The older pedagogic method of learning things by rote, and reciting them parrot-like in the schoolroom, rested on the truth that a thing merely read or heard, and never verbally reproduced, contracts the weakest possible adhesion in the mind.
Novel things to look at or novel sounds to hear, especially when they involve the spectacle of action of a violent sort, will always divert the attention from abstract conceptions of objects verbally taken in.
However, whether true or not, the observation was circulated about, verbally and in writing, and Bonaparte knew it.
It seemed as if, conscious of her inability to hold her own verbally with her employer, she had fallen back upon the one alternative, disappearance.
He seemed to find a great deal of comfort in verbally longing for the day when he could get back to Simpson's in the Strand for a bit of "roast that is a roast.
Upon my presenting this note to Whitesides and stating verbally its contents, he declined receiving it, saying he had business in St. Louis, and it was as near as Louisiana.
He also verbally assured me that he had constantly prayed in church for the President and government, as he had always done before the present war.
I send by Mr. Hay this letter and a blank-book and some other blanks, the way of using which I propose for him to explain verbally better than I can in writing.
Thus the consummation of the original antislavery purposes was verbally reached; but even that achievement was attended with disunion, bloodshed, and war.
Disunion, bloodshed, and war, the consummation verbally of the original antislavery purposes attended with, 188.
All a priori considerations cast the responsibility on the censorship of thought, whether printed or expressed verbally in what were known as "propositions," and the burden of proof is thrown upon those who deny it.
As such his sentence was read with open doors, he appeared in a sanbenito de dos aspas, was reconciled, verbally degraded and recluded irremissibly for life in a convent where, for two years he was shut up in a cell, under instruction.
He was verbally degraded, deprived perpetually of confessing and condemned to ten years of reclusion, lifelong exile from Burgos and a circular discipline in his convent.
This position isverbally correct from the Socialist standpoint, and it shows the power of the revolutionary idea in France, when even Jaurès is forced to respect it.
When one sees it verbally advocated (and in practice shirked) by men who have never hit anything in their lives, and who are even afraid of a scene with a waiter in a restaurant, one is not inclined to believe in the reality of the creed.
Fitz-Roy answers me verbally at seven in the evening, when the night commences, that the families are free, but that M.
We have signified verbally our resolution to resist, to prevent serious disorder and interruption in navigation of the Canal.
Several letters passed between the Admiral and Mr. Foster on the same subject; at length Rear-admiral Krusenstjerna was deputed to communicate verbally what could not be committed to paper.
A woman is never to be addressed by her husband's title, either verbally or in writing.
The request is preferredverbally or by personal notes.
It sometimes happens that a mere change in the mode of verbally enunciating a question, though nothing is really added to the meaning expressed, is of itself a considerable step toward its solution.
In the second great Fallacy of Confusion they are neither verbally nor really sufficient, though, from their multiplicity and confused arrangement, and still oftener from defect of memory, they are not seen to be what they are.
We have now sufficiently exemplified one of the principal Genera in this Order of Fallacies; where, the source of error being the ambiguity of terms, the premises are verbally what is required to support the conclusion, but not really so.
It will always be found advisable to teach the alphabet to children long before they begin to read; and while they are being verbally exercised on the "Groupings from Scripture," and other books of a similar kind.
We refer to that acquirement, by which persons are enabled, without distraction of mind, internally to prepare and arrange their ideas, at the moment they are verbally communicating them to others.
By the judgment of the church based upon a verbally inspired and infallible Bible.
If the Vulgate version was not verbally inspired, it was impossible to apply to it the theory of 'manifold senses.
Slade had agreedverbally in New York that the last séance of the series should be in the presence of all the Commission, he flatly refused, when in Philadelphia, to hold any in the presence of more than three at a time.
Mr. Sellers verbally made the following addition to his minutes: The response to the question propounded by Professor Thompson was attended with more than ordinary delay.
The production, simultaneously, without concert, of conceptions of the material world which verballyat least have much in common, is a curious coincidence.
This studied reticence of a verbally paradoxical conception of Matter, in reasonings about vision which are fully intelligible only under that conception, is one cause of a want of philosophical lucidity in the Essay.
Given verbally to the platoon and mounted orderlies, at 9:30 P.
I will now state briefly a few phenomena that I noticed at the time of the eclipse, most of which I think were communicated to you verbally before.
The time both of the beginning and end of totality, for reasons verbally stated to you, I failed to note.
Greek translation of the Septuagint, always agree verbally with the Hebrew?
But then comes a new case, not contemplated or not verbally provided for in the previous rule.
Verbally this was perjury: was it such in reality and to the conscience?
And only when the good is an habitual practice, can men be said to be living a moral life instead of merely subscribing verbally to a set of moral ideals.
An ethical theory that is only verbally concerned with the good, but does not in practice promote human welfare, is futile pedantry or worse.
Legal codes remain not infrequently a generation behind public opinion, and many ideas are verbally professed that nobody takes quite seriously.
We can give the accompanying circumstances by additional adjectives, which are again freely movable verbally and intellectually.
The two passages are to a large extent verbally identical, but while Deut.
French Waldensians sent two delegates, George Morel and Peter Masson, who conferredverbally and in writing with Œcolampadius at Basel, and with Bucer and Capito at Strassburg.
This information was given meverbally by Miss Mary George of Sennen Cove.
In British the epithet hen meant old or ancient, so that the cross of Hen drie is verbally the cross of old or ancient Drew, Droia, or Troy.
He had crossed the dividing line, and the values of life, though ostensibly and verbally the same, were dynamically different.
