The need of variety alone would make continuance upon one plane impossible; we labor not only in order to arrive at conscious ends, but also in order to relieve ourselves of accumulated energy.
Where a varietylive on wild food, they associate only in small groups; game and fruit, widely distributed, can support these only.
To what direct causes the appearance of a variety is due, is a question as yet unanswered.
Thus, by change after change of this sort, a new variety replaces its parent, and this variety in time producing a fresh variety, there is finally reached a new species.
The simple combat became at last insipid, and every varietyof atrocity was devised to stimulate the flagging interest.
A complete answer to the question might bring out the fact, which seems on other grounds probable, that it is an advantage to a race to include a great variety of different types.
Each is an instance of a variety of the original species, but the former is the successful variety"; his ideal "represents the real forces of society and can be adopted by the whole.
Good is the victorious ideal"; and though we may say that it would really be to the bad man's interest to be bad, if circumstances were such that his variety could maintain itself, we may add that such hypothetical interests cannot be secured.
But if we want to find variety in pipe design, we must search for it in that country of great smokers--Germany.
Turkey offers a great variety of pipes, from the humble red clay to the lordly hookah or hubble-bubble--a device of Persian origin for allowing the smoke to be drawn through water in order to purify it before reaching the mouth.
Every district in London now has its corps of shoeblacks, in every variety of uniform, and while the number of boys has increased from tens to hundreds, their earnings have increased from hundreds to thousands.
The Siamese, besides a variety of superior food, eat rats, lizards, and some kinds of insects.
To the people who would like to go to Vauxhall in fine weather, second-rate Italian singing and broken down English prima donnas are no inducement, a bad ballet in a booth has no attraction, and an attempt at variety mars the whole affair.
Meanwhile, whatever gives freedom and variety to thought, and earnestness to men's interest in the world, must contribute to a good end.
This was abundantly shown during the last five years by a variety of unfortunate public adventures.
The fulness and variety of creation, the amplitude of the play and shifting of characters and motive and mood, are absolutely unforced, absolutely uninterfered with by the artificial exigencies of ethical or philosophic purpose.
The tragedy of the story, its sombre tone, the overhanging presence of death in it, are prevented from being oppressive to us by the variety of minor situation and subordinate character with which the writer has surrounded the central figures.
The Free Bloc, the Red Bloc, the Neutral Bloc and such scraps as had been too obtuse to find themselves a Bloc were drawn into the whirlpool in an amazingly short time, if in a varietyof ways.
Those at home were assailed on TV with a variety of bright and clever skits of the same import.
Sir Hudson Lowe at one time sent a variety of clothes and other articles received from England which he imagined might be useful at Longwood.
In an eleventh century vocabulary we meet with a tolerably rich variety of fish, of which the consumption was relatively larger in former times.
The kitchen, in short, comprised within its boundaries a far larger variety of domestic requisites of all kinds than its modern representative, which deals with an external machinery so totally changed.
Beer was made from a variety of grain; oats were most commonly employed.
A multitude of persons, of both sexes and all ages, gradually developed itself, having no feudal ties, but attached to an endless variety of more or less humble employments.
Consider, also, the variety which comes from the action of this law.
God bids us add progress to the constancy and variety that he has decreed.
In any aspect of the case, it is recurrence with variety that gives our being much of its finest zest.
Happy the man who understands self-discipline, so as to secure this charm, and mingle constancy and variety in his pursuits.
Adonijah beheld the classic shores of Greece receding from his sight with the indifference of one to whom all countries could only offer variety in bondage.
Nothing, however, surprised the Hebrew, who was born under the light of revelation, so much as the number and variety of the idols of Rome.
Besides these one might see that even the great number of the captives were not unadorned, while the variety that was in their garments and their fine texture concealed from the sight the deformity of their bodies.
There was also wrought gold and ivory fastened about them all, and many resemblances of the war, and these in several ways and variety of contrivances, affording a most lively portraiture of itself.
Two of the Baobab variety measured 70 to 76 feet in circumference.
Nor is there wanting in these seas instances of islands, in which almost every variety of formation is exemplified.
Imparting the news to Wilkinson, a long and interesting conversation began which branched off into a variety of topics, treated seriously, at times poetically, by the kindred minds.
She had evidently had enough of Mr. Rawdon, for she turned in the most natural way to Wilkinson and engaged him in conversation on a variety of topics.
Mr. Bangs was escorted to the garden, where the lady in question was actually sketching Marjory and the young Carruthers in a variety of attitudes.
A variety of methods of drawing will suggest themselves.
One of the most interesting features of the moon, when she is observed with a good telescope, is the variety of colour presented by different parts of her surface.
That must of necessity be a various and obscure agency, which is gifted with the power of arresting and controlling so great a variety of morbid actions.
Many a volume has been written to elucidate the operations of single medicines, and when the variety and complexity of such an operation is considered, the space devoted to its consideration will hardly seem too great.
This difficulty depends mainly on the variety and complexity of the proof required to establish any one point with absolute certainty.
Skin diseases are both caused and cured in a variety of ways.
Inflammation may be produced by a variety of blood-poisons, in each of which instances it partakes of a special character.
But considerable care is required in the internal employment of the drug, on account not only of its dangerous properties, but of the great variety in strength which exists among the preparations that are usually employed.
These matters comprehend a variety of salts,--and a number of nitrogenous substances, of which the best-known are urea and uric acid.
The definition of this order does not admit of so great a variety in action as must be allowed to Narcotics.
The accidents of my life have often afforded me this advantage, but never with more fulness and variety than during my continuance in office.
From the plantation we were taken to the roasting-house, where the tea lay upon the floor in great heaps, like heaps of grain; and where it is subjected to a variety of processes, to prepare it for use or for exportation.
The country produces a great variety of tropical fruits; it yields spices and gums; while the natives make use for many purposes of the bamboo and the palm.
He has also, to give sufficient variety to his occupation, to look after an asylum for the blind, and another for lepers.
All that varietyof nature, with which in other lands she beguiles the weary heart of man, is wanting here.
The effect of such a variety of colors was as if parterres of flowers were laid out on the smooth shaven lawn.
Nor is this level surface relieved by any varietyof color.
The succession of hill and valley gave to the country a variety and beauty which, with the high state of cultivation, reminded us of Java.
After a variety of campaigns he was wounded in the battle of Quebec, in 1759, and came home in the same ship that brought General Wolf's body to England.
Never was so great a variety of character, and so great a diversity of motives displayed in any cause, as in the various attempts which were made to secure the restoration of the Stuarts.
After tea, when Minnie and her father were in the library, they heard Poll singing a variety of tunes in her merriest tones.
It is certainly more probable that these mimes were originally part of the amusements of certain festivals, as was the case with the Spartan deicelictae, which they resembled more than any other variety of the drama.
Phlius also, where the satirical drama probably first became a separate variety of the ancient tragedy, was situate in that part: whence being introduced into Athens, it was brought into a regular dramatical shape.
Still this variety of the drama differed so much, not only from that of Sicily, but from any other which existed in Greece, that its origin must, after all our attempts at explanation, remain involved in great obscurity.
That the Eleans were acquainted with this variety has been shown above.
Its form was, on the whole, originally a Doric variety of the epic hexameter; which was the rhythm of the ancient nomes composed by the minstrels Philammon, Olen, and Chrysothemis.
Ten months have I now had daily opportunities to observe this altered man in a great variety of circumstances, and some of them, it must be confessed, sufficiently trying.
This little incident lent a pleasant variety to the winding up of a long tiring day; and full of triumph in the success of our hunt, we trotted towards the camping-place our companions had chosen.
A slight breeze swept over the long green grass, which was studded here and there with clumps of califate bushes, and an enlivening colour variety was given to the verdant carpet by occasional tracts of white and yellow flowers.
The great variety of soil and situation renders the Isle of Wight a place of interest to the botanist.
It would hardly be possible to find anywhere an area so small as this little Island with such a variety of geological formations.
But, secondly, it is said that protection increases the number of industries, thereby diversifying labor and making a variety in the occupations of a people who otherwise might be confined to a single branch of employment.
On a holiday course, where there are many visitors, one sees a greater variety of clubs and golfing implements than anywhere else, and numerous novelties of a more or less attractive character.
And yet it is seldom through discontent that we thus anticipate the changing of the seasons, but rather that we, as golfers, do so highly appreciate the glorious variety which is afforded to us by the system of Nature.
And the golfer has seen more of the year, of the real year of Nature so complex and so complete in itsvariety and balance, than the other men who live in towns.
How much would our pleasure in the game be reduced if this variety were not available, and we were compelled to play exclusively upon the courses of clubs of which we were full members!
And then, as it was felt that the tourist must not tarry longer in such a place, he was hurried on to some other, where there were piers and bands, and a variety of historic remains for contemplation and study in serious moments.
And how much thinner and poorer would be the days of our golfing life did they not contain such constant change and yield to us such a variety of emotion!
The members of a club that extends these privileges to strangers obtain those of a like kind from other clubs, and thus to the individual player there is opened up the entire variety of all the golf in the country.
