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The organization of the American people, which he knew well no man better, and which he so justly characterizes, he supposes to have been deliberately formed by the people themselves, through the convention not given them by Providence as their original and inherent constitution.
The difference between the Gorilla and the Baboon is even greater than it appears at first sight; for the great facial mass of the former is largely due to a downward development of the jaws; an essentially human character, superadded upon that almost purely forward, essentially brutal, development of the same parts which characterizes the Baboon, and yet more remarkably distinguishes the Lemur.
I had known vaguely that this estimable lady was beating her way about Europe, guide-booked and grimly set upon self-improvement, but I had hoped to keep the area of two or three monarchies between us. I knew that from one to the other of the Cook's Agencies she would be flitting with the same frantic energy that characterizes the industry of the ant.
"In order to determine what characterizes a blockade, that denomination is given only to a port, where there is, by the disposition of the Power which blockades it with ships stationary, an evident danger in entering."
If this is not admitted, then it must be held that, until after there arose these abstract nouns, there were no current statements at all respecting these most conspicuous objects and changes which the heavens and the earth present; and that the abstract nouns having been somehow formed, and rightly formed, and used without personal meanings, afterward became personalized a process the reverse of that which characterizes early linguistic progress.
Who can peruse the annals of the emperors without being shocked at the manner in which men died, meeting their fate with the obtuse tranquillity that characterizes beasts? A centurion with a private mandate appears, and forthwith the victim opens his veins and dies in a warm bath. At the best, all that was done was to strike at the tyrant.
Pouring on in small numbers at a time, they fell fast round the progress of the Greeks their armour slight against the strong pikes of Sparta their courage without skill their numbers without discipline; still they fought gallantly, even when on the ground seizing the pikes with their naked hands, and with the wonderful agility which still characterizes the oriental swordsman, springing to their feet and regaining their arms when seemingly overcome wresting away their enemies' shields, and grappling with them desperately hand to hand.
The spirit of the family was haughty, bold, and cruel; it had that particular kind of proud and sullen wickedness which characterizes Jewish politicians. Therefore, upon this Hanan and his family must rest the responsibility of all the acts which followed.
It came in "clouds, and storm, and darkness," with darting lightning and crashing thunder, and all the wild fierceness which ever characterizes a thunder-storm in that climate. Arthur had been nervous and ill at ease all day; a fact which all noticed, but which was attributed to anxiety on Guly's account, who, contrary to expectation, was still unable to be about.
It is much showier than the Wild Cucumber, but its foliage lacks the delicacy which characterizes that plant. Another good vine for covering porches, verandas, and summer-houses, is the Japan Hop. This plant it is an annual, like the other two of which mention has been made has foliage of a rich, dark green, broadly and irregularly blotched and marbled with creamy white and pale yellow.
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