What-the Sentence Examples

I don't know what the odds are, but I figure god is responsible for both - don't you think?

Oh, is that what the kiss was for?

I want to know what the problem is.

No one knew what the future held, but if they faced everything together, surely they would grow together.

She stood for a moment, trying to remember what the smell was.

I know you well enough to know you would have to find out – no matter what the risk.

As for what the town thinks, I don't care.

The arms that rescued her continued to cradle her gently, and what the fall had failed to do to her heart beat, his close proximity completed.

I don't know what the sentence for rape was back then.

The announcement went on to describe what the young boy was wearing and listed a tip line phone number to call with information.

Nothing was learned from the brief visit that contradicted what the man had said to me.

Molly remained enthralled with the baby and paid no attention to what the rest of us were doing.

Do you know what the letter said?

Apparently that's what the authorities told the family.

While his teenage action was untrustworthy, it was venial compared to abandoning the child to an abductor if that was what the cowering, younger Howie had done!

She couldn't quite understand what the poison was; it wasn't a normal infection, and yet it couldn't be anything else.

Dusty wondered what the hell was wrong with everyone around him and rubbed the back of his neck.

You know well enough what the Others will do in the human realm, the Watcher said.

Damian wondered what the hell Sofi had figured out that would send the man before him into the teenage-like fit.

If he crossed an Other, he knew exactly what the risk was.

He still couldn't remember much more than what the Watcher and Original Vamp had told him.

She took a step back, uncertain what the man was but aware her instincts were at a scream.

It didn't take much for her to imagine what the body beneath the tight shirt was like.

She could see the future and he was a … what the hell was he?

I chose to live, no matter what the consequences.

She didn't know what the former deity sensed, but she wasn't going to stick around too long to find out.

We have no control over what the government does.

He asked Dean what the event was all about.

I don't know what the rules say but he must have enough legal tie to the county to qualify.

It's hard to say there's no connection with the bones until we're sure there is a third Dawkins, who he or she is, and what the suit is all about.

I don't see how telling us what the case is about, who the litigants are and who's the attorney compromises anything.

Now, unless you're looking at smokes in a store, who knows what the packages look like?

He knew the state, the town, and what the problems were.

If something even more untoward than what the scene implied had actually occurred last evening, Dean would find himself squeezed between the proverbial rock and a hard place.

This thought, of what the demon lord might do to the poor girl who had suffered enough, was what made Wynn feel guiltiest.

There were moments when he didn't know what the human side of her was thinking.

He could forgive her for what the man did – that was his doing, but not for what Lori intended to do to Carmen.

Deidre closed her eyes and rested against him, trying to imagine what the last days of her life would be like.

Wariness crossed Tamer's face as he realized what the compass did.

He always did, no matter what the personal cost.

He didn't even know what the right thing to do was anymore.

That's what the man, Gabriel, had been doing in this spot last night.

Deidre wiped the blood off her foot onto a towel, unable to piece together what the hell was going on.

Couldn't someone tell her what the hell was going on?

I cannot be certain what the result might be if you tried to kill yourself or if you died of unnatural causes.

Will you tell me what the chances are for the option you're looking at?

Do what the demon says and almost have a fifty percent chance of surviving.

Tired and confused, Katie left without asking what the drugs were for and stepped into the chilly fall evening.

I have a feeling you know already what the past two days have been like.

Despite being brothers, neither approved of what the other did.

She wanted to see what the beast looked like, what kind of monster he'd be, yet knew if she saw him in full light, he was on his way to kill her.

She hesitated, reviewing what the inmates had told her about grabbing the robed man's necklace.

When her mind had cleared and her body no longer thrummed with need, she tried to figure out what the hell had happened.

He seemed to be the only one on the Council who truly cared about upholding the balance between good and evil, no matter what the cost.

He couldn.t figure out what the hell the puny human in front of him wanted.

She retrieved it and hugged it, not at all certain what the new Toby would and wouldn.t want that the old Toby had loved.

He thought of what the Council wanted him to do and of what Sasha had done.

She didn't really care what the dark grey walls, floors, and ceilings were made of or why the floor felt like carpet and looked like gun metal.

Kiera had nodded as was expected while wondering what the hell Evelyn drank to make all this seem reasonable.

She knew what the answer was, but hadn't spoken it.

She looked around her, wondering what the hell to do now.

She struggled to understand what the images were trying to tell her.

But what the hell could I have done?

That's what the guy in the alley said when he sold it to me for ten bucks.

Truthfully, Jackson had no idea what the human would do; he just didn't have the heart to tell her.

Just what the doctor ordered.

He should be controlling this situation by now; not sitting here trying to figure out what the hell was happening.

I want to know for better or for worse what the reality is.

Jackson sat rubbing his jaw wondering what the hell just happened.

Brady wondered what the good-natured man had said to piss her off so much.

He burned to know the answers to Elise's questions, not even able to fathom what the answer could be.

I'll risk a quick communication from here to see what the urgency is.

She'd seen what the PMF did to feds; if not for Brady, she'd be raped and dead by now.

Katie hesitated then continued onto the path Gabriel had told her to follow.  She didn't know what the creature was.  He looked like Andre, but Andre was dead-dead, which meant the creature following them was something else.

I don't know what the consequences will be, Darkyn explained.

Andre always said Death was more dangerous than the Dark One, because he understood what the Dark One wanted.

If we find her, we can stop her before she takes Katie.  We don't know what the demons are doing, but we know Death is looking for Katie.

Kris blinked, trying to figure out what the deity wanted.

Rhyn looked hard at his friend, sensing what the death-dealer didn't say.

The Byrne address was on the east side of town, but as Dean had time to kill, he decided to drive west to what the locals called the beltway, a loop road around the city.

There's always a scene when relatives view what the victim left behind.

Dean wanted to ask what the card said but was far too civilized to ask.

He had seen firsthand what the folks from Philly did to Billie Wassermann.

Dean wasn't sure what the FBI man had heard, if anything.

Shouldn't you each know what the other's doing?

She wanted to know what the devil was going on.

Dean had wondered what the two hoods expected to find in his house.

This note sounds like and looks like he was blind drunk when he wrote it and he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

I'm not lying when I say there is no firm proof that your hus­band's death was anything more than an accidental drowning— that's what the overwhelming evidence shows.

If god meant for them to have children, they would – no matter what the doctor said.

No matter what the doctors say.

I wonder what the sales lady thought.

He didn't care what the woman wanted.

Here, sit down and tell me what the problem is.

I don't care what the doctor said about it.

Rumors spread through the guardsmen of a second Schism, one that would finish what the first started.

Uneasily, she realized this was what the war would do to the mortal world.

She wasn't sure what the Black God's priority was, but she wanted to find Darian.

Before his death, he admitted he didn't know what the curse was, only that none in our line must draw the curse.

Her advisor did not believe what the guards believed, that only a member of her clan could make the Springs heal people.

There were no lessons to be learned, except what the creature taught me.

We alone can bring peace to this world and heal what the demons have done.

As worried as they were, they were resolved to defending their kingdom, no matter what the price.

That's what the locals call one of the swimming holes.

Even more interested in what the Black God was doing, Xander lingered for a few minutes then left.

It's better than what the kids getting attacked are telling us.

Xander didn't like it, though he wasn't at all certain what the boy-god was doing.

She wasn't going to be late on her first day, not because she cared what the client wanted, but because Jonny claimed to be watching every move she made.

That's not what the pic says.

We test them to see what the talent is and where to assign them.

Jessi didn't have time to figure out what the hell was going on between Ashley and the Black God.

The light actually emitted laterally is thus the same as would be caused by forces exactly the opposite of these acting on the medium otherwise free from disturbance, and it only remains to see what the effect of such force would be.

The Discourse of Method and the Meditations apply what the Rules for the Direction of the Mind had regarded in particular instances to our conceptions of the world as a whole.

It is right to add, however, that some authorities consider the accounts of his leniency to have been greatly exaggerated, and even charge him with going beyond what the edicts permitted.

This deliverance was what the mysteries promised.

None of them has an idea of what the West calls morality, except the simple one of right or wrong arising out of property.

This wise recommendation received very scant attention, and it was not until the necessities of the colonies forced them to it that an attempt was made to do what the framers of the original constitution suggested.

To know the mind of the god was equivalent to knowing what the god in question proposed to do.

This was done by contract, which usually specified what the parent had to leave and what maintenance was expected.

This will be better understood if we consider shortly on what the chief characteristics of sound depend.

Both were convinced that the old order must change; neither saw clearly what the new order should be to which it was to give place.

The morality of this course has been much canvassed, though it seems really to involve nothing more than an express declaration of what the two oaths implied.

This is what the government wanted.

The present and the future have to be what the past and the absent make them.

This latter fact is no doubt due to the production of an excess of plastic materials over and above what the tree requires for its immediate needs.

Thus the English canon of 1571 directs preachers "to take heed that they do not teach anything in their sermons as though they would have it completely held and believed by the people, save what is agreeable to the doctrine of the Old and New Testaments, and what the Catholic Fathers and ancient Bishops have gathered from that doctrine."

But this is exactly what the original Roman patricians, the settlers on the three oldest hills, were in the beginning.

This was what the later nobility of Rome was always striving at, and what they did to a great extent practically establish.

This is what the nobility of office, if left unchecked, naturally grows into.

For, as almost everywhere else, this Teutonic nobility admits of degrees, though it is yet harder to say in what the degrees of nobility consisted than to say in what nobility consisted itself.

As to what the conception of Basilides was of the completion of the process of redemption, the available sources tell us next to nothing.

Stolypin defended the ukaz of the 2nd of June 1907, which in flat contradiction of the provisions of the fundamental laws altered the electoral law without the consent of the legislature, on the ground that what the autocrat had granted the autocrat could take away.

Stolypin indeed defended the coup d'etat in the Duma on the ground that the autocrat had merely altered what the autocrat had originally granted; but, while laying stress on the necessity for restoring order in the body politic, he announced a long programme of reforms, including agrarian measures, reform of local government and its extension in the frontier provinces, and state insurance of workmen.

Whatever the ostensible form of a railway tariff, the contribution of the different shipments of freight to these general expenses is determined on the principle of charging what the traffic will bear.

The weights are governed by what the railway has to carry Italy.

When it came to the ears of the king he slew the most responsible of the Pharisees and every member of his household who accepted what the Pharisee said.

The intellect combines what the understanding separates; hence Nicolas teaches the principle of the coincidentia contradictoriorum.

In this treatment we have to bear in mind what the entomologist teaches us, that is, the nature, habits and structure of the pest.

Napoleon determined that he, like all the Bonapartist rulers, should act merely as a Napoleonic satrap. They were to be to him what the counts of the marches were to Charlemagne, warlike feudatories defending the empire or overawing its prospective foes.

In this scheme birds are arranged according to what the author considered to be their natural method and sequence; but the result exhibits some unions as ill-assorted as can well be met with in the whole range of tentative arrangements of the class, together with some very unjustifiable divorces.

More dimly still visions of what the first bird may have been like could be reasonably entertained; and, passing even to a higher antiquity, the reptilian parent whence all birds have sprung was brought within reach of man's consciousness.

The knight who joined the Crusades might thus still indulge the bellicose side of his genius - under the aegis and at the bidding of the Church; and in so doing he would also attain what the spiritual side of his nature ardently sought - a perfect salvation and remission of sins.

But what the Third Crusade showed most clearly was that the crusading movement was being lost to the papacy, and becoming part of the demesne of the secular state - organized by the state on its own basis of taxation, and conducted by the state according to its own method of negotiation.

But, with Syria in the hands of the Mahommedans, the attack on Egypt must necessarily be directed by sea; and thus the Crusade henceforth becomes - what the Third Crusade, here as elsewhere the turning-point in crusading history, had already in part been - a maritime enterprise.

About the same time Martin Luther was in the full course of his protest against the papal supremacy and had already burnt the pope's bull at Worms. The two opponents were girding themselves for the struggle; and what the Church of Rome was losing by the defection of the Augustinian was being counterbalanced by the conversion of the founder of the Society of Jesus.

The account thus presented to us of what the previous confusion was, underlines and attests the summary exposition of it given in the last edition of this work.

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.

For this reason their interest in ethical speculations was all the keener; their great thinkers were endlessly engaged in settling what the relation ought to be between duty and self-interest.

Quite in the great doctor's spirit is Cicero's counsel to his son, to hear what the philosophers had to say, but to decide for himself as a man of the world.

A fresh arbitration might have to be entered on to decide (I) what the law was, (2) whether it applied to the matter in hand.

Disease as an entity - as something to which all living matter is subject - is what the pathologist has to recognize and to investigate, and the practical application of the knowledge thus acquired follows as a natural consequence.

The wonderful Roman remains at Trier and elsewhere, the Roman roads, bridges and aqueducts, are convincing proofs of what the Rhine gained from Roman domination.

Little is known as to what the Commune then established really was.

This text, however, is not a law, but rather an abstract of the special usages obtaining in those regions - what the Germans call a Weistum.

The disciplined Egyptian army, supported by a well organized fleet, rapidly accomplished what the Turks had failed to do; and by 1826 the Greeks were practically subdued on land, and Ibrahim was preparing to turn his attention to the islands.

No laboratories were accessible to ordinary students, who had to content themselves with what the universities could give in the lectureroom and the library, and though both at Bonn and Erlangen Liebig endeavoured to make up for the deficiencies of the official instruction by founding a students' physical and chemical society for the discussion of new discoveries and speculations, he felt that he could never become a chemist in his own country.

What the tree is in itself - that is, for a perfect intelligence - we cannot know, any more than a dog or horse can know what the tree is for a human intelligence.

Indeed more than six centuries passed before the idea was again resuscitated; and even then it required a group of brilliant Frenchmen to do what the old Dominican had carried out unaided.

Condillac, Joubert, Mill and other eminent men have shown what the intellectual ascendancy of a woman can be.

The netsuke and the pipe, with all that pertained to it, were for the commoners what the sword-hilt and guard were for the gentry.

The Bibliotheque germanique (1720-1740) was established by Jacques Lenfant to do for northern Europe what the Bibliotheque britannique did for England.

Much depends on what the "seer" is accustomed to use, and some persons who can "scry" in a glass ball or a glass waterbottle cannot "scry" in ink.

If every other contemporary record of the crusades perished, we should still be able by aid of this to understand and realize what the mental attitude of crusaders, of Teutonic knights, and the rest was, and without this we should lack the earliest, the most undoubtedly genuine, and the most characteristic of all such records.

He had decided already what the great task of his reign should be - the establishment of security upon the dangerous north-eastern frontier.

Papyri from a Jewish colony in Elephantine (407 B.C.) clearly show the form which royal permits could take, and what the Jews were prepared to give in return; the points of resemblance are extremely interesting, but compared with the biblical documents the papyri reveal some striking differences.

The title is different from what the New Testament use of the term would have led us to expect, i.e.

On the part of the minister or priest officiating must be present also an inward intention or will to do what the Church does.

These measures, and the excitement which followed the arrival of the radicals from Zwickau, led Luther to return to Wittenberg in March 1522, where he preached a series of sermons attacking the impatience of the radical party, and setting forth clearly his own views of what the progress of the Reformation should be.

Any attempt here to anticipate what the course of an idealism inspired by such a spirit of caution and comprehension is likely to be cannot but appear dogmatic.

They were narrow but strong; no better example can be imagined of what the French call " the defects of one's qualities."

The religion of the American aborigines, so far as it can be made a subject of investigation, consisted (1) in what the tribes believed.

Thus there seems to be a measure of uncertainty as to what the Church of Rome now calls " dogma " - only in part relieved by 1 Three writers mentioned in Wetzer's and Welte's Kirchenlexikon.

But this is just what the despatch does not state verbally and precisely, and accordingly Grouchy, like Ney on the 16th and 17th, misread it.

Then, again, as to the scope of the inquiry, the administrative purposes for which information is thus collected vary greatly in the different countries, and the inquiry, too, has to be limited to what the conditions of the locality allow, and the population dealt with is likely to be able and willing to answer.

In eleven cases such enumerations have been taken; and on computing from them and the results of the federal census of 1880 what the population at the date of the eleventh census should have been, if the annual rate of increase had been uniform, it appears that in no case, except New York City and Oregon, was the difference between the enumerations and these estimates over 4%.

To say, for instance, that the area of a right-angled triangle is half the area of the rectangle contained by the two sides, is not to say what the area is, but what it is the half of.

The desire to learn what the future has in store is nearly as old as the sense of responsibility in mankind, and has been the parent of many empirical systems of fortune-telling, which profess to afford positive knowledge whereby the affairs of life may be regulated, and the dangers of failure foretold.

With the exception of what the South-Arabian Hamdani relates of his own observation or from authentic tradition, the Mahommedan Arabic accounts of South Arabia and Sabaea are of little worth.

But while literary in form and conception, its appeal is in spirit so personal a testimony to what the Gospel has done for the writer and his fellow Christians, that it is akin to the piety of the Apostolic Fathers as a group. It is true that it has marked affinities, e.g.

This is what the Gospel of Christ aims chiefly at producing as its proper fruit; and the Apostolic Fathers would have desired no better record than that they were themselves genuine "epistles of Christ."

The doctrinal decisions of the ancient Church remained the indestructible canon of belief, and what the theologians of the ancient Church had taught was reverenced as beyond improvement.

In brief, then, the criticism of the Old Testament seeks to discover what the words written actually meant to the writers, what the events in Hebrew history actually were, what the religion actually was; and hence its aim differs from the dogmatic or homiletic treatments of the Old Testament, which have sought to discover in Scripture a given body of dogma or incentives to a particular type of life or the like.

But these teachers did not succeed in accomplishing a task parallel to what the Hebrew prophets achieved, namely, the complete renewal and elevation of the Hebrew religion from a local and national into a universal and ethical religion.

Rent is a monopoly price, equal, not to what the landlord could afford to take, but to what the farmer can afford to give.

He pushes the claim even further, requiring, besides entire outward submission to command, also the complete identification of the place of God, without reference to his personal wisdom, piety or discretion; that any obedience which falls short of making the superior's will one's own, in inward affection as well as in outward effect, is lax aect; that going beyond the letter of command, even in things abstractly good and praiseworthy, is disobedience, and that the "sacrifice of the intellect" is the third and highest grade of obedience, well pleasing to God, when the inferior not only wills what the superior wills, but thinks what he thinks, submitting his judgment, so far as it is possible for the will to influence and lead the judgment.

On the whole it is not too much to say that, in spite of differences in style, the best means of judging what the temples and palaces of Mexico were like is to be gained from the actual ruins in Central America.

His temper was what the French happily call a difficult one, and his life was consequently enlivened or disturbed by various literary quarrels.

To what the remaining difference was due it is difficult to say with certitude; there are some who argue that the tendency of prices to fall is inherent, and that the constant whittling away of intermediaries' profits is sufficient explanation, while bi-metallists have maintained that the phenomenon is clearly to be traced to the action of the German government in demonetizing silver in 1872.

Interpolation is sometimes due to an inopportune use of knowledge, as when a quotation or a narrative is made to agree with what the interpolator has read elsewhere.

The textual critic has no concern with what the writer ought to have thought or said; his business is solely with what he did say or think or might have said or thought.

In other words, a critic may deliberately pronounce that what stands in the text represents what the author wrote or might well have written, that it is doubtful whether it does, that it certainly does not, or, in the last event, that it may be replaced with certainty by something that does.

The question which divided them was what the good is.

Bradley, however, having satisfied himself, like Spinoza, by an abuse of the word " independent," that " the finite is self-discrepant," goes on to ask what the one Real, the absolute, is; and, as he passed from Herbart to Spinoza, so now he passes from Spinoza to Kant.

Dividing what the irreconcilables of the Hildebrandine party considered as an indissoluble whole, they made a sharp distinction between the property of the Church and the Church itself, between the political and territorial power of the bishops and their religious authority, and between the feudal investiture which confers lands and jurisdiction and the spiritual investiture which confers ecclesiastical rights.

It is just as uncertain how long Asshur remained under the Babylonian suzerainty of which there is evidence in the time of Khammurabi, and what the relation of Asshur to western Mesopotamia was under the early kings whose names have lately been recovered.

By1185-1186Saladin had made Egypt supreme over all these principalities, thus achieving what the XVIIIth and XIXth Egyptian dynasties had attempted in vain.

Security is what the country chiefly needs.

Occasionally we know what the name was; the Baal of Tyre was Melqarth (Melkarth), which again means merely " king of the city "; similarly among the Aramaeans the Ba'al of Harran was the moon-god Sin.

The electromotive force is practically constant no matter what the velocity of the disks, but according to some observers the internal resistance decreases as the velocity increases.

The tiger frequently makes his presence felt, but is seldom seen; he prefers to prowl in what the Malays call tiger weather, that is, dark, starless, misty nights.

The chief difficulty in the way of modifying the blastfurnace process itself so as to make it accomplish what the direct processes aim at, by giving its product less carbon and silicon than pig iron as now made contains, is the removal of the sulphur.

In addition to this a knowledge is required of what the condition of a pelt should be; a good judge knows by experience whether a skin will turn out soft and strong, after dressing, and whether the hair is in the best condition of strength and beauty.

When the ambassadors of the senate in treating for peace tried to terrify him with their hints of what the despairing citizens might accomplish, he gave with a laugh his celebrated answer, "The thicker the hay, the easier mowed!"

More attention seems to have been given to the matter in the United States of America and in Germany and Russia than in England, but the infinite variety of samples known to the commercial expert, and the impossibility of standardizing those in such a manner as to make readily recognizable what the chemist has treated, renders most of the recorded analyses of uncertain value.

At Freeport, on the Wisconsin boundary, on the 27th of August, Lincoln answered questions put to him by Douglas, and by his questions forced Douglas to "betray the South" by his enunciation of the "Freeport heresy," that, no matter what the character of Congressional legislation or the Supreme Court's decision "slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere unless it is supported by local police regulations."

In Germany general powers are granted by law, subject to the approval of the central authorities, with the result that it is the government departments that determine what the local elected authorities may do, and that the latter regard themselves as commissioned to carry out, not so much the will of the locality by which they are elected, as that of the central government.

He saw clearly what the possession of the duchies would mean to Germany, their vast importance for the future of German sea-power; already he had a vision of the great war-harbour of Kiel and the canal connecting the Baltic and the North seas; and he was determined that these should be, if not wholly Prussian, at least wholly under Prussian control.

On this Taaffe had probably calculated, but he had omitted to inquire what the other parties would do.

Thus in 138 years the Arab did what the Canaanite had never done.

From our present point of view we may therefore regard this work of Hellenism as one continuous process, initiated by the Macedonians and carried on under Roman protection, and ask in the first place what the institution of a Greek city implied.

That the adversaries should produce any sample whatsoever of poetry or rhetoric equal to the Koran is not at all what the Prophet demands.

The later parts of E show a great degeneration in language, and a querulous tone due to the sufferings of the native population under the harsh Norman rule; "but our debt to it is inestimable; and we can hardly measure what the loss to English history would have been, if it had not been written; or if, having been written, it had, like so many another English chronicle, been lost."

The surface in Denmark is almost everywhere formed by the so-called Boulder Clay and what the Danish geologists call the Boulder Sand.

The public yearned to know what the soldiers and sailors were doing, and the information was withheld from them.

But there were other matters which might have been described had the authorities recognized the necessity for giving due publicity to what the nation was doing in the war.

It is to the water what the other weasels are to the land, or martens to the trees, being as essentially aquatic in its habits as the otter, beaver, or musk-rat, and spending perhaps more of its time in the water than it does on land.

It is much disputed what the original compass of the Decalogue was.

On the 7th of November at Leicester Lord Rosebery insisted that what the country wanted was not fiscal reform but commercial reform, and he appealed to the free-trade section of the Unionist party to join the Liberals in a united defence, - an appeal incidentally for Liberal unity which was warmly seconded ten days later by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

The preachers became, what the nobles had been, the opponents of authority; the Stuarts were to break them and be broken on them till 1688.

In any case it is what the compilers of the oldest extant documents believed their teacher to have regarded as the most important points in his teaching.

It will throw very useful light upon the intellectual level in the Buddhist community just after the earliest period, and upon literary life in the valley of the Ganges in the 4th or sth century B.C., if we briefly explain what the tractates in this collection contain.

If they had been no more than what the Illyrian pirates had been in the early history of Rome, or than the Arabic corsairs were at this time in southern Europe, the disappearance of the evil would have been quickly followed by its oblivion.

What was the quarrel between them, and what the causes they represented, cannot now be ascertained with certainty.

Neither the community nor the Government was intimidated; and Mr. Thomas used his power for peace, and for a settlement, after ten days, on terms not materially different from what the men might have had at first.

There would still be a great gap to be filled before we reached the earliest letters of St Paul; but yet we should know what the Apostle meant when he wrote to " the Church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ," and reminded them how they had " turned from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivereth us from the wrath to come."

The various ways in which this special style could be modified by the scale of the work, and contrasted with the broader and more elaborate parts, gave the Mass (even in its merely technical aspects) a range which made it to the 16th-century composer what the symphony is to the great instrumental classics.

In such a state of things it was the business of the philosopher to set forth the outlines of the coming epoch, as they were already moulding themselves into shape, amidst what the ordinary eye saw only as the disintegration of the old forms of social life.

He held that what the church had imposed the church could remit.

An Indulgence is and can only be the remission of a merely ecclesiastical penalty; the church can remit what the church has imposed; it cannot remit what God has imposed.

It can have no efficacy for souls in Purgatory; penalties imposed by the church can only refer to the living; death dissolves them; what the pope can do for souls in Purgatory is by prayer, not by jurisdiction or the power of the keys.

A widespread feeling of indignation spread not only among High Churchmen, but among many who cared little or nothing for the ritual practices involved; and it seemed impossible to foretell what the outcome would be.

Brahman astronomy owed much to the Greeks, and what the Buddhists were to the architecture of northern India, that the Greeks were to its sculpture.

The propositions maintained in the argument are - "(1) That something has existed from eternity; (2) that there has existed from eternity some one immutable and independent being; (3) that that immutable and independent being, which has existed from eternity, without any external cause of its existence, must be self-existent, that is, necessarily existing; (4) what the substance or essence of that being is, which is self-existent or necessarily existing, we have no idea, neither is it at all possible for us to comprehend it; (5) that though the substance or essence of the self-existent being is itself absolutely incomprehensible to us, yet many of the essential attributes of his nature are strictly demonstrable as well as his existence, and, in the first place, that he must be of necessity eternal; (6) that the self-existent being must of necessity be infinite and omnipresent; (7) must be but one; (8) must be an intelligent being; (9) must be not a necessary agent, but a being endued with liberty and choice; (to) must of necessity have infinite power; (I I) must be infinitely wise, and (12) must of necessity be a being of infinite goodness, justice, and truth, and all other moral perfections, such as become the supreme governor and judge of the world."

This empirical groundwork of Aristotle's logic was accepted by the Epicureans, who enunciated most distinctly the fundamental doctrine that all sensations are true of their immediate objects, and falsity begins with subsequent opinions, or what the moderns call " interpretation."

But how little does the psychologist know about the association of ideas, compared with what the logician has discovered about the processes of inference!

Logic cannot, it is true, decide what these things are, nor what the senses know about them, without appealing to metaphysics and psychology.

It is better to say what the thing is.

Later Greek Logic. After Aristotle we have, as regards logic, what the verdict of after times has rightly characterized as an age of Epigoni.

Scholasticism embodied what the Christian community had saved from the wreckage of Greek dialectic. Yet with all its effective manipulation of the formal technique of its translated and mutilated Aristotle, Scholasticism would have gone under long before it did through the weakness intrinsic to its divorce of the form and the matter of knowledge, but for two reasons.

They are confined to the determination of what the truth of any matter of thought, taken for granted upon grounds psychological or other, which are extraneous to logic, includes or excludes.

The discussion as to what the United should be done with it began in Congress in 1846, immediately involving the question of slavery.

In the older and larger towns it soon went beyond what the bishops thought proper to tolerate; conflicts ensued; and in the 13th century several bishops obtained decrees in the imperial court, either to suppress the Rat altogether, or to make it subject to their nomination, and more particularly to abolish the Ungeld, as detrimental to episcopal finances.

Thus in Buddhism the presuppositions which Buddha uncritically took over work out their logical results in the Mahayana, so that great sects calling themselves " Buddhist " affirm what the Master denied and deny what he taught.

This faith, in a peculiarly vivid fashion, illustrates the growth and development of religion, for its great teachers in the highest degree possessed what the Germans call God-consciousness.

Hence in the case of dead languages or past forms of living languages, it is often very difficult to define with precision what the sounds of the past epoch were.

In the first place, a very great part of what the poem tells about Beowulf himself is not presented in regular sequence, but by way of retrospective mention or narration.

This noteworthy result suggests the possibility that what the poem tells of Hygelac's near relatives, and of the events of his reign and that of his successor, is based on historic fact.

We have no means of knowing what the Aeolic and Ionic of say the 9th century were, or if there were such dialects at all.

In the light of facts such as these, who could venture to say what the future of Hinduism is likely to be ?

Church history was allowed to be represented by such men as the Abbe Darras; and many French Catholics were ready to accept without question what the Bollandist Pere de Smedt has not hesitated to call the historical errors and lies of Charles Bartelemy.

A year later, under the ministry of Falk, it developed into what the great scientist, Rudolf Virchow, called a Kulturkampf, or conflict of civilizations.

The act may still be of value in the construction of old grants, and in affording examples of what the legislature regarded as superstitious uses.

Aldus Manutius in Italy, Froben in Basel, the Etiennes in Paris, committed to the press what the investigators had recovered.

Even on the assumption that the existing verses are a retranslation, it would still be certain that they differ very slightly from what the original must have been.

Are you then still ignorant of what the word gospel means ?

Again, the rule of " economy" in raising revenue, or, in other words, taking as little as possible from the contributors over and above what the state receives, holds good for the whole and for each part of public revenue.

The crown was unable either to check the popular movement or to come to any compromise with it, and the Glasgow assembly of 1638, the first free assembly that had met for thirty years, proceeded to make the church what the Covenant required.

It did not do what the Church of Scotland asked, viz.

But all these are mostly marks by which a form may be recognized, and do not explain what the form really is.

It means a great deal more; and it is his contention that what the scientist calls force is really will.

Peace was what the exhausted nation now required; and negotiations had already been opened at Fredrikshamn.

The higher summits of the Cordilleras afford a larger and more continuous supply of water, and so dependent are the people in the cultivated river valleys on this source of water supply that they watch for snowstorms in the Cordilleras as an indication of what the coming season is to be.

The appearance of these minute oysters constitutes what the fishermen call a "fall of spat."

This is accompanied by another statement in which the chancellor gives an estimate of what the produce of the revenue may be in the year just entered upon, supposing the taxes and duties to remain as they were in the past year, and also an estimate of what the expenditure will be in the current year.

Covering a great stretch of time and space, they do for the worshipper in the field of church history what the Scripture readings do in that of biblical history.

It very frequently happens that we do not know what the underlying condition is, and we are forced simply to relieve as best we can the most prominent and most distressing symptoms. In symptomatic treatment we are frequently obliged to use remedies simply because we know they have done good before in similar cases, and we expect them to do so again without having the least idea of how they act.

If we cannot explain or foretell by reason what the exact course of events in nature will be, is it to be expected that we can do so with regard to the wider scheme of God's revealed providence ?

It has been asserted that his mother hated him, and was only restrained from putting him to death while he was still a boy by the fear of what the consequences of another palace crime might be to herself.

Each patriarch is, within his diocese, what the Gallican theory makes the pope in the universal church.

Most of what the Fathers narrate of Cerdo's tenets has probably been transferred to him from his famous pupil Marcion, like whom he is said to have rejected the Old Testament and the New, except part of Luke's Gospel and of Paul's Epistles.

Thus history began as a branch of scientific research, - much the same as what the Athenians later termed philosophy.

Hence in education the teacher should fully acquaint himself with the mental development of the pupil, in order that he may make full use of what the pupil already knows.

The elytra are to the delicate wings of some insects what the thick anterior margins are to stronger wings.

In this case the air in rapid motion strikes the under surface of the kite and forces it up. The string and the hand are to the kite what the weight of the flying creature is to the inclined planes formed by its wings.

If the wing of a gannet, just shot, be removed and made to flap in what the operator believes to be a strictly vertical downward direction, the tip of the wing, in spite of him, will dart forwards between 2 and 3 ft.

This broad comprehensiveness, which to outsiders looks like ecclesiastical anarchy, is the characteristic note of the Church of England; it may be, and has been, defended as consonant with Christian charity and suited to the genius of a people not remarkable for logical consistency; but it makes it all the more difficult to say what the religion of Englishmen actually is, even within the English Church.

The fifth article of the Jay treaty of 1794 provided for a commission to decide what the St Croix river actually was, and this commission in 1798 defined the St Croix, saying that its mouth was in Passamaquoddy bay and that the boundary ran up this river and the Cheputnatecook to a marked monument.

But in its technical sense the word is used to describe what the Greek philosophers invented, and what the noblest of them lifted to the extreme refinement of an art.

Mencius held that the composition of the Ch'un Ch'iu was as great a work as Yu's regulation of the waters of the deluge with which the Shu King commences, and did for the face of society what the earlier labour did for the face of nature.

If, on the contrary, we must hold that man is essentially related to what the same writer calls "a common nature," then it is a legitimate corollary that in man as intelligence we ought to find the key of the whole fabric. At all events, this method of approach must be truer than any which, by restricting itself to the external aspect of phenomena as presented in space, leaves no scope for inwardness and life and all that, in Lotze's language, gives "value" to the world.

A particular tax is not necessarily to be condemned because it takes a little more out of the pockets of the people than what the government receives.

This measure, now known as the land law of Bengal, effected for the rights of the under-holders and cultivators what the Cornwallis code in 1793 had effected for those of the superior landholders.

The latter indeed is glanced at ("All things were made by him"), merely to provide a link with earlier speculation, but what the writer is concerned about is not the mode in which the world came into being but the spiritual life which resides in the Logos and is communicated by him to men.

This is exactly what the ob servations show.

To do this, consider what the ordinary processes of multiplication and division mean in reference to concrete objects.

They are accustomed to declare what the law is, not what it ought to be.

The reign of the Tories was unquestioned, Yet it was not quite what the reign of the Cavaliers had been in 1660.

Sometimes the majority shifted from side to side as the House was influenced by passing gusts of passion or sympathy, so that, as it was said at the time, no man could foretell one day what the House would be pleased to do on the next.

The only cure for waywardness is responsibility, and not only was this precisely what the Commons had not learned to feel, but it was that which it was impossible to make them feel directly.

We do not even know what the appearance and form of the birrus were; and the question of the origin of the cope is not whether it was derived from any garment of the time of the Roman Empire, and if so from which, but what garment in use in the 8th and 9th centuries it represents.

He was the first of the crusading princes to arrive, and on him fell the duty of deciding what the relations of the princes to the eastern emperor Alexius were to be.

Anselm holds that it was best for the injured honour of God to receive from a substitute what the sinner was personally in no condition to offer.

It was partly on Augustinian lines, partly on the lines of what the Germans call Pietism.

Biblical Theology is a historical statement of the different Bible teachings, not a dogmatic statement of what the writer holds for truth, qua truth.

Nevertheless I know that I am, in spite of myself, exactly what the Christian would call, and, so far as I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel.

Hasty judgment, bias, absence of an a priori " indifference " to what the evidence may in the end require us to conclude, undue regard for authority, excessive love for custom and antiquity, indolence and sceptical despair are among the states of mind marked by him as most apt to interfere with the formation of beliefs in harmony with the Universal Reason that is active in the universe.

If one were to ask him what the substance is in which this colour and that taste or smell inhere, " he would find himself in a difficulty like that of the Indian, who, after saying that the world rested on an elephant, and the elephant on a broad-backed tortoise, could only suppose the tortoise to rest on ` Something, I know not what.'

At the end of this patient search among our ideas, he supposes the reader apt to complain that he has been " all this while only building a castle in the air," and to ask what the purpose of all this stir is, if we are not thereby carried beyond mere ideas.

Most of what the Assembly did had been suggested in the cahiers, and many of its decrees were anticipated by actual revolt.

Limiting attention to the great cereal-producing region described above, let us see what the prospects are for increasing the acreage and the yield.

It was clear that if philosophic hedonism was to be established on a broad and firm basis, it must in its notion of good combine what the plain man naturally sought with what philosophy could plausibly offer.

We begin by showing what the actual fact is in the case of these two planets.

Dealing with these secondary schools as a whole the census of 1901 gives figures as to the number of pupils engaged upon what the commissioners call the " higher studies," i.e.

The name is clearly derived from pons and facere, but whether this should be taken as indicating any special connexion with the sacred bridge over the Tiber (Pons Sublicius), or what the original meaning may have been, cannot now be determined.

Thus, even when we discover an elemental meaning in a god's name, that meaning may be all unlike what the word suggests to civilized men.

The Holy Ghost (Pneuma), however, as the Spirit of wisdom for ever dwelling with the Father, controls what the Father has appointed and the Son fulfilled, and this Spirit lives in the church.

Richelieu, by setting his special agents above the legal but complicated machinery of financial administration, had so corrupted it as to necessitate radical reform; all the more so because financial charges had been increased to a point far beyond what the nation could bear.

The peace Of IJtrecht was to France what the peace of Westphalia had been to Austria, and curtailed the former acquisitions of Louis XIV.

The points by which he told on Europe were all implicit in Aristotle, but Averroes set in relief what the original had left obscure, and emphasized things which the Christian theologian passed by or misconceived.

Some scholars (Ewald, Reuss, Hausrath) think that what the story really points to is the persecution under Caligula, but in that case Ptolemy would naturally have been represented as claiming divine honours.

The very various periods named make it probable that the periodical return of the phoenix belongs only to vulgar legend, materializing what the priests knew to be symbolic. Of the birds of the heron family the gorgeous colours and plumed head spoken of by Pliny and others would be least inappropriate to the purple heron (Ardea purpurea), with which, or with the allied Ardea cinerea, it has been identified by Lepsius and Peters (Alteste Texte des Todtenbuchs, 1867, p. 51).

The Roman maxim that what the prince wills has the force of law wa4 not disputednor did the Spaniard doubt that the king acting by himself was the prince.

Silvelas position in the country had been much damaged by the very fact of his policy having fallen so much short of what the nation expected in the shape of reform and retrenchment.

If, therefore, one could correctly read and interpret the activity of these powers, one knew what the gods were aiming to bring about.

To some extent, the individual came in for his share in the incantations and in the purification ritual through which one might hope to rid oneself of the power of the demons and of other evil spirits, but outside of this the important aim of the priests was to secure for the general benefit the favour of the gods, or, as a means of preparing oneself for what the future had in store, to ascertain in time whether that favour would be granted in any particular instance or would be continued in the future.

By this curious process of combination the entire realm of the natural sciences was translated into the language of astrology with the single avowed purpose of seeing in all phenomena signs indicative of what the future had in store.

Maybe that was what the dream was about – shifting from one family to the next.

I know you well enough to know you would have to find out – no matter what the risk.

It's not science and it's a waste of time but what the hell; it's a rainy afternoon, with nothing else going on.