At least, if they possessed superior attainments in the Southern portions of this Continent, where they certainly dwelt, these were lost amid the more stern vicissitudes and frigid climate of the North.
Do the ice-bound and impoverished natives of the Arctic circle draw inspiration in their cruel vicissitudes from a similar intellectual source?
That the vicissitudes of this life are dependent not on the favour or hostility of demons, but on the will of the true God.
When the child has acquired sufficient strength to take active exercise, he can scarcely be too much in the open air; the more he is habituated to this, the more capable will he be of bearing the vicissitudes of the climate.
These depend for their chief interest on the vicissitudes of family quarrels almost as completely as the Sagas.
The vicissitudes of an old arm-chair have given this popular author scope for her fancy, and the story is full of interest.
It was, indeed, a strange thing that, in so short a space of time, and after so many vicissitudes and dangers, these two should be brought together again.
The vicissitudes of a young German officer, who plays a prominent part in the fighting around Zurich, are described.
After many vicissitudes she at length seemed to have achieved a victory, when she brought about the marriage of Charles II to an Austrian princess in 1689, the same year in which the king's former wife, a French princess, had died.
The political vicissitudes of Moslem Spain could not fail to have an unfavorable effect on industry and commerce.
History was the most important form of prose literature, and the principal work was that of Jaime I himself, a chronicle of the vicissitudes of his reign.
The external vicissitudes of the strife between the nobles and the kings have already been traced, and it would appear from them that the former gained the upper hand.
The vicissitudes of the fortune, influence, and popularity of Robespierre effected no change in his simple mode of living.
Her son, the present President of France, has reared to her memory a tasteful monument of various colored marble, emblematic, as it were, of the vicissitudes of her eventful life.
The incidents of a long voyage, thevicissitudes through which I have passed, have given strength to my frame, while the opportunities and occasions for wisdom which these have afforded me have made my mind whole.
And yet, if the unveiling of my follies should have this effect, I think I should despise thee for stupidity and hate thee for ingratitude; for whence proceed my irresolution, my vicissitudes of purpose, but from my love?
They suffer less from vicissitudesof temperature and climate.
Its results, however, proved of the highest interest, although the vicissitudes of life barred the completion, in its full integrity, of the original design.
Most thinkers on this difficult subject provide a quasi-explanation of the periodicity in question through certain assumed vicissitudes affecting internal processes;[500] Sir Norman Lockyer and E.
Its past history came then, to a certain extent, within the scope of investigation, and proved to have been singularly eventful; nor had the body escaped scatheless from the vicissitudes to which it had been exposed.
The most curious fact, however, elicited by these inquiries was that of the attendance of chemicalvicissitudes upon the advance of the sun-spot period.
If it was defective in any thing, it had the fault, in common with its commander, of a want of sufficient solidity to resist the vicissitudes and dangers of the turbulent element on which it was destined to act.
Twelve discreet men, who have bowels of compassion for the vicissitudes of trade, and who know how hard it is to earn, and how easy it is to spend, will deal with the subject better than all the idle talkers in the Provinces.
The animal is more subject to vicissitudes than the plant, which makes no effort to escape them or to give chase to what it feeds upon.
Charles Deane, appended notes on the vicissitudes of the opinions upon the genuineness of the letters; and these data were added to by Henry Stevens in a long note in his Bibliotheca Historica, no.
Nouvelle France (Paris, 1872), gives an account of the vicissitudes which they have undergone.
This contribution embraces a large portion of the early history of the province, and recounts the vicissitudes and the mistakes encountered during the epoch of colonization.
With one impulse we kneeled down and returned thanks to Him Who had preserved us through all the strange vicissitudes of the last few days.
The third patriarch, Jacob, after many vicissitudes and wanderings, had purchased a plot of land near Shechem, and had taken that important city "with his sword and with his bow.
Historical vicissitudes and natural surroundings conspired to sharpen its faculties for everything extraordinary and marvellous within the sphere of existing things.
The constitution had been tested through the vicissitudes of eight years, and had stood, and continued to stand, as a monument of the political wisdom of its framers.
From this despondency, they were temporarily raised, by one of those unlooked-for events that ever accompany the vicissitudes of battle.
And the two gave not over conversing till the bird said, "Never shall I cease fearing the shifts of time and vicissitudes of events.
Day after day, as we watch the different vicissitudes of life, we are reminded of the frailty of human hopes and aspirations.
His early boyhood experienced the various hardships and vicissitudesincident to pioneer life.
During his early time in the New World he shared the vicissitudes of circumstances, ever converting his leisure to useful acquirements.
The vessel which carried Menelaus and Helen was driven by violent tempests to the coast of Egypt, and only after many years of weary wanderings and vicissitudes did they succeed in reaching their home at Sparta.
You rightly divine that I am a little overdone, but my fatigue is due not to any excess of work so much as to the vicissitudes of our long winter, which have affected me severely as they have done all delicate people.
We are excited, even among the still woods and fields, by the vicissitudes of the war, and chiefly concerned because we cannot succeed in getting the day's Times.
I declare, before the Searcher of all hearts, that I consider your happiness and welfare as inseparable from my own, and that no vicissitudes of fortune, however prosperous or calamitous they may be, will ever tear you from my heart.
Against most of the vicissitudes of a trial he guarded by his forethought and minuteness of preparation.
Gaston was, of course, besieged with inquiries concerning the vicissitudeswhich had befallen him.
They perforce were partitioned among all the children; and through the vicissitudes of subsequent years, passed bit by bit into many hands.
The hazards of the sea, the fluctuations and vicissitudes of trade, the severe competition of the times, exposed their traffic to many mutations.
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