| 单词 | line of descent |
| 例句 | There is a direct line of descent from the Strasbourg clock to the spinning jenny. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Masters of power politics, engineers of genius, the Mexica were also upstarts and pretenders, arrivistes who falsely claimed a brilliant line of descent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The time-gap has narrowed, and it now looks like a classic in a direct line of succession to those earlier pictures in a direct line of descent. Chinatown – review 2013-01-03T20:59:01Z Even if the parallel is not as direct as that snippet might suggest, one can at least see the line of descent from that White House to this one. You're hired! How TV carried Reagan and Trump to the White House 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z There’s no mistaking the line of descent: U2 to Coldplay to Snow Patrol, which has re-emerged with its first song in seven years. The Playlist: John Mayer Laments the Friend Zone, and 11 More New Songs 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z All of us have ancestries defined at turns by people on the move — people with far more complicated arcs than might first appear in straight lines of descent. "It is the American story": Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on "In Search of Our Roots" 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z One brief section traced a line of descent from “The Beggar’s Opera” through “Threepenny Opera” to “Urinetown.” Music Review: At 92nd Street Y, the Art of the Satiric Comedy Comes Alive 2010-05-09T22:15:00Z It’s part of a direct line of descent that includes “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Taxi” and “The Cosby Show.” Television Review: ‘Belle’s,’ a New TV One Sitcom 2013-01-31T23:00:11Z “Bandit” was a handsomely mounted Technicolor production, probably intended by Columbia to position Wilde, its new leading man, in the Fairbanks-Flynn line of descent. DVDs: Stealing From the Rich, Sherwood-Style, Over Years 2010-05-22T07:04:00Z Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The Merriam-Webster definition of a dynasty is: “A succession of rulers of the same line of descent.” Remember the 90s Braves? Dodgers must win World Series to avoid comparison 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z The female line of descent was therefore crucial to proving that one was a free person. Review | The enslaved families who went to court to win their freedom 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z A number of Capote’s reported works were methodologically in the line of descent from “Hiroshima,” culminating with “In Cold Blood,” which The New Yorker excerpted at great length in 1965. John Hersey and the Art of Fact 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z He led the charge into the future of popular culture, establishing a direct line of descent from himself to Kim Kardashian and Trump. Opinion | It makes perfect sense for Trump to honor Babe Ruth 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Soon, more natural philosophers would begin to think of biology in terms of continuity, in terms of lines of descent. This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z One of its earliest meanings, by analogy to a tree trunk that generates many smaller branches, was as the source of a line of descent. From ‘Bubble’ to ‘Crash,’ the Incredible Origins of 7 Finance Terms 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Karaite dietary laws differ from those of the mainstream, and while the matriarchal line of descent usually determines who is a Jew, the Karaite line is patriarchal. New Generation of Jewish Sect Takes Up Struggle to Protect Place in Modern Israel 2013-09-05T02:21:27Z Mr Mayol sees a direct line of descent from the anti-Pinochet protesters of the 1980s to the student activists of today. Unmasking Chile's hooded protesters 2013-05-22T01:25:05Z Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Hence there is no reason two prokaryotic lines of descent cannot be just as distinct from each other as either one is from the eukaryotic line. Archaebacteria: The Third Domain of Life Missed by Biologists for Decades 2013-01-01T00:45:00.170Z "There were dozens of lines of descent but it was very frustrating as you would follow a line for years and so many of them went into the 19th Century and then died out." The search for the car park king 2012-09-07T23:25:14Z Just like a surname, or the male lines of descent quoted in the Bible, these generate lineages that shrink or expand rather slowly. Tracing the world's common ancestor 2012-08-22T00:10:03Z Even the superpristine chefs in this group, like Corey Lee, whose immaculate style is in direct line of descent from Keller, have an extra gear when it comes to flavor. Talented, Young and Asian-American Chefs 2012-06-20T11:20:30Z Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z When there were only two known primary lines of descent, one could not readily interpret the differences between the two. Archaebacteria: The Third Domain of Life Missed by Biologists for Decades 2013-01-01T00:45:00.170Z Do you think the young ever forgot the unbroken line of descent by which they climbed to the heroic founders of the state? Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z The exact circumstances which led, in any particular line of descent, to the final production of self-conscious altruism we cannot know. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z It depends upon various lines of descent, and rests on the testimony supplied by numerous contemporary Fathers before the year 1000 a.d., when co-existing MSS. failed to bear witness in multitudes. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The recognition of three lines of descent equidistant from one another gives a much better perspective for judging which properties are ancestral and which have evolved recently. Archaebacteria: The Third Domain of Life Missed by Biologists for Decades 2013-01-01T00:45:00.170Z Trace back the separate lines of descent of all organisms that ever lived, and they will converge to a single point of origin – the beginning of life. Did life evolve in a `warm little pond'? 2012-02-16T22:15:00.257Z The Gnetales are a class apart, including three living genera, of which we know next to nothing as regards their past history or line of descent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Then, so far as the line of descent of Loudoun is concerned, there is a long wait. Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck 2011-11-26T03:00:16.703Z Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The urkaryote, then, would represent a line of descent distinct from that of the prokaryotes, in accordance with the basic phylogenetic dichotomy. Archaebacteria: The Third Domain of Life Missed by Biologists for Decades 2013-01-01T00:45:00.170Z Very soon there would be no species, or rather an infinity of them; each line of descent would fly apart, and become a group all by itself. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Peradventure some of them have many ancestors in common with him, and we ourselves are only removed by a few forbears from his line of descent, in which we accompany him back to Adam. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Frantically grasping the thin air they dropped with ever-increasing velocity, till their line of descent was hidden by the intervening buildings; but the officers distinctly heard two separate thuds as the bodies struck the earth. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z There were supposed to be only two primary lines of descent, the eukaryotic and the prokaryotic. Archaebacteria: The Third Domain of Life Missed by Biologists for Decades 2013-01-01T00:45:00.170Z During the recent war the male line of descent in his family were killed off, so that he came into the title and property of the Chalmys. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z Ismá‘íl and therefore in the direct line of descent from ‘Alí b. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z They are really as natural and as legitimate a line of descent from Adam Smith as their adversaries the German Manchester Party who claimed the authority of his name. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The same regions in the RNA's tend to be modified in all three primary lines of descent, but the nature of the modification tends to vary from one kingdom to another. Archaebacteria: The Third Domain of Life Missed by Biologists for Decades 2013-01-01T00:45:00.170Z For me, there is a direct line of descent from the deceit and brutality that accompanied the move to Wapping and the callousness towards bereaved and suffering families exposed this week. Letters: Fit and proper ways to deal with BSkyB 2011-07-08T19:59:01Z Her mother, during the season, a flitting butterfly of New York society, a Daughter of the Revolution by half a dozen lines of descent, would have been horrified at the mere thought. Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z Accordingly in many cases the lines of descent are traced through the mother alone, to the exclusion of the father. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z A direct line of descent is all that it is designed to express. A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version 2011-05-31T02:00:30.837Z While these races resemble Vogt’s hypothetical descendants of the anthropoid apes, it should be stated that there is not the slightest evidence for this line of descent. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z It consists of those tendencies, inclinations, bents and impulses which come down through the line of descent and become an integral part of the man, and are therefore constitutional. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z Birmingham, 1913, he is inclined to regard "Piltdown man, or some close relative" as "on the direct line of descent with ourselves." Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z By both lines of descent he belongs to that thrifty Scoto-Irish stock to which the central counties of Nova Scotia are largely indebted for their progress. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z We have traced a definite line of descent for feudal institutions from Roman days through the Merovingian and Carolingian ages to the 10th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z We had no compass with us, but the direction of the slope indicated the proper line of descent to follow. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z There is as yet no satisfactory classification of the Ophiurida into orders expressing lines of descent; even as regards families, leading writers are at variance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Where a totemic group is a clan and consists of relations all of one line of descent, a man is prohibited from marrying a woman of his own group by the ordinary rule of relationship. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z One chief cause seems to be that ancient races stand somewhat nearer than modern races in the long line of descent to their remote animal-like progenitors. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z Third, the name of Arthur’s wife, Gwenhwyvar, resolves itself into White Phantom or White Apparition, in harmony with Arthur’s line of descent from the region of phantoms and apparitions and fairy-folk. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z There is therefore in the Christian a twofold line of descent; and, consequently, two men, as it were, exist in one and the same person. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z They have been divided into Regulares and Irregulares, but it seems possible to group them according to three series or lines of descent, thus:— Series a. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z These qualities, technically called points, should be inbred in the animals as far as practicable, by a long line of descent from parents similarly constituted. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. As we have no record of the lines of descent, these lines can be discovered only by observing the degrees of resemblance between the beings which are to be classed. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z Crustacea exhibit a longer and more complete series of forms than any other class of Arthropoda, and may be regarded as preserving the most completely represented line of descent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The horse is supposed by these writers to have originated by separate lines of descent in the Old World and the New, from five-toed ancestors! Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" Indeed, the time was not ripe for such discussions, still less for the tracing of lines of descent and their embodiment in a genealogical classification. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z They can have differed no more from many of their contemporaries, for all the lines of descent must ramify afresh in each generation, and so form a web rather than anything like a line. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer In direct line of descent from these two, and in the sixth generation from the first Cogswell in America, was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Alice Cogswell Bemis A Sketch by a Friend There is no reason to suppose that any of the forms of limb observed in Arthropoda may not have been independently developed in two or more separate diverging lines of descent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" It is probable that the Pedipalpi, Araneae, and Podogona have been separately evolved as distinct lines of descent from the ancient aquatic Arachnida. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" Not Irving alone, but Thackeray, stands in line of descent from the Goldsmith of the 'Citizen.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Again, with their modern representatives the Cetacea, one or two aberrant forms alone have been found, but no series of transitional ones indicating minutely the line of descent. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer The fact that two organisms belong to the same line of descent is recognized from the ontogeny of the higher including the ontogeny of the lower. A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution Some of the lower types of this evolutionary process, both in the direct line of descent of man, and among the collateral offshoots, had been retained for food and other purposes. Astounding Stories, August, 1931 Give the line of descent from Ruth to David. The Bible Story Dinotherium is a member of the group Proboscidea, of the line of descent of the elephants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" It would appear from them that all the animals were much of a size, which doubtless greatly assists the imagination in picturing them as all in one line of descent. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer Marriage among the Homeric Greeks had primarily two distinct objects in view: the preservation of a pure line of descent, and the protection of the property rights of the family. Greek Women According to accepted tradition, the prophet himself designated the line of descent in which his most important successor would be found, and even indicated his personal appearance. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning During the period 642 represented by the line of descent—III. to Anthozoa—this group abandoned its power of adult locomotion by swimming. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" But what is significant is that in Australia the tribes which maintain the male line of descent must be assigned to the lowest stage of development. The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy The lines of descent are shown in the table on the following page. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 Here, as elsewhere in the evolution of races and species, nature does not work in a straight line of descent, but by differentiation and variation. History of Human Society We are in the true line of descent. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development Her mind, long and narrow, like her face, had never diverged, I felt, from the straight line of descent. The Romance of a Plain Man The catbird does not come to our vines on the veranda to nest from considerations of safety, but because her line of descent runs through such places. Under the Maples On these occasions our steps unconsciously deviate a little from the direct line of descent, turning off on the left hand towards the Hotel d'Aremberg. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 It was true that the center of the caldron was far to the right of where they stood, and that its left rim was only a little within their direct line of descent. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 If the evolutionist understands properly the line of descent, the birds and mammals are both the descendants of the reptiles. The Meaning of Evolution If, then, these distant relatives so closely resemble man in physical frame, his immediate relative in the line of descent must have approached him still more closely in organization. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Article I. The Empire of Japan shall be ruled over by Emperors of the dynasty, which has reigned in an unbroken line of descent for ages past. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era There is certainty of the line of descent of the horse because all the connecting links have been discovered in fossil form, between the primitive horse and the present day horse. Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study They form lines of descent which separated from the other mammals before the Typidentate ancestor of all, except the groups just named, was evolved. More Science From an Easy Chair With regard to successions by relations outside of the direct line of descent, such as nephews or cousins, it is almost certain that all of the same degree took equal shares per capita. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay It may be an ancestral one, or the two animals may represent distinct lines of descent. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Because this yeast is in us, there may be great and undreamed of possibilities awaiting mankind; but because of our line of descent there are also queer limitations. This Simian World One can judge whether or not he has discovered the correct line of descent of the Rhymes by seeing whether or not he has all the connecting links requisite to the line of evolution. Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Observe the absence of a trunk and the enlarged front tooth in the upper jaw, which is converted in later members of the elephant-stock or line of descent into the great tusk. More Science From an Easy Chair Moreover, when we examine the whole mammalian series, we find that the required modifications must have taken place in slightly different ways in three lines of descent simultaneously. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions We do not need to look far among the lower animals for the species which come nearest to man in structure and which seem to have immediately preceded him in the line of descent. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution I heard many voices shouting frantic warnings, and so ran for it, but, in my excitement, directly within the line of descent of the machine. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France "The line of descent was untouched by these intermarriages, except in the two cases of III and VIII." Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The line of descent of the horse, the camel, the hippopotamus and other mammals has been traced to a single ancestor, the result being the proof of the theory of evolution. American Men of Mind And, by parity of reasoning, I now adduce it as equally strong evidence of natural selection having been the cause of adaptive structures, independently developed in all the different lines of descent. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions Inasmuch as man is connected with these lower organisms by an unbroken line of descent, why should not these factors explain man's actions also? The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Before Lennon could locate the sheltered line of descent he noticed that some of the shots sounded from farther down the valley. Bloom of Cactus From these ancestors the direct line of descent to the Republican candidate for President of the United States is the following: George Hayes, Abigail Dibble. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes I stood, and, measuring exactly its line of descent, stuck the butt of my spear into the ice with the point sloping upwards. Red Rooney The Last of the Crew Thus Anna came of good stock in all lines of descent. Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 This is a well-established commonplace among ethnological students; which has, of course, nothing to say with respect to the conventionally distinct lines of descent of the "Best Families." An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation The formula of Amadis of Gaul is derived from generations of older unformulated heroes, and implies the exhaustion of the heroic strain, in that line of descent. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature The ancient goddess, or ancestor, the sixth in line of descent from Wakea. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula From the comparatively simple initial form, the fibula developed in different lines of descent, into different shapes, varying according to the structural feature which was emphasized. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The consanguineous marriages shown in this line of descent are by no means the only ones of the kind that took place in the family, many like them being found in collateral lines. Applied Eugenics The character of the economic policy to be pursued should not be difficult of apprehension, if only these underlying peoples are conceived as an estate in tail within the dynastic line of descent. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation I am descended from the early Puritans of Massachusetts in every line of descent. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Its floor is laid on a well regulated line of descent, so that its current may maintain a flow of uniform, or, at least, never decreasing rapidity, throughout its entire length. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health The present Duke is the thirty-second Knight of Lochow, and the thirtieth Campbell in the direct line of descent. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities The cities represent an eliminating agency of enormous efficiency, a present condition that sterilizes and exterminates individuals and lines of descent rapidly enough for all but the most sanguinary reformer. Applied Eugenics But it is not in the direct line of descent, for it was written in the Celtic speech of a people who did not achieve the government of Europe. Romance Two Lectures His ancestors, so far as known, in all the line of descent, were New England farmers. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 These are the Tiger and Otter clans, which, proud of their lines of descent, have been preserved through a long and tragic past with exceptional freedom from admixture with degrading blood. The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 In my own line of descent there was a Kelley who lived alone in a hut in the woods, not far from Albany. The Last Harvest When a criminal of this natural type is found, the duty of society is unquestionably to protect itself by cutting off that line of descent. Applied Eugenics There is probably an unbroken line of descent from the first life that existed on the earth to the living forms of to-day. The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners Their long line of descent has run parallel, side by side, distinct, unmingled; recognising a common origin, but never acknowledging a common brotherhood. Notable Women of Olden Time Since the husbands always belonged to a different consanguine group from their wives, and the children followed their mother's line of descent, the family was permanently divided. The Delight Makers But as near as I can learn we cannot obtain real hardiness from this line of descent, unless the Ben Davis in the mother orchard is standing near varieties like the Duchess. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 It is customary to imagine that there is some special virtue inherent in that line of descent which carries the family name. Applied Eugenics If we go back ten generations, we have over a thousand ancestors in our line of descent. The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners She was the mother of Alf o' Dales, and many great men trace back their line of descent to him. Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic But they were poets, practitioners of our literature in the true line of descent, and they knew certain things which all such artists know by instinct. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 Rain in the Mexican picture writing is shown by small circles inclosing a dot, as in the last two figures, but not connected together, each having a short line upward marking the line of descent. Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 But the small contribution of heredity made to an individual by the line of descent carrying his family name, in comparison with the rest of his ancestry, may be seen from Fig. Applied Eugenics Parliament, therefore, set aside the direct line of descent and accepted Henry. The Leading Facts of English History The water falling on the upper surface in scattering drops forms myriads of minute stalagmites; on side positions the falling drop first strikes the point exposed to its line of descent and then spreads. Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills He was a priest whose genealogy is not mentioned, because his priesthood was not restricted, like that of the Levitical priests, to any particular line of descent. Companion to the Bible But, by her own line of descent, Mrs. Brown-Smith came from a Scottish house of ancient standing, historically renowned for its assassins, traitors, and time-servers. The Disentanglers The fact that the line of descent apparently could have followed along the direction they suggested they were inclined to take as evidence that it had so followed. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work Harold II, H ——————————————- 1066-1066, slain H * This sign shows that the| at Hastings, 1066 H * * person over whose name | H it stands was not in the | Robert, Duke of Normandy direct line of descent. The Leading Facts of English History One step more, and an animal which has progressed further along a similar line of descent would be a snake. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope His father, Thomas Lincoln, was sixth in direct line of descent from Samuel Lincoln, who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1638. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History Frederick represented the straight and expected line of descent. The Turtles of Tasman This is a curious point and might throw some further light upon the subject of their families or lines of descent. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 His anticipations, however, of diverging lines of descent from a common ancestor, and of the transmission of disease germs by means of insects, are perfectly clear and very striking. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 When we appreciate all these difficulties, both geological and biological, we begin to see clearly why the ancient lines of descent cannot be known as we know the path and mode of embryonic transformation. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton! this is a single line of descent! Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions The genealogy does not mention the names of these ill-starred 'brethren,' partly because it traces the line of descent through 'Jeconias' or Jehoiachin, partly because it despises them too much. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII The title did not come to the present earl in the direct line of descent. Ishmael Or, In the Depths A pedigree traces up the line of descent to the individual from whom the name was derived. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 During the Triassic and Jurassic periods of the Mesozoic age, the first birds and mammals appeared to follow out their diverging and independent lines of descent. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Parliament, at Henry's request, had declared that Elizabeth, his issue by Anne Boleyn, was illegitimate, and that being true, Mary was next in line of descent. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall The older chronicles provide them with what seems an unbroken line of descent from the second century, when Irenæus preached in Lyons and Vienne. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 It is very probable that many of these taboos originated even as far back as the stage of society in which the line of descent was traced through the mother. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family The King James version comes from Bede's in a direct line of descent through Wycliff and Tyndale. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) It is, singularly enough, true that in his family line of descent there have been three generations where each had but one male representative, and two generations having but one representative of either sex. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 All that can properly be meant by the terms "new" and "young" is that in a given line of descent there has suddenly come a period of rapid change. African and European Addresses It does not appear in this illustrious family, that the regular line of descent, from father to son, was ever broken, from the time of the Saxons, 'till 1390. An History of Birmingham (1783) These passages bring out clearly the unbroken line of descent from Latin to modern French. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Students, of course, notice that the line of descent given by Luke differs very materially from that given by Matthew, showing a lack of knowledge on the part of one or the other writer. Mystic Christianity In seeking a favourable line of descent for the carts, I climbed a still higher forest-hill on the left, which consisted chiefly of quartz-rock. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Moreover, in the very character of many of the motives, there is here a striking line of descent. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies Some evolutionists reject Darwin's line of descent and believe that man, instead of coming from the ape, branched off from a common ancestor farther back, but "cousin" ape is as objectionable as "grandpa" ape. In His Image The work shows points of similarity with several antecedent forms of composition, but the gaps which lie in any assumed line of descent are so great as to make us question its correctness. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Let us briefly pass in review the various terms of such an ascending series of symbols: members of one family, they might be called, since they follow a single line of descent. Architecture and Democracy I have traced a clear line of descent back to Simon Turrald, younger brother of the last baron, and there are no coheirs in existence. The Moon Rock Where the crown is nominally elective, as in England, kingship is practically hereditary, the regular line of descent being departed from only upon rare occasions. Government and Administration of the United States Then he suggests a line of descent leading to the monkey. In His Image On the contrary, the father regards himself everywhere, even in tribes with a female line of descent, as the real procreator. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Perhaps they usually reversed the order; but, at any rate, dying in middle age after having married "thirdly" or "fifthly"—yes, even "sixthly"—makes top-heavy family trees and puzzling lines of descent. Virginia: the Old Dominion He gave thirty years of his life to establishing the line of descent.” The Moon Rock "I'll bet the kids get some of their deviltry by direct line of descent." Wild Wings A Romance of Youth It is important that man should have a correct understanding of his line of descent. In His Image Why, but because, by their complete extinction in South America, the line of descent was here utterly broken? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 In this way, by the process vulgarly known as snobbery, a syncopated evolution of gentle birth and breeding is achieved in the case of a goodly number of families and lines of descent. Theory of the Leisure Class The line of descent is clear, if the proofs of your brother’s statement are found. The Moon Rock It was in Chotanka's line of descent that these legends were originally kept, but when he died the stories became everybody's, and then no one believed in them. Indian Boyhood Each one of us has our exact line of descent all the way back to our dear First Mother. Herland Somewhere, and by straight line of descent, these two parties to my dual personality were connected. Before Adam This emulative discipline favors those individuals and lines of descent which possess the peaceable savage traits in a relatively slight degree. Theory of the Leisure Class You can only succeed your brother in the line of descent if she is illegitimate.” The Moon Rock It appears that the line of descent is through the women. The Lost Continent The completely developed individual is always a terminal representative in her line of descent. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene I often wonder about this line of descent. Before Adam This effect is wrought partly by a coercive, educational adaptation of the habits of all individuals, partly by a selective elimination of the unfit individuals and lines of descent. Theory of the Leisure Class “It was your brother’s dream to restore the title with a male line of descent.” The Moon Rock These two distinct lines of descent may be referred to hereafter as the 400 and the 200 lines. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior It is reminiscent albeit unconsciously, of our line of descent; and each is the key to the other. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene The line of descent is limited exclusively in the female's children. Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians Even where the extreme penalty for non-conformity to the barbarian type of temperament is not paid, there results at least a more or less consistent repression of the non-conforming individuals and lines of descent. Theory of the Leisure Class But other authors give other lines of descent. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation It has seemed fairer to compare only individuals of the same breed, or, as I have done and shall continue to do throughout this chapter, of two lines of descent. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior There is rather a tendency to a persistency of type in all lines of descent, insomuch that a subordinate admixture of various type is usually obliterated in a few generations. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation The lines of descent from the Light through the star and sun to planet are "strings." Ancient and Modern Physics It does this both by educating those individuals and classes who are occupied with these employments and by selectively repressing and eliminating those individuals and lines of descent that are unfit in this respect. Theory of the Leisure Class With this single exception, the narrow thread-like line of descent from the Indian wife, diminished to a mere strand by injudicious alliances, and deaths in the gutters of old New Orleans, was extinct. Old Creole Days These differences at once suggest the importance of an examination of the whirling tendency of each line of descent. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior The schism among the Shiahs grew out of the claim of the schismatics that the legitimate imam or successor of the Prophet must be in the line of descent from Ali. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) The instructor takes a great deal of time showing the student the proper line of descent, for the landings must be perfect before he can pass on. Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun Because this yeast is in us there may be great and undreamed of possibilities awaiting mankind; but because of our line of descent there are also queer limitations. This Simian World In that case, however, they were certainly not in the direct line of descent, for their names do not appear in the pedigree of those families. Chaucer's Official Life In fact every one of the litters in this line of descent which I have tested, and they now number fifteen, has given indications of auditory sensitiveness. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior He commences with our early Reformers, Wickliff and Huss, to the later ones who suffered under Mary; continues the line of descent through the Puritans to Bunyan's brethren, the Nonconformists. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Laboriously he got out his tabulated dates and names and carefully he traced for him several lines of descent from remote ancestors. Oh, Money! Money! Age has more honor than all his patrician line of descent can give him. The Shagganappi Did any terrestrial or celestial calamity endanger the line of descent of any of the higher creatures? Time and Change In my search for an answer to this question I followed the whirling tendency from generation to generation in two lines of descent. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior At the same time, proof was brought forward that the line of descent of the Sauropsida clearly diverged from that of the Mammalia, both starting from some common ancestry. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 "You know Burroughs Atherton on both lines of descent?" asked Kennedy, changing the subject abruptly. The War Terror Cousin Ferdinand is getting very full of American ideas and he says that what you want to know about a man is not his line of descent but his line of credit. The Hohenzollerns in America It was not cut off; the line of descent seems complete to the horse of our day. Time and Change There were some striking differences in the behavior of the mice of the two lines of descent. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior "Finally," he answered, "if no heirs come forward to claim the estate, it will revert to the old line of descent through the blood relations of Captain Allen." The Allen House It cannot yet tell us our first ancestor, but it can tell us much of an ancestor very high up in the line of descent. Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society Only the leading types of plants and animals are mentioned, and special attention is given to those which mark the lines of descent of forms now living. The Elements of Geology One would fain arrive at some concrete belief or image of his line of descent in geologic time as he does in the historic period. Time and Change Systematic training experiments were carried on with individuals of both the 200 and 400 lines of descent. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Towards the foot of the hill, an expanse of snow stretched across the line of descent. Letters from High Latitudes Somewhere, I told myself, there was good blood at the back of beyond on his line of descent. At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. We must describe the Tertiary mammals very briefly, tracing the lines of descent of only a few of the more familiar mammals of the present. The Elements of Geology The form which may have been in our line of descent, the Dryopithecus, later appears to have become extinct. Time and Change In looking back upon our line of descent it is an instinct with us to feel that all our vitality was drawn from the richer party to any unequal marriage in the chain. Desperate Remedies Journal' July 1863 especially on intermissions in the line of descent. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 Thomas Carlyle, third in the line of descent, finds an audience very different from those which listened to the silver speech of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the sonorous phrases of Samuel Johnson. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 One chief cause seems to be that the ancient races stand somewhat nearer in the long line of descent to their remote animal-like progenitors. The Descent of Man Can we narrow their line of descent down to a single pair for each? Time and Change He insists that closely similar forms may be derived from distinct lines of descent; and this is what I formerly called analogical variation. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 So it probably will be with many whole collateral lines of descent, which will be conquered by later and improved lines. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition There may conceivably be several of the original lines of descent still surviving, or represented among extinct forms—to reverse the remark of a distinguished botanist, there may be several Vegetable Kingdoms! Darwin and Modern Science As we have no record of the lines of descent, the pedigree can be discovered only by observing the degrees of resemblance between the beings which are to be classed. The Descent of Man Nor did the wholesale destruction of animal life at the end of Palaeozoic time cut off my line of descent. Time and Change The Sophist contains four examples of division, carried on by regular steps, until in four different lines of descent we detect the Sophist. Statesman All the descendants of the genus F, along its whole line of descent, are supposed to have been but little modified, and they form a single genus. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition But he is a many-sided creature, and may still be traced in another line of descent. Sophist But no one can at present say by what line of descent the three higher and related classes, namely, mammals, birds, and reptiles, were derived from the two lower vertebrate classes, namely, amphibians and fishes. The Descent of Man The granite is the Adam rock, and through a long line of descent the major part of all the other rocks directly or indirectly may be traced. Time and Change But trace back the lines of descent far enough, and all will culminate in one original stock. A History of Science — Volume 4 Professor Haeckel in his "Generelle Morphologie" and in another works, has recently brought his great knowledge and abilities to bear on what he calls phylogeny, or the lines of descent of all organic beings. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition The line of descent appears to have been direct, and the remains now known supply every important intermediate form. A History of Science — Volume 3 Accordingly, in many cases the lines of descent are traced through the mother alone, to the exclusion of the father. The Descent of Man Man must have had a specific line of descent. Time and Change We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and trace the many diverging lines of descent in our natural genealogies, by characters of any kind which have long been inherited. On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life We meet the same difficulty when we try to figure to ourselves the line of descent of any of the animal forms of to-day. Time and Change The titanotheres, or brontotheridae, for example, a gigantic tribe, offshoots of the same stock which produced the horse and rhinoceros, represented the culmination of a line of descent. A History of Science — Volume 3 And our line of descent was taking its chances amid it all. Time and Change But I suppose it is just as great a wonder that the line of descent of the horse, or the sheep, or the dog, or the bird, was not snapped or lost. Time and Change |
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