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They cannot trace exactly any great affinity between these two great geniuses of the flash literary school.
From that time a friendship commenced between the two, which was a beautiful illustration of the affinities of opposites.
This attempt must involve the statement of our opinion as to the ethnic affinities of all the principal tribes.
What follows are points of internal evidence, and show the affinity between the Pict and Welsh. b.
The affinity our hearts bore to each other, and the similarity of our dispositions, had soon their ordinary effect.
The question of complexion is, of course, but of minor importance, since it is anatomical structure that determines affinity.
Though they have some affinities with ice caps, they are most sharply differentiated from all types of mountain glaciers.
Either you possessed a latent ability to scan mind-matter, or an affinity for material substance, but not necessarily both.
Oxide of sodium has a great affinity for water; it combines with it, and absorbs it in great quantities.
You will see Lindley is all astray about the genus, and no one knows its affinities even, but Brown.
An elective affinity, to use Goethe's phrase, has enabled them to draw an individual music from the foreign instrument.
A kind of sympathy or affinity makes them one in a sense that we only see realized among living beings.
Your chapters on the affinities and genealogy of the animal kingdom strike me as admirable and full of original thought.
None other than that by some peculiar affinity I realized that it was she that bore me into this world.
I am aware that most genera have more affinities than in two ways, which latter, perhaps, is the commonest case.
In such a case the natural affinities are easily seen, and a family of peoples can be established with certainty.
There is an inexplicable sympathy between old age and childhood, an affinity which is as lovely as it is pathetic.
"Did you ever know me to support what I conceived to be wrong, Hugh, on account of my political affinities?"
Their long-continued interview in the palace garden testified that a mutual affinity had drawn the illustrious personages together.
I like to think of them as dread manifestations of a mighty will, rather than gaseous combinations or metallic affinities.
That airy fabric of sentiment, imagination, and civilization called spiritual affinity, occasionally dominated him, but not for long.
Among those who found a close affinity to the devoted young priest, was a beautiful girl named Flora.
Their linguistic affinity is still uncertain, the language apparently having no connection with that of any other tribe.
The reason of this phenomenon is curious, and furnishes us with an instance of what we advanced concerning double affinities.
In compound bodies, cohesion and affinity operate simultaneously; whilst in simple bodies, or elements, cohesion alone has to be considered.
All disruption and dissolution is a mode of hating; and all that we call affinity is a mode of loving.
I can channel the power of the Stone through my own brain, because there's an affinity between us.
It indicates, not the transition from one rock to another, but the geological affinity existing between two formations.
La Fontaine's dramatic pieces have a manifest affinity to his genius, but none whatever to the genius of the drama.
These show a close affinity with one another, and a decided, though more distant, relationship with the Latin.
There seems to have been some subtle affinity between them, and he almost wishes that he weren't leaving them.
I often consider mankind as wholly inconsistent with itself in a point that bears some affinity to the former.
The animal is a bundle of instincts, impulses, affinities, appetites, and race traits, without the extra gift of reason.
It has a strong affinity for hydrogen and is able to withdraw it from its compounds with other elements.
Slate has but slight affinity for water, and, moreover, resists atmospheric influences, humidity and heat pretty well.
Cranmer, his majesty sent for him, and opened the tenderness of conscience upon the near affinity of the queen.
In most cases a palpable analogy has been substituted, in others the affinity is very obscure or altogether doubtful.
There is a close affinity between Anarchism and the idea of capitalism, for both place the individual above society.
Is there to be some mysterious affinity between chewing and the revolutions, especially the social revolutions of the future?
Nature does not always plant her poets where they belong, but if we look carefully their affinities betray themselves.
Man is without doubt an animal, and he is linked by connections of descent and affinity to other animals.
Mind has no affinity with matter, and therefore Truth is able to cast out the ills of the flesh.
There is an affinity most perfect between these particles, and so there is between peoples of the same race.
From what has been said it will be seen that a marked mental affinity existed between Dante and Immanuel.
There are Thoughts, likewise, of near Affinity with these, that consist in Contraries, and are sometimes beautiful, often ridiculous.
There can be no doubt of their (the Eastern Mediterraneans) racial affinities with our Berbers, Greeks, Italians, and Spaniards.
Because the affinity between the hydrogen and oxygen of the water is so strong that fire cannot separate them.
Affinity is the angel; perhaps the only angel by which poor humanity is ever led into an earthly paradise.'
And affinity, that is the meanest word I ever heard; no married woman has any right to hear it.
The law of sympathetic vibration explains chemical affinities as a sympathetic attractive, but inherent, force; in short, as gravity.
It will have been observed that the reason for thinking that the affinity of thought between Ignatius and St.
We have here, then, an action of affinity, or perhaps a consequence of porosity on the part of the wool itself.
They have an absolute lack of affinity for everything common and ordinary; they enter into no combination with it.
One of the most curious effects of the war on the mind, was that it aroused new affinities between individuals.
No selfish views can have brought these good people, father, to claim affinity with me at a moment like this.
This is effected by fusing the substance under examination with another which possesses a greater affinity for oxygen.
The forces and laws of chemical affinity were formulated and studied, and physical laws and forces were comprehended.
I have had that of leaving kindred, but now I have that of leaving those whom I love from affinity.
The agency which causes substances to combine and which holds them together when combined is called chemical affinity.
What power is that which lies behind chemical affinities, and controls them with direct reference to organic being?
I don't doubt you will find more than one affinity if you are awakening; that is merely the mating instinct.
She seemed to have an affinity for United States horses, and always wanted to carry me directly in among them.
The lime has a strong affinity for the chlorine gas and rapidly absorbs it, forming chloride of lime.
There was no sympathy perhaps, strictly speaking, between these two, but there was a certain affinity of suffering.
It is found that the influence of different acids on this action is proportional to their specific coefficients of affinity.
Ever since I've been hoping he'd meet up with his real affinity, someone who'd be the right woman for him.
"It also seems as if there were remarkable affinities between his character and that of a little girl I know."
There was a subtle affinity between this woman and himself; he felt it, recognized it, bowed to it.
There is the closest affinity between the organs of the human body and those of the fruit-eating animals.
Further, we may observe, all these sacred offices possess a certain analogy and affinity one with the other.
After the Fixed Alkali appears the Volatile Alkali, whose affinity with Acids yields only to the Fixed Alkali.
In the manifestation of his enthusiasm, he shows an affinity to Virgil in ancient, and to Scott in modern times.
It has been supposed by some that it was owing to a kind of affinity existing between water and air.
It is altogether mysterious, and raises new questions of affinities, and of the evolution of mind in the human race.
It would seem that warfare bore close affinity to the plague; so long as you avoided contact all was safe.
Its affinity to the plague and yellow fever in its force, is an additional argument in favor of that remedy.
Only those who recognize the affinity of the mysteries of the human heart with those of the magnet.
To Haw it seemed that at last he had met a mind which was in absolute affinity with his own.
They value themselves extremely for their affinity to the English, and are ready to do them all friendly offices.
Other Books of Shadows have been published; but it will be seen at a glance that mine bears affinity to none.
We have ... never been able to find a case in which the circle has been closed by a direct affinity.
Many agencies may make it possible for chemical affinity to act by overcoming circumstances which stand in its way.
And is it not in plants, as certainly it is in animals, dangerous to judge of habits without very near affinity.
Was there any strange, mysterious affinity between the master and the dark girl who sat by herself?
Disraeli's instinctive affinity for some kind of mystic teaching is indicated by Vivian Grey's first request to his father.
Last, though not least, we may reckon among the agents of geological change the forces of cohesion and affinity.
Such persons have strong interior affinities, unknown it may be to each other on earth, and will be united in heaven.
These beings have special affinities with particular emotions of the human soul, and particular characteristics of the human mind.
These persons by undertaking this office are placed in a relationship of affinity close enough to be a bar to marriage.
In many instances substances which have no affinity for one another at ordinary temperatures manifest this power when heated.
Thought I was out of the way, and you sneaked off to meet your affinity, using your child as a cloak!
As they thus destroyed the evidence that would have afforded us an indication of their racial affinities, their origin is obscure.
Yet we are told that heat, motion, electricity and chemical affinity are the causes of mental and moral action.
Soft tissues, in particular, often combine in plants which possess no affinity whatever, as we commonly understand the term.
The Greeks seem never to comprehend that governments are purely political, and never influenced by sentiment or religious affinities.
"It is, though," said Johnny; "for hydrogen and oxygen have a very great liking, or affinity, for each other."
The eye with its affinity to light comes into being in the apparently dark space of the mother's womb.
Is there something, after all, in that much abused term "affinity," and is this the basis of its claim?
All substances were derived thence by the conflict of heat and cold and the electric affinities of the particles.
In this respect the analogy is evident to chemical affinity, which, in like manner, only acts between dissimilar bodies.