| 单词 | quiddity |
| 例句 | Managers, doormen and valets, with their quiddities and quirks, help set the tone for the singular ecosystem that is any given apartment building, as Mr. Soffer, the banker, explained. From White Gloves to Latex, the Doormen of New York 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Survila’s approach allows the animals their independence, a sense of their quiddity that respects their being. ‘The Ancient Woods’ Review: Deep in the Forest 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z “When you homogenize a city, you destroy its feeling of urbanity,” Ms. Schulman said, referring to the banks and drugstores and chains retailers steadily wallpapering over the city’s indispensable quiddities. Everybody Goes to Burger Heaven 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Once her eye adjusted to the determined quiddities of her adopted hometown, she said, “Even weird cinder-block strange things from the 1950s started to look fabulous.” In Tucson, an Unsung Architectural Oasis 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z And one of the few hopeful things I observed, in an otherwise grim time, was that, despite the advancing creep of retail sameness that long predated a pandemic, plenty of quiddity remained. How New York Is New York Fashion? 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Ample quotations from Hardwick allow her restless quiddity to come through. The Critic Elizabeth Hardwick Was Very Tough on Biographies. Now Here’s One of Her. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Whatever is going on, whatever misalliances and misdelving of quiddities we get into, the human heart is still beating in the same way in everybody’s chest. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Whatever is going on, whatever misalliances and misdelving of quiddities we get into, the human heart is still beating in the same way in everybody’s chest. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z And that may have sounded like a compliment to a playful media class, but quiddity is identity. ‘You look great for your age’ – and other compliments to avoid 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z “There is no way you can appreciate the quiddity of an elephant except by seeing one at close quarters,” he told the Observer. Is it time to shut down the zoos? 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Here’s an irony: if anything preserves the unnerving quiddity and strangeness of the Japanese movie, it is Johansson. The Controversial, American “Ghost in the Shell” 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z He used his repertoire of gestures honed from years of doing caricatures not to generalise about a face, to fix it for all time, but to capture its quiddity. Pablo’s people: the truth about Picasso's portraits 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Beautifying asphalt would seem to be no cinch, but the naked quiddity of the stuff, after a third or fourth look, turns cherishable. The Satirical Oracle of Race and Class 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Not a little terrified, they are chased in by the crowd, who bid them "banish your timidity and with all rapidity give us quip and quiddity." The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z In this region of the Porta Capuana one sees the people in what Charles Lamb would have called its quiddity. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Law jargon, quibbles, quiddities, preposterous syllogisms, fragments of distorted Latin, misapplied quotations from the Pandects, mingle with metaphysics, astrology, and physical chim�ras about the spheres and elements and humours, in his talk. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Lyly delighted his readers with unexpected quips and quiddities, with a fantastic display of rhetoric; he showed, as no one had before him, the possible flexibility of English prose. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z It is a pity, for the glory of Aristotle, that they did not make civil war, and have some regular battles in favor of quiddities, and of the "universal of the part of the thing." A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z It is not too much to say that Fitz, with all his quiddity, had become dear to us. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z I examined into the essence of the tankard, I sought deeply into its quiddity, I divided its properties from its accidents, and distinguished again between the separable and inseparable accidents. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z Hundreds of books were written about the quips and quiddities of logic, but thousands of volumes are full of technics and most of our scientific journals are crowded with it. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z This physiology was not formally arranged into definitions obtained by induction from experience, but nevertheless there was the same search for the quiddity of the loadstone. The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors He would not have overthrown one of her quiddities for the world; it would be taking away a part of his capital in existence. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine It is not in man's power to define the quiddity of the elements, but a great many of their effects are known. Thoughts on Art and Life He feared his own deficiencies in 'the forms, quirks and quiddities,' which he saw could be learned only by early habit. James Boswell Famous Scots Series In any one of these Registers is a potentiality which can always worst the quibbles and quiddities of lawyers and ward off the miserable technicalities of the law. The Book of Khalid He could reduce all things to acts, And knew their natures by abstracts; Where entity and quiddity, The ghost of defunct bodies, fly; Where Truth in person does appear, Like words congealed in northern air. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Yet such is the quiddity of the English Tommy, that through this devastating anathema ran a streak of love which at the end turned the whole thing into forlorn derision. The Rough Road Where then will be your gibes, your quips, your quiddities? A Pessimist In Theory and Practice But his power of observation and of p. 3seeing what might be termed the humorous quiddity of anything, was extraordinary. Bardell v. Pickwick Stories of misadventures, quips and quiddities of every kind, were then his delight, and of these he possessed a fund which no man knew better how to use. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature But I would rather have a brisk wind than all thy vapours, thy quiddities, and quotations. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 How now, how now, mad wag! what, in thy quips and quiddities? Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 He knew it well, and was cognizant with its every legal quiddity. Cousin Henry Only look at the theological quiddities of effete scholasticism. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation But we are now speaking of nature as it signifies the essence, or the "what-it-is," or the quiddity of the species. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition I think that he is right, and that the profitable study of a man is the study which regards him as an oddity, not a quiddity. Romance Two Lectures In defence and support of the Church thesis they brought all the quirks and quiddities of their subtle dialectics. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Therefore God's existence is not the same as His essence—that is, as His quiddity or nature. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition But there you have in its quiddity the mediaeval mind: and the point I now put to you is, that out of this soil our Universities grew. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 Essences, quiddities, virtues residing in things, were accepted as a bonâ fide explanation of phaenomena. Auguste Comte and Positivism There you indeed appreciate the dead-alive city 'in all its quiddity.' A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg But The Future of Liberalism, which the Elizabethans would have called a “cooling-card” after the Liberal triumph of 1880, exhibits its author’s political quiddity most clearly. Matthew Arnold But in the absolute consideration of the quiddity of a thing, and of those things which are known thereby, the intellect is never deceived. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition He cou'd reduce all things to acts, And knew their natures by abstracts; Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly; Where Truth in persons does appear, Like words congeal'd in northern air. English Satires Oh, are you going into theological mysteries, too?" said Remington, with a laugh in which none of us joined; "what care you, Lulu, for the quiddities of Absolute Illimitation and Infinite Illimitation? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Yet even the mob you should study in a capital, as Shakespeare did in his 'Julius Caesar' and 'Coriolanus;' for only so can you know it in its quiddity. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 None o' thy quiddities, thou maker of long lies and quick legs. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 For the proper object of the human intellect is the quiddity of a material thing, which comes under the action of the senses and the imagination. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition They could have set opinion right about the efficacy of the syllogism, and the virtue of entities and quiddities. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Pressing for definition, you never get much further than that each given quiddity means a certain Whatness. Studies in Literature Banish your timidity, And with all rapidity Give us quip and quiddity— Willy-nilly, O! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan I knew thou wast in the neighbourhood, and I would unravel a few arguments with thee; a few quiddities about thy profession. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 I answer that, Since a faculty and its object are proportional to each other, the intellect must be related to the infinite, as is its object, which is the quiddity of a material thing. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition The measuring-reed of science is to be laid to the heavens, the solar system is to be weighed in a balance; the age of logical quiddities has passed, the age of mathematical quantities has come. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Had we not borrowed their quantity and their quality, and why then reject their quiddity, when every schoolboy in logic must know, that of every thing may be asked, Quantum est? Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Banish your timidity, And with all rapidity Give us quip and quiddity— Willy-nilly, O! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan He finds them to be the quiddity of fascination one moment - and the distilled essence of boredom the next. Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema And the reason of this is that this indivisible has a certain opposition to a corporeal being, the quiddity of which is the primary and proper object of the intellect. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Nature herself is MAYA; natural science must perforce deal with her ineluctable quiddity. Autobiography of a Yogi He understands a leg of mutton in its quiddity. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia In short, Virginia not having got the best of it in political quiddities, this pen-patriot is for trying the other kind. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 33, November 12, 1870 No more of your doctoring for me!" cried the grum Esther; "no more of your quiddities in a healthy family, say I! The Prairie Thirdly, because all in one genus agree in the quiddity or essence of the genus which is predicated of them as an essential, but they differ in their existence. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Philadelphia lawyers carry green bags full of briefs, remarkable for everything but brevity; also statutes, recognizances, tenures, double-vouchers, fines, recoveries, indentures, not to mention quiddities, quillets, quirks and quips. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists He understands a leg of mutton in its quiddity. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia The gentleman who was in the act of pleading had a huge open paper in his hand, from which he droned forth certain legal quiddities of the dullest and most uninteresting nature. Castle Richmond It was not for want of an exemplar, for although Fra Palamone sweated as he lied, it would be impossible to relate the quantity, the quality or quiddity of his lies. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca But there is no room for error in understanding simple quiddities, as is stated in Metaph. ix, text. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition A creation of what? of unknown quiddities, of occasions, or SUBSTRATUM? Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous You will reply, perhaps, that in the fore-said definition is included what doth sufficiently distinguish it from nothing--the positive abstract idea of quiddity, entity, or existence. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge A scratch in quiddity, or kind: But not in 'quo'—my wounds are all behind. Life Is a Dream Thou dost as one who fully apprehends a thing by name, but cannot see its quiddity unless another explain it. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Paradise For we sometimes get at the quiddity of a thing by a composing and dividing process, as when, by division and demonstration, we seek out the truth of a definition. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition What the genius itself was I must do my best to indicate hereafter, always beseeching the reader to remember that all genius is in its essence and quiddity indefinable. The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix How now, how now, mad wag! what, in thy quips and thy quiddities? what a plague have I to do with a buff jerkin? King Henry IV, Part 1 Again, another preaches to the Indians or the Japanese, gives up his substance, begs his bread from door to door, and leaves the devil's advocate scarcely a quillet or a quiddity against him. A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 In the times of Nero, for instance, Epictetus the slave, the regenerator of Stoicism, is no mere speculator concerning entities and quiddities, correct or incorrect. Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh |
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