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In the Philosophy of the Practical, but more especially in the work entitled What is living and what is dead of the Philosophy of Hegel Croce criticizes the erroneous treatment of the opposites, and shows that on the contrary every opposition has at bottom a distinction from which it arises, and that therefore the true unity is unity- distinction , which is development and, as such, opposition that is continuously surpassed and continually re-appearing to be again surpassed.

The disproportionate height and narrowness of the building lend it a certain distinction which otherwise it would have lacked. It is chemically related to cadmium and mercury, the resemblance to cadmium being especially well marked; one distinction is that zinc is less basigenic. Zinc is capable of isomorphously replacing many of the bivalent metals - magnesium, manganese, iron, nickel, cobalt and cadmium. Upon his head was concentrated the whole of the popular indignation against the foreign favourites; and he seems to have deserved this unenviable distinction.

In studying the origin and growth of political feudalism, the distinction is easy to make. At Fredericksburg he and his division won great distinction by their attack on the position held by Jackson's corps, and Meade was promoted majorgeneral of volunteers, to date from the 29th of November. In he received a commission in an infantry regiment, and took part in the campaign of under General Davoust, first in the Low Countries, and later at Ulm, Maria Zell and Austerlitz, where he fought with distinction , was wounded several times and promoted.

In he was raised to the office of consistorial councillor, and was selected by the university to hold the office of rector, a distinction which has not since been conferred upon any theologian of the Reformed Church. This distinction between the characteristics of the two races is only true in a general sense, for a considerable population of true Bedouin origin has settled down to agricultural life in the oases of Hejaz and Nejd, while in southern Arabia the tribes dwelling on the fringe of the great desert have to a certain extent adopted the nomad life.

On his return to America he won some distinction during the Civil War as colonel of a regiment which he had himself got together on the Federal side in and His administration of the department, in circumstances of great difficulty arising out of the "greenback" agitation and the adverse political complexion of Congress, won him high distinction as a financier.

The nature of the distinction between annals and history is a subject that has received more attention from critics than its intrinsic importance deserves. This view of the distinction seems to be borne out by the division of the work of Tacitus into the Historiae, relating the events of his own time, and the Annales, containing the history of earlier periods. On the 30th of March Lord John Russell moved a resolution in favour of an inquiry into the temporalities of the Irish Church, with the intention of applying the surplus to general education without distinction of religious creed.

Here his uncouth behaviour and great personal beauty attract general attention, and he is alike mocked by Kay, and his future distinction mysteriously foretold. He conceived it as " a religious monopoly " to which " the nation at large contributes," while " Presbyterians alone receive," and which placed him in " a relation to the state " so " seriously objectionable " as to be " impossible to hold.

In actual wealth of blossom or dimensions of forest trees the Japanese islands cannot claim any special distinction. Thus since it has become the fashion for Chinese students to flock to the schools and colleges of Japan, there adopting, as do their Japanese fellow-students, Occidental garments and methods of hairdressing, the distinction of nationality ceases to be perceptible.

The distinction continued throughoutthe ages. Shadows and reflections were ignored, and perspective, approximately correct for landscape distances, was isometrical for near objects, while the introduction of a symbolic sun or moon lent the sole distinction between a day and a night scene. Japan, on the contrary, owes her ceramic distinction in the main to her faience.

But a sharp distinction has to be drawn between the method of Seifu and that of the other six ceramists mentioned above as following Chinese fashions.

He has not succeeded in winning great distinction , but he manufactures some very delicate monochromes, fully deserving to be classed among prominent evidences of the new departure. The budget is voted in either duchy for four years, a distinction being made between domain revenue and state revenue.

In 61 he returned to Rome, where he married Domitia Decidiana, a Roman lady of distinction. This prince continued the traditions and work of his father in a manner that won the approbation of the local government, and earned for him the distinction of a knighthood of the Order of the Indian Empire and a seat in the legislative council of Bombay. He paid no attention to the distinction of day and night, and sometimes lay for days together in a trance, while his servants were often disturbed at night by hearing what he called his conflicts with evil spirits.

Some coarse kinds are opaque, resembling in this respect jasper, and some writers have sought to restrict the name "bloodstone" to green jasper, with red markings, thus making heliotrope a translucent and bloodstone an opaque stone, but, though convenient, such a distinction is not generally recognized. Thrice married, he had a large family, his seven sons becoming Congregational clergymen, and his daughters, Harriet Beecher Stowe q. With all the Puritan eagerness to push a clear, uncompromising, Scripture-based distinction of right and wrong into the affairs of every-day life, he has a thoroughly English horror of casuistry, and his clumsy canons consequently make wild work with the infinite intricacies of human nature.

But as the claims of the church to be the guardian through its episcopate of the apostolic tradition, of the Christian faith itself, were magnified, and unity in practice as well as in doctrine came to be regarded as essential, this distinction became a theoretical rather than a practical one. They often reach distinction and dignity of attitude and gesture, and occasionally, as in the "Hercules and Death," the "Electra" and the "Clytemnestra," a noble intensity of feeling.

Leighton's life was throughout marked by distinction , artistic and social. After assisting his father in his school, he tried his hand at acting with indifferent success, served with distinction in the army, and held several clerkships, amongst them the office of clerk to the Boule. The word will well bear this sense in the two passages in which Sophocles Electra, , applies it to Orestes; and it is likely enough that after the disappearance of the old Eupatridae as a political corporation, the name was adopted in a different sense, but not without a claim to the distinction inherent in the older sense, by one of the oldest of the clans.

The most obvious distinction is that the animal cell-wall is either absent or composed of a nitrogenous material, whereas the plant cell-wall is composed of a carbohydrate material - cellulose.

Large part of the mountaineers took up Monothelism and initiated the national distinction of the Maronites, which begins to emerge in the history of the 7th century. In the United Kingdom this "denaturized" alcohol is known as methylated spirit as a distinction from pure alcohol or "spirits of wine. The title seems to have been introduced first in the East, in the 4th century, as an honorary distinction implying no superiority of jurisdiction. With the poor exceptions of one or two names like those of Theodore of Mopsuestia and John of Damascus, the Eastern Church produced no preachers of distinction.

The town passed wholly into the possession of the Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel family in , and for nearly one hundred years enjoyed the distinction of being the ducal capital.

His works cover nearly 40 volumes, often obscure, often tautological, and with no great distinction of style. Butler being then the head master, but obtained no distinction beyond being in the cricket eleven in Here he served with distinction from until , the last six years as speaker of the House.

He felt that a distinction might be drawn between adults and those of tender years; and that allowance might be made for any one who recanted. From this principle, it follows I that the distinction between right and wrong is part of the constitution of human nature; 2 that morality stands apart from theology, and the moral qualities of actions are determined apart from the arbitrary will of God; 3 that the ultimate test of an action is its tendency to promote the general harmony or welfare; 4 that appetite and reason concur in the determination of action; and 5 that the moralist is not concerned to solve the problem of freewill and determinism.

Besides these variations in the number of ridges or plates of which each tooth is composed, the thickness of the enamel varies so much as to have given rise to a distinction between a " thick-plated " and a " thin-plated " variety - the latter being most prevalent among specimens from the Arctic regions. To him we owe the distinction between canonical and apocryphal writings; in the Prologus Galeatus prefixed to his version of Samuel and Kings, he says that the church reads the Apocrypha "for the edification of the people, not for confirming the authority of ecclesiastical doctrines.

In its chemical affinities it resembles arsenic and antimony; an important distinction is that it forms no hydrogen compound analogous to arsine and stibine. But the distinction scarcely covers a real difference.

His great uncle, who achieved great distinction in the Russian imperial service in the reign of Nicholas I, becoming minister of the police and being raised to the rank of a count, died childless, the title and estates passing to his nephew, Count Alexander's father. Lutatius Catulus composed a quatrain in his honour, and the dictator Sulla presented him with a gold ring, the badge of the equestrian order, a remarkable distinction for an actor in Rome, where the profession was held in contempt.

Some writers distinguish mediation from "good offices," but the distinction is of little practical value. Having a good title to military distinction himself, he could afford, as the unwarlike emperors could not, to be generous to his officers. No distinction between head, thorax and abdomen can be observed. If there is no external world, the distinction between substance and accidents vanishes, and these become the sole essence of material objects, so that there is no room for any change whilst they remain as before.

The thought of a distinction between direct and indirect perception never dawned upon Collier. The infinite God is the all; the world of independent objects is the result of reflection or self-consciousness, by which the infinite unity is broken up.

God is thus over and above the distinction of subject and object; our knowledge is but a reflex or picture of the infinite essence. For example, the state has never made any distinction between law and equity, and it has always followed the Civil Law procedure by petition and answer. From this point of view the atomic doctrine might be regarded as a relic of the old numerical way of conceiving magnitude, and the opposite doctrine of the infinite divisibility of matter might appear for a time the most scientific.

The atomists, on the other hand, asserted very strongly the distinction between matter and space. His chief claim to distinction is his literary originality. The Reformed churches in England and America accepted the distinction between public and private offences. Afterwards it was often made of gold, and among the Romans was bestowed as a recognition of honourable service performed or distinction won, and on occasion it took such a form as to correspond with, or indicate the character of, the service rendered.

It is desirable to remember the distinction , for, although diadem and crown are now used as synonymous terms, the two were originally quite distinct. Mesnil , which indicate a universal distinction between the two groups in their manner of sporulation.

This distinction is probably the most fundamental one, and itself supports a conclusion which is, on other grounds, becoming more and more likely, namely, that these two divisions are not related phylogenetically; but have, on the contrary, a radically different origin.

On this account such species have been referred to a second genus, under the name of Lestodon, but the distinction scarcely seems. The distinction , be it noted, of form and matter seems more appropriate to the sacraments of baptism, Eucharist, confirmation and last unction, than to those of orders, penance and matrimony. Chief among these encumbering presuppositions was that of a fundamental distinction between perception and conception and consequent upon it between the synthetic and the analytic use of thought.

It is upon this in the last resort that the distinction between the phenomenal world of our experience and a noumenal world beyond it is founded. But idealism has insisted from the time of Plato on the distinction between what is actual in time and space and the reality that can only partially be revealed in it. And the world of the spirit and the world of nature continue to have this distinction , that the latter moves only in a recurring cycle while the former certainly also makes progress.

The diet of publicly thanked him for his services; the king heaped honours and riches upon him, and in he was appointed acting commander-in-chief of Poland, but died a few days after receiving this supreme distinction. Dorsey, again, draws a distinction between lore narratives, which can be rehearsed without fasting or prayer, and rituals which require the most rigid preparation.

His services to his church have been summed up thus: - I he has a keen sense of the proportion of the faith and maintains a clear distinction between what is fundamental, needing ecclesiastical commands, and subsidiary, needing only ecclesiastical guidance and suggestion; 2 as distinguished from the earlier protesting standpoint, e.

Coeffeteau won considerable distinction in the controversy against the Protestant reformers and also wrote a History of Rome from Augustus to Constantine. It orders baptism in the threefold name, making a distinction as to waters which has Jewish parallels, and permitting a threefold pouring on the head, if sufficient water for immersion cannot be had. The identification of dogma with revelation remains, with another distinction in support of it, between " material dogmas " all scriptural or traditional truth and " formal " or ecclesiastically formulated dogmas.

According to this definition, " dogma " means the opinion of some individual theologian of distinction. Our usual English phrase " History of Doctrine " ignores that distinction. But as no popular discourse delivered from the pulpit could ever be exclusively expository and as on the other hand every sermon professing to be based on Scripture required to be more or less "exegetical" and "textual," it would obviously be sometimes very hard to draw the line of distinction between OycXla and Aoyos.

He studied with distinction at the seminary at Langres, and was ordained priest in In the later period of the republic they are confounded with the Penates and other deities , though the distinction between them was probably more sharply marked in earkor times. The distinction between public and private Lares existed from early times. When forbidden to preach without the permission of the bishop, they were driven to assert the right of all to preach, without distinction of age or sex. Hull received a gold medal for the capture of the "Guerriere," but had no further opportunity of distinction in the war.

The processes which have to be performed in the mensuration of figures of this kind are in effect processes of integration; the distinction between mensuration and integration lies in the different natures of the data.

In virtue of this distinction which implied that the nation was not actually in covenant with God, he taught a relative toleration. Yet long before the Evangelical Revival proper, ' For the distinction between " Gathered " and " Re-formed " churches in this connexion, see Dale, p. In some counties there is no distinction between town and county poor, but in only one county had not a county superintendent for the general supervision and care of the poor; towns and cities not subject to special provisions intrusted public relief to one or more overseers of the poor or to commissioners of charities.

In polytheism the grades of superhuman beings are continuous; but in monotheism there is a sharp distinction of kind, as well as degree, between God on the one hand, and all other superhuman beings on the other; the latter are the " angels. The distinction of good and bad angels is recognized; we have names, Gabriel 4, and the evil angels Abaddon or Apollyon', Beelzebub 6, and Satan'; ranks are implied, archangels 8, principalities and powers9, thrones and dominions The new nationalism of did not deprive the Jews of political rights, but it denied them both the amenities of friendly intercourse and the opportunity of distinction in the university, the army and the professions.

He took part with distinction in the battle of Fredericksburg, and in as a majorgeneral commanded the III. He recognizes political economy and statistics as alike sciences, and represents the distinction between them as having never been made before him, though he quotes what Smith had said of political arithmetic.

While deserving the praise of honesty, sincerity and independence, he is inferior to his predecessor in breadth of view on moral and political questions.

Objecting, as Germain Gamier had, to Smith's distinction between productive and unproductive labour, he maintains that, production consisting in the creation or addition of a utility, all useful labour is productive.

Values can therefore be accumulated only by being reproduced in the course or, as often happens, by the very act of consumption; hence his distinction between reproductive and unproductive consumption. The distinction between the terms " religion " and " magic " is, in a similar way, often due merely to rivalry between the adherents of two or more mutually exclusive religions brought together in the same community.

He delivered episcopal charges to the clergy of Connecticut and New York entitled The Churchman and The High Churchman Vindicated , in which he accepted the name "high churchman," and stated and explained his principles "in distinction from the corruptions of the Church of Rome and from the Errors of Certain Protestant Sects.

Each family may lay just claims to a history of more than ordinary social and political distinction. Honorary academic degrees were conferred upon him by the universities of Cairo, Christiania, Berlin, Cambridge and Oxford, and he was given both popular and official ovations of almost royal distinction - ovations which were repeated by his own countrymen on his return to America.

A new electoral law of the same year reformed the Saxon diet by abolishing the old distinction between the various " estates " and lowering the qualification for the franchise; the result was a Liberal majority in the Lower House and a period of civil and ecclesiastical reform.

But the real meaning is not slight; the sexual distinction has been discovered, and a new sense of shame sends the human pair into the thickest shades, when Yahweh-Elohim walks abroad. For many years one of the burning questions in the politics of ' The distinction between the Staatenbund and the Bundesstaat is discussed in the articles Confederation and Federal Government.

The judex and the arbiter had the same functions, and apparently the only express basis for the distinction between the two words is that there might be several arbitri but never more than one judex in a cause. He belonged to a senatorial family, which had attained considerable distinction under the emperors, his father and grandfather having been well-known jurists.

Here he obtained his first opportunity of distinction , being attached in the capacity of diplomatist to the mission of Sir Arthur Wellesley to the Mahrattas. It may be admitted that, in many cases, the distinction between Ultramontanism and Catholicism cannot be clearly traced; and it is impossible to draw a sharp line of severance between the two, which could be absolutely valid under all circumstances and in relation to all questions.

Deissmann, Bible Studies, pp. He was a warm friend of literature and art, and in a private station would have achieved high distinction as a man of letters. Pupils are sent to the best foreign agricultural, forestry and mining schools, and, after going through the prescribed course, often with distinction , return to Siam to apply their knowledge with more or less success.

He could not, like Marlowe's Mephistophilis or Milton's Satan, regretfully paint the glories of the height from which he has been hurled; for he denies the distinction between high and low, since "everything that comes into being deserves to be destroyed. The development of the compound microscope rendered possible the accurate study of their life-histories; and the publication in of the results of Wilhelm Hofmeister's researches on the comparative embryology of the higher Cryptogamia shed a flood of light on their relationships to each other and to the higher plants, and supplied the basis for the distinction of the great groups Thallophyta, Bryophyta, Pteridophyta and Phanerogamae, the last named including Gymnospermae and Angiospermae.

The former are subject to laws closely resembling those of the mother country, while the customs and institutions of natives are respected in connexion with the administration of justice to the latter. He fought with distinction under his father in Franche-Comte and the Low Countries; but he was heartless, avaricious and undoubtedly insane.

He thus did away with the fundamental distinction between Jews and Gentiles. Other fundamental principles of Paul's failed of comprehension and acceptance, but the belief finally prevailed that the observance of Jewish law and custom was unnecessary, and that in the Christian Church there is no distinction between the circumcised and the uncircumcised.

The settlement of IIII may be said to have embodied the only solution of the great question that was right in principle, since it pronounced in favour of a clear distinction between the spiritual and temporal spheres.

Jean Baptiste's brother, Jacques-Marie, Vicomte Cavaignac , French general, served with distinction in the army under the republic and successive governments.

This is not a distinction which governs Zimmern and other writers. But a distinction of grades of holiness gained by ascetic life has never been entirely foreign to the Eastern mind, and in the popular faith of Mahommedan peoples something very like priesthood has crept in by this channel. As regards the mode of production of galls, the most important distinction is between galls that result from the introduction of an egg, or other matter, into the interior of the plant, and those that are due to an agent acting externally, the gall in the latter case frequently growing in such a manner as ultimately to enclose its producers.

Barbacena was formerly a principal distributing centre for the mining districts of Minas Geraes, but this distinction was lost when the railways were extended beyond that point. It arose from differences about the precise meaning of the word "law" in Luther's distinction between law and gospel.

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This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. There may then be both conceptual distinctions and technical organizations that set correction apar t from repair. Ternary rhythm and the lapse constraint systems may ever display such a distinction. The distinction between the two modalities of writing and speech is known to foster two distinct styles of discourse.

Fourthly, the unmarked member tends to exhibit a larger number of subcategorial distinctions. Equally, they themselves often echo managerial and union distinctions of male and female tasks, especially on the grounds of physical strength and strain. In the case of the tax on trucks, this distinction turns out to be of prime importance. For present purposes, this final distinction is not pertinent. The term "vertical" refers, of course, to factors transmitted from one generation to the next in distinction from peer and sibling influences, for example.

To clarify the distinction between the two types of system, let us first define deterministic and stochastic systems. The functional distinction between the two types of cor tical inputs remains unclear. The distinction between activation and integration has profound implications for predicting and understanding interactions between event codes. However, if the goal is translation into several languages eventually every distinction that can be made will be made, and there are few useful generalizations.

We consider a continuum model that makes no distinction between matrix and fibre particles. Consequently, a distinction has to be made between central and peripheral members of a class.

For practical reasons a distinction is made in this review between tick paralysis and tick toxicosis. Is there support to be drawn from violence prevention for this distinction or similar differentiation among youth engaged in violence and related antisocial behavior? Still, it is a reasonable distinction for use within our primary rationale for including medical services in a healthcare benefit package. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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