Details Sentence Examples

details
  • Len is going to take care of the details for me.

    95
    43
  • It won't be long now; just a few more details to check.

    55
    31
  • We'll get down to the details.

    17
    7
  • Howie doesn't remember any details of his prior life; family; studying for the priest hood, college... a blank slate and he can't find the chalk.

    18
    8
  • I'll take care of those details.

    8
    1
  • Silly David Dean for thinking more time might be needed to put all these pesky details to rest.

    9
    3
  • The paper didn't give a whole lot of details but the boys got in trouble and Edith saved the youngest one, Donnie.

    17
    11
  • So in the present and future, when a technology comes along that represents such a change—that saves details of our activities with which to advise us later, or has us speaking to machines as if they were creatures—it will simply be more of the same.

    13
    7
  • Some of the details she had forgotten, as she grew more and more to generalize.

    11
    5
  • No wonder he thought she didn't want to be burdened with the details.

    5
    0
    Advertisement
  • Wouldn't you want at least basic details?

    5
    0
  • He was simply helping out his sibling and never asked for details.

    5
    0
  • On waking in the morning she told the Rostovs and all her acquaintances the details of Count Bezukhov's death.

    10
    5
  • Dean hadn't even managed a last name for bitch-Jennifer, much less the details of Dawkins v. Dawkins.

    7
    3
  • He moved to sit on the trunk at the end of the bed, close enough to see the details of her features without being too tempted to take her in his arms.

    9
    5
    Advertisement
  • Once the details to that "caper," as Fred O'Connor called it, were settled, life and business at Bird Song had proceeded peacefully.

    11
    7
  • Lisa hesitated, not wanting to alarm her friend with the details.

    3
    0
  • My past is such an enigma; I don't know any of the details.

    3
    0
  • I hadn't known how Annie was abducted and chastised myself for not seeking the details.

    3
    0
  • I'd call a tip, relate details to the authorities.

    9
    6
    Advertisement
  • You may stay back with your daughter while I arrange the details.

    3
    0
  • While there was a comment that father Joe Calvia hadn't taken the news well, no details were given, and no calls from a hospital emergency room followed.

    8
    5
  • Details were sketchy to nonexistent.

    8
    5
  • She has an uncanny way of sticking to pertinent details.

    3
    0
  • Give me all the details.

    3
    0
    Advertisement
  • If her companion does not give her enough details, Miss Keller asks questions until she has completed the view to her satisfaction.

    3
    0
  • Betsy was in it but I'll spare the details.

    2
    0
  • In the meantime Betsy interrogated Howie relentlessly about any remembered details.

    2
    0
  • I guess not but please take down all these details.

    2
    0
  • Both of us tried to remember details of Quinn's actions when he set up a session.

    3
    1
  • This was unusual, as Bird Song's matron had pestered him about the details of the emerging flora since he had arrived at the inn the prior week.

    2
    0
  • Martha didn't ask for details, nor did the Deans offer any beyond dire cautionary warnings of childhood dangers.

    4
    2
  • Not that I can tell, but we didn't get into details about her dealings with Darkyn.

    3
    1
  • Dean had a memory of Fred draping a flannel shirt over Franny's bare shoulders, though no recollection of the order of arrival or any real details of what followed.

    5
    4
  • Her eyes filled with wonder, and her artist's mind drank in the details of the scene.

    1
    0
  • Dean usually devoted the solitary time behind the wheel to sorting out details of a case, putting little facts in their slots like letters in a country post office.

    1
    0
  • Between bites he answered Fred's questions, filling in the details of the trip south.

    1
    0
  • No. It was just one of those unanswered details I picked up on and figured I'd ask.

    1
    0
  • Dean filled in to his lieutenant the details of the Norfolk trip, leaving out what he felt wasn't police business—a surprisingly large portion.

    1
    0
  • McCarthy spelled out the details.

    1
    0
  • When the world wasn't expressing sympathy for the old man, they were looking for details on Billie Wassermann, his butt-brand, and all the gory details of the fat twin's execution.

    1
    0
  • I'm not looking for details, I'm just curious.

    1
    0
  • It was...interesting, interesting to see how you guys follow up all the details.

    1
    0
  • Let's go in and iron out the details.

    1
    0
  • Yes. Do you want to know all the details?

    1
    0
  • If Alex wanted her to know the financial details, he would have told her, and it wasn't any of Katie's business.

    1
    0
  • He'd given no more details, a sign something was up.

    1
    0
  • In 1882 Jenkin invented an automatic method of electric transport for goods - "telpherage" - but the completion of its details was prevented by his death on the 12th of June 1885.

    1
    0
  • Details are kept strictly secret.

    1
    0
  • But it is not easy to go beyond this general assertion into details.

    1
    0
  • Only the briefest details are' given.

    1
    0
  • The details of the incident are, however, unfortunately very obscure.

    1
    0
  • The details of his personal history are of the scantiest.

    1
    0
  • When he saw Mack and heard the details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, understood all the difficulties of the Russian army's position, and vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to play.

    6
    5
  • He again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off....

    3
    2
  • And not the face she had known ever since she could remember and had always seen at a distance, but the timid, feeble face she had seen for the first time quite closely, with all its wrinkles and details, when she stooped near to his mouth to catch what he said.

    2
    1
  • Cynthia telephoned her son and apparently made temporary peace, although Dean wasn't privy to the details.

    0
    0
  • He was happy to be out of the dining room where Brandon Westlake and Pumpkin Green, both distraught over Billy Langstrom's death, were pressing Dean for details.

    0
    0
  • He turned a deaf ear when they pressed for details.

    0
    0
  • His first thought was to call Ms. Larkin and demand further details.

    0
    0
  • And no, Jake Weller told them, there were no further details on Fitzgerald's absence.

    0
    0
  • Perhaps if they learned further details from Martha in the morning that would help.

    0
    0
  • The Deans took turns relating the story, careful to include all the pertinent details.

    0
    0
  • Maybe. But I never have been worth a damn over the details.

    0
    0
  • They discussed menus and decorating details for a while.

    0
    0
  • Lana crossed to the screen and touched it, bringing up details of the attacks.

    0
    0
  • I'll spare you the details, but our judge doesn't like hired guns from out of town and he doesn't like being instructed in the law.

    0
    0
  • Dean stopped by the office later in the afternoon to clean up a few details as he wouldn't be back in the office for two days— tomorrow, the safe house, Thursday a day off.

    0
    0
  • Norfolk called but there aren't any details.

    0
    0
  • Dean called the Parkside Police Department and caught hell from Leland for not keeping him posted on the Wasserman autop­sy and current details.

    0
    0
  • He said he was just asking about Dean's return trip but he was fishing for details on why the FBI was so unexpectedly interested in Billie Wassermann.

    0
    0
  • We still have to wait a little while and there are lots of details to iron out, but Ms. Rosewater says it looks positive.

    0
    0
  • That's only one of the details I've got to work on while I'm beating my body into shape over the next two weeks.

    0
    0
  • The newscast gave no details of the shooting and a call to the hospital netted nothing but a tired sounding know-nothing switchboard operator.

    0
    0
  • The first two weeks of June were a never-ending list of chores and activities jammed full with last minute preparations, one workplace crisis following another, and an annoying series of details that demanded Dean's attention.

    0
    0
  • Them's the only details the ad in the Kansas paper gave us.

    0
    0
  • Dean let him talk it out, half listening, half trying to make sense of all the details.

    0
    0
  • I'm a bit fuzzy on some of the details but I'm sure Jeffrey Byrne is dead and you played his part so well, even Jonathan Winston never considered he was chasing someone else.

    0
    0
  • I never wanted to listen to the details of Jeff's death.

    0
    0
  • It never occurred to me that you would want to be burdened with the details.

    0
    0
  • Still, it wasn't like Josh to forget such important details.

    0
    0
  • They exchanged news and details on the climate differences and finally, when they were talked out, they said their good byes.

    0
    0
  • The two differ in certain details of dentition, and in the greater development in the former of the parachute, especially the interfemoral portion, which in the latter is almost absent.

    0
    0
  • Here he sometimes attains, even in details, to divinations of the truth afterwards confirmed by new documents and later research.

    0
    0
  • But during the whole of this active life, many details of which are very interesting as illustrative of the life and manners of the time, he never lost sight of a design which he had formed at a very early period, of writing the history of those civil wars in France in which he had borne a part, and during which he had had so many opportunities of closely observing the leading personages and events.

    0
    0
  • Observations have usually been limited to a portion of the year, or to a few hours of the day, whilst the results from different stations differ much in details.

    0
    0
  • For the internal structural details of the micrometer the reader is referred to the article " Micrometer " in the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

    0
    0
  • The doubt as to the details is natural; it 4 Disc. de methode, part.

    0
    0
  • The duma, or council, still attended to all the details of the administration; the old boyars still retained their ancient offices and dignities.

    0
    0
  • Plutarch (Pericles) gives many interesting details as to Pericles' personal bearing, home life, and patronage of art, literature and philosophy, derived in part from the old comic poets, Aristophanes, Cratinus, Eupolis, Hermippus, Plato and Teleclides; in part from the contemporary memoirs of Stesimbrotus and Ion of Chios.

    0
    0
  • The event showed that he judged the situation rightly - the religious scheme announced by him, though not accepted in all its details, became the dominant policy of the later time, and he has been justly called ' The stricter marriage law is formulated in Lev.

    0
    0
  • No kind of information is excluded, but the fullest details refer to the bishopric of Merseburg and to the wars against the Wends and the Poles.

    0
    0
  • In 1904, under the old system of three-years service with numerous total and partial exemptions, 324,253 men became liable to incorporation, of whom 25,432 were rejected as unfit, 55,265 were admitted as one-year volunteers, 62,160 were put back, 27,825 had already enlisted with a view to making the army a career, 5257 were taken for the navy, and thus, with a few extra details and casualties, the contingent for full service dwindled to 147,549 recruits.

    0
    0
  • In each of the governments general there is a financial controller with extensive powers who corresponds directly with the metropolitan authorities (decree of March 22, 1907)., Details and local differences hi form of government will be found under the headings of the various colonies and protectorates.

    0
    0
  • The story of William's relations with King John is interesting, although the details are somewhat obscure.

    0
    0
  • In 1901 Professor Furtwangler began a more systematic excavation of the site, and the new discoveries he then made, together with a fresh and complete study of the figures and fragments in Munich, have led to a rearrangement of the whole, which, if not certain in all details, may be regarded as approaching finality.

    0
    0
  • Various adjustments and modifications still continue, and a number of scattered details may indicate that internal rivalries made themselves felt.

    0
    0
  • However intelligible may be the notion of a tribe reserved for priestly service, the fact that it does not apply to early biblical history is apparent from the heterogeneous details of the Levitical divisions.

    0
    0
  • Lenard and Helmholtz, contain many biographical details, together with statements of the scope and significance of his investigations.

    0
    0
  • Passing now to typical examples, the beginning must be made with Babylonia, which is also the richest source of our knowledge of the details of the rite.

    0
    0
  • Lastly, to pass over unnecessary details, the markings of various kinds to be observed on the lobes of the livers of freshly-slaughtered animals, which are due mainly to the traces left by the subsidiary hepatic ducts and hepatic veins on the liver surface, were described as "holes," "paths," "clubs" and the like.

    0
    0
  • For further details the reader is referred to Thulin's monograph, Die Etruskische Disciplin, II Die Haruspicin (Gothenburg, 1906) .

    0
    0
  • These details are taken from The Bonin Islands by Russell Robertson, formerly H.B.M.

    0
    0
  • Its period is mainly Transitional Norman and Early English, and though considerably altered by restoration it contains some good details, with many monuments and brasses.

    0
    0
  • But he does not follow his idea into the details of human duty, though he passes in review fatalism, mysticism, pantheism, scepticism, egotism, sentimentalism and rationalism.

    0
    0
  • Even with this limitation the subject is too vast for us to enter into details.

    0
    0
  • Much attention has been paid to the improvement of the mechanical details of the lifting and other motions of cranes, and in important installations the gearing is now usually made of cast steel.

    0
    0
  • Recorders vary in details of construction, but all have the same object, namely, to record the intervals during which the current is applied to the line.

    0
    0
  • But the main issue of the struggle was not in these details of ecclesiastical government; principles had been at stake far deeper and more widely reaching.

    0
    0
  • We cannot linger over the details of this plan.

    0
    0
  • As regards the Brahman, he would doubtless be chosen from one of those other three classes, but would be expected to have made himself thoroughly conversant with the texts and ritual details appertaining to all the officiating priests.

    0
    0
  • It is, however, to the Brahmanas and Sutras of the Yajurveda, dealing with the ritual of the real offering-priest, the Adhvaryu, that we have to turn for a connected view of the sacrificial procedure in all its material details.

    0
    0
  • The chief interest, however, attaching to the Brahmanas is doubtless their detailed description of the sacrificial system as practised in the later Vedic ages; and the information afforded by them in this respect should be all the more welcome to us, as the history of religious institutions knows of no other sacrificial ceremonial with the details of which we are acquainted to anything like the same extent.

    0
    0
  • Driesch [13], to whose memoirs the reader must be referred for further details.

    0
    0
  • The non-sexua 1 reproduction takes the form of fission, budding or sporogony, the details of which are described below.

    0
    0
  • The details of the case will be found in Wilkins, Concilia, in Mansi, Concilia, under the various councils named, and in Haddan & Stubbs, Councils and Eccl.

    0
    0
  • The educational course adopted in different countries varies as to the details of the subjects taught.

    0
    0
  • The confessions of sin which he introduced descend to minute ritual details and rise to the most exalted aspects of social and spiritual life.

    0
    0
  • The full details of the siege and massacre will be found under Indian Mutiny, and here it will suffice to refer to the local memorials of that evil time.

    0
    0
  • This type of structure, which is extremely various in its details, is found especially, as we should expect, in plants which have to economize their water supply.

    0
    0
  • First, the knowledge of the details Modero of histology has of course advanced greatly in the Progress 01 direction.

    0
    0
  • The interest with which we regard the latter no longer turns upon the details of the structuie of its trunk, limbs and roots, to which the living substance of the more superficial parts was subordinated.

    0
    0
  • The details of the further transformations have not yet been completely followed.

    0
    0
  • Some very curious details are observable in these cases of malformation, For instance, the Aecidium eta/mum first referred to causes the new shoots to differ in direction, duration and arrangement, and even shape of foliage leaves from the normal; and the shoots of Euphorbia infected with the aecidia of Uromyces Pisi depart so much from the normal in appearance that the attacked plants have been taken for a different species.

    0
    0
  • We know very little of the details of reduction in the lower plants, but it probably occurs at some stage in the life history of all plants in which sexual nuclear fusion takes place.

    0
    0
  • The researches of the last twenty years have shown that the structure of the nucleus and the phenomena of nuclear division in these lower forms conforms in all essential details to those in the higher plants.

    0
    0
  • That chapter of comparative anatomy (together with other anatomical details, for which see the separate articles) is now dealt with in the article Skull; here only the most avine features are alluded to, and since some of Parker's original illustrations have been retained, the description has been shortened considerably.

    0
    0
  • Indeed some teachers even went so far as to ascribe a higher value to it, since it comes into closer relation with the details of everyday life.

    0
    0
  • The most noteworthy architectural details are the Chapel of the Trinity (15th century) and that of Christian IV.

    0
    0
  • In this mode of treating the question the order of the terms is numerical, and though the amount of labour is such as might well have deterred a younger man, yet the details were easy, and a great part of it might be entrusted to a mere computer.

    0
    0
  • The architect was Mnesicles; the material Pentelic marble, with Eleusinian blackstone for dados and other details.

    0
    0
  • The preface to this edition collects all the biographical details and gives full bibliographical references to MSS.

    0
    0
  • Considerable diversity is to be noticed in details of structure within this group, and for an enumeration of all the various families which have been proposed and their distinguishing characters the reader is referred to one of the monographs mentioned below.

    0
    0
  • Other genera of the family are parasitic on Hemiptera - bugs and frog-hoppers - but nothing is known as to the details of their life-history.

    0
    0
  • The official divisions of the empire are given here, and details are given in separate articles.

    0
    0
  • Useful compulsory laws regarding the details of train management are difficult to frame and hard to carry out; but the Board has exercised a persistent persuasiveness and has secured most of its objects.

    0
    0
  • The Master Car Builders' Association, a great body of mechanical officers organized especially to being about improvement and uniformity in details of construction and operation, expressed its sense of the importance of " self-coupling " so far back as 1874, but no device of the kind that could be considered useful had then been invented.

    0
    0
  • From that time the numerous patents have had reference merely to details.

    0
    0
  • By the year 1878 there were four parallel lines in the city of New York, and constructions of the same character had already been projected in Brooklyn and Chicago and, with certain modifications of details, in Berlin.

    0
    0
  • In the details of construction the shield was the novelty.

    0
    0
  • The Pawnees, however, had an elaborate ritual, in which a human victim was sacrificed to the Morning Star; the blood of the victims was sprinkled on the fields, and the details of the rite are not unlike those of the Khond custom.

    0
    0
  • It is impossible to enter here into the numerous details of that impressive ceremonial.

    0
    0
  • To the first part unstinted praise must be accorded; it may be said that, with the materials at the author's disposition, it hardly admitted of improvement, except in trifling details.

    0
    0
  • A rare work on the earlier church (Buonamici, La Metropolitana di Ravenna) gives details of its construction.

    0
    0
  • Rivoira, in the book cited below, shows that many of the characteristic architectural details can be traced back to a classical and in particular a Roman origin, and were not derived from the East, e.g.

    0
    0
  • The book remained essentially the same, albeit great liberties were taken with its details and outward form.

    0
    0
  • Generally it may be said that throughout his long reign Francis Joseph remained the real ruler of his dominions; he not only kept in his hands the appointment and dismissal of his ministers, but himself directed their policy, and owing to the great knowledge of affairs, the unremitting diligence and clearness of apprehension, to which all who transacted business with him have borne testimony, lie was able to keep a very real control even of the details of government.

    0
    0
  • It is at least necessary to distinguish provisionally between a possibly historical framework and narratives which may be of later growth - between the general outlines which only external evidence can test and details which cannot be tested and appear isolated without any cause or devoid of any effect.

    0
    0
  • The scanty details of these important events must naturally be contrasted with the comparatively full accounts of earlier Philistine wars and internal conflicts in narratives which date from this or even a later age.

    0
    0
  • In the present instance the novel details cannot be lightly brushed aside.

    0
    0
  • Only a few words are preserved, but the details, when carefully weighed, are extremely significant.

    0
    0
  • Much is related of his wickedness and enmity to the followers of Yahweh, but few political details have come down.

    0
    0
  • But the details and success of the reforms, when viewed in the light of the testimony of contemporary prophets, are uncertain.

    0
    0
  • The Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis (§ 4) does not pretend to be complete in all its details and it is independent of its application to the historical criticism of the Old Testament.

    0
    0
  • This Austrian reformation was so typical of other changes elsewhere, and so expressive of the previous disabilities of the Jews, that, even in this rapid summary, space must be spared for some of the details supplied by Graetz.

    0
    0
  • The extraordinary architectural skill, the sanitary and hydraulic science revealed in details of the building, bring us at the same time face to face with the power of mechanical invention with which Daedalus was credited.

    0
    0
  • In June Crichton was once more in Venice, and while there wrote two Latin odes to his friends Lorenzo Massa and Giovanni Donati, but after this date the details of his life are obscure.

    0
    0
  • Overlooking all smaller details, we may consider Asia to consist of a northern mass and a southern mass, too rigid to crumple, but not too strong to fracture, and an intermediate belt of softer rock which was capable of folding.

    0
    0
  • Minute details and traits of character are portrayed with a vividness which bears all the marks of contemporary narrative.

    0
    0
  • Recently the same thing has been recorded in a few species of Pheretima (=Perichaeta), but details are as yet wanting.

    0
    0
  • Thomas was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford; but the details of his university career are doubtful owing to the defectiveness of the university and college registers.

    0
    0
  • The church of St James, situated in the older part of the town, is a cruciform Early English building, retaining, in spite of injudicious restoration, many beautiful details.

    0
    0
  • In this fourth section are inserted, somewhat out of their proper place, some valuable details as to the Gothi Minores, " an immense people dwelling in the region of Nicopolis, with their high priest and primate Vulfilas, who is said also to have taught them letters."

    0
    0
  • The Early English style is on the whole less well exemplified in the county, but Ashbourne church, with its central tower and lofty spire, contains beautiful details of this period, notably the lancet windows in the Cockayne chapel.

    0
    0
  • Similar details for potatoes, roots and hay, brought together in Table VIII., show that the TABLE VIII.-Estimated Annual Total Produce of Potatoes, Roots and Hay in the United Kingdom, 1890-1905-Thousands of Tons.

    0
    0
  • For further information on the routine and details of' farming, reference may be made to the articles under the headings of the various crops and implements.

    0
    0
  • The cattle and sheep entered for this competition are shown alive on the first day, at the close of which they are slaughtered and the carcases hung up for exhibition, with details of live and dead weights.

    0
    0
  • Details for the six years 1900-1905 are summarized in Table XXVI.

    0
    0
  • The details of his final breach with the English king are somewhat obscure.

    0
    0
  • The feud between these two princes originated probably in a dispute over the succession to the throne; its details, however, are obscure, and the only fact which can be ascertained with any certainty is that Duncan was slain by Macbeth in 1040.

    0
    0
  • The other also dates from the Caesarean period; it mentions many interesting details, and concludes with a fine exposition of the Lord's Prayer.

    0
    0
  • Many of the notes and essays written by him at Auxonne bear witness to his indomitable resolve to master all the details of his profession and the chief facts relating to peoples who had struggled successfully to achieve their liberation.

    0
    0
  • On a slighter accusation than this many had perished; but an examination into the details of the mission of Bonaparte to Genoa and the new instructions which arrived from Carnot, availed to procure his release on the 10th of August.

    0
    0
  • The same centralizing tendency is strongly marked in the organization of the university of France, the general principle of which was set forth in May 1806, while the details were arranged by that of March the 17th, 1808.

    0
    0
  • The military events of the years1812-1814are described under Napoleonic Campaigns; and we need therefore note here only a few details personal to Napoleon or some considerations which influenced his policy.

    0
    0
  • He even details the rules to be observed for the lending and care of the books, and he had already taken the preliminary steps for the foundation.

    0
    0
  • It is different in its details in different insects and in different stages of the life of the same insect.

    0
    0
  • This is a most remarkable case, but unfortunately very little information exists as to the details of metamorphosis in this group.

    0
    0
  • For details, the reader may consult the special articles on the various orders and groups of insects.

    0
    0
  • For further classificatory details, reference must be made to the special articles on the various orders.

    0
    0
  • Further details of the geological history of the Hexapoda will be found in the special articles on the various orders.

    0
    0
  • He took many liberties with the details of Linnaeus's work, but left the classification, at least of the birds, as it was - a few new genera excepted.'

    0
    0
  • In the work just mentioned few details are given; but even the more elaborate classification of birds contained in his Lecons d'anatomie comparee of 1805 is based wholly on external characters, such as had been used by nearly all his predecessors; and the Regne Animal of 1817, when he 1 This was reprinted in 5882 by the Willughby Society.

    0
    0
  • The letterpress is commonly limited to technical details, and is not always accurate; but it is of its kind useful, for in general knowledge of the outside of birds Temminck probably surpassed any of his contemporaries.

    0
    0
  • Without pledging ourselves to the acceptance of all its details - some of which, as is only natural, cannot be sustained with our present knowledge - it is certainly not too much to say that Merrem's merits are almost incomparably superior to those of any of his predecessors.

    0
    0
  • Many of the excellencies of L'Herminier's method could not be pointed out without too great a sacrifice of space, because of the details into which.

    0
    0
  • This was the foundation of a more extensive work of which, from the influence it still exerts, it will be necessary to treat later at some length, and there will be no need now to enter much into details respecting the earlier performance.

    0
    0
  • Its line to some extent may be partly made out - very clearly, for the matter of that, so far as its details have been published in the series of papers to which reference has been given - and some traces of its features are probably preserved in his Catalogue of the specimens of birds in the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, which, after several years of severe labour, made its appearance at Calcutta in 1849; but, from the time of his arrival in India, the onerous duties imposed upon Blyth, together with the want of sufficient books of reference, seem to have hindered him from seriously continuing his former researches, which, interrupted as they were, and born out of due time, had no appreciable effect on the views of systematisers generally.

    0
    0
  • The first of these four " Orders " had been already indefeasibly established as one perfectly natural, but respecting its details more must presently be said.

    0
    0
  • At the same time he states that authors who have occupied themselves with the sternum alone have often produced uncertain results, especially when they have neglected its anterior for its posterior part; for in truth every bone of the skeleton ought to be studied in all its details.

    0
    0
  • Questions of affinity, and the details of geographical distribution, were endowed with a real interest, in comparison with which any interest that had hitherto been taken was a trifling pastime.

    0
    0
  • Limited by circumstances as is that followed by Milne-Edwards, the details of his arrangement do not require setting forth here.

    0
    0
  • Hence his efforts, praiseworthy as they were from several points of view, and particularly so in regard to some details, failed to satisfy the philosophic taxonomer when generalizations and deeper principles were concerned, and in his practice in respect of certain technicalities of classification he was, in the eyes of the orthodox, a transgressor.

    0
    0
  • He also carried to a very extreme limit his views of nomenclature, which were certainly not in accordance with those held by most zoologists,, though this is a matter so trifling as to need no details in illustration.

    0
    0
  • Mosaic is the essential decoration of the church, and the architectural details are subordinated to the colour scheme.

    0
    0
  • The position of the sacred stone, and the interpretation of many details shown on the gems and coins, remain uncertain.

    0
    0
  • The Crusades afforded new details which might be inserted into old matters, and a new spirit which might be infused into old subjects; and a crusading complexion thus came to be put upon old tales like those of Arthur and Charlemagne.

    0
    0
  • Rey's Les Colonies franques en Syrie contains many interesting details; and Prutz's Kulturgeschichte der Kreuzziige contains both an account of the Latin East and an attempt to sketch the effects of the Crusades on the progress of civilization.

    0
    0
  • The high degree of civilization then prevailing in the country is proved by its architectural remains dating from the early Christian centuries; the investigations of De Vogue, Butler and others, have shown that from the 1st to the 7th century there prevailed in north Syria and the Hauran a special style of architecture - partly, no doubt, following Graeco-Roman models, but also showing a great deal of originality in details.

    0
    0
  • By about the beginning of our era the Jews had given up Hebrew and wrote in Aramaic; the process of expulsion had been going on, doubtless, for some time; but comparison with the later extant literature (Chronicles, the Hebrew Ecclesiasticus or Ben-Sira, Esther) makes it improbable that such Hebrew as that of Koheleth would have been written earlier than the 2nd century B.C. (for details see Driver's Introduction).

    0
    0
  • By the forms of the letters of the inscriptions, and by the architectural details, the age of the monument has been approximately fixed in the 3rd century B.C. The bas-reliefs give us invaluable evidence of the literature, and also of the clothing, buildings and other details of the social conditions of the peoples of Buddhist India at that period.

    0
    0
  • The fundamental theory of the transmutation of metals is to be found in the Greek alchemists, although in details it was modified and elaborated by the Arabs and the Latin alchemists.

    0
    0
  • This classical work is still a favourite among students, the improvements on its methods made since its publication being rather in details than in general principles.

    0
    0
  • The dwellings do not correspond in size or details with the undoubtedly prehistoric abodes on the Acropolis.

    0
    0
  • He recounts the details of at least two of these attacks, but says nothing about the much-quoted swoon of eight days, during which he is supposed to have seen in vision the scheme of the future Society.

    0
    0
  • For speciegraphical details, see Woodward's Manual of the Mollusca (1875), and Bronn's Tierreich (Weichtiere).

    0
    0
  • Details will be found in the articles on particular metals.

    0
    0
  • In 316 Antigonus had defeated and killed Eumenes and made himself supreme from the Aegean to Iran, and Cassander had 1 For details see separate articles on the chief generals.

    0
    0
  • Though few excelled him in a knowledge of the forms of the House or in mastery of administrative details, his tact in dealing with men and with affairs was so defective that there is perhaps no one who has been at the head of an English administration to whom a lower place can be assigned as a statesman.

    0
    0
  • The details of the commercial processes are trade secrets.

    0
    0
  • But since he states that he was so young a child in 1430 that he could not recollect the details of events in that year, and since he was " colier" at Louvain in 1430, his birth may probably be placed nearer 1415 than 1405.

    0
    0
  • In the former case the cartographer is merely called upon to reduce and generalize the information given by his originals, to make a judicious selection of place names, and to take care that the map is not overcrowded with names and details.

    0
    0
  • Distances such as these can be measured only on a topographical map of a fairly large scale, for on general maps many of the details needed for that purpose can no longer be represented.

    0
    0
  • Isaac Voss, in his work De Nili (1659), published a map of central Africa, in which he anticipated D'Anville by rejecting all the fanciful details which found a place upon Filippo Pigafetta's map of that continent.

    0
    0
  • A trigonometrical survey was given up and only details of immediate practical use are required.

    0
    0
  • The details given are considered sufficient to admit of the selection of general routes for railways or other public works.

    0
    0
  • Commodian, Victorinus Pettavensis, Lactantius and Sulpicius Severus were all pronounced millennarians, holding by the very details of the primitive Christian expectations.

    0
    0
  • See eulogy by his friend Dr David Hosack (Essays, i., New York, 1824), with biographical details taken from a letter of Rush to President John Adams; also references in the works of Thacker, Gross and Bowditch on the history of medicine in America.

    0
    0
  • The cardinal, though ignorant of the details of the plot, perhaps suspected Wishart's knowledge of it, and in any case was not sorry to have an excuse for seizing one of the most eloquent supporters of the new opinions.

    0
    0
  • The church of St Cuthbert shows good transitional Norman details.

    0
    0
  • We cannot here enter into the infinite details of the other subdivisions imagined by Joachim, or into his system of perpetual concordances between the New and the Old Testaments, which, according to him, furnish the prefiguration of the third age.

    0
    0
  • We need not here consider the details of this process.

    0
    0
  • Ali 1 For details of these events see Umar Effendi, History of the War in Bosnia (1737-1739).

    0
    0
  • For the discovery of mines, special permits of research, on which there is a fee of £T5 to £T 15, are necessary; full details of the requisite formalities are given in the law.

    0
    0
  • Amid all the variation in their details, and the apparent confusion introduced by Napoleon's habit of suggesting alternatives and discussing probabilities, and in spite of the preparations ostensibly made for an expedition to Ireland, which was to have sailed from Brest and to have carried 30,000 troops commanded by Augereau, the real purpose of Napoleon was neither altered nor concealed.

    0
    0
  • There was not a little scandal about her relations with Narbonne; and this Mickleham sojourn (the details of which are known from, among other sources, the letters of Fanny Burney) has never been altogether satisfactorily accounted for.

    0
    0
  • During the existence of the Temple there was a double celebration of the Passover, a series of stipulated sacrifices being offered during the seven days in the Temple, details of which are given in Num.

    0
    0
  • Sometimes Clement discusses chronology, sometimes philosophy, sometimes poetry, entering into the most minute critical and chronological details; but one object runs through all, and this is to show what the true Christian Gnostic is, and what is his relation to philosophy.

    0
    0
  • The service, the details of which vary in different countries, is of comparatively modern origin.

    0
    0
  • The vascular system does not readily lend itself to morphological comparison between such widely different animals as Balanoglossus and Amphioxus, and the reader is therefore referred to the memoirs cited at the end of this article for further details.

    0
    0
  • By the time of the ninth edition (1875) precise details are no longer considered worthy of inclusion; and the age of scientific comparative mythology has been reached.

    0
    0
  • The traditional history of Ammon as related in the Old Testament is not free from obscurity, due to the uncertain date of the various references and to the doubt whether the individual details belong to the particular period to which each is ascribed.

    0
    0
  • The details of the calculation are given in the article Electric conduction, § where also will be found an account of the methods which have been used to measure the velocities of many ions by direct visual observation.

    0
    0
  • The Utraquist creed, frequently varying in its details, continued to be that of the established church of Bohemia till all non-Roman religious services were prohibited shortly after the battle of the White Mountain in 1620.

    0
    0
  • No purely astronomical enterprise was ever carried out on so Transits of P large a scale or at so great an expenditure of money and labour as was devoted to the observations of these transits, and for several years before their occurrence the astronomers of every leading nation were busy in discussing methods of observation and working out the multifarious details necessary to their successful application.

    0
    0
  • These are to be regarded merely as typical specimens, for the details of a curve depend largely upon the physical condition and purity of the material; but they show at a glance how far the several metals differ from and resemble one another as regards their magnetic properties.

    0
    0
  • The results of their experiments embrace a multiplicity of details of which it is impossible to give an adequate summary.

    0
    0
  • The paper contains tables and curves showing details of the magnetic changes, sometimes very complex, at different temperatures and with different fields.

    0
    0
  • The general scheme and some of the details have been brought by the writer into agreement with the views maintained in this article.

    0
    0
  • The Acta of St Sebastian, falsely attributed to the same St Ambrose, are far less sparing of details.

    0
    0
  • He nevertheless looked forward to a future meeting, when he promised to complete the autobiographical details which weakness obliged him to interrupt.

    0
    0
  • In this respect there is a close parallelism, extending to minor details, between Joel and the last chapters of Zechariah.

    0
    0
  • Barrackpur played an important part in the two Sepoy mutinies of 1824 and 1857, but the details of these belong to the general history of British rule in India.

    0
    0
  • The Gothic details are wonderful examples of the carver's skill, the wreathed " Prentice's pillar " being the subject of a well-known legend.

    0
    0
  • Whatever doubt hangs over the details of the story, it seems clear that the earl made a promise to support the claims of his host upon the English succession.

    0
    0
  • Of the measures which William took to consolidate his authority we have many details; but the chronological order of his proceedings is obscure.

    0
    0
  • Maria Nuova at Gubbio (1404), extremely well preserved, with bright colouring and fine details.

    0
    0
  • The church of St Andrew is cruciform and full of fine details of late Norman, Early English and Decorated work.

    0
    0
  • Its conclusions are predetermined, and the initiative of the individual thinker is almost confined, therefore, to formal details in the treatment of his thesis.

    0
    0
  • The capitals are like those of the Basilica, but the details are differently worked out.

    0
    0
  • He was, moreover, assailed with great violence by a powerful section of the English press, while the large number of minute details with which he had to deal in connexion with proposed changes in the French tariff, involved a tax on his patience and industry which would have daunted a less resolute man But there was one source of embarrassment greater than all the rest.

    0
    0
  • See, for anatomical details, Alimentary Canal.

    0
    0
  • Details are wanting, but the traditional decisive battle was fought at Alpar on the Theiss, whereupon the victors pressed on to Orsova, and the conquest was completed by Arpad about the year 906.

    0
    0
  • Whitney (1860), may be consulted for details.

    0
    0
  • The Inter-Allied Commission entrusted with the details was ordered to divide the disputed area into Zone A, mainly south of the river Drava (Drau) and Zone B,.

    0
    0
  • The effect of the Linnaean system upon the general conceptions of zoologists was no less marked than were its results in the way of stimulating the accumulation of accurately observed details.

    0
    0
  • The tracing out of this identity in diversity, whether regarded as evidence of blood-relationship or as a remarkable display of skill on the part of the Creator in varying the details whilst retaining the essential, became at this period a special pursuit, to which Goethe, the poet, who himself contributed importantly to it, gave the name " morphology."

    0
    0
  • It is among them so important whilst the Record in all its details is so far beyond the receptive capacity of the brain, that selection and guidance are employed by the elders in order to enable the younger generation to benefit to the utmost by the absorption (so to speak) in the limited span of a lifetime of the most valuable influences to be acquired from this prodigious envelope of Recorded Experience.

    0
    0
  • A slave of theirs had denounced them to the Holy Office, and though the details of the accusation against them seem trivial and even contradictory, Antonio was condemned to death.

    0
    0
  • The details of the tradition of authorship show considerable variation; according to the Talmudic view Adam is author of the Sabbath psalm, xcii., and Melchizedek of Ps.

    0
    0
  • These details would fit the time of religious persecution under Antiochus, to which indeed Ps.

    0
    0
  • Many other details are given in the treatise Soferim, but these for the most part refer primarily to the synagogue service after the destruction of the Temple.

    0
    0
  • For details on the liturgical use of the Psalter in Christendom the reader may refer to Smith's Diet.

    0
    0
  • Certain departmental details were despatched to South Africa to form a working nucleus for military bases, and early in September the cabinet sanctioned the despatch to Natal from India of a mixed force, 5600 strong, while two battalions were ordered to South Africa from the Mediterranean.

    0
    0
  • The only bright spot, as far as the British were concerned, was to be found in northern Cape Colony, where General French, with two cavalry brigades and details, by his skilful tactics and wonderful activity kept at arm's length a superior force of the enemy in the vicinity of Colesberg, an achievement the more noteworthy since he had pitted against him both De la Rey and De Wet, two of the three men of military genius produced by the war on the Boer side.

    0
    0
  • Details of the morphology of plants will be found in the articles relating to the chief groups of plants, those of animals in the corresponding articles on groups of animals, while the classification of animals adopted in this work will be found in the article ZOOLOGY.

    0
    0
  • Without entering on the details of his ecclesiastical activity,' we may note that he was twice associated with embassies from the Roman emperor to Yazdegerd I.

    0
    0
  • Speaking generally, it has been found that the East as opposed to the West has undergone relatively little alteration in the principal constituents of dress among the bulk of the population, and, although it is often difficult to interpret or explain some of the details as represented (one may contrast, for example, worn sculptures or seals with the vivid Egyptian paintings), comparison with later descriptions and even with modern usage is frequently suggestive.

    0
    0
  • An interesting example of the long plain variety is afforded by the prisoners of Lachish before Sennacherib (701 B.C.); the circumstances and a comparison of the details would point to its being essentially a simple dress indicative of mourning and humiliation.

    0
    0
  • Apart from these details later Jewish dress does not belong to this section.

    0
    0
  • For further details and illustrations of Hanukkah lamps see Jewish Encyc., s.v.

    0
    0
  • Whilst it can hardly be allowed that Xenophanes, so far from denying, actually affirms a plurality of gods, it must be conceded to Freudenthal that Xenophanes's polemic was directed against the anthropomorphic tendencies and the mythological details of the contemporary polytheism rather than against the polytheistic principle, and that, apart from the treatise De Melisso Xenophane et Gorgia, now generally discredited, there is no direct evidence to prove him a consistent monotheist.

    0
    0
  • From this great mass of details, soon represented in Paris by the collection of some ioo,000 cards, it was possible, proceeding by exhaustion, to sift and sort down the cards till a small bundle of half a dozen produced the combined facts of the measurements of the individual last sought.

    0
    0
  • The above sketch of Hippocratic medicine will make it less necessary to dwell upon the details relating to subsequent medical schools or sects in ancient times.

    0
    0
  • Pliny disliked doctors, and lost no opportunity of depreciating regular medicine; nevertheless he has left many quotations from, and many details about, medical authors which are of the highest value.

    0
    0
  • For details of Giry's life and works see the funeral orations published in the Bibliothbque de l'Ecole des Charles, and afterwards in a pamphlet (1899).

    0
    0
  • The administration of parks and open spaces in and round London, topographical details of the principal of which are given in Section I., is divided between the Office of Works, the London County Council, the City Corporation and the borough councils.

    0
    0
  • Many interesting details of the fire are given in Pepys's Diary.

    0
    0
  • These miners' schools (Bergschule, ecoles des mineurs) give elementary instruction in chemistry, physics, mechanics, mineralogy, geology and mathematics and drawing, as well as in such details of the art of mining as will best supplement the practical information already acquired in underground work.

    0
    0
  • It is especially necessary that they should gain experience in management of men, and in the conduct of the business details, which cannot well be taught in schools.

    0
    0
  • He was educated at the Malmesbury grammar school under Robert Latimer, who had numbered Thomas Hobbes among his earlier pupils, and at his schoolmaster's house Aubrey first met the philosopher about whom he was to leave so many curious and interesting details.

    0
    0
  • The principal charm of his "Minutes" lies in the amusing details he has to recount about his personages, and in the plainness and truthfulness that he permits himself in face of established reputations.

    0
    0
  • A summary of its chemical transformations may be given here, and reference should be made to the articles on the separate compounds for further details.

    0
    0
  • If less ornate than that of Oudenarde it is more harmonious in its details.

    0
    0
  • For further details regarding the formation of Sumerian and Babylonian-Assyrian proper names, as well as for an indication of the problems involved and the difficulties still existing, especially in the case of Sumerian names,' see the three excellent works now at our disposal for the Sumerian, the old Babylonian, and the neoBabylonian period respectively, by Huber, Die Personennamen den Keilschrifturkunden aus der Zeit der Konige von Ur and Nisin (Leipzig, 1907); Ranke, Early Babylonian Proper Names (Philadelphia, 1905); and Tallqvist, Neu-Babylonisches Namenbuch (Helsingfors, 1905).

    0
    0
  • Schefer's objections, is warranted both by the astronomical details and by the metrical requirements of the respective verses.

    0
    0
  • These are all long inscriptions giving details of wars, &c. The sixth is later than the rest, which are to be attributed to the most flourishing period of the kingdom, the 4th and 5th centuries A.D.

    0
    0
  • The king disposed his men (the whole chapter is specially interesting for the full details it gives of the nature of ancient military operations), and after totally destroying Shechem, proceeded against Thebez, which had also revolted.

    0
    0
  • The details of manufacture of sugar from canes and of sugar from beetroots differ, but there are five operations in the production of the sugar of commerce from either material which are common to both processes.

    0
    0
  • But this competition among inventors, whatever the incentive, has not been without benefit, because to-day, by means of very simple improvements in details, such as the addition of circulators and increased area of connexions, what may be taken to be the standard type of multiple-effect evaporator (that is to say, vertical vacuum pans fitted with vertical heating tubes, through which passes the liquor to be treated, and outside of which the steam or vapour circulates) evaporates nearly double the quantity of water per square foot of heating surface per hour which was evaporated by apparatus in use so recently as 1885 - and this without any increase in the steam pressure.

    0
    0
  • The filter presses remain substantially unchanged, although many ingenious but slight alterations have been made in their details.

    0
    0
  • Apart from modifications in the details of sugar refining which have come into use in late years, it should be mentioned that loaf sugar made in conical moulds, and sugars made otherwise, to resemble loaf sugar, have practically disappeared from the trade, having been replaced by cube sugar, which is found to be more economical as subject to less waste by grocers and housekeepers, and also less troublesome to buy and sell.

    0
    0
  • While these different feudal systems have shown a general similarity of organization, there has been also great variation in their details, because they have started from different institutions and developed in different ways.

    0
    0
  • What follows is rather a perfection of details in the direction of logical completeness.

    0
    0
  • Within the limits imposed by the nature of his task, his treatment of his sources is remarkably free, the details unsuited for poetic handling being passed over, or, in some instances, boldly altered.

    0
    0
  • At the same time the facts that the inscriptions are undated until a late period, that few are historical in their contents, and for the most part yield only names of gods and rulers and domestic and religious details, and that our collection is still very incomplete, have led to much serious disagreement among scholars as to the reconstruction of the history of Arabia in the pre-Christian centuries.

    0
    0
  • Details of their history are not known, but they seem to have gained power at one time even over the aakhmids of Hira; and to have ruled over Bahrein as well as Yemama until the battle of Shi'b ul Jabala, when they lost this province to Hira.

    0
    0
  • Nevertheless he sometimes helps us to recognize in Ibn Ishaq's narrative modifications of the genuine tradition made for a purpose, and the additional details he supplies set various events before us in a clearer light.

    0
    0
  • On the other hand, some interpolations took place, one in the 1 For details see the introduction to Noldeke's translation of Tabari's Geschichte der Perser and Araber zur Zeit der Sasaniden (aeiden, 1879).

    0
    0
  • The baptistery was completed only in 1278, and marred in the 14th century by the introduction of Gothic details.

    0
    0
  • The administrative details of government were minutely and carefully organized, and accurate statistics were kept by means of the " quipus " or system of knots.

    0
    0
  • The use of the convex lens, which is given as a great secret, in place of the concave speculum of the first edition, is not so clearly described as by Barbaro; the addition of the concave speculum is proposed for making the images larger and clearer, and also for making them erect, but no details are given.

    0
    0
  • The details of the plant - the material and fittings of the still, the manner of heating, the form of the condensing plant, receivers, &c. - have to be determined for each substance to be distilled in order to work with the maximum economy.

    0
    0
  • The gravest doubts, however, exist as to the authenticity of this story; Fernao Lopes, the Portuguese Froissart, who is the great authority fcr the details of the death of Inez, with some of the actors in which he was acquainted, says nothing of the ghastly ceremony, though he tells at length the tale of the funeral honours that the king bestowed upon his wife.

    0
    0
  • The statement still commonly repeated that it originated with Petrus 1 These details are scarcely the invention of the chronicler; see Chronicles, and Expositor, Aug.

    0
    0
  • They differ structurally from the normal form in being capable of self-fertilization only, and in the shape and details of their spermatozoa.

    0
    0
  • There are interesting remains of Seljuk buildings, all showing strong traces of Persian influence in their decorative details.

    0
    0
  • For further details of his mathematical investigations see the articles Theory of groups, and Functions Of Complex Variables.

    0
    0
  • None, however, was of equal im- b ortance with the first, and their details are given vaguely by t.

    0
    0
  • The monotony and lifelessness of this form of architecture are shown in the meaningless way in which details, suited only to the Venetian methods of veneering walls with thin marble slabs, are copied in the solid marbles of Verona.

    0
    0
  • The recumbent effigies and decorative details of these tombs are very beautiful, but the smaller figures of angels, saints and virtues are rather clumsy in proportion.

    0
    0
  • Masdeu wrote in a critical spirit and with a regard for accuracy rare in his time; but he is more concerned with small details than with the philosophy of history.

    0
    0
  • If the calculation be carried farther backas has been done by the seismic disaster investigation committee of Japan, a body of scientists constantly engaged in studying these phenomena under government auspices,it is found that, since the countrys history began to be written in the 8th century AD,, there have been 2006 major disturbances; but inasmuch as 1489 of these occurred before the beginning of the Tokugawa administration (early in the 17th century, and therefore in an era when methods of recording were comparatively defective), exact details are naturally lacking.

    0
    0
  • The details are endless, the results delightful.

    0
    0
  • To this day the spoken language of Japanese women is appreciably simpler and softer than that of the men, and to this day while the educated woman uses the hiragana syllabary in writing, eschews Chinese sords and rarel pens an ideograph, the educated man employs the ideograp entirely, and translates his thoughts as far as possible into thi mispronounced Chinese words without recourse -to which it would be impossible for him to discuss any scientific subject, or even tc refer to the details of his daily business.

    0
    0
  • The seventh is to hammer gold into the outlines of the diaper; the eighth, to hammer it into the pattern filling the spaces between the lines, and the ninth and tenth to complete the details.

    0
    0
  • A procesi resembling maze-gane, but less fortuitous, is shibuichi-dshi (combined shibuichi), which involves beating together two kinds of shibuichi and then adding a third variety, after which the details of the picture are I worked in as in the case of maze-gane.

    0
    0
  • All the architectural and decorative details, all the carvings and colors, all the accessories everything was wrought in silk, and each of the 1500 figures forming the procession wore exactly appropriate costume.

    0
    0
  • This he sketches in outline with a paste of white lead, and then, having filled in the details with gold and colors, he superposes a coat of translucid lacquer, which is finally subjected to careful polishing.

    0
    0
  • For details of the practical methods see Gold; Silver; Copper and headings for other metals.

    0
    0
  • Full details of these serials are supplied by a special class of periodical with which every department of science, art and literature in German Austria The most notable periodicals of a general character have been the Wiener Jahrbucher der Literatur (1818-1848) and the Oesterreichische Revue (1863-1867).

    0
    0
  • It is probable that Defoe, with his extensive acquaintance with English history, and his astonishing power of working up details, was fully equal to the task of inventing it.

    0
    0
  • In the Journal of the Plague Year, more usually called, from the title of the second edition, A History of the Plague, the accuracy and apparent veracity of the details is so great that many persons have taken it for an authentic record, while others have contended for the existence of such a record as its basis.

    0
    0
  • They are the presentment of all his ideas and scenes in the plainest and most direct language, the frequent employ ment of colloquial forms of speech, the constant insertion of little material details and illustrations, often of a more or less digressive form, and, in his historico-fictitious works, as well as in his novels, the most rigid attention to vivacity and consistency of character.

    0
    0
  • To Augustine's doctrine of man's total depravity, his incapacity for any good, and the absolute sovereignty of the divine grace in salvation according to the divine election, Pelagius opposed the view that "God's grace 1 For fuller details see separate articles.

    0
    0
  • For details as to the former, see Babylonian And Assyrian Religion.

    0
    0
  • Thurston's Materials of Engineering, should be consulted for the more practical details.

    0
    0
  • The homeliest details of the farmer's work are transfigured through the poet's love of nature; through his religious feeling and his pious sympathy with the sanctities of human affection; through his patriotic sympathy with the national greatness; and through the rich allusiveness of his art to everything in poetry and legend which can illustrate and glorify his theme.

    0
    0
  • And, though he cannot unroll before us the page of heroic action with the power and majesty of Homer, yet by the sympathy with which he realizes the idea of Rome, and by the power with which he has used the details of tradition, of local scenes, of religious usage, to embody it, he has built up in the form of an epic poem the most enduring and the most artistically constructed monument of national grandeur.

    0
    0
  • The vast scale on which the work was conceived and the thoroughness of artistic execution with which the details are finished are characteristically Roman.

    0
    0
  • His assessment, of the details of which we know nothing, was so fair that it remained popular long after the league of autonomous allies had become an Athenian empire.

    0
    0
  • The details of the structure of the flower show a wide variation; the flowers are often extremely simple, sometimes as in Arum, reduced to a single stamen or pistil.

    0
    0
  • The abbey, though greatly mutilated, is full of interesting details, and includes a lofty tower, a marble screen, a chapter-house, a notable east window, several fine tombs and an altar of St Francis.

    0
    0
  • For fuller details and explanations of the elements of the subject, the reader must be referred to general treatises such as Baynes's Thermodynamics (Oxford), Tait's Thermodynamics (Edinburgh), Maxwell's Theory of Heat (London), Parker's Thermodynamics (Cambridge), Clausius's Mechanical Theory of Heat (translated by Browne, London), and Preston's Theory of Heat (London).

    0
    0
  • The church of St Bartholomew is remarkable for a fine Early English tower surmounted by a Decorated spire; there are also beautiful Decorated windows and details in the body of the church, and a richly carved octagonal font.

    0
    0