First-time Sentence Examples
Do you realize that's the first time you've done that?
It isn't the first time I've cooked.
This was not the first time she wasn't able to assist.
For the first time in months we were temporarily out of business.
It's not like you and I who remember our parents; he literally just met his mother for the first time!
I've known for months; almost since the first time we did it... slept together.
From the very first time we did this, all the emotions were as mixed up as my grandmother's soup.
For the first time since being attacked, my mind began to access what happened and try to formulate a coherent response.
It was just as real as the first time.
She noticed the nearly empty gin bottle for the first time.
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It wasn't the first time and they had the situation in hand.
She studied him, alarm swirling through her for the first time.
For the first time in ages, Dusty was falling asleep at his computer.
It had something to do with the beautiful woman before him who made him feel for the first time in years.
AdvertisementFor the first time in years, he found himself wondering what it would be like to feel again.
For the first time in his life, he felt like running away from something.
He studied her, feeling as though he was seeing her for the first time and the last.
The walk calmed his irritation at being powerless for the first time since the Schism.
By the look on her face, it wasn't the first time the Other had raised his voice at his alleged daughter.
AdvertisementFor the first time in thousands of years, he remembered what real pain felt like.
Jule looked down at the arrow protruding from his shoulder, growing annoyed with her for the first time.
For the first time in her life, she wanted not to feel completely alone.
The ache within her deepened at the idea of trusting someone for the first time in her life, and the energy flowing between them grew more intense.
She felt the sense of being centered for the first time in her life and knew it was because of the man before her.
AdvertisementHe didn't tear my head off when he sought me out the first time.
For the first time in her life, she felt her magic was a gift and not a curse.
Jonny glanced at Jenn, as if noticing for the first time that she wasn't armed.
For the first time since he began his sick games, Jenn felt genuine fear trickle through her.
This is the first time I've been able to find you.
His hand lingered on her arm, and she rested her forehead against his fingers, comforted for the first time in months.
Her headache had been gone most of the morning for the first time in months, until the monster in her head started clawing at her mind.
He touched her face, exhausted for the first time in years.
For the first time in his life, he felt helpless to help the small form of the woman before him.
Linda flashed her a strained smile that made her feel welcome for the first time in a week before the pretty brunette gave the blond man, Lon, a hug and kiss.
Sofia hung up the phone, feeling as if she were emerging from a stupor for the first time in months.
His guard was down for the first time since she'd known him.
It was the first time he'd understood the words she spoke to him.
Before she started to drift into an in-between place, she saw Darian stand and look around, awake for the first time in thousands of years.
For the first time in his life, Damian was speechless when confronted with the horror before him.
Darkyn was quiet and still, his body relaxed for the first time since she'd known him.
It wasn't the first time she'd heard such a thing, but it sounded far worse coming from the devil than it had Wynn.
He appeared wary for the first time since she'd known him.
Still, her step slowed the first time she crossed demons.
A familiar face appeared from the words, the golden-skinned deity she nicknamed Mr. Checkmate the first time they met at the Immortal Sanctuary.
I said a creature who has never known peace will surrender unconditionally when he tastes it for the first time.
Twice, though the first time is not common knowledge.
You remember what you were thinking when you turned down my offer the first time?
You let me go the first time because you knew I was your mate.
It was the first time Darkyn ever brought his daughter up.
She assessed that – for the first time – he wasn't entirely certain how to react.
Joseph, smiling for the first time in Dean's memory, said he and Ginger planned to walk about town and perhaps hike up to the nearby Box Canyon waterfall.
He quickly agreed and the two strolled, for the first time since Christmas, to St. Daniel's Catholic Church, a few blocks away.
They turned to her, as if aware for the first time that they weren't alone.
This isn't his first time here, Dean thought, but they took his exit as their cue to leave.
The first time I heard mention of the name was when the litigation began.
Unlike most first-time riders of this spectacular road, she didn't shudder; instead she leaned far over for a better view, rattling a litany of praises.
The first time he laid eyes on all that stuff, the trunks included, was the morning of the auction.
Dean stood up and Fitzgerald noticed him for the first time.
The fat man spoke for the first time.
It ain't like it's the first time.
Brandon Westlake moseyed by with Paulette and Ginger Dawkins, the first time Dean had seen the women voluntarily in one another's company.
For the first time they seemed interested in something besides themselves.
Westlake looked at it, as if seeing it for the first time.
For the first time in their relationship, he'd been completely honest with her.
For the first time in her life, Deidre pitied the death dealers.
Over and over, like it was their first time.
For the first time in her life, Deidre didn't know what to do.
This is the first time we've had an honest discussion in about a million years.
Darkyn focused his dark, soulless gaze on him for the first time since arriving.
For the first time this week, she didn't feel entirely doomed.
It happened the first time Darkyn invaded the mortal world from Hell.
For the first time this week, he realized that he, too, wanted to take the next step.
For the first time in their history, they stood a real chance of turning a sordid love story into a pure one.
For the first time Lori acknowledged the presence of Jonathan.
For the first time the memory wasn't painful, but a reminder that despite all odds, something magical had happened between them.
With all the foals born on your place, is this the first time you have been able to watch?
She sat there for a long time, leaning against the porch post and thinking about the first time they had met.
To him it was innocence – a little like every time being the first time.
It was the first time he had lifted her since the stabbing, and it occurred to her that he might strain his wound.
It crossed her mind that if she didn't do something, she might lose him, but for the first time the thought wasn't frightening.
It was the first time Alex had been there since the stabbing – and the first time she had ever seen him look frightened.
It was a traumatic experience for both of them, and hadn't she felt ill the first time she went back?
For the first time in their history, a flicker of emotion crossed the features of her surgeon.
For example, before you ran into her in the mortal world, there was a ninety seven percent chance you would've killed her the first time you met.
He frowned, noticing for the first time that the bed was unmade.
For the first time since taking over the underworld, he had a small semblance of direction.
He glanced at her, noticing for the first time that she was worn out.
With a soul compass in one hand and his dinner in the other, Darkyn was satisfied for the first time in months.
She turned where he indicated, noticing the double French doors for the first time.
It's a better deal than you gave me the first time around.
He made her feel like she wasn't alone for the first time in years.
Last night was the first time.
For the first time in days, the tension in her body loosened.
He shared his need and pleasure with someone else for the first time in his life.
For the first time in months, he had confirmation that he was headed the right way.
It was the same sensation as when she opened the door to the guest bedroom in her apartment for the first time to see the mess the demons made of some poor human.
She spun at the voice, startled to see Mr. Checkmate, the man she'd met on the beach when she arrived at the Sanctuary the first time.
For the first time in years, he felt whole again.
The cowering healer left his corner of the cell for the first time in a while and approached the human on the bed.
For the first time in years, he doubted himself.
Ileana asked, interested for the first time.
For the first time since he was a child, he was worried.
For the first time in his life, he didn't know what to do.
For the first time in years, she wanted her sister around.
When she finished, she felt refreshed for the first time in weeks.
For the first time since she could remember, she felt at peace, whole.
Rhyn looked squarely at the death dealer, sensing unease for the first time in their long history.
For the first time that night, she realized he was disturbed about something.
For the first time since Andre.s death, things were looking better for him.
For the first time in his life, he felt something akin to pity for Kris.
For the first time since meeting him, she almost preferred to deal with Kris.
Go rescue him again, so he can kill more of the Immortals, like those you sacrificed to protect him the first time!
For the first time since arriving over three weeks ago, she missed her cavernous chamber.
For the first time in three weeks, she felt safe and relieved as she looked around the tiny room that had been hers when she first arrived.
She looked down, and he noticed for the first time one of her cheeks was red.
He caressed the tattoo with a thumb and smiled, feeling genuine happiness for the first time since Andre.s death.
For the first time in his life, he felt and thought too much, and he wanted to keep himself occupied with the world around him rather than the pain within him.
Kiera glanced at her, hearing the nervousness for the first time.
The game room was the only place the sisters didn't bug her, and for the first time since being kidnapped by Evelyn and A'Ran, she found herself having fun.
Evelyn knew she didn't deserve to feel at peace after the mess she dragged Kiera into, but she did feel it, and it made her genuinely content for the first time since she'd kidnapped her best friend.
With a sense of deep dread, he felt for the first time that the role he expected of her may not be a role she chose to fulfill.
The feel of the planet's life force through his body was staggering, the sensation similar to what he felt the first time he'd met his nishani.
For the first time since she'd arrived, Edith Shipton had a peaceful look on her face.
I'm positive she didn't notice us the first time.
As the group pulled into the parking lot at Mountain Village, the upper portion of the ski area, Donnie began to look nervous for the first time.
It's not the first time it's happened.
But I guess that wasn't the first time.
It was the first time they had made love, and were newly committed to one another.
Dean stomped his feet and entered his home, for the first time absent his wife.
You didn't make out too well the first time you tried a face to face.
While he hated even speculating about a child murderer, it was the first time Shipton's attempted killing began to make any sense.
She smiled, for the first time.
I wish I had the date so I could look again to see if I maybe missed it in the paper the first time I checked.
Dean spoke for the first time since the investigators arrived.
Gladys Turnbull, almost forgotten in the corner, spoke up for the first time.
Like it's the first time?
Edith Shipton was a very troubled woman, from the first time she stepped into Bird Song.
Cynthia smiled for the first time.
Since the first time I stepped inside I had a sense of all of the love and happiness and peace those walls have witnessed.
Martha tried the boards for the first time and was surprisingly agile.
I'll bet the first time he really talks, it'll be about Martha!
She looked up, as if believing the truth of what her husband was saying for the first time.
The first time Shipton fell or the second time?
He stood at the mirror and gazed upon himself for the first time since being abducted.
They were cultured, not at all savages, and for the first time since his capture, he held a glimmer of hope that he might find some semblance of happiness again.
That was the first time he had ever neglected to tell her how ravishing she was.
She turned to look at him for the first time.
The last thing he needed was Connor losing it from too much human scent his first time out.
Her eyes were wide open - probably for the first time in her life.
Was this the first time he had seen snow?
For the first time she knew fear of him.
He has a hot temper, but this is the first time he was ever anything but gentle with me.
His neck was red and for the first time since she had met him, he didn't have a quick answer.
No, the goats brought you the first time.
She raced for the barn, for the first time wishing she had invested in that rifle Josh wanted her to buy.
It took me a couple of years to realize God had answered my prayer the first time.
Lana met his gaze, hearing his Southern drawl for the first time.
Yet, for the first time in her life, she wished she knew how.
She'd truly cared for someone for the first time in her life, and he'd used her.
Brady's chest had tightened at Dan's words, and he felt fear for the first time since he was a kid in basic training and had his first brush with his own mortality.
Lana looked Kelli over more closely, noticing the clothing for the first time.
She didn't want to think about losing the man who made her feel something so strong for the first time in her life.
For the first time in her life, she told a real lie.
For the first time in her adult life, Lana didn't care what he thought about her appearance or presence someplace where he might not think she belonged.
For the first time since she could remember, she had a home.
It wasn't the first time.
Gabe's step faltered, and he tripped for the first time since he'd led them into the forest. Katie's gaze went from Andre to the death-dealer.
For the first time since leaving Darkyn, Rhyn realized no one had tried to stop him yet. No demons stood in front of Kiki's door and Darkyn hadn't ordered the castle after him.
But what do I know? It's my first time here, too. What's your name?
Years later Dean would think back to this first time he saw Cynthia Byrne.
He drank in the sights and sounds of the bucolic world around him and for the first time in days felt relaxed.
He cried for the first time since his mother had passed away 15 years earlier.
From the first time he saw a photo of her, she had held his interest.
That much he had discovered the first time they kissed.
For the first time she was looking forward to winter.
Any fears about sex were mostly restricted to the first time.
I never gave a thought to the pain of childbirth, but here I am worried about pain the first time.
And so, with the radio on, she swept the floor and remembered the first time Alex had held her in his arms as they danced in the barn.
Do you realize that's the first time you said 'our' anything?
Still, it wasn't the first time they had vehemently disagreed on something.
It was the first time she had heard him call her that, and the tender smile on Mum's face made it clear that she was pleased.
That it was supposed to be him the first time.
Other than the test drive, it was the first time he had driven it.
But there was always a first time.
For the first time she thought of him as a lover.
It was the first time in their marriage that they didn't do the chores together.
When was the first time you saw one?
I guess because I didn't tell you about the first time.
For the first time in her life, she didn't have to put away summer clothes.
In the morning there were dirty dishes from the night before for the first time in their marriage.
For the first time in his life, he had found someone he could trust with his heart.
Even the first time you visited?
Remember the first time we made love?
Yes, the first time they met, there had been electricity between them.
There she melted in his arms, giving herself to him as if it were the first time.
Before going home, she made a trip to the market and bought prepared food for the first time.
You don't trash a marriage the first time an obstacle comes along.
They'd been married two years now and this was the first time he had mentioned it.
It was the first time she used the name and her voice broke with emotion when she said it.
Our hunting trip was the first time in months, wasn't it?
Hopeful for the first time in her life, Jenn glanced up and stopped.
The Black God's bedroom door was closed for the first time in a week.
Her muscles felt relaxed for the first time in weeks.
The exchange a week ago was the first time she met the nightmarish Original Vamp, when he'd offered to help Jule in exchange for asking her a question.
For the first time since arriving at Jonny's, she wasn't cold.
For the first time in her life, she thought she'd found someone she wasn't sure she could challenge without losing herself in the game.
Worse, he made her feel for the first time.
For the first time since she left the immortal world, she cried.
Jenn still remembered the first time she'd seen Darian.
For the first time in long while, Jenn didn't think she could get them to safety alone.
I survived the first time she said and lowered her weapons.
Her voice shook as she admitted the words out loud for the first time.
I thought for the first time in my life, I can't walk away and wish I could.
That's the first time you've called me that.
The night she fell asleep atop her horse for the first time in her life.
She returned safely for the first time in a fortnight.
For the first time in his life, he felt a deep sense of peace at his core.
For the first time in his life, he knew his fate.
You remember what you said when you pulled me from the catacombs the first time?
It felt like a lifetime, as if she were looking up on the walls for the first time in an age!
For the first time since the demon had claimed her at ten summers, she was alive!
There was nothing unusual about Alex riding Ed to unwind after a trip, but this was the first time he had done so without changing his clothes.
It wasn't the first time Carmen had used a gun, but it was the first time Alex had seen her use one.
Alex was quite a treasure and she was proud of him, but the truth was, this was the first time she had been in charge of anything so detailed and she wanted his support.
It was the first time she had worn a long dress, but Katie assured her it would make her look taller.
I'll always remember the song they were playing the first time we danced and I knew.
Maybe he was remembering the first time they danced – in her goat dairy.
It wasn't the first time he had made a remark that indicated he was less than pleased about the way she dressed.
That was the first time Alex had ever referred to himself as a Texan in her presence.
He was hooked before he came up here that first time.
He smiled for the first time since the accident.
It would be the first time they took a buggy ride that Ed wasn't pulling the buggy.
Was this the first time he noticed the relationship?
He chuckled – the first time he had done so since the accident.
She circled his neck with both arms – the first time she had done so since the accident.
It wasn't the first time Alex had been gone for over a week, leaving her to manage the farm and the children.
It's not the first time I've been away.
Alondra stopped crying and stared at him, obviously considering that for the first time.
At the hotel, for the first time in months, she slept soundly.
For the first time she spoke his given name.
For the first time in my life, I was insanely jealous.
His whole body felt alive for the first time.
For the first time in her life, she didn't want to think about what happened next.
For the first time in her life, she felt something other than conviction about what she had done.
Except, for the first time in his existence, Xander wasn't able to read the mind of the only person who knew why.
For the first time since meeting her, Xander felt like he had the upper hand.
She studied him, noticing the sharpness of his gaze for the first time.
For the first time since landing in the human world, he had the intense urge to track, hunt and bring down something capable of eluding him.
For the first time since they met, she almost had the upper hand.
I look … like some teenager after she's been kissed for the first time.
For the first time since meeting him, his voice was soft.
Barefooted and clean, he was relaxed for the first time in a week.
She purposely didn't think of what she'd say the first time she saw him this morning after that kiss the night before.
Jessi almost told him to go to hell except that, right now, she was almost having fun for the first time in years.
People usually do that the first time Sofi reads them.
For the first time in his life, he really wasn't certain his choice was a smart one.
Silently, he acknowledged that he was a fool to lower his guard around the teens and their cousin, to the point he recognized Ashley the first time he saw her but didn't check her mind.
For the first time since meeting Jonny, she prayed everyone was right about the strange skill she had to remain invisible to them.
For the first time since meeting him, she didn't feel as if the world was crushing her.
In the interval Chicheley found time to visit his diocese for the first time and be enthroned at St David's on the 11th of May 1411.
The whole tendency of the Regulating Act was to establish for the first time the influence of the crown, or rather of parliament, in Indian affairs.
The government monopolies of opium and salt were then for the first time placed upon a remunerative basis.
It became, in fact, essential to invent a " micrometer " for measuring the small angles which were thus for the first time rendered sensible.
In 1834 he became a fellow of Trinity, in 1853 professor of Greek (to which a canonry in Ely Cathedral was then for the first time attached), and in 1866 master of his college.
In 1375 the Turks captured Naissus for the first time from the Servians.
Towards the end of the r8th century Mannheim attained great celebrity in the literary world as the place where Schiller's early plays were performed for the first time.
For the first time the Volga became a Russian river.
The archons and members of the boule, who certainly received remuneration in 411, and also some minor magistrates, were perhaps paid for the first time by Pericles.
The word "bowls" occurs for the first time in the statute of 1511 in which Henry VIII.
Phillimore was also the last judge of the high court of admiralty, from 1867 (the date of his appointment to the high court) to 1875, the two offices were, probably for the first time in history, held by the same person.
Accordingly a premiers' conference was held in Melbourne at the end of January 1899, at which Queensland was for the first time represented.
The Protector and the council together were given a life tenure of office, with a large army and a settled revenue sufficient for public needs in time of peace; while the clauses relating to religion "are remarkable as laying down for the first time with authority a principle of toleration," 2 though this toleration did not apply to Roman Catholics and Anglicans.
In December 1654 Penn and Venables sailed for the West Indies with orders to attack the Spanish colonies and the French shipping; and for the first time since the Plantagenets an English fleet appeared in the Mediterranean, where Blake upheld the supremacy of the English flag, made a treaty with the dey of Algiers, destroyed the castles and ships of the dey of Tunis at Porto Farina on the 4th of April 1655, and liberated the English prisoners captured by the pirates.
For the first time doubts as to his spiritual state seemed to have troubled him.
Her brother, the actor Nicolas Desmares (c. 1650-1714), began as a member of a subsidized company at Copenhagen, but by her influence he came to Paris and was received in 1685 sans debut - the first time such an honour had been accorded - at the Comedie Frangaise, where he became famous for peasant parts.
During the short reign of Valentinian there were wars in Africa, in Germany and in Britain, and Rome came into collision with barbarian peoples of whom we now hear for the first time - Burgundians, Saxons, Alamanni.
He thus produced in 1896 for the first time an operative apparatus of electric wave telegraphy.
In July and August 1899 the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy was tried for the first time during British naval manoeuvres, and the two cruisers, " Juno " and " Europa," were fitted with the new means of communication.
In Milan we hear for the first time the word Comune.
Italy seemed to lie prostrate before the emperor, who commanded her for the first time from the south as well as from the north, In 1227 Frederick, who h1d promised to lead a crusade, was excommunicated by Gregory IX.
Alfonso reigned alone and undisturbed in Lower Italy, combining for the first time since the year 1282 the crowns of Sicily and Naples.
It was with the Swiss that he hoped to effect this revolution; but the Swiss, now interfering for the first time as principals in Italian affairs, were incapable of more than adding to the already maddening distractions of the people.
Now at last, after waiting so long, Signor Sonninos hour had struck, and he became premier for the first time.
It is generally stated that this argument was for the first time definitely formulated in Aristotle's philosophy.
This was the first time that Rome had two emperors as colleagues.
The method included a recognition of the causes and effects of phenomena as well as the mere fact of their occurrence, and for the first time the importance of the vertical relief of the land was fairly recognized.
The conception of the north-western route to Cathay now leads the story of exploration, for the first time as far as important and sustained efforts are concerned, towards the Arctic seas.
Then came the memorable "proscription," when for the first time in Roman history a list of men declared to be outlaws and public enemies was exhibited in the forum, and a reign of terror began throughout Rome and Italy.
The legislature met here for the first time in 1825.
A council is mentioned, in which a letter was read, expounding the opinion of the Eutychians for the first time.
Essays and Reviews (1860) was a vehement announcement of scientific results - startling English conservatism awake for the first time.
The most celebrated among the many reform decrees issued by Gregory was the constitution determining for the first time the form of conclave at papal elections, which in large measure has remained ever since the law of the church.
This is the first time since Peter the Great that the clergy have been given a voice in secular affairs in Russia.
For the first time in the history of Russia public opinion in the modern sense became a power in the state and influenced strongly the policy of the government.
This work for the first time made possible the existence of the modern school of scientific historians of medieval Germany.
This is due to the fact that it for the first time unfolded the true character of Yahweh, implicit in the old Mosaic religion and submerged in the subsequent centuries of Israel's life in Canaan, but now at length made clear and explicit to the mind of the 1 In Isa.
We note for the first time definite regulations respecting Passover and the close union of that celebration with Massoth or " unleavened bread."
This supreme official, who was destined ultimately to take the place of the king in the church-nation of post-exilian Judaism, is mentioned for the first time in Zech.
An announcement of the invention and of a patent granted for the same for ten years, in which Blumel is for the first time associated with Stolzel as co-inventor.
It was during this period that he read Homer and Longinus, having for the first time acquired some real mastery of Greek; and after the publication of the Essai, his mind was full of projects for a new literary effort.
Manchester in 1906, when the Labour party were returned for the first time in numerical force - over 50 in all.
Some appear written for the first time in the book of Jubilees, in " the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs " (both perhaps 2nd century B.C.) and in later sources; and although in Genesis the stories are now in a post-exilic setting (a stage earlier than Jubilees), the older portions may well belong to the 7th or 6th cent.
Assyria2 was now making itself felt in the west for the first time since the days of Tiglath-Pileser I.
The history of his life i s i mmediately continued in I Kings i., where his old age and weakness are for the first time vividly empha sized.
In 1769 he wrote his Memoire sur les prrts a interet, on the occasion of a scandalous financial crisis at Angouleme, the peculiar interest of which is that in it the question of lending money at interest was for the first time treated scientifically, and not merely from the ecclesiastical point of view.
It was in 1875 that the Smithfield Club first provided the competitive classes for lambs, and in 1883 the champion plate offered for the best pen of sheep of any age in the show was for the first time won by lambs, a pen of Hampshire Downs.
The Lithographic stone of Kimmeridgian age, at Solenhofen in Bavaria, is especially rich in insect remains, cyclorrhaphous Diptera appearing here for the first time.
For the first time in his life Charles was now obliged to have recourse to diplomacy; and his pen proved almost as formidable as his sword.
Classification for the first time was something more than the expression of a fancy, not that it had not also its imaginative side.
He acted as representative of his exiled king in the negotiations with the Prussian government concerning his private property and opposed the sequestration, thus for the first time being placed in a position of hostility to Bismarck.
Peace was his reward; on the 24th of December 1814 the treaty was signed; and after visiting Geneva for the first time since his boyhood, and assisting in negotiating a commercial convention (1815) with England by which all discriminating duties were abolished, Gallatin in July 1815 returned to America.
During the struggle that went on in his soul, he began to take note of his psychological state; and this was the first time that he exercised his reason on spiritual things; the experience thus painfully gained he found of great use afterwards in directing others.
Ignatius, now a priest, waited for eighteen months before saying Mass, which he did for the first time on the 25th of December 1538 in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
But he is remembered chiefly in connexion with the "caseshot attack" which was the central feature of Napoleon's matured tactical system, and which Senarmont put into execution for the first time at Friedland.
More than £8000 was expended upon the venture; and the work was performed for the first time in the French language and with the new Venusberg music on the 13th of March 1861.
Lohengrin was, however, produced on the 15th of May 1861, when Wagner heard it for the first time.
Meantime Der Ring des Nibelungen was rapidly approaching completion, and on the 13th of August 1876 the introductory portion, Das Rheingold, was performed at Bayreuth for the first time as part of the great whole, followed on the 14th by Die Walkiire, on the 16th by Siegfried and on the 17th by Geitterdiimmerung.
In his theories the element of mystical speculation for the first time comes to the front as all-important.
The cylindrical and modified conical projections of Marinus and Ptolemy were still widely used, the stereographical projection of Hipparchus, was for the first time employed for terrestrial maps in the 16th century, but new projections were introduced in addition to these.
In 1843 Congress passed the long-delayed appropriation, steps were at once taken to construct a telegraph from Baltimore to Washington, and on the 24th of May 1844 it was used for the first time.
In the course of this process, undertaken for the first time with the rigour of mathematicians, some contradictions have become apparent.
Those with France were also renewed (July 6, 1581); and capitulations were signed for the first time with the grand duke of Tuscany (1578) and with England (1580).
The viceroy of Egypt, Ismail Pasha, followed his suzerain's example in this respect, and was lavish in his bribes to his imperial overlord to obtain the extension of his own privileges and the establishment in Egypt of succession from father to son; these concessions were granted to him by the firmans of the 27th of May 1866 and the 8th of June 1867, in the latter of which the viceroy is addressed for the first time as " khedive."
A reform not unworthy of notice was effected by the law promulgated on the 18th of June 1867 whereby foreigners were for the first time allowed to hold landed property throughout the Ottoman Empire (save in the Hejaz) on condition of their being assimilated to Ottoman subjects, i.e.
In order to rebuild the see of St Peter on a basis now cleared of obstacles, an attempt was made to surround the election of 1 The English, who had hitherto been considered to form part of the German "nation," were recognized as a separate nation at this council for the first time.
The troops arrived late at their appointed positions, and after a stubborn rearguard action at Pultusk itself and undecisive fighting elsewhere (Soldau-Golymin) the Russians succeeded in retreating beyond the jaws of the French attack, and Napoleon for the first time found that he had exceeded the limit of endurance of his men.
Excavations carried out by the marquess of Bute from 188 9 onward furnished for the first time conclusive proof that Cardiff had been a Roman station, and also revealed the sequence of changes which it had subsequently undergone.
The Silverado Squatters was published in 1883, and also the more important Treasure Island, which made Stevenson for the first time a popular writer.
In 1889, "on a certain bright June day," the Stevensons sailed for the Gilbert Islands, and after six months' cruising found themselves at Samoa, where he landed for the first time about Christmas Day 1889.
Germany and Russia had, temporarily at all events, withdrawn from the cooperation, but France came in for the first time in 1920, and it was understood that the United States was likely to join in the scheme of investigation.
Denmark, however, only finally renounced her claims by the treaty of Gottorp in 1768, and in 1770 Hamburg was admitted for the first time to a representation in the diet of the empire.
The reign of Gratian forms an important epoch in ecclesiastical history, since during that period orthodox Christianity for the first time became dominant throughout the empire.
The law was invoked, and, confronted for the first time with the intricacies of the Ornaments Rubric, spoke with an uncertain voice.
In 1861, while conducting a spectroscopic examination of the residue left in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, he observed a bright green line which had not been noticed previously, and by following up the indication thus given he succeeded in isolating a new element, thallium, a specimen of which was shown in public for the first time at the exhibition of 1862.
For the first time Great Britain responded in kind.
In 1856 he accepted the direction of the schools of the East, and was thus for the first time brought into contact with the Mahommedan world.
Another was the magnetic rotation of the plane of polarization of light, which was effected in 1845, and for the first time established a relation between light and magnetism.
They are figured and their importance for the first time recognized in the memoir on the muscular and skeletal systems of Limulus and Scorpio by Lankester, Beck and Bourne (4).
By his mode of regarding a liquid as a material system characterized by the unshackled mobility of its minutest parts, the separation between the mechanics of matter in different forms of aggregation finally disappeared, and the fundamental equation of forces was for the first time extended to hydrostatics and hydrodynamics.'
He immediately addressed himself to the task of improving the financial position of the country, carried out the conversion of the State loans, and succeeded, for the first time in the history of the Hungarian budget, in avoiding a deficit.
Modified though never essentially changed, (1) by contact with the star-worship of the Chaldaeans, who identified Mithras with Shamash, god of the sun,(2) by the indigenous Armenian religion and other local Asiatic faiths and (3) by the Greeks of Asia Minor, who identified Mithras with Helios, and contributed to the success of his cult by equipping it for the first time with artistic representations (the famous Mithras relief originated in the Pergamene school towards the 2nd century B.C.), Mithraism was first transmitted to the Roman world during the 1st century B.C. by the Cilician pirates captured by Pompey.
A new source of wealth was now opened up; some adventurers from Villa do Principe in Minas, going north to the Seria Frio, made the discovery of diamonds about the year 1710, but it was not till 1730 that the discovery was for the first time announced to the government, which immediately declared them regalia.
The prince Dom Pedro, heir to the crown, who now for the first time took part in public affairs, actively exerted himself as a negotiator between the king and the troops, who were joined by bodies of the people.
Hence, though the village of Canongate grew up beside the abbey of David I., and Edinburgh was a place of sufficient importance to be reckoned one of the four principal burghs as a judicatory for all commercial matters, nevertheless, even so late as 1450, when it became for the first time a walled town, it did not extend beyond the upper part of the ridge which slopes eastwards from the castle.
In 1888 the revenue for the first time exceeded a million, the figures for that year being, revenue £1,130,614, expenditure £781,326; in1898-1899the figures were £2,081,349 and £1,914,725.
The so-called zone tariff, adopted for the first time in Europe by the Hungarian state railways, was inaugurated in 1889 for passengers and in 1891 for goods.
Hungary, therefore, for almost the first time in her history, was free to choose a foreign policy of her own, and had she been guided by a patriot, she might now have easily regained Dalmatia, and acquired besides a considerable sea-board.
Almost equally important was the twenty years' truce of Zsitvatoriik, negotiated by Bocskay between the emperor and the sultan, which established for the first time a working equilibrium between the three parts of Hungary, with a distinct political preponderance in favour of Transylvania.
Owing to the connexion of medicine with these seats of learning, it was natural that the study of the structure and functions of the human body and of the animals nearest to man should take root there; the spirit of inquiry which now for the first time became general showed itself in the anatomical schools of the Italian universities of the 16th century, and spread fifty years later to Oxford.
The remarkable physiological discoveries of Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) and Marshall Hall (1790-1857) for the first time rendered possible the discrimination of diseases of the spinal cord.
Again, besides giving us the clue to the nature of many diseases and to the continuity of many morbid series, by bacteriology certain diseases, such as actinomycosis, have been recognized for the first time.
The political conflict once more resumed its normal condition, for the first time since 1892.
At last, in September 1740, master and pupil met for the first time at Cleves, an interview followed three months later by a longer visit.
Further the area of the metropolis for local government purposes was for the first time defined, being the same as that adopted in the Commissioners of Sewers Act, which had been taken from the area of the weekly bills of mortality.
On the 7th of June 1665 Samuel Pepys for the first time saw two or three houses marked with the red cross and the words " Lord, have mercy upon us," on the doors.
There they heard John take the oath to the ` Commune ' like a French king or lord; and then London for the first time had a municipality of her own."
Round's remarkable discovery among the manuscripts of the British Museum of the Oath of the Commune proves for the first time that London in 1193 possessed a fully developed " Commune " of the continental pattern.
In 1809, on the outbreak of war between Austria and France, Gentz was for the first time actively employed by the Austrian government under Stadion; he drafted the proclamation announcing the declaration of war (15th of April), and during the continuance of hostilities his pen was ceaselessly employed.
In his charters he is continually called "rex totius Britanniae," and he adopts for the first time the Greek title basileus.
A census was taken for the first time in 1917.
In 1886-1887 a German expedition under Dr Koldewey explored the cemetery of El Hibba (immediately to the south of Tello), and for the first time made us acquainted with the burial customs of ancient Babylonia.
After a reign of 14 years Sumuabi was succeeded by his son Sumu-la-ilu, in the fifth year of whose reign the fortress of Babylon was built, and the city became for the first time a capital.
It has been known and observed there since 1848, but appeared for the first time in France in 1885.
Meanwhile in the east the Hephthalites had been attacked by the Turks, who now appear for the first time in history.
The results published in 1772 gave for the first time a comprehensive description not only of Yemen but of all Arabia; while the parts actually visited by Niebuhr were described with a fulness and accuracy of detail which left little or nothing for his successors to discover.
Hamd and the extent of the area drained by its tributaries was for the first time brought to light.
If the political results of the mission were nil, the value to geographical science was immense; for though no geographer himself, Sadlier's route across Arabia made it possible for the first time to locate the principal places in something like their proper relative positions; incidentally, too, it showed the practicability of a considerable body of regular troops crossing the deserts of Nejd even in the months of July and August.
The importance and independence of the German trading settlements abroad was exemplified in the statutes of the "Company of German merchants at Bruges," drawn up in 1347, where for the first time appears the grouping of towns in three sections (the "Drittel"), the Wendish-Saxon, the Prussian-Westphalian, and those of Gothland and Livland.
Thus it is not surprising that Pisa should already have had its own code of laws (Consuetudini di mare), which in 1075 were approved by Gregory VII., and in 1081 confirmed by a patent from the emperor Henry IV., a document which mentions for the first time the existence of a magistrate analogous to the consuls of the republic, although the latter, according to some writers, already existed in Pisa as early as the year 1080; the point, however, is doubtful, and other writers place the first authentic mention of the consuls in the year 1094.1 The oldest of Pisan statutes still extant is the Breve dei consoli di mare of 1162.
In July 1866 the grade of general was created, for the first time since the organization of the government, and Grant was promoted to that position.
The three were now face to face for the first time.
Among the friends whom he now made, or for the first time cultivated, were Carlyle, Rogers, Dickens, and Elizabeth Barrett.
Material difficulties now, however, for the first time intruded on his path.
Tennyson's health slowly became restored, and in 1846 he was hard at work on The Princess; in the autumn of this year he took a tour in Switzerland, and saw great mountains and such "stateliest bits of landskip" for the first time.
He was succeeded by Lord Russell, and Gladstone, retaining the chancellorship of the exchequer, became for the first time leader of the House of Commons.
Its proprietor, Maruyama Ryuhei, spared no expense to obtain news from all qerarters of tli world, and for the first time the Japanese public learned what stores of information may be found in the columns of a really enterprising journal.
From Sir Walter Scott downwards the tendency to judge literary work on its own merits to a great extent restored Defoe to his proper place, or, to speak more correctly, set him there for the first time.
The second and third contain fugitive writings assigned by Lee to Defoe for the first time.
The legislature met for the first time in 1841 and continued to hold its sessions here until 1857, when Des Moines, on account of its more central position, was made the capital.
Among savage and nomadic nations the whole tribe often moves into new territory, either occupying it for the first time or exterminating or driving out the indigenous inhabitants.
He kept them within due bounds by using the influence of the Luxemburgers against them at the papal court; but the disputes between Poland and the order were ultimately settled by the peace of Kalisz (July 2 3, 1 343), when the knights engaged for the first time to pay tribute to the Polish crown.
For the first time the elected members were placed in a majority; they were given three seats in the executive council; in local questions the government had to make every effort to carry the majority by persuasion.
After four months Baliol was driven out by the Scots, whereupon Edward for the first time openly took up his cause.
Arrived at the summit, Bredow sounded "line to the front," but at that moment a storm of French bullets swept down on them, and the men, no longer to be restrained, dashed forward, before the line could be completed, almost due east against long lines of infantry and artillery which they now saw for the first time about 1200 yards in front of them.
At daybreak on the morning of the 18th the royal headquarters (which now for the first time arrived at the front) still had no certain knowledge as to whether the French main army was in retreat - covered by the force which they could see on the high ground north of the Metz road - or whether they had taken up a position in order to fight.
But emerging from the hollow running north from St Marie, they came under a heavy fire not only from St Privat but also from Roncourt, which latter village they now saw for the first time.
Lyell again was in the forefront of the progressive movement, and his work on The Antiquity of Man, published in 1863, gave currency for the first time to the new opinions.
The next year he was for the first time elected to the lower house of the general court, in which he served until 1 774, after 1766 as clerk.
This new family took its name from the still existing castle of Tirol (Later Roman, Teriolis), above Meran, in the upper Adige valley, and is mentioned for the first time in 1140.
In the retreat from Ctesiphon (117) the old emperor tasted for almost the first time the bitterness of defeat in the field.
For the first time a dead general triumphed.
The whipping-post was in 1908 still maintained in Delaware, and whipping continued to be prescribed as a punishment for a variety of offences, although in 1889 a law was passed which prescribed that " hereafter no female convicted of any crime in this state shall be whipped or made to stand in the pillory," and a law passed in 1883 prescribed that " in case of conviction of larceny, when the prisoner is of tender years, or is charged for the first time (being shown to have before had a good character), the court may in its discretion omit from the sentence the infliction of lashes."
Mogilev is mentioned for the first time in the 14th century as a dependency of the Vitebsk, or of the Mstislavl principality.
Here for the first time a consistently elaborated world-historical interpretation is carried out from the reign of Domitian to Lyra's own period.
The voyage of the " Challenger " supplied for the first time the nucleus of a collection of deep-sea deposits sufficient to serve as the basis for comprehensive classification and mapping.
His military duties at the head of the principal national army did not prevent Espartero from showing for the first time his political ambition.
The German diet of Regensburg (1439) ratified in the main the decrees of the council of Basel, which clearly gratified the electors, princes and prelates; and Germany for the first time joined the ranks of the countries which subjected the decrees of the highest ecclesiastical instance to the placet or approval of the civil authorities.
In 1196 we read for the first time of councillors (consules, consiliarii, adjurati) as assessors of the magistrates, but these, who a little later were known as the Raad or council, were also nominated.
It was he who for the first time systematically used the lines of the staff, and the intervals or spatia between them.
The census of 1871 obtained for the first time a return of persons of unsound mind not confined in asylums. During the next ten years, the separate areas for which population returns had to be prepared were seriously multiplied by the creation of sanitary districts, to the number of 966.
The number of persons speaking Gaelic was recorded for the first time in 1881.
In the latter year the operations were placed for the first time under central administration, and thelike procedure wasadoptedin 1891 and 1901,with such modification of detail as was suggested by the experience of the preceding census.
By this law the census office for the first time was allowed to call into existence and to control an adequate local staff of supervisors and enumerators.
About 1530 he appears to have revisited the Spanish court, but on what precise errand is not known; the confusion concerning this period of his life extends to the time when, after visits to Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru and Guatemala, he undertook an expedition in 1537 into Tuzulutlan, the inhabitants of which were, chiefly through his tact, peaceably converted to Christianity, mass being celebrated for the first time amongst them in the newly founded town of Rabinal in 1538.
He soon made his influence felt there - new and more extensive laboratories were built, and for the first time in England a period of research became a necessary part of the academic course in chemistry for an honours degree.
Here we have essential Congregationalism, formulated for the first time in England as the original and genuine Christian polity, and as such binding on those loyal to the Head of the Church.
In the state reformatory at Elmira (which, like that at Napanoch, is for men between sixteen and thirty years of age who have been convicted of a state prison offence for the first time only), the plan of committing adult felons on an indeterminate sentence to be determined by their behaviour was first tested in America in 1877, and it has proved so satisfactory that it has been in part adopted for the state prisons.
In this work he for the first time showed the connexion between the internal and external history of France; he was also the first, by a systematic study of the records, to check and correct the traditional account of many episodes in the internal history.
In 1909, as part of the same policy, a law was passed imposing compulsory military service on all Christian subjects of the empire for the first time.
The value of the external trade of the colony exceeded £1,000,000 for the first time in 1904.
In this work he for the first time systematized an old Oriental (perhaps Phoenician) method of interpreting the popular myths, asserting that the gods who formed the chief objects of popular worship had been originally heroes and conquerors, who had thus earned a claim to the veneration of their subjects.
Of a priestly stole we hear for the first time in the Theoria mystica (8th century).
Coal from the Oviedo mines is exported coastwise, and in 1904 the shipments from Aviles for the first time exceeded those from Gijon, reaching a total of more than 290,000 tons.
Both the higher and the provincial administrations were thoroughly reformed with the view of making them more centralized and efficient; and the positions and duties of the various magistrates, who now also received fixed salaries, were for the first time exactly defined.
The of Wales's ' 'c i evidence laid before the committee explained to the country for the first time the actual state of the royal income, and on the proposal of Gladstone, amending the proposal of the government, it was proposed to grant a fixed addition of £36,000 per annum to the prince of Wales, out of which he should be expected to provide for his children without further application to the country.
In the elections to the Convention, Marat was elected seventh out of the twenty-four deputies for Paris, and for the first time took his seat in an assembly of the nation.
When he had already achieved some important successes over Jugurtha (q.v.), in 107 he was elected consul for the first time (an almost unheard-of honour for a "new man"), his popularity with the army and people being sufficient to bear down all opposition.
In 1246 Nicholas obtained a grant of a Saturday market and a fair at the feast of the Assumption (both maintained up to the present day), and in 1275 South Molton appears for the' first time as a mesne borough under his overlordship. The borough subsequently passed to the Audleys, the Hollands, and in 1487 was granted for life to Margaret, duchess of Richmond, who in 1490 obtained a grant of a fair (which is still held) at the nativity of St John the Baptist.
A few years later, in 1847, Miss Sellon formed for the first time a sisterhood at Devonport in connexion with the Church of England.
In 1848 the Grondwet, or fundamental law of the Netherlands, recognized for the first time the responsibility of the Dutch nation for its colonial dependencies.
On the contrary, Rome itself was now for the first time affected by the predominance of the new empire; for Charlemagne converted the patriciate into effective sovereignty, and the successor of St Peter became the chief metropolitan of the Frankish empire.
The most striking addition which is here made to previous researches consists in the treatment of a planet supposed entirely fluid; the general equation for the form of a stratum is given for the first time and discussed.
For the first time we have a correct and convenient expression for Laplace's nth coefficient."
It had, however, been applied by Gauss as early as 1795, and the method was fully explained, and the law of facility for the first time given by him in 1809.
In 307 he was elected consul for the first time.
Such immigrants could naturally be obtained only from the civilized west, and on their own terms. Thus it came about that the middle class element was introduced into Polish society for the first time.
Partly because of its long and successful existence, and partly because of the extensive possessions of Great Britain throughout the world, the Zoological Society of London has been able to exhibit for the first time in captivity a greater number of species of wild animals than probably the total of those shown by all other collections.
Spain undoubtedly owed to Isabella's clear intellect, resolute energy and unselfish patriotism much of that greatness which for the first time it acquired under "the Catholic sovereigns."
The name of Linz appears in documents for the first time in 799 and it received municipal rights in 1324.
Corps under Hancock was for the first time routed.
For the first time an attempt was made to group the MSS., which were divided into African and Asiatic. The former group contained the few old MSS., the latter the many late MSS., and preference was given to the African.
In this great book a break was made for the first time with the traditional text and the evidence of the late MSS., and an attempt was made to reconstruct the text according to the oldest authorities.
The title occurs for the first time in a letter to Epiphanius, prefixed to his Panarium (c. 375), but the Lausiac History of Palladius may be evidence that it was in common use in the 4th century as applied to Pachomius (q.v.).
Thus, for the first time in the world's history, the ultimate problem of faith is based on the relation of God to the individual believer; and this problem Jeremiah is compelled to face mainly in relation to his own personality, to assure himself that his own faith is a trLic, possession and lifts him above all the calamities that assail him, in spite of the hopeless ruin of his nation.
Here he passed for the first time under the direct orders of Robert Lee, and the rest of his career was spent in command of the II.
Papers published in 1776 were concerned with quartz, alum and clay and with the analysis of calculus vesicae from which for the first time he obtained uric acid.
It appears from comparison of the work in the two great divisions of vertebrate and invertebrate palaeontology made for the first time in this article that in accuracy of observation and in close philosophical analysis of facts the students of invertebrate palaeontology led the way.
Through its syncretic origin Gnosticism introduced for the first time into Christianity a whole mass of sacramental, mystical ideas, which had hitherto existed in it only in its earliest phases.
A further testimony to the activity which prevailed in the field of Biblical lore is the fact that at the close of the century probably about the year r000 - the Gospels were rendered anew for the first time in the south of Eng land.
The first of a series of ephemerides, calculated on these principles, was published by him at Linz in 1617; and in that for 1620, dedicated to Baron Napier, he for the first time employed logarithms. This important invention was eagerly welcomed by him, and its theory formed the subject of a treatise entitled Chilias Logarithmorum, printed in 1624, but circulated in manuscript three years earlier, which largely contributed to bring the new method into general use in Germany.
Here explorations for copper immediately began, and for the first time in the United States the business of mining for the metals began to be developed on an extensive scale, with suitable appliances, and with financial success.
It is clearly the form of the fundamental property (expressed in the terminology of the "application of areas") which led him to call the curves for the first time by the names parabola, ellipse, hyperbola.
This was the first time that a colonist had been called upon to assist in the settlement of international disputes.
Here Aristotle, starting from the previous grammar of sentences in general, proceeded, for the first time in philosophical literature, to disengage the logic of the proposition, or that sentence which can alone be true or false, whereby it alone enters into reasoning.
The whole area of the present state of Alabama then for the first time became subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
On the 11th of May 1898 a force from two vessels of the United States fleet under Admiral Schley, searching for Cervera and blockading the port, cut two of the three cables here (at Point Colorado, at the entrance of the harbour), and for the first time in the Spanish-American War the American troops were under fire.
After Caesar's murder, Balbus seems to have attached himself to Octavian; in 43 or 42 he was praetor, and in 40 consul - an honour then for the first time conferred on an alien.
In addition to writing numerous articles for the Leipzig Acta Eruditorum, Bergler edited the editio princeps of the Byzantine historiographer Genesius (1733), and the letters of Alciphron (1715), in which seventy-five hitherto unpublished letters were for the first time included.
With the growing weakness and corruption of the Hasmonaean princes, and the alienation of a large part of the nation from their cause, the hope of a better kingship begins to appear in Judaea also; at first darkly shadowed forth in the Book of Enoch (chap. xc.), where the white steer, the future leader of God's herd after the deliverance from the heathen, stands in a certain contrast to the actual dynasty (the horned lambs); and then much more clearly, and for the first time with use of the name Messiah, in the Psalter of Solomon, the chief document of the protest of Pharisaism against its enemies the later Hasmonaeans.
His great faculties now for the first time found opportunity for their exercise.
In the census of 1901 the operations were extended for the first time to the Kurram Valley and the Sherani country, trans-frontier territories containing a population of 66,628 souls, which had not been previously enumerated.
During its later years his reign was much distrubed, however, by the contentions for ascendancy which arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, the two rival sects or parties which then for the first time (under those names at least) came into prominence.
Tiring of the great lake at Pereyaslavl, he had already seen the sea for the first time at Archangel in July 1683, and on the 1st of May 1694 returned thither to launch a ship built by himself the year before.
He gave away everything, money, villages, domains, whole counties, to the utter impoverishment of the treasury, thereby rendering the crown, for the first time in Hungarian history, dependent upon the great feudatories, who, in Hungary as elsewhere, took all they could get and gave as little as possible in return.
Having been excluded from the council of the Five Hundred on suspicion of royalism, he took part with his friend Laine in the commission of 1813, which gave expression for the first time to direct opposition to the will of the emperor.
The custom of which we have here for the first time an account had become universal by the 3rd century.
Here he was for the first time grappling with a fundamental difficulty in metaphysical idealism which is absent from realism, namely, the difficulty of explaining the identity of a thing, e.g.
The Scottish School never realized that every sensation of the five senses is a perception of a sensible object in the bodily organism; and that touch is a perception, not only of single sensible pressure, but also of double sensible pressure, a perception of our bodily members sensibly pressing and pressed by one another, from which, on the recurrence of a single sensible pressure, we infer the pressure of an external thing for the first time.
P. Pictet, and exhibited for the first time in Great Britain the working of the Cailletet apparatus.
Olszewski, and illustrated for the first time in public the liquefaction of oxygen and air, by means of apparatus specially designed for optical projection so that the actions taking place might be visible to the audience.
He next experimented with a highpressure hydrogen jet by which low temperatures were realized through the Thomson-Joule effect, and the successful results thus obtained led him to build at the Royal Institution the large refrigerating machine by which in 1898 hydrogen was for the first time collected in the liquid state, its solidification following in 1899.
The conclave, which took place in Rome, for the first time for 75 years, resulted in the election of Bartolomeo Prignano VI., (April 8, 1378), who took the name of Pope Urban VI.
He was supposed to have died on the Afghan frontier in 1825 on his second journey; but if Huc's story is true he reached Lhasa in 1826, and did not leave it till 1838, being assassinated on his homeward journey, when maps and drawings were found on him, and his identity was for the first time suspected by the Tibetans.
At all events when the word forum 3 begins to appear for the first time in documents of the 10th century in the sense of a liberty or 1 The nature of the evidence may be gathered from Savigny, Gesch.
Latterly the word fuero came to be used in Castile in a wider sense than before, as meaning a general code of laws; thus about the time of Saint Ferdinand the old Lex Visigothorum, then translated for the first time into the vernacular, was called the Fuero Juzgo, a name which was soon retranslated into the barbarous Latin of the period as Forum Judicum; 4 and among the compilations of Alphonso the Learned in like manner were an Espejo de Fueros and also the Fuero de las leyes, better known perhaps as the Fuero Real.
Thus Xenophanes for the first time postulates a supreme God whose 2 Strictly, pantheism is to identify the universe with God, while the term "pancosmism" (rap, Kovµos, the universe) has frequently been used for the identification of God with the universe.
A new source of supply was for the first time made available by Herodes Atticus, c. A.D.
Wdhler repeated the experiment at Göttingen in 1827, employing potassium alone as the reducing agent, he obtained it in the metallic state for the first time.
He was richly endowed by Mary from the greater and lesser spoils of the Church; and the three wardenships of the border, united for the first time in his person, gave the lord high admiral of Scotland a position of unequalled power.
Its inhabitants became for the first time Milanese, attached to the standard of St Ambrose - no longer subjects of a foreign conqueror, but a distinct people, with a municipal life and prospects of their own.
His nephew Martino followed as podesta in 1256, and in 1259 as signore of Milan - the first time such a title was heard in Italy.
He tried to reconcile political parties by granting from his own initiative a liberal constitution (April 6, 1901), introducing for the first time in the constitutional history of Servia the system of two chambers (skupshtina and senate).
In the war of 1805, in accordance with a treaty of alliance signed at Wurzburg on the 23rd of September, Bavarian troops, for the first time since Charles VII., fought side by side with the French, and by the treaty of Pressburg, signed on the 26th of December, the principality of Eichstadt, the margraviate of Burgau, the lordship of Vorarlberg, the countships of Hohenems and Konigsegg-Rothenfels, the lordships of Argen and Tetnang, and the city of Lindau with its territory were to be added to Bavaria.
It was performed for the first time at Frankfort-on-Oder in the summer of 1755, and received with great favour.
For the first time in the earth's history we find Foraminifera taking a prominent part in the marine faunas; the genus Fusulina was abundant in what is now Russia, China, Japan, North America; Valvulina had a wide range, as also had Endothyra and Archaediscus; Saccammina is a form well known in Britain and Belgium, and many others have been described; some Carboniferous genera are still extant.
For the first time in history the pope appeared as a political power, a temporal prince.
The second period, by converting the metal into the fusible cast iron and melting this, for the first time removed the gangue of the ore; the third period by giving a temperature high enough to melt the most infusible forms of iron, liberated the slag formed in deriving them from cast iron.
William Bedwell, the Arabic scholar, was vicar of Tottenham, and published in 1632 a Briefe Description of the Towne of Tottenham, in which he printed for the first time the burlesque poem, the Turnament of Tottenham.
Macclesfield borough sent two members to parliament in 1832 for the first time.
Under his leadership discipline and party harmony were established among the Democrats for the first time after the Civil War.
All the apartments and arrangements described by Vitruvius and other ancient writers may be readily traced in the houses of Pompeii, and in many instances these have for the first time enabled us to understand the technical terms and details transmitted to us by Latin authors.
His reliance upon the knights, or middle-class landowners, who now for the first time appear in the political foreground, is all the more interesting because it is this class who, either as members of parliament or justices of the peace, were to have the effective rule of England in their hands for so many centuries.
For the first time since his boyhood he no longer felt the daily goad urging him to the daily toil.
In 286 we hear for the first time of maritime raids by the Saxons in the same quarter.
By this time all the country east of the lower Elbe seems to have been Slavonic. In the north, perhaps in the province of Schleswig, we hear now for the first time of the Danes.
Although not yet a single people, the German tribes had now for the first time a ruler whose authority was confined to their own lands, and from this time the beginnings of national life may be traced.
He was twenty-four years of age, and at the coronation festival, which was held at Aix-la-Chapelle, the dukes performed for the first time the nominally menial offices known as the arch-offices of the German kingdom.
The princes, now for the first time referred to officially as domini terrae, were given full rights of jurisdiction over their lands and all the inferior officers of justice were made subservient to them.
The popular feeling for the first time found expression when Luther, on All Saints day 1517, nailed to a church door in Wittenberg the theses in which he contested the doctrine Luther which lay at the root of the scandalous traffic in indulgences carried on in the popes name by Tetzel and his like.
Both had long been virtually free; they now for the first time took the position of distinct nations.
The nation, as a whole, was proud of him, and began, for the first time since the Thirty Years War, to feel that it might once more assume a commanding place in the world.
Among a large section of the community patriotism became for the first time a consuming passion, and it was stimulated by the counsels of several manly teachers, among whom the first place belongs to the philosopher Fichte.
Proposals to increase it had been made in 1869 and in 1878, and on the latter occasion Bismarck for the first time publicly announced his desire for a state monopoly, a project which he never gave up, but for which he never was able to win any support.
In the first meetings it appeared that there were strong opposing tendencies within the party which for the first time could be brought to public discussion.
It was the first time that an increase of this kind had been necessary within the regular period.
Notwithstanding this the bill was only carried by sixteen votes, and it would have been thrown out again had not the Poles for the first time voted for the government, since the whole of the Centre voted in opposition.
Rufinus in his preface to this work - in which for the first time we meet the title Recognition(s) - observes that there are two editions to which the name applies, two collections of books differing in some points but in many respects containing the same narrative.
Prussia was thus for the first time formally recognized as the protector of the German states against Austrian ambition, and had at the same time become the centre of an anti-Austrian alliance, which embraced Sweden, Poland and the maritime powers.
They were able for the first time to procure the election of one of their party in the Austrian Delegation, and threatened to introduce into the Assembly scenes of disorder similar to those which they had made common in the Reichsrath.