| 单词 | minuteness |
| 例句 | Atoms, in other words, exist on a scale of minuteness of another order altogether. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The particularity of the uniforms, the minuteness of the detail open to scrutiny, was surprisingly affecting. Critic?s Notebook: Museum of the Great War Opens in Meaux, France 2011-11-12T00:48:01Z That trio of adjectives captures the pin's minuteness, though the poet might be criticised for using both "small" and "little". Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z The apparent modesty of Austen's dramas is only apparent; the minuteness of design is a bravura achievement. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z But despite the minuteness of the research, her aim was not verisimilitude – Bonham Carter, for example, does not look much like Princess Margaret, nor ever will – but about allowing a performance to take place. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z The story was told with a minuteness of detail and dexterous use of technical phrases that not only imposed upon the ordinary reader, but deceived and puzzled men of science to an astonishing degree.” Great Moon Hoax of 1835 convinced the world of extraterrestrial life 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z “To create a predatory machine, you foster an appreciation of the natural world and our minuteness upon its canvass… We are as nothing and that permits us to do anything.” Review: Laird Barron returns with an often bleak novel 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Towards the quarter end of the catalog is a description of the work of microminiaturist Hagop Sandaldjian who carves from materials with such minuteness that the details were only perceivable under the microscope. The Art and Science of the Diagram: Communicating the Knowledge of the Heavens, the Earth and the Arcane, Final Part 2013-05-23T14:15:03.953Z The Spanish duet, the minuteness of whose bathing suits made them a favorite with the spectators, came in second. In Synchronized Swimming at the Olympics, the Idiosyncratic Meets the Intricate 2012-08-08T03:27:19Z St. Jerome, when exhorting Heliodorus to desert his family and become a hermit, expatiated with a fond minuteness on every form of natural affection he desired him to violate. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z We may take it for granted that the portrait is no mere fanciful one, with its pre-Raphaelite minuteness of detail, sketched with the poet’s own peculiar skill. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z To illustrate this, the case of the great philosopher Mencius is described with some minuteness. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z His farm or bastide was subjected to the same minuteness of seizure. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z There is a remarkable minuteness of detail in this and other narratives in Samuel, suggesting the authenticity of the narrative, and the authorship of one who was personally connected with the transactions. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z The monastic legends took up this doctrine, which in itself is sufficiently revolting, and they developed it with an appalling vividness and minuteness. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z I might dwell with painful minuteness on this sketch, but from the nature of its details, this is no place for them. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z Far be it from us to insinuate that he was foolish enough to give a vivid form and painful minuteness to the evils of a state that he believed he could not avoid. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z He seems unable to account for the exact minuteness in any other way than by external observation. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z These small figures are, in their way, marvels of art, for the wonderful boldness of execution and minuteness of detail shown in them. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z In proportion to the minuteness would be the disagreement. Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church 2012-03-29T02:00:12.080Z As a literary composition, it is quite worthless, being very diffuse and encumbered with dull and trivial details; yet this very minuteness affords strong internal evidence of its authenticity. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z The same instinct of modernness both in the spirituality of the torment and in the minuteness of its description displays itself a little farther on in the curse of Prometheus. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z The spots vary from the size of a pea to extreme minuteness. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z He then carries the story through countless ages till he arrives at his own conception, and the prodigies attending his birth, which he describes with great minuteness. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z What you say confirms my own knowledge of the extraordinary minuteness of the German plans. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z The outbreak of hostilities, the attack on the fort, and the detention of Campbell and McDougal are related at great length, and with all the minuteness of an eye-witness. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Genevi�ve explained to them every thing that they were to do, with a minuteness of detail, that savoured alternately of threatening and of endearment. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z Such ruling ideas vary, from man to man, and from man to woman—if we consider them in all their minuteness. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z This statement concerning the minuteness of the chromosomes is not speculation—they can readily be seen and measured with the aid of the microscope. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z As minuteness, however, is opposed to sublimity, it ill accorded with that elevation in which the supreme merit of the art would seem to consist. The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century 2012-02-25T03:00:10.400Z Their minuteness itself testifies to the improved character of the Curetonian. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z It was my intention to have examined this Language of Arms with more minuteness, but after a little research I find the labour ill-bestowed. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z The character of that Association has been described in a previous chapter, with as much minuteness of detail as is necessary, and the purposes of its inaugurators have been sufficiently indicated. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z It was very statistical, very long, and dry because of its minuteness of detail, and the constant recurrence of dates and figures. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z He never lost an opportunity of visiting and intently studying ancient buildings, sketching them, and measuring them with extraordinary care, minuteness, and patience. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z If they describe it with infinite minuteness, they must prove it with infinite minuteness. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z It marks out with great minuteness the measure of the compensation appropriate to each particular case of personal injury. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z John, especially, the beloved disciple, who has recorded with minuteness the conversation and the transactions of that memorable evening, has quite omitted such a notice. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z But he is careful to recapitulate all his services, and the encomiastic notices they had drawn from various quarters, while he details his losses with the most elaborate minuteness. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z This history now approaches a period so recent, that it will hardly be necessary to chronicle the events of the next decade with as much minuteness as has heretofore been attempted. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z Nothing can exceed the beauty and spirit of the design in these alphabets, nor the extreme delicacy and accurate minuteness of the engraving. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z The picture is the bust of a young gentleman painted by Anthony Herbert, and with all the laborious minuteness which was distinctive of his earlier methods. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Particular′ity, quality of being particular: minuteness of detail: a single act or case: a single or a minute circumstance: something peculiar or singular.—adv. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z The smallest details of his doings were chronicled with minuteness, and long poems and articles about him were published. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z The first text here defines the portion of the tribe of Judah with special minuteness, the second dwells upon the importance of the tribe of Ephraim. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The Countess laughingly assured him that nevertheless he had passed her home, and with a fond minuteness she described to him its aspect and position. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Ammon, whose adventures are related with the most minuteness, was a perfect Guy of Warwick. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z He seemed to me to be chiefly remarkable for the minuteness of his observations and their perfect accuracy. Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z The manner of painting is very like what I think I have observed among the French: much attention and minuteness in detail, while the great principal object of the story is perhaps failed in. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z With equal minuteness we can follow the breeding of cattle. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z From the minuteness with which comparatively unimportant matters are described, it is inferred that the separate books extended to a much greater length than those either of the Iliad or of the Aeneid. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z They followed with religious minuteness the directions of the water-wizard, with his magic divining rod, and the faith doctor who wrought miraculous cures by strange sounds and signals to some mysterious agency. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z These invalids come out with their exhausted energies and dilapidated constitutions to engage in a business which, to insure success, requires a minuteness of detail and intensity of application second to none. Natural and Artificial Duck Culture 2012-01-04T03:00:33.923Z Our author, though a patient admirer of the first, is offended at the "insufferable minuteness" of the second. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z This monumental work, the labour of a life, is a treasure of information regarding the classical age of Arab literature which has not perhaps its equal for extent, accuracy, and minuteness of detail in Europe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The work of Lucretius reminds us of the intensity of thought and feeling, the clearness and minuteness of observation, with which the earliest enquiries into Nature were carried on. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The mind can scarcely grasp the minuteness of these tiny creatures—creatures that seem to enjoy existence, eating, and apparently playing and entertaining each other like the higher animals. Through a Microscope Something of the Science Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. 2011-12-29T03:00:20.733Z He led the way upstairs without answering, and taking a candle, examined her bedroom again with ludicrous minuteness. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z The first impulse, however, to the improvement of machine-tools for ironwork was given by a difficulty born not of mass but of minuteness. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z It is still a Catalogue of great use and value, from its remarkable accuracy, and from the abundance and minuteness of its cross-references. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z To the vision of the chemist these particles of almost inconceivable minuteness are themselves built up of smaller particles. Heroes of Science Chemists 2011-12-09T03:00:21.047Z A certain measure of minuteness of detail is unavoidable in any such account. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z At all events he can gradate from black to white with remarkable minuteness and ease. English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books 2011-11-30T03:00:10.703Z The more common form of alluvial gold is as grains, or scales, or dust, varying in size from that of ordinary gunpowder to a minuteness that is invisible to the naked eye. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z Its very size will show to those who are acquainted with its subject, that minuteness in detail cannot be expected. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z Look at the length of their correspondence, the minuteness of their diaries. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z Nábigha was suspected on account of a poem in which he described the charms of the queen with the utmost minuteness, but Munakhkhal was the real culprit. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z This minuteness is particularly useful in Philadelphia, where the plan and aspect of the streets is so similar. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z And so it was: casually looking at a review, it so happened that the very thing he wanted was described with more than ordinary minuteness. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z The first risings of the sect are set forth with the kind of minuteness that appeals to a modern historian. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z I could give you instances of the quickness and minuteness of his keen faculty of observation, which never overlooked any thing. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z He related the story of his night's adventures to them with all necessary minuteness. Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck 2011-11-04T02:00:18.377Z Toward the close it lacks the tenderness and warmth, the minuteness and confidential utterance, that are so visible at the beginning. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z The minuteness of detail, so remarkable in the whole story, as related by Geoffrey, is an obvious objection to its authenticity. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z The mania was carefully studied by contemporary writers: they describe the morbid symptoms with so much accuracy and minuteness as to render all conjectures superfluous. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Several historians have related it with great minuteness and much elegance. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z He was deeply absorbed in the narrative, which was drawn up with the utmost minuteness. Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck 2011-11-04T02:00:18.377Z First, amazing some by the minuteness of his strategy, he would then startle others by a bold proclamation of immortal truth. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z But Jackson was intensely aware of all of them; nothing could exceed the minuteness of his appreciation of his wife. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Moreover, he did not care to reflect upon the importance of the day, had never troubled his brain about it, even while he was executing his prescribed duties with religious minuteness. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z It is unquestionably a most important book," he says; "it is of interest to everyone, and the minuteness of its detail is astonishing. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z No longer, as when a fretful prisoner, did I think their quiet shining was a reminder of man's minuteness in the schemes of God. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z He treated with great minuteness flowers, fruits, glasses, etc. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z They are marked by a broad and simple treatment, which attains a large effect without excessive minuteness or laboured detail. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Moreover, Douglas describes a sunset in its different stages with great minuteness of detail and the most evident delight. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z At the very time when minuteness of detail would have been most interesting, he ceases to be minute. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z Dr. Westcott has scrutinized this work with great minuteness, and, as I shall presently explain, he has selected his example with evident care. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z His minuteness wearied his sitters and he soon failed as a portrait-painter. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Compared with Greek gems, it will be seen that what 569 at first sight is attractive as refined and delicate is after all an exaggerated minuteness of execution, entirely devoid of the ancient spirit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z It is constantly asserted that the minuteness of the details in the fourth Gospel indicates that it must have been written by one who was present at the scenes he records. Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:31.587Z Before going further into the discussion of the matter, however, we must again, with a little more minuteness, call attention to the date of the actual statements upon which the whole argument turns. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z That the material eye failed to recognise the miniature they attributed to the imperfection of our senses, and to the extreme minuteness and resulting opacity of the object. The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development 2011-08-29T02:01:04.170Z The whole sad catastrophe was described by her with minuteness, as if occurring in her immediate presence. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z They did not know the road to Haverhill, but were directed by their friends with all possible minuteness. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z But the prediction of the fall of Jerusalem, while we have seen that it has none of the minuteness and sharpness of an after-thought, is also too definite for a presentiment. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z Many new forms will doubtless be discovered, as they are rarely collected on account of their minuteness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z So long as actual observation had not determined the limits of minuteness in the cases in question, there were no logical difficulties in the doctrine of enfolded germs. The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development 2011-08-29T02:01:04.170Z As is somewhere remarked, “every moment now begins to be critical, and every minuteness and specific caution becomes necessary for ascertaining the truth, and guarding against slander.” Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:23.870Z The very minuteness of personal detail, which in any other composition would be a blot, in this becomes a merit and a charm. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 2011-08-13T02:00:20.940Z Nearly all of them had a series of complaints which they wanted to detail in all their minuteness to every physician who came near. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z Among them is my boy hero Davy Ogden, whose adventures I undertake to tell with some minuteness. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z Nor let it be said that minuteness is any reason for lack of interest on the part of the naturalist. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z Things seen in vision are described with all the minuteness of detail and sharpness of outline which belong to real existence. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z Intricacy and minuteness of detail might be a trifling disqualification did they lead to something immediately practical. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z The economic historians describe with minuteness the rise and fall of gilds and chartered companies, the workings of different methods of education and of poor relief in successive epochs. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z The preceding paper has sufficiently discussed the impossible limitations of the elective system, and has shown with some minuteness the grounds of their impossibility. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Into the heart of a wild honeysuckle a humming-bird whirred, delighting Peggy by its beauty, minuteness and ceaseless motion of its wings. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z The peculiarity of organic and sentient bodies is due to the minuteness and shape of their particles, and to their special motions and combinations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Such, however, is the extreme minuteness of their particles, that by strong compression, they sometimes force their way through the pores of the substance which confines them. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z I had examined this region, with minuteness, the previous summer, in an excursion through the southern limits of the lead-mines, and now revisited some of the points, respecting which, my curiosity was unsatisfied. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z We let our experiences be blurred, not observing sharply, nor knowing with any minuteness what we are thinking about; and so there is no individuality in our language. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z They draw the line at the brutality of certain details, and the almost childish minuteness of others. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z That the young woman, when twenty, should recall the scenes with such minuteness as to make the audience perfectly understand their dramatic values is hardly plausible. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z A large number of previously unedited Coptic MSS. have been published; many new MSS. have been discovered, and the grammar of the language has been studied with great minuteness. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z The portrait is a little gem, which Bastien-Lepage wrought with the minuteness and affectedly hieratic mannerism of Holbein and the French primitive school. Bastien Lepage 2011-06-28T02:00:12.150Z Theresa, for the few days Wilhelm spent with her, continued still the same: she related to him at different times the consequences of that singular incident with great minuteness. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Again, the divisions are more numerous, and consequently smaller, than on other scales in use; and the further subdivision into tenths of degrees, seems to give all the minuteness usually required. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z Thereupon he examined my face, head and hands with the utmost minuteness. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z The order “to cut off her head” is given with the most revolting minuteness. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Their details were copious in particulars and vivid in minuteness. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z Heathcliff is spoilt for most readers by the seemingly loving minuteness with which the author elaborates the worst characteristics of his nature, characteristics familiar to her from family legend. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Size rather tempts the lace-worker to strive for ready effect, and to sacrifice the minuteness and finish of hand work, which give quality of preciousness to lace. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z I desire in this chapter to show how Jefferies paints the country life; to show him in his minuteness and fidelity first, and in his higher flights afterwards. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Kelley was a person of considerable fancy, which sometimes approached to a poetical imagination; the masquerade of his spiritual beings is remarkable for its fanciful minuteness. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The story of each other's wanderings was told with endless amplification and minuteness. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z For this period onward, Firmian set himself to look with much care and minuteness for every crack, feather, flaw, or cloudiness, which might be discoverable in that diamond--Lenette's heart. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z These facts, given with much minuteness, were followed by an assertion on the part of the lecturer that he had no authority for them whatever. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Near a house, Dutch garden-ornaments, with their homely minuteness, make a better figure than thrilling Nature, with her eternal majesty. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z The castle was searched within and without with the utmost minuteness. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z She is a great grievance to some, it would appear, from the minuteness with which her faults and failings have been enumerated. Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making 2011-04-27T02:00:20.023Z He examined its contents with a minuteness almost microscopic. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z As Stuart says, the inventor enumerated its excellent qualities with great minuteness. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z The minuteness of Mrs Mainwaring’s information, even to the exact amount of his own legacy, left him no room to question its correctness. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z In its first appeal to the stranger's eye there is something unpleasing; a mingling, as it seems to him, of over severity with over minuteness. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Economy consists of so many branches, some of which descend to such minutenesses, that it is impossible for me in writing to give you particular directions. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady 2011-04-19T02:00:19.607Z A diary kept by Bute of the first portion of this tour has been preserved: it describes his doings with great minuteness, and is a remarkable record for a youth of eighteen to have written. John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z The details of the French Revolution are recorded with great minuteness, and it was evidently a subject of deep interest to the Gazette's numerous readers. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z The duties of these eight Committees are specified with great minuteness in the rules. Congressional Government A Study in American Politics 2011-04-15T02:00:18.863Z The rugged surface of Samuel Butler lends itself to such realism—and I will not say that Mr. Jones does not approach the confines of the superfluous in the excessive minuteness of his notes. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Nothing in profane history is equal to their beautiful simplicity, their affecting minuteness. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady 2011-04-19T02:00:19.607Z We find in them the sense of color, the scrupulous precision of form, and something of that superfluous minuteness which belongs to painting rather than to literature. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z On flies, favourites of his from experience, he dwells with pleased and pleasing minuteness, and for the first time discloses how the "winged larva," a deadly invention of his own, is to be constructed. Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies 2011-04-04T02:00:10.823Z It is difficult to give any sketch of the argumentative part of this famed controversy, as the merit of all such discussion consists in the extreme accuracy and minuteness of investigation. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z At the same time we should not omit to notice the variety, extent, and minuteness of his examinations. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z With a painstaking minuteness he described the false trade-marks used to prevent discovery, and how the weapons, which were forged in France, bore the stamp of Sheffield or Birmingham. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z With the precision of a treatise and the minuteness of an inventory, it combines the ardor of impassioned feeling, the rapture of anticipation, the artist's blending with the lover's ecstasy. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The great secret of his success is the minuteness and fidelity of his painting, and the graphic power with which heart-stirring events occurring within a very short period are painted. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z The Jews had a law written with the greatest minuteness, and we have not a single line from the hand of Jesus. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z When at Naples, Mr. Peale of course visited the buried towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii, and has described them with much minuteness, so as convey a very distinct impression of their present state. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z From this subject, she drifted to the story of young Trafton's death, which she told with great minuteness. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z He likewise described with great minuteness a wonderful dog, which was kept in the neighbourhood for the purpose of catching the wolves and wild boars, and for which the proprietor had refused twenty moidores. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z Hickman now proceeded, at my request, to detail with more minuteness than I had yet heard them, the facts connected with the robbery of the unfortunate family. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z I despair of giving the reader any conception of the range and minuteness of these wonderful memoranda. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z As Armstrong’s convalescence continued, he marshalled before him certain events which had occurred since his arrival in Florence, and examined them with great minuteness. The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z Though this style of ornament occurs in Egypt, Cyprus, Rhodes and Magna Graecia, nowhere is it accomplished with such extraordinary minuteness as in Etruria. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z What miserable minuteness, what petty plottings for small results!—nothing grand, great, or decisive! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z In the presence of all, I made the disclosure; and, with as much minuteness as the time would permit, described the strange transaction I had witnessed in the morning. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z There is no system of supervision known to human wit that approaches in thoroughness and minuteness the supervision under which every single boy is kept all through his life at an English Public School. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z I record the facts, in all the exactitude and minuteness, with which memory has supplied them to myself. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z A host of pious worthies thus preside over every day of the entire year; and fables of the most preposterous kind, detailed with scrupulous minuteness, are vouched for upon unexceptionable authority. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Miss Jane frowned and examined Lee all over with scorn and minuteness. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z In the recounting of this, too, he held to the greatest minuteness of detail, showing plainly the half-breed's rise from despised squaw man to a person of influence in the councils. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z There is a graphic minuteness about all these trivial directions, which takes us more readily behind the curtain of Time than the most elaborate and dignified chronicles could possibly do. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z I scanned the robber’s face with as much minuteness as circumstances would permit. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z It was considered at the time an event of importance, and the ceremonies on the occasion are given with some minuteness in the Annual Register for 1791. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z The designation stands good; but to describe her will require less minuteness of detail. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z The colonel answered the question with great minuteness, and the discussion between the two gentlemen became more and more animated. Danira 2011-02-06T03:00:59.460Z But the every-day life of many plantations surpassed, in minuteness and striking refinement of tormenting, all that the sans-culotte ever dared or the savage ever dreamed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z In short, it settles with minuteness and detail the whole circle of relations between master and slave, defining, and prescribing what the former may, and may not exact from the latter. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z It is this supreme and all-overshadowing importance of the interests at stake that must justify the earnestness and the minuteness with which the matter has been treated. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z With tailor-like minuteness, the dress of the inferior citizens was prescribed. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z The writers allude, for example, to the existing manners and customs, and to the circumstances of the times and of their country, with the utmost minuteness of reference. An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists 2011-01-19T03:00:17.237Z There is still another hour which follows, when he learns that in his infinite comparative minuteness and abjectness, the gods do likewise despise him, and own him not of their clan. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z In his report to the Spanish government is a description of buffalo which for graphic minuteness and correctness has never been excelled. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Grammar and prosody were studied in India with a marvellous accuracy and minuteness several centuries before Christ. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" In the warm colouring of the narrative, and in the minuteness of its details, we feel that we are reading the report of one who has himself beheld the scenes which he describes. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies This minuteness, too, is not peculiar to any one of the historians, but is common to them all. An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists 2011-01-19T03:00:17.237Z These are not numerous or complicated, and may be mostly avoided by proper treatment and food, which are indicated with sufficient minuteness in the foregoing observations. 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. The Pope draws out in it a creed of the utmost minuteness in regard of the contested doctrine, the Person of our Lord in His Two Natures. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII The stranger, conducted by the old man, now went through every room in the house, and examined them with a care and minuteness that showed he entertained serious intentions regarding the property. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 He dwells with sufficient minuteness on those interminable feuds which, growing out of a diversity of races and tribes, baffled every attempt at a permanent consolidation under one government. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies Matthew alone mentions, and without any apparent reason for such minuteness, that Herod addressed his remark to his servants it. An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists 2011-01-19T03:00:17.237Z But when we speak with more minuteness, we speak doubtfully, and at any moment new discoveries may unsettle theories by upsetting what we have supposed to be facts. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open For delicate operations, such as the measurement of altitudes, the scale of the barometer is furnished with a nonius or vernier, which greatly increases the minuteness and accuracy of the scale. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis I have now said all that occurs to me on the subject of Real Assents, perhaps not without some risk of subtlety and minuteness. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent This explanation is the true one, only that the apparent smallness of the stars are due to their distance, and not to their actual minuteness of size. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time But more than this is evident, from the minuteness of their narratives, and from their history. An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists 2011-01-19T03:00:17.237Z The messages sent by pigeons were at first written in very small handwriting, but afterwards they were photographed in microscopical minuteness, so that a very large number could be carried by one pigeon. The Postage Stamp in War It is this force which produces those actions which escape our notice by their minuteness and bewilder us by their results. The Mechanism of Life Is not the importance of accepting the dogma the very explanation of that careful minuteness with which the few simple truths which compose it are inculcated, are reiterated, in the Creed? An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Seeing, however, the exceeding minuteness of these variations in each instance, they can avail nothing to bring together the right mates to perpetuate them. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer The Sister followed his directions, and imitated his motions with painstaking minuteness. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches The difference between the wood-cut style of an old city-chronicle, and the photographic, stereoscopic, stippled minuteness and finish of a modern novel, is altogether too wide. Barbarossa and Other Tales And these writers delight to paint with minuteness the horrible tortures to which he was exposed and the marvellous actions which the saint performed at his death. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Such was the general import and bearing of the accusations against the prisoner, expressed with the usual abundance of verbiage and minuteness of detail. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Other Englishmen were in favor of our independence, and saw our future also; but I doubt if any one can be named who was his equal in strenuous action, or in minuteness of foresight. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 Lafcadio Hearn's thoughts, aspirations and mode of life are revealed with almost daily minuteness during this period at New Orleans—indeed, for the rest of his life, by his interchange of letters with various friends. Lafcadio Hearn This trivial style of work is greatly admired because of the minuteness of its execution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" These three love-affairs, which I have related in all their details, and possibly with indiscreet minuteness, taught me some lessons in life. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second I cannot go over with minuteness details in which the deceptions I had to concur in still revive my shame. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience But there is little doubt that he was diligent in collecting and careful in recording his facts, and his extreme minuteness often supplies gaps in less prolix chroniclers. A Short History of French Literature The third book is of battle and victory at Issus, described with minuteness and warmth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Naturalism of rendering takes the place of conventional decorative treatment, and elaborate minuteness of finish supplants the broad freedom of direct brushwork. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" “We have been impressed by the carefulness, fulness, and almost minuteness of the expositions which Dr. Lumby gives in this volume.” The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews He grasps a thing almost before it is spoken, has only to read over his lessons once, and remembers the stories I tell and read with surprising minuteness. Mothering on Perilous The descriptions, too, have a Rabelaisian minuteness and richness about them; and in the burlesque parts the influence of that master is equally perceptible. A Short History of French Literature The interruption by the coming of the saturnine head of the house, and the struggle, all came back vividly clear, and with photographic minuteness. Blind Policy One of the most characteristic distinctions of later demotic is the minuteness of the writing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" But yet neither this nor anything else in nature shows the innumerable minuteness of London in the sun. London Impressions Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure The leader examined the royal decree with great minuteness, and only allowed us to proceed with apparent reluctance. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar They are filled with paintings, infinite in minuteness and beauty. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. These limits, however, have not even yet quite reached the minuteness of a mathematical point; and there are a few marvels left for the indefatigable rummagings of modern science to explain. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series The whole scene is full of light and splendor, delicate beauty of angels, and exquisite minuteness of finish. Dürer Artist-Biographies Notwithstanding the minuteness of his touch, however, the general effect was harmonious and free from stiffness, and his colour was always admirably fresh and transparent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" He is present in nature in its vastness and in its minuteness, and in both we can read His thoughts after Him. Some Essentials of Religion It would be difficult to estimate the full value of Mr. Whitney's labors, without going into a minuteness of detail inconsistent with our limits. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 The Sister followed his directions and imitated his motions with painstaking minuteness. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. Some notion may be formed of the extreme minuteness of these forms from the fact that one the length of which is 1⁄200th of an inch may be considered as beyond the medium size. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The narrative is given in a simple, unpretending manner, that engages our confidence, though the author enters into a minuteness of detail which the general historian may be excused from following. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 In proportion to its minuteness, that universe lasted as long as this one—whereof we see a few atoms glittering above our heads—has lasted or will last. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Our literary characters are lopsided because their ordinary traits are fully portrayed, analysed with extraordinary minuteness, while their sex life is cloaked, minimised, or left out. A Novelist on Novels The dreadful mockery by which Mirabeau endeavoured to cheat death of his terrors, as, dressed, perfumed, and essenced, he lay upon his last bed, all surrounded with flowers, was told with a thrilling minuteness. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier And by this uninteresting minuteness, his style, for the greatest part, is rendered inelegant. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem His conversations with the emperor are reported with a minuteness that Boswell might have envied, and which may well provoke our scepticism, unless we suppose them to have been reported by Borja himself. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 But the minuteness of the particles of light are still several degrees beyond their velocity; and they are therefore harmless, because so very small. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments We were in almost daily receipt of postal cards from Julius, and with the same minuteness which he had shown in the album, he gave us the day, hour, and place of writing. Waldfried A Novel It is very difficult to conceive of the minuteness of the bacteria; the following may give some idea of their size. Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying After this came a lengthened statement of medical hopes and fears, balanced with all the subtle minuteness known to "the Faculty." Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Directions for the course he was to take, as well as the precautions he was to use to prevent suspicion, were set down in the royal instructions with great minuteness. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 For it is the lowest and the last thing about which an artist should concern himself, this excessive fineness and minuteness of work.... The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. It lacked alike the diligent minuteness of the chronicler and the broader view of the historian. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 The suave strength of the transitional mouldings forms a most instructive contrast to the less effective minuteness of the decadent work. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See From New Zealand he proceeded to “New Holland” or Australia, and surveyed with the same minuteness and accuracy the whole east coast. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" The cardinal especially went into a gossiping minuteness of detail, to which few men in his station would have condescended. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 With infinite accuracy his perfect lenses recorded the data in all its minuteness, despite the dazzling sunlight. The Small World of M-75 Being in dread of his life, he divulged all he knew, and especially explained with minuteness of detail the plans which had been concocted by his compatriots for the invasion of Scotland. Border Raids and Reivers "The lectures are marked by a breadth of thought, and a minuteness of observation that show the author to be a man thoroughly abreast of the times." Eden An Episode "This interesting rite, usually solemnized with great formality, in the presence of assembled friends and relations, is detailed with minuteness by Sahagun and by Zuazo, both of them eyewitnesses." 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 The learned professor has given the various symptoms of the queen's malady with as curious a minuteness as if he had been concocting a medical report. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 They sat on the porch facing the mountain, and for a few moments the conversation was confined to the weather and the scenery, giving Gwynne an opportunity to observe his guests with some minuteness. Ancestors A Novel Yet, with all our care of the soil, minuteness in following directions as to setting out and trimming, etc., there are other difficulties still to overcome. The Apple The Princess, for reasons of her own, had explained Guido's position with considerable minuteness, if not with scrupulous accuracy. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome The very postmark Edmund had to copy with the utmost minuteness. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II And Mrs. Anderson forthwith proceeded to detail the particulars of the quarrel and subsequent encounter, with a minuteness and circumstantiality which, we fear, the reader would think rather tedious were we here to repeat. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III I believe I would have taken a club to the hard-hearted or stupid Tescheron and murdered him with mince-meat minuteness in the presence of the gossipers lolling around the fireplace in the living-room. Cupid's Middleman Stooping over the bed, therefore, she carefully adjusts her glasses upon her nose, and proceeds to examine with much minuteness the earth beneath her. Rossmoyne In the end I did find something; something of such vague but monstrous import that I set about at once to examine the cellar of the shunned house itself with a new and excited minuteness. The Shunned House The Clerk of the Privy Chancery went carefully and considerately up to the table, looked at the caskets with much minuteness of observation, read the inscriptions on them one after another. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II Sorrowfully, yet with hope in God, she made up the little package for her boy, and communicated to him with renewed minuteness her parting counsels and instructions. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings The labour and patience bestowed in its completion must have been excessive, especially when the precision and minuteness of the letters are considered. Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The more we study and compare, the more readily we understand, that space, duration, size, minuteness, solidity and porosity, are all relative terms which depend for their significance entirely on the standpoint of consciousness. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century Every tassel of their rusty foliage is defined with pre-Raphaelite minuteness. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Thomson has sometimes been commended for the novelty and minuteness of his remarks upon nature. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Father and mother, the only two words which are not identical, are doubtless different expressions, relationship in this, as in most native tongues, being indicated with excessive minuteness. The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations Thoreau felt the eerie strangeness of beach and sand dunes as all explorers have, and he noted, too, the characteristics of the sand and its vegetation and of the inhabitants with a humorous minuteness. Old Plymouth Trails All his duties were detailed therein with the greatest precision and minuteness. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli They have the romantic air of a pure fiction, with the literal minuteness of a common diary. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature At least it is seldom collected; overlooked by reason of its minuteness. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species "The minuteness or delicacy of the feeling of difference is the measure of the variety and multitude of our primary impressions and therefore of our stored-up recollections." Froebel's Gifts In his turn he accuses Vernon of being a perpetual transcriber, and for the Malone minuteness of his history. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 The world often describes with minuteness the material framework of such noisy events as have impressed its coarse sensibilities. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 The rules of Effect are laid down with great precision and minuteness, and illustrated with several neat engravings by Hinckley. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. Its minuteness doubtless causes it to be generally overlooked, N. A. F., 2498. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species What then shall we say of the minuteness of the food they eat; of the blood that surges through their veins; of their nervous system that thrills and guides them? Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View If a scene from nature, it is possible that all the seasons of the year may be jumbled together; or if a castle or an apartment, its magnitude or its minuteness may equally bewilder. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Missal-painting could not, from its minuteness, produce the same sublime impressions, and frequently merged itself in mere ornamentation of the page. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), His pictures of the condition of the laboring classes in London have a minuteness and vividness of detail which would not disgrace a Dutch painting. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. In minuteness to be compared with C. minutissima, from which its color instantly distinguishes it. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species I say her subject, because the minuteness of the touches, and the odd, forcible style in which this book is written, point to it being the work of a female hand. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters Inquiries of this nature, and often the most trivial objects set off with a singular minuteness of description, tempted the laugh of the scoffers. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors And finally, my mother going to the door, saw nothing, though she appeared much impressed by the extremeness of my terror and the minuteness of my description. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. To describe with minuteness the scene of horror that ensued would scarcely be possible. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 He has more than fulfilled his promise, for we have received from him this week four photographs, which, for general beauty and minuteness of detail, cannot be surpassed. Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The minuteness of the preceding criticism has been prompted not by a depreciatory estimate of his powers, but rather by an appreciative survey of his possibilities. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 But now my language to my wife that unhappy evening returned to my consciousness with incredible vividness and minuteness. The Gates Between The truth is, hardness of digestion principally depends on the minuteness of the component particles, as is evident in marble and precious stones. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery It is the only military treatise we possess coming from the admiral's hand, and it enters into the subject with technical minuteness. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 He has related the history of his immediate and remoter forbears with considerable minuteness—with more minuteness indeed by far than he has bestowed upon all but a few passages of his own life. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The minuteness and accuracy of God's program of the ages is often overlooked. Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order It will be seen from the precision with which I have already recorded it, how inexorable this minuteness was. The Gates Between And, in obedience to that order, that relation which I have been able to procure with the exercise of all care and minuteness, is as follows. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. In about seventy pages, close pages it is true, Mr. Symonds presents us with a sketch of Florentine history, the like of which, for compactness and minuteness of information, one knows not where to seek. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 The account of Shakspeare may stand as a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism, exact without minuteness, and lofty without exaggeration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 He strode up to the wagon and examined it closely, studying its position and the wheel tracks, with a minuteness that left him in possession of every available fact. The Law-Breakers Mr. Badman now took to speculation, which Bunyan's knowledge of business enabled him to describe with instructive minuteness. Bunyan The fact is, that both finish and impetuosity, specific minuteness, or large abstraction, may be the signs of passion, or of its reverse; may result from affection or indifference, intellect or dulness. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) If so, it is probable that he studied this military defence with some care and minuteness. The Cathedrals of Northern France These were to be read aloud to the congregations; and an order for preaching was at the same time circulated, in which the minuteness of the directions is as remarkable as the prudence of them. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. Notwithstanding the incalculable minuteness of his execution, the touch of his brush is free and soft, and his best pictures look like Nature seen through the camera-obscura. Six Centuries of Painting The search, although he conducted it with the utmost minuteness, was quite unproductive of results. The Film of Fear Sir Walter Scott gives, with his characteristic minuteness in such points, the exact relationship between these famous men. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges When Cou� inquired the nature of her trouble, she broke into a flood of complaint, describing each symptom with a voluble minuteness. The Practice of Autosuggestion The river, its channel, and the banks, which, in the dry season, embarrass its navigation, are laid down in the manuscript plan with great care and minuteness. A Succinct View of the Importance and Practicability of Forming a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama Although his pictures are generally very small, yet with their extraordinary minuteness of execution it is surprising that, in a life extended only to forty-six years, he should have produced so many. Six Centuries of Painting A fuse may be ignited, or a motor started and directed, by apparatus connected with the coherer, for all its minuteness. Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery In Johnson's Life of Pope, you will find described with rather a malicious minuteness some of the personal habits and infirmities of the great little Pope. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges This was the subject nearest his heart and one upon which he elaborated with minuteness and eloquence. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight They were of Noah's Ark size; it was only minuteness that showed their remoteness. Daisy's Aunt But had this modification been a part of the usage of the classical language, it would have been noticed by the grammarians, who discuss each letter with great minuteness. Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method The gemmules in each organism must be thoroughly diffused; nor does this seem improbable considering their minuteness, and the steady circulation of fluids throughout the body. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) This will account for a fulness and minuteness of detail which to unsympathetic persons may perhaps appear tedious. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 These stars exhibit no companions, such planetary attendants as they may have lying, on account of their minuteness, far beyond the reach of our most powerful instruments. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers We shall attend to her conversation, and observe her manners, with scrupulous minuteness. Practical Education, Volume II Those who quickly seize, and apply, general ideas, cannot endure, with patience, the tedious minuteness of didactic illustration. Practical Education, Volume I The Queen, in her Journal, recorded with great minuteness the details of this interesting time, and some extracts are printed by Sir Theodore Martin in The Life of the Prince Consort. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 Emanuel meanwhile was giving her directions as to its food, with all the minuteness of one loving his subject. The Grey Woman and other Tales This kind of luminous agitation is not peculiar to M 24, although that cluster exhibits it better than most others do on account of both the multitude and the minuteness of its stars. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers "The story is told with such naturalness and minuteness of detail that it seems to be a narrative of actual occurrences rather than a creation of the imagination." Soldier Stories The former is so called because the chapters in Exodus and the two following books, which treat with particular minuteness of the various ceremonial institutions of Israel, are considered to be by the same writer. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture Collodion giving results of almost microscopic minuteness, such negatives bear enlarging considerably without any very perceptible deterioration in that respect. Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc No approximation of the magnitude of telescopic stars can be arrived at; many of them may rival Sirius, Canopus, and Arcturus, in size and splendour, their apparent minuteness being a consequence of their extreme remoteness. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Less than this is worthless from its minuteness. Hebrew Literature This man's house was slightly described, and, with more minuteness, I had exposed some interesting traits in his household economy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 I dwell with the greater minuteness on this point, because on the integrity of that charter are suspended the civil liberties of the Church of the Vaudois. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge In India they still inlay in cloth most marvellously, not only counterchanging the pattern, but inlaying the inlays with smaller patternwork, thus combining great simplicity of effect with wonderful minuteness of detail. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery The minuteness of the correction indicates the nicety of care employed. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Their object was to preserve the sacred text with scrupulous minuteness, and make a “fence” for the law. Hebrew Literature It is really wonderful in the minuteness and splendid finish of its ornamentation. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Thousands of these exist, written with amazing minuteness and uniformity. The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. Otherwise he could scarcely have imagined that it was from an aversion to minuteness, or from an impossibility to forbid every evil, that the sin of slavery is passed over in silence. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The minuteness of these bodies appeared further to strengthen the imputation of a fragmentary character. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Presently he picked up the poker, a massive steel affair, and proceeded to examine the fire-end with great minuteness. Malcolm Sage, Detective No; I could not but smile through my chafe; For the fellow lay safe As his mates do, the midge and the nit —Through minuteness, to wit. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning My directions have been given with exact minuteness of detail. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness “The outstanding merit of this series of stories is that they are absolutely true to life ... the photographic accuracy and minuteness displayed are really marvellous.” Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange It proclaims with great minuteness rules of life which the faithful Jew still rigidly observes. History of Education The explanation of the form and appearance of the liver became itself a separate science, and this science was developed with extraordinary minuteness by the Babylonians. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Levi ben Gerson takes up the same question of the nature of the material intellect and discusses the various views with more rigor and minuteness than any of his Jewish predecessors. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy To understand it fully, it is necessary that the setting of the stage—the mise-en-scène—be described with a certain degree of minuteness. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Being thus incapable of minuteness, accuracy and certainty, it cannot be considered a proper and sufficient basis for cerebral science. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 Dr Dennis treats the whole subject of ethics and of social order generally with great minuteness and in a most instructive way. Children of Borneo In a highly seasoned statement of the repulsive tradition communicated by Lord Webb Seymour to Walter Scott, the murder is described with hideous minuteness. A Book About Lawyers Mr. Stephenson had once a conversation with a watchmaker, whom he astonished by the extent and minuteness of his knowledge as to the parts of a watch. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson He knew every quartering: of the Utah escutcheon, with a minuteness of detail that would have done credit to a King-at-arms. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness I told her everything I had ever done and said with the utmost minuteness. Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy The character of the Athenians has been sketched by Plutarch 29 with considerable minuteness, and his representations have been permitted, until of late years, to pass unchallenged. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles It is not necessary that the scene which followed should be described with minuteness in these pages. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm Not to mention other editions, the Religio Medici, which exhibits, owing to its history, an unusual variation of text, has been, together with the Christian Morals, separately edited with great minuteness by Dr. Greenhill. A History of Elizabethan Literature Elsewhere, with great minuteness of detail, Meeteetse was describing the exciting incident of the night, and what would have happened if only he could have laid hold of his gun. 'Me--Smith' The convention began by overhauling that document from beginning to end, discussing it clause by clause with somewhat wearisome minuteness. The Critical Period of American History How shall we adequately describe the extreme minuteness of the parallactic ellipses in the case of even the nearest stars? The Story of the Heavens The gardens are certainly kept in the very highest order, the trees and flowers are watched and inspected with the greatest minuteness. A Journey in Russia in 1858 Columbus observed and reported the customs of these people with some minuteness. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest The beast has its own character; that was long ago written out by the prophets, and up to the present time it has filled in the outlines with a marvellous minuteness. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 "Sir, "Considering the circumstantial minuteness with which you have related the youthful adventures of Mr. H. I am surprised at your not mentioning one which I know to be a fact. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 It must not be expected that the details on Mars could be inspected with the same minuteness as those on the moon. The Story of the Heavens The very minuteness, in fact, of censures such as these, is a flattering proof of the spiritual importance of even the most trivial details in the life of woman. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) This book, which Pascal says he “read twice through,” was the great repository from which he gathered the details of Jesuit doctrine which he exposes with such minuteness. Pascal Burckhardt was an accomplished traveller; well-informed, exact to minuteness, patient, courageous, and endowed with an upright and energetic character. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century With increasing frequency, earnestness, and minuteness, was George M�ller led to put before God, in prayer, all matters that lay upon his mind. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God This tendency has been in the direction of minuteness and accuracy of detail. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Nothing can be finer than his remarks as far as they go, but his plan did not allow him sufficient space to work out his own conception of the character, with the minuteness it requires. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical These little figures are not more than three-quarters of an inch high, but are worked with such minuteness that even the tiny features are shown. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Still there is much in these pictures to delight the Cruikshankian connoisseur,—infinite variety in physiognomy, wonderful minuteness and accuracy in detail, and here and there sparkles of the true Hogarthian satire. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 They did not dare approach near enough to the camp to observe with minuteness what was going on, but they saw that a great stir was in progress. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" He was in a region where he was warranted in looking for Indian villages, and his penetrating eyes traveled over the area with a minuteness of search hardly imaginable by the reader. Camp-fire and Wigwam Most of the romances written in imitation of Scott had this tendency; and this same feebleness underlies the superfluous minuteness of detail that may be observed in the decadent realists of the present day. Studies in Literature and History Mr Hill did not fail to return thanks, and begged his fellow-traveller to consider whether the minuteness of his prayers had deserved the censure which had been directed against them. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. The design of this little treatise is to present, with minuteness of detail, that mode of culture which experience and observation have proved to be best adapted to the production of the Potato crop. The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. Puny insects, left too long unhurt, may turn out dangerous enemies irretrievably damaging the fertile vine on which they fastened in the security of their minuteness. Emily Brontë For here is no question of mere difference in style or in power, none of minuteness or largeness. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature In the Uffizi one is able to examine these works closely, and they gain by this nearness to the eye, which enables one to see the minuteness of his finish. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture In color, light and shade, and composition, it is masterly; and we see in it that minuteness of detail and careful finish are not incompatible with a broad and luminous effect. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Left alone in my office, I fall to examining the wallpaper with a sort of idiotic minuteness. Marguerite Our caps and Russian boots excited their curiosity, and they examined them with the greatest minuteness. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Father, and mother, and sister, had to listen to the fullest details of the struggle and its surprising issue, and Bert fairly outdid himself in the vigour and minuteness of his description. Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia Since that wretched epoch, he had watched, with morbid zeal and minuteness, not his acts,—for those it was easy to arrange,—but each breath of emotion, and his every thought. The Scarlet Letter They have the remarkable minuteness yet boldness of description, and dramatic skill of narration, which render the impressions he produces so deep and lasting. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Here, then, they sought to find means to compose and solder together so many pieces of gold of different forms, and of such minuteness, that, as we have said, it goes to the very extreme. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Nature possessed for him not merely enjoyable and describable characters of great variety and minuteness, but an immediately apprehended unity and meaning. The Approach to Philosophy “Olmsted’s work,” he wrote, “in vividness of description and in photographic minuteness far surpasses Arthur Young’s.” Historical Essays Without glancing at me, he betook himself p. 219at once to consider the horse, going round him, and observing every point with the utmost minuteness. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' With this sordid view the trivial episode of the malingering scene at Salisbury is described with sickening minuteness. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography I admire him for his patience and minuteness in compiling such trivial details. A Confederate Girl's Diary It is honourable of the advertiser to mention the minuteness of the cliffs. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914 The necessity for this minuteness of examination has been fully shown in some of the curious discoveries that have been made. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy He made the angle at once, and then he began to observe the trees with all the patience and minuteness of which a forest runner in such a crisis was capable. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness He is generally described with considerable minuteness, and the time and place of meeting foretold. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. The principal detailed with great minuteness the particulars of the conspiracy, with which our readers are already familiar. In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. It is said that in moments of great peril sometimes the whole course of the past life, past but not obliterated, is summoned up in the most vivid minuteness. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands We need not analyze with any great minuteness the geological facts and hypotheses incorporated into this magnificent history of creation. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' I do, your honor; perhaps I should have said the bag aforesaid, which I thought I had described with sufficient minuteness. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World I gleefully invented all her sayings on these momentous occasions, and described the wedding and the abhorrent bridegroom with great minuteness. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy The mysterious boat he had twice seen was the only explanation of the minuteness of Mr. Presby's details that suggested itself to his mind. In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. The exceeding minuteness of some of the insects which he has completely figured and described, almost passes belief. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual This is commonly and excellently done by making him begin with Grammar; nor can too great accuracy, or minuteness and subtlety of teaching be used towards him, as his faculties expand, with this simple purpose. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin Mr. George Sheldon has also traced out with great minuteness the history of his ancestor's negotiations. A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America On account of the minuteness of their structure, the capillaries were beyond his sight, aided as it was by a magnifying glass merely. Fathers of Biology There he united in his person, for some time, the priest and the ruler: he experienced during his residence, most of the anxieties and difficulties incident to such stations, and detailed them with curious minuteness. The History of Tasmania, Volume I Poussin studied nature with a minuteness that often exposed him to raillery. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 Almost every variety of English flower, exquisitely coloured, is massed into an enormous bouquet, surprising alike from the largeness of the conception and the minuteness of the execution. The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling The most striking feature of the book is the combined minuteness and breadth of his observations and descriptions. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure He sighed with rapture, and examined the cup from every side with the utmost minuteness. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated The enterprise and industry of the people; their spacious harbour; their battery, signal post and pier—are all distinguished with the minuteness of an auctioneer's catalogue, and nearly in its phrases. The History of Tasmania, Volume I All these chances were eagerly brought forward by the men, and discussed with every circumstance of minuteness. Ran Away to Sea “You had better consent,” he added as he analyzed the hesitation of the startled Raikes, “or I shall describe, with photographic minuteness, all that occurred in the few short moments of your visit.” The Flaw in the Sapphire The details of this singular event are reported by Procopius with minuteness and simplicity, and he concludes his narration with a distinct condemnation of the injustice of his patron's conduct. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Better than all, we gain a test of the minuteness with which the sculptors worked, and an idea of how close the adherence to a type was required to be. Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 The despatches of Wilmot to Lord Stanley described with accurate minuteness the social effects of the probation system. The History of Tasmania, Volume I The very intensity of the light, dazzling our eyes, prevented us from scanning the surface with any degree of minuteness. Ran Away to Sea Though suffering from sickness, he continued to keep his reckoning and make his observations with his usual minuteness. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold The minuteness of his record of the gaieties shows how amused and interested Boz was in all that he saw. Pickwickian Studies He wrote home to his wife, telling her of his admiration for Madame Walmoden, and describing with some minuteness the lady's various charms of person. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II Trenchard had described the prison-house of despair, where the two victims of a strange, desolating habit shut themselves up to sink, with a curious minuteness. The Collaborators 1896 Their movements are keenly watched, and often chronicled with surprising minuteness. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler One, more courageous than the rest, picked up the wig, which they all proceeded to examine with curious minuteness. The Scalp Hunters But then, with that minuteness which never fails Boz, we had been told that they were not to go there till after the Christmas holidays. Pickwickian Studies Now, I ask, wherefore has the poet dwelt with such minuteness upon this forced and improbable incident? Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The characters of the piece, though traced in glowing colours, are outlines more than pictures: the few features we discover in them are drawn with elaborate minuteness; but the rest are wanting. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works The sayings and doings of the young adventurers are recorded with the minuteness that to older heads seems tedious. The Island Home With the letter of the Bible He sustained Himself and quelled the Enemy in the Temptation, and the quotations He then selected suggest the minuteness of His study. To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work I am sorry to say that I lost my notes made on this trip, so that I am unable to describe it with the minuteness of the rest of my narrative. A Voyage round the World A book for boys I have with greater minuteness than I intended given an account of the sperm whale. Old Jack Every flagellator through the colony was supplied with this instrument, and the effects it produced are described with scientific minuteness. The History of Tasmania , Volume II The prevalent vices of the day are portrayed—with too much minuteness of detail, indeed, but only that they may be held up to the greater condemnation. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 By this means it is possible to realise a minuteness and accuracy unobtainable in wider fields. The Book-Hunter at Home And yet this minuteness of triviality has its value also. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays As I read on I was forcibly struck with its simplicity and beauty, its fulness and minuteness, and yet the immense amount of matter it contained. Old Jack The chief difficulty with most systems for distributing the books in a library appears to lie in the attempt to apply scientific minuteness in a region where it is largely inapplicable. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries To pursue it with all possible degrees of minuteness would require volumes. The Booklover and His Books Instead of exercising their power of reason they exert their powers of sophistry, and divide and subdivide every subject with such casuistical minuteness, that those who are not convinced, are almost invariably confounded. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency I began again, going over the whole with even greater minuteness and care. Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) To trace with certainty and minuteness the historic lineaments of the real man is not altogether possible; but the essential truth concerning him is sufficiently plain. The Chief End of Man And he described each hound with great minuteness, showing that he allowed little to escape his trained eye while on this tour. American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt He perceived my confusion, and resumed his discourse with mildness.—"Come, make yourself easy, and repeat to me, with the greatest minuteness, all that has passed between you and X****." Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I That he conceived such motion, agitation, or alteration to be, from its extreme minuteness, 'invisible' and 'insensible,' or, as we should now say, molecular, is likewise evident. Mind and Motion and Monism He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation The Frenchman’s notion of woodcutting was influenced, as we have seen, by copper plate engraving; he wanted, by incredible minuteness of cutting, to achieve approximately the same results. John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut But the delicacy and minuteness of Greek work is of course most obvious in the reliefs of coins and in gems. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield "Caleb Krinkle" is a story of American life in which the characters, the habits of thought, and the rich details of daily routine are given with minuteness, accuracy of observation, and genuine sympathy. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman The liturgy reminds one of the ancient civil law on account of the minuteness of its prescriptions. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism I wrote three small-type columns—three columns of leaded minion—about that execution, describing everything I had seen with a studied minuteness. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography He is astonishingly industrious, and his minuteness is without end, but he never warms to his subject. My Contemporaries In Fiction By the dates of the royal writs, and by other documents, Mr Hunter is enabled to trace the king's route and his various removes on this occasion with great minuteness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 The minuteness and precision of his knowledge excited wonder, and, being anomalous in the male sex even among collectors, gave occasion to a rumour that its possessor must veritably be an aged maiden in disguise. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author As all these matters, however, belong rather to the mercantile history of the country than to the story of the Rebellion, there is no need to go into them with minuteness. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion The minuteness of Greene's directions on the occasion furnishes us with the material for a picture of the personal appearance of the early Continental soldier when on parade. The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn By every mail he received letters from New York, detailing with minuteness just what took place in his affairs from day to day. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I said "minuteness" and "selfishness" of sensation, but in a word, I ought to have said "injustice" or "unrighteousness" of sensation. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Demetrius, thus commanded, resumed, and then with minuteness, with much learning and eloquence, discoursed successively upon the histories, or emblematic devices, of this the chief work of his hands. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century It is an interesting narrative of many cases, but is shorn of that minuteness of detail so indispensable to authentic historical memorials. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens The vastness of their numbers, and their exceeding minuteness, are circumstances, discovered in the examination of these animalcules, of uncommon interest. The Ocean and its Wonders Thus exhorted Queeker described the scene at the supper-table with faithful minuteness, and, on concluding, demanded what was to be done. The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands Barry, red and embarrassed, said nothing, but examined the photograph with unnecessary minuteness. The Making of a Soul He studied every sentence with the greatest care and minuteness, and would often rewrite paragraphs and even whole chapters, until he was satisfied with the variety and clearness of the expression. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 The Venetian laws regulated commerce with the greatest minuteness. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England And he told, as if she were listening to him, all the facts without forgetting a single detail, mentioning the most trivial matters with the minuteness of a countryman. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories As pies are here unknown, the pie-plates must be made to order after repeated and untold minuteness of direction to the astonished tinman. In and Around Berlin Ingulphus relates with painful minuteness the progress of the work of destruction, and enumerates all the rich treasures which those angry flames consumed. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages The following are lists of these foreign words; and they are worth examining with the greatest minuteness:— African Dialects. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 He was for ever harping on independence, and this betrayed him into some acts of rudeness in society which have been recorded with perhaps too great minuteness. Robert Burns The greatest poets, such as Homer, Milton, and Scott, treat the subject of eating and drinking with much seriousness, minuteness of detail, and lusciousness of description. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Classification of the books is carried to great minuteness, and it is but the work of a moment, to one familiar with its principles, to turn to any book of the million. In and Around Berlin The very minuteness of our criticism involves a compliment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 I will refrain from spoiling the picture by much of her own minuteness, or by the exclamatory parentheses of her fury against the magnificent gentleman who deceived her. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer They had managed the farm in the interregnum, and brought him weekly accounts in their heads, for neither could write, with the most perfect regularity and minuteness. The Carbonels The survey of Bavaria is of modern date, but of equal minuteness. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry The hour was occupied by a lecture on Lessing, a poet whom the class were evidently studying with German minuteness. In and Around Berlin Without glancing at me he betook himself at once to consider the horse, going round him, and observing every point with the utmost minuteness. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" I am always very anxious to get your letters, in which I beg you not to be afraid of your minuteness boring me, or your plain speaking giving me pain. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order The Creepers and Tits—separated chiefly on the ground of their minuteness, and subtle little tricks and graces of movement. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds We examined it with the utmost minuteness, and Mr Annesley, who possessed some skill with the pencil, made an accurate sketch of it, indicating clearly what seemed to us its weakest points. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War He fixed his departure for the 6th, arranged all his pecuniary affairs with minuteness, and employed his friends in purchasing presents for his family and friends in Dresden. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians In the code of 1884 the powers of the body are defined with exceeding minuteness. The Governments of Europe Only be sure you tell me everything with the greatest minuteness, although I ought now to be looking out for some practical step rather than a letter. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order The articles which, from their minuteness, have not admitted the taking vouchers, I shall be ready to prove by my own oath. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) This correspondence, extending over a long period of years, is not less remarkable for the constancy with which it was carried on than for the minuteness of its details, and the freedom of its revelations. Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 The spoliation of the monasteries especially was carried out, not only with a violence which recalled barbarism, but with a minuteness for which there is no other word but meanness. A Short History of England Pattison has told them over again, with a minuteness and a sourness that show how the shabby business rankled in his soul to the very last. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs He took my hand, and turning me round, examined my countenance with critical minuteness, neither moved by my childish indignation nor my tears. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I They are contained in a book numbering one hundred and seven pages,1 treating with great minuteness every question that affects the daily lives of the deaconesses. Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America The preparations for the interview are described with great minuteness by historians. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth Sir Gervaise now entered more at length into his scheme; explaining to his friend all his wishes and hopes, and letting him know, with official minuteness, what was expected at his hands. The Two Admirals However incompetent, I should not shrink from the labour involved; nor do I entirely approve the growing demand for German minuteness and exactitude in editors. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series The result of all this is a sort of Dutch painting of extraordinary minuteness. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) "The minuteness of the episternals and xiphisternals might be imputed to this gigantic piece diverting to its own profit the nutritive fluid, since the bigger it is the smaller these are." Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology The siege of Harfleur, which commenced on Sunday, August 18, is described with great minuteness by several writers. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth "From the minuteness of the tissue, it is not easy to determine the vessels through which the sap moves." Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers There are a hundred ways of showing the minuteness of the ultimate particles of matter, and some of these enable us to give definite figures. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told A man may become prolix from the fulness or fervency of his mind; but prolixity produced by this finical minuteness of language, ends by distressing one's nerves. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) When we consider that von Baer worked chiefly with a simple microscope and dissecting needles, the minuteness and accuracy of his observations are astonishing. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Undue significance is attached to what may be mere casual coincidences, and a minuteness of accuracy is professed in discriminating between the different elements in a narrative which cannot be attained by mere internal evidence. Historical and Political Essays Their rarity in a perfect state may render an accurate description, though lengthened by minuteness, of some value to the bibliographer. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 Gaspare, having money to lay out, considered it his serious duty to examine everything that was to be bought with slow minuteness. The Call of the Blood These pictures are said to have the minuteness and fidelity of daguerreotypes. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II He maintained that "these very matters were examined at great length and with conscientious minuteness by the Commission whose award is under discussion." Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The laying of paint by an insensitive person, whatever it endeavors to represent, is not painting, but daubing or plastering; and that, observe, irrespective of the boldness or minuteness of the work. Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 Instead of a universe with dimensions known and circumscribed with Dantesque minuteness, the mystic glow of the unknown had settled down on the whole face of Nature, who offered her secrets to the first comer. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 Observe how he relates the plays of a child,—with what grave, imperial respect, with what undoubting, reverential minuteness! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 They explain everything with a tiresome minuteness of detail, although any observer of children ought to know that a child's mind does not want everything explained. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 He combined an unspeakable minuteness of detail with the closest observation of nature. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art The parts of logic which he treated with most minuteness are modal propositions and modal syllogisms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" But, in order to lay the case before you fully, it is incumbent upon me to state the details of these proceedings with some minuteness, and I now proceed to unfold the extraordinary tale. A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel She wished to see Miss Chancellor again, and to see her among her charming appurtenances, which Verena had described to her with great minuteness. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) In Jacob Abbott's "Juveniles" especially, by means of this minuteness, a very scanty stock of ideas is made to go a great way. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 His language is good, and he paints with uncommon minuteness the vices as well as the virtues of his subjects; he abounds, too, in particulars which throw light upon the manners of the Romans. A Smaller History of Rome "The value of these memoirs is that they disclose with great minuteness the daily labors and occupations of one of the foremost men of science of England." The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. She described her dress with great minuteness, and added naively, "Didn't I look pretty?" Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The labors of the engineers in bridging this formidable swamp are detailed with considerable minuteness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Refined society requires greater minuteness of regulation; and the steps of all advancing States are more and more to be picked among the old rubbish and the new materials. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry But minuteness of detail was out of the question in poetry. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century On the other hand, in proportion as the minuteness of the description is increased, the poetry vanishes. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 The hermit in the wood describes, with loving minuteness, the contents of his larder. Romance Two Lectures At such times she would relate with distinctness, and often with minuteness, events which were transpiring in another house, and sometimes in another part of the world. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy |
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