He was already virtually in that position, but was not publicly or officially recognised as being so.
Virtually everybody, including the coloured gentry, had something to say on the subject, and most of them said it without reservations.
It will happen continually, that rightly to distinguish between two words will throw a flood of light upon some controversy in which they play a principal part, nay, may virtually put an end to that controversy altogether.
The Platte alone makes such a road practicable, and South Park and all its dependencies would be virtually inaccessible, were it not for this great natural highway into the very heart of the Mountains.
All the next day and evening, summer though it was and the levee and sugar sheds and cotton-yards virtually empty, I was kept by unexpected business and could not go near St. Peter Street.
With the capture of Erzingan the Russians not only removed the strongest obstacle on the road to Sivas, Angora, and Constantinople, but also virtually completed their occupation of Turkish Armenia.
The spinning bullet is virtually a gyroscope and maintains its axis in the line of flight.
This is virtually a hydraulic press with a plunger that bears down on the fluid metal as it is solidifying.
This is virtually what is done in the caisson; but when excavating a horizontal bore, the caisson must be turned on its side.
This consists virtually in ironing the paper between smooth rolls of iron on one side and compressed paper or cotton on the other.
The compass needle isvirtually insulated from the terrestrial magnetism by the surrounding steel hull.
I was not disposed for slumber; but this was virtually a command, and without hesitation I went into the sitting-room.
Our mission was thus virtually accomplished, and we composed ourselves for slumber with the satisfaction of knowing that the duty due the association was the same as performed.
The two virtually forgot to notice the level, sandy road and tame scenery, the clouded sun, the troublesome flies.
So they helped each other to strap on their knapsacks, and virtually began their pedestrian tour.
Now for nearly a month he has avoided her, and she thinks that--well, she gave me a message for him the night we started, which virtually begged his forgiveness for something she had said or done to wound him.
My indignant and impetuous reply had virtually betrayed the situation.
To read the Law as a continuation of the older instrument is virtually to efface the latter, to "make the promise of none effect.
Freedom from sin, freedom from the Jewish law--these two liberties were virtually one.
And if he has of set purpose ignored, nay, virtually denied this all-important fact, what becomes of his sincerity?
Amongst them they have virtually made the New Testament and the Christian Church.
A large proportion of these are concerned with the rights of the priesthood; others with complicated and secondary points of doctrine; some are directed virtually against the teaching of Paul himself.
The withdrawal of Peter and the other Jews at Antioch from the table of the Gentiles virtually "compelled" the latter "to Judaize.
Limiting the domain of faith, Peter virtually denied the sovereignty of grace.
By "separating himself" he virtually said to every uncircumcised brother, "Stand by thyself, I am holier than thou.
Apostle's mind, and is virtuallygiven by the context.
The Apostle isvirtually repeating here what he said in vv.
Above all, it was the cross which Cephas had dishonoured, whose efficacy he had virtually denied.
The surrender of the Confiance virtually terminated the contest, which had lasted two hours and a quarter; and as flag after flag struck the galleys took to their sweeps and escaped.
But he met with no opposition; the battle of Tohopeka had completely prostrated the tribe, and the war was virtually at an end.
The simple truth is, we got what we fought for, and it exhibits a narrow spirit to say, that because it was not engrossed on parchment it amounted virtually to nothing.
He did all this and managed to remain virtually invisible.
Virtually every editor and publisher had a Soth in his own home.
We know that the articles which form the staple commodities of a community in the age of barter virtually form its money.
Another factor in the uniformity of Australian art arises from the fact that all the Australians are virtually on the same level of evolution.
It can not therefore be denied that, in all criminal cases, the jury do virtually possess the power of deciding questions of law as well as of fact.
If I am told that they are virtually represented, I reply, with James Otis, that "no such phrase as virtual representation is known in law or Constitution.
The law is virtually the one that, to-day, on our statute book testifies to the honest sense of justice that their conflict with tyranny nurtured in our men in the early days of Kansas.
If you say women are "virtually represented" by the men of their household, I give you Senator Sumner's denial, in his great speech on Equal Rights in the First Session of the 39th Congress.
It was virtually unknown sixty or seventy years ago, and even so late as thirty years back was still unusual in our villages.
For by laminating the iron you have virtually increased the self-inductive action, and increased the time constant of the circuit, so that the currents rise more slowly than before.
Other companies have simply reduced the amount of the commission rate, thus virtuallywithdrawing from active competition.
But on the other hand, if the full franchises of the ruling class be conceded to the moneyless citizens, they seize the balance of power, and virtually hold the reins over the rights, property, and lives of the moneyed classes.
But this virtually returns to the same; because he teaches that man is by nature absolutely independent, so that he must be himself the supreme, original judge, what this law of nature is.
Here, therefore, we have an unconfined expression of the sentiments of the Assemblies; and they showed their fixed opposition to the trade by imposing what was virtually a prohibitory duty.
Tuttle,[72] gave its countenance to the doctrine, that the bill of rights virtuallymade slavery illegal.
In defending her, I have virtually defended the whole South, of which she was the type; for the differences between her slave institutions and theirs were in no respect essential.
We can hardly keep him on his sofa; he is virtually almost well, so well that he is quite up to seeing people.
Byng is, for him, out of spirits, and finding that Cecilia has virtually abandoned her suit, is glad to lapse into his own reflections.
The governess was by way of always being there, but she was a sentimental creature, generally straying away by herself with a poetry-book, and we were virtually alone.
It was certainly not an encouraging outlook, and the leaders, after full consultation, virtually declared the anti-masonic party dissolved.
It virtually said, "If you elect a Congress that will ratify the treaty and pay the price, I will not stand in your way.
The latter had not been worsted in the arbitrament of arms, yet the Emperor's character for resolution and energy had virtually defeated the Russians, and had given him not only a technical but a real victory.
The wooden bridge was set in flames, and before nightfall that portion of the Russian army which had not yet crossed was virtually annihilated.
The republicans and royalists were so diminished in numbers, and so silenced by the censorship, that they were virtually impotent.
Their columns were filled with laudations of the Emperor; their political articles were virtually composed in the Foreign Office; and there was not a symptom of anything like the existence of party feeling.
Before the close of negotiations with Francis, Napoleon had virtuallydoubled his army; the new levies were kept in Silesia and central Prussia, apparently as a reserve, but they were not far from the Austrian frontier.
Virtually the entire continental situation was considered as open, and Fouché's pet scheme of an American kingdom for Louis XVIII was further amplified by the suggestion of an Anglo-French expedition to establish it.
But when the King turned to Austria, and marching with his cavalry to Ratisbon virtually put his army at Metternich's disposal, the Saxons in general supported him.
When Austria's offer was thus refused the French position was virtually secure as against her, at least for the season.
He firmly believed that nothing short of a coalition between Austria, Russia, and Prussia could annihilate France, and Austria had virtually refused to enter such a combination.
Though somewhat changed in name and character, it exists to-day virtually as it came from the maker's hand.
In the Republics of France and the United States the electors are virtually endowed with male adult suffrage, and Labour representation is facilitated by State payment of members and of their election expenses.
So long as the English people are content to be tenants-at-will on their own soil, and to pay for the privilege, they will remain virtually slaves.
The Social-Democratic Federation is virtually the oldest Socialist society and is certainly the most conservative.
What with the high rate of insurance, what with these captures, and what with the rapid transfer of tonnage to British capitalists, you have virtually made valueless that vast property.
With that clearness of vision which he possessed in such rare degree, this statesman saw that England had “virtually made valueless a vast property,” as much as if this power had “bombarded all the accessible seaport towns of America.
But while in this, or in any other way, we approach God in the spirit of dictation, rather than of faith and submission, we virtually renounce the blessing even whilst we solicit it.
To pronounce the name of God holy, is then virtually to attribute to the Supreme Being a grandeur and a majesty perfectly unique, and which distinguishes him from all other beings in the universe.
