized between insanity and sanity.
The word 'crank,' which became familiar at the time of Guiteau's trial, fulfilled the need of a tertium quid.
However, even Plutarch[752] endeavours to discover some point of similarity which might serve as tertium comparationis, and finds it in the Scarabeus’ mode of generation.
She was in bed through the following three days, which were rainy; so she missed attending the funeral of the Tertium Quid, who was lowered into eighteen inches of water, instead of the twelve to which he had first objected.
I shall have to take the mare to-morrow,' said the Tertium Quid, 'and she will stand nothing heavier than a snaffle.
Into Thibet,' said theTertium Quid, 'ever so far from people who say horrid things, and hubbies who write stupid letters.
The Tertium Quid stood at the head of the grave, and stared without answering for a space.
The upshot of it was that, next day, no one saw the Man's Wife and the Tertium Quid together.
For these reasons, and for others which need not appear, I decline to state positively whether there was anything irretrievably wrong in the relations between the Man's Wife and the Tertium Quid.
The brute threw up her head and went down with a scream, the Tertium Quid upon her, and the nervous grin still set on his face.
She was not allowed to own the Tertium Quid in peace; and was so strangely constructed that she would not have enjoyed peace had she been so permitted.
They had marked out a full-size grave, and the Tertium Quid asked them whether any Sahib was sick.
But the Tertium Quid was glued to the saddle his face blue and white and he looked into the Man's Wife's eyes.
She and the Tertium Quid enjoyed each other's society among the graves of men and women whom they had known and danced with aforetime.
Into Thibet," said the Tertium Quid, "ever so far from people who say horrid things, and hubbies who write stupid letters.
Coming up the Cemetery road, the Tertium Quid's horse tried to bolt up hill, being tired with standing so long, and managed to strain a back sinew.
The letter was sweetened with many pretty little pet names, and it amused the Tertium Quid considerably.
The coolies worked away, and the Man's Wife and the Tertium Quid watched and talked for a couple of hours while the grave was being deepened Then a coolie, taking the earth in blankets as it was thrown up, jumped over the grave.
I shall have to take the mare tomorrow," said the Tertium Quid, "and she will stand nothing heavier than a snaffle.
One day when the Man's Wife and the Tertium Quid had just arrived in the Cemetery, they saw some coolies breaking ground.
They had marked out a full- size grave, and the Tertium Quid asked them whether any Sahib was sick.
The Tertium Quid flew down-hill on horseback, but it was to meet the Man's Wife; and when he flew up-hill it was for the same end.
Now what is this tertium quid that is to be the medium of all synthetical judgements?
See "A Chapter in the Ethics of Pain," by the late Edmund Gurney, in a volume of essays entitled Tertium Quid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tertium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
