Search Details

Word: primally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Pete La Farge" by Mr. Ernst is notable as a triumph over limitations of space. Though but a trifle over three pages long, it lacks scarcely one of the properties which the current practice of our best ten-cent magazines proves helpful toward securing publication. Local color, uncouth dialect, primal passion, heroic resignation, a moral struggle, and a savage fight march in perfect order to an artistically vague ending. A fit companion to "Pete La Farge" is "The Morrigan." Mr. Schenck piles on lurid horrors with the ungrudging hand of love. Beside his sketch, Mr. Proctor's clever "Page from...

Author: By W. C. Mitchell., | Title: Review of Current Advocate | 5/11/1909 | See Source »

...earliest Greek philosophers denied creation and structure, and recognized only change. They insisted on physical causes and their philosophy was a pantheistic materialism. The Ionian philosophers considered everything as developed by extraction from a primal mass. They said there was no beginning and no end, but an eternal motive power. In the latter half of the sixth century, air came to be regarded as the fundamental substance, from which by rarefaction or condensation all matter was produced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Goodwin's Lecture. | 3/21/1896 | See Source »

Mile Wasabelle Beauxjambes.Time, a character sketch by the property man. "Da Monk," taken by a young artist who believes in a mastery of the Primal or Darwinian prinples of expression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Hasty Pudding Show. | 4/25/1892 | See Source »

...country; for a large proportion of Columbia's graduates enter directly some one of the many lines of business activity which the metropolis affords them. In so cosmopolitan a centre as ours it needs no argument to demonstrate that the knowledge of the chief modern languages is a primal requisite; for, while from a purely practical standpoint it matters comparatively little to the banker, broker or merchant whether he has read Homer, or pursued a course in calculus, it is a thing of the utmost moment to him to have acquired a sound practical knowledge of French and German. Hence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDY OF MODERN LANGUAGES. | 6/6/1882 | See Source »

Previous | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 |