What sprightly Transitions does she make from an Opera or a Sermon, to an Ivory Comb or a Pincushion?
It is not difficult to form an hypothesis which by a series of imaginary transitions will bridge over the chasm which separates man from the animals.
The laws of language can be best discerned in the great crises of language, especially in the transitions from ancient to modern forms of them, whether in Europe or Asia.
Will not a man be able to judge best from a point of view in which he may behold the progress of states and their transitions to good and evil?
They co-ordinate a few guiding marks; but who shall say what infinite transitions underlie them?
Sudden transitions from profligate to austere manners were so common among individuals, that we cannot be surprised at their sometimes becoming in a manner national.
That which I have adopted appears to me as philosophical and as little liable to transitions as any other.
The wool and hair of animals are still inferior conductors, and thus, under changes of climate and of seasons, the beasts of the field are secured against those violent transitions from heat to cold which would be fatal to them.
The second is; that great variety, and quick transitions from one measure or tone to another, are contrary to the genius of the beautiful in music.
The diphthongs, and other tones intermediate between the simple vowels, in which the German is so rich, are evidently to be considered but as so many musical transitions from one to the other.
On the contrary, there are manifold transitions and fusions in the reciprocal action of soul and spirit.
Würtemberger has brought light into the perplexing division of species of the ammonites by simply showing their temporary and systematic transitions into one another.
In these awful transitions from one state of society to another, even the most sagacious are predisposed to discover what they secretly wish.
At whatever point we set out, we may find that something which preceded has been omitted; a century may pass away and leave no precise epoch; and transitions of words and styles, like shades melting into each other, may elude perception.
Prichard, it appears to follow very distinctly, not only that Human Physiology is extremely mutable, but also that the transitions do not occupy a very long interval of time.
Nature may have provided for gradual transitions of climate such as must have been encountered by a population progressively diffused over the Globe; and that she has done so appears to be distinctly established.
From the frequent recurrence of all these different forms in several Celtic countries thus widely separated, it is plain that they were used conjointly by the early Celts, and represent various transitions of the same word.
The actors in the mimic life of the theatre, are blind to violent transitionsand abrupt impulses of passion or feeling, which, presented before the eyes of mere spectators, are at once condemned as outrageous and preposterous.
The varied transitions of tone with which this speech was delivered were as perfect as the most accomplished actress could have made them.
She has elbow-room, and, moreover, she is not unused to rapid transitions from high prosperity to temporary difficulty, and so back again.
He read the hearts of men and women, their probity, and their second thought, and wiles; the wiles of innocence, and the transitions by which virtues and vices slide into their contraries.
What Darwin ascertained about the "origin of species" and about the transitions and evolutions in organic life is a very valuable expansion of museum zoology.
The illustration of this famous zoologist of the transition from one species to another may serve as an example of the logical transitions in the world process, in which all differences are but undulations.
The travelers in the frigid zone are exposed to far greater and more sudden transitions of temperature than are ever felt in our changeable but temperate climate.
I have done some things, but always under circumstances that endangered my available power to live and work, while making such transitions as I was determined to make.
Cope says: "Such transitions of species are clearly indicated in the Oreodontidae, where such different forms as O.
Nor are such transitions confined to the lower forms of life, though they are probably more abundant there.
There are cases in which the transitions are between forms so extreme that they can not, by any stretch of the term, be called varieties.
These violenttransitions from heat to cold, are produced by means of the N.
While these beautiful transitions were still before the eyes of the youthful admirers of their beauties, a voice was heard above them, crying as if from the heavens: "Sail-ho!
By their assistance more sudden evolutions and transitions are effected in the system of nature than are wrought in a pantomimic exhibition by the wonder-working sword of harlequin.
The transitions of light and darkness, whence proceed the alternations of day and night, are produced by this diurnal revolution successively presenting the different parts of the earth to the rays of the sun.
Through hereditary predispositions (imperfect instincts) of greater or less stability, it presents transitions to the former mode.
Strong so-called “hereditary predispositions” or unfinished instincts constitute the phylogenetic transitions between both kinds of activity and are of extraordinarily high development in man.
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