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In our zeal for reformation, we are in danger of discarding, or pronouncing obsolete, some requisitions of salutary tendency.
The identity of churches is being absorbed in "social service" work, and sectarian peculiarities considered "obsolete impertinences."
Constitutional control over armaments must, therefore, be regarded as another liberal principal which is rapidly becoming obsolete.
As, however, native vermilion has become commercially obsolete, the question of their comparative permanence is of little importance.
Except for obvious errors (e.g. missing, extra, or transposed letters), incorrect and obsolete spellings have also been retained.
Scouts, having become obsolete, were resurrected, and Field Service Regulations rescued from the dim recesses of valises.
It was supposed, doubtless, to have become obsolete, and a dead letter, extinguished by the mere progress of civilization.
In the olden times almost every great agricultural operation had its peculiar festivities; now almost everywhere obsolete.
They were subsequently called Tories and Whigs; nor does it seem that these appellations are likely soon to become obsolete.
Moreover, it reveals the obsolete books merely by bringing them into juxtaposition with books which have superseded them.
Catholicism was a vital truth in its earliest ages, but it became obsolete, and Protestantism arose, flourished, and deteriorated.
I only assert that, to those who are unacquainted with ancient systems, his philosophical vocabulary is obsolete and unintelligible.
To-day the world is eliminating its appendix; to-morrow it will be operated on for another obsolete and annoying appendage.
Some of these instruments have now become obsolete; nor are the others always used in combination, but more frequently singly.
In this family, traditions were still maintained, now quite obsolete, such as people remembered in the Indian families of long ago.
With us, some of our French derivatives are growing obsolete as vulgar, and nearly all are passing from fashionable society.
There was also a custom, now obsolete, of enclosing a portion of the consecrated Eucharist if relics were not obtainable.
Or would they avoid puzzling their hearers by speaking of obsolete and unfamiliar forms of tactics and of military equipment?
I agree not with Cicero, that errors in process of time become obsolete, and that religion is increased and ameliorated daily.
In course of time it was inevitable that the obsolete School Boards should follow them into the limbo of rejected experiments.
The letter which he was to have handed to the deposed Queen, assuring her of Justinian's protection, was already obsolete.
I longed for a place where they would be obsolete, and young, arrogant, impervious mothers might be a forgotten tradition.
The prevalence of the monitor type was an interlude, powerfully affecting the development of navies, but making nothing obsolete.
There were more present grievances in the discouragement of education, in the clerical tyranny, in the obsolete and partial legal system.
There was much angry controversy, and much bitter recrimination; but such obsolete quarrelling may well be dropped into oblivion.
Yet this indecisive battle caused a revolution in naval craft, for it foreshadowed the day when wooden ships would be obsolete.
Feudal aids were also long obsolete, although James I., in desperate straits for money, had attempted to revive two of them.
That they are obsolete now, and indeed were obsolete before they were dead, is a warning to authors who intend similar extravagances.
As you remarked when I declared my readiness to give satisfaction in the proper quarter, the practice you allude to is obsolete.
If parents do not make a point of this, the peculiarity of sacred language will become really obsolete to the next generation.
On the other hand, science has in various cases rendered obsolete some manufactures and superseded old customs, comforts and conveniences.
Little therefore did it avail this wonderful lady to be received, however joyfully, with such obsolete and barren ceremonies of praise.
Her words put life back into its true perspective, restored their meaning to obsolete terms: to truth and manliness and courage.
One says that it is rapidly falling into disuse; that, in fact, there is good reason to suppose it will soon become obsolete.
This is didactic poetry proper, and this, it is almost certain, became irrevocably obsolete at the close of the 18th century.
As the telegraph made the Pony Express obsolete, so the railroad spelled the doom of the stagecoach and the prairie schooner.
Even in the country districts, though a good many remain, they are fast becoming obsolete and unintelligible to the younger generation.
An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
Notwithstanding this act, General McClellan and other officers still clung to the obsolete doctrine of "the sacredness of slave property."
You have nothing to do with that: strictly speaking, it is obsolete; it went out with the exclusiveness of the old patricians.
It is useless, however, to speculate upon an obsolete institution; the law has fallen into disuse, and the more is the pity.
It would be pleasant, but unwarranted, to think of these forms of thought as obsolete; human nature is more deep-seated than learning.
Cycle time to field new generation capabilities is lengthening and performance, especially in computer and information systems, is often obsolete on delivery.
Presumptuous innovators have attempted to modernize Chaucer, and Spenser, and other authors, whose style was supposed to have grown obsolete.
The feudal character of the English state, now that it is getting obsolete, glares a little in contrast with democratic tendencies.
More than one instance of a similar retention of a word the actual signification of which is completely obsolete, might easily be adduced.
The cathedral rang with a shout of applause, a shout that doomed the princely marriage statute to the limbo of obsolete things.
He was a somewhat voluminous writer, and his works on fractures, dislocations, and diseases of the breast are by no means obsolete.
And it is only tradition and old custom, founded on an obsolete state of things, that assigns any value to parliamentary oratory.
It is said that Apes and the rest were indicted under some obsolete law, making it a misdemeanor to conspire against the laws.
He is never afraid of the colloquial, never afraid of slang even, and he often weaves lovely patterns with obsolete or technical words.
The ceremonies of coronation were very grand in the olden time and much of their splendor has passed away or has become obsolete.
Prints and cabinets, hangings and trinkets all breathing an air of romantic beginnings, survivors all of vanished splendors and obsolete dramas.
Obsolete contrivances, always catching in the clothes or in the brambles, and causing the death or maiming of many an excellent man.
I wanted, you understand, to get all joy first-hand and unadulterated, and I think it scarcely exists among men; it is obsolete.
Even Dewey's workman-like batteries (this to mark the onward rush of naval science) would be rated obsolete beside the latest of these!
The names of these Oriental materials are nearly all obsolete, and where the material is still manufactured it bears a different appellation.
The term is virtually obsolete; as far as it means anything it means insulating substances such as scaling wax, sulfur, or glass.
Men to whom the sight of a steel coat called up the business of their daily life wasted no sentimentality over an obsolete piece.
Even in the same scene, time will alter every form, and render the exquisite polish of last year, obsolete rudeness next year.
The fiction is embellished with three pictures, which are interesting as specimens of a simple and now happily obsolete school of art.
The same writer says that auctions of ships' sails which have been vowed to the saints for interposition are not yet obsolete.
As I told you on the Dragon, maintenance training of ships' crews is sloppy, and standards are either just not there or obsolete.
We are scarcely entitled to plume ourselves on the elevation from which it is our privilege to look back on obsolete educational theories and principles.
Philosophy and Religion, too, have their mighty dead, their immemorial tombs wherein repose the bones of the buried dead skeletons of obsolete systems.
The war chariot becoming obsolete, civic cavalry were employed; the horsemen of Colophon were celebrated for dealing a fatal conclusive charge.
They grew and ripened before banks were invented, and will continue to do so when banks and railroad bonds shall have become obsolete.
He cultivated a style which was neat and chaste, avoiding frivolous or harsh language, as well as obsolete words, which he calls disgusting.
She demanded rigid conformity, but wisely forbore to revive many of the customs which the Puritans had succeeded in rendering obsolete.
The bloody feuds of old times, which ran down the veins of successive generations like streams of fire, have become nearly obsolete.
Many hundreds of people used to assemble here in the olden days, to hunt in a style of magnificence which has now become obsolete.
An obsolete old ship, he reflected, with the exhaust from the windlass blinding everybody and making it difficult to see the bridge.
Such cases led to branding becoming obsolete, and it was abolished in 1829 except in the case of deserters from the army.
The feudal character of the English state, now that it is getting obsolete, glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies.
The principle of evolution, which forms a saving link between the obsolete and the organically vital, had no place in his logic.
It proved that Havana could be successfully assaulted by a combined military and naval force, regardless of her picturesque but obsolete fortifications.
The principle of evolution, which forms a saving link between the obsolete and the organically vital, had no place in his logic.
Wilts old folk used formerly to tear their crockery, and break their clothes, but tear now seems obsolete in this sense there.
The essential contradiction between our obsolete method of training and the completely altered demands of a new era appears here with peculiar distinctness.
I liked that and fancied it were old-time urbanity, though often since I have seen it proved that the custom is not obsolete.
It is interesting to know that this bequest, now one hundred and fifty years old, obsolete in some respects, is still highly valued.
Useful and popular as this system was down to a time within the memory of still surviving botanists, it is now completely obsolete.
It is curious to notice that many objectionable names still exist, simply because the words themselves have become obsolete, and the meaning forgotten.
Obsolete words have been cut out; and the space thus gained has been devoted to definitions and synonyms, carefully discriminated in many instances.
Fortunately, the vile practice (once considered fashionable) of eating venison and other game when absolutely tainted, is now obsolete at all good tables.
We marvel why, among the most progressive Western nations, architecture should be so devoid of originality, so replete with repetitions of obsolete styles.
Cromwell to a great extent speaks for himself, and Carlyle expounds and comments on his uncouth and sometimes obsolete manner of expression.
If so, its refutation is an obsolete piece of an obsolete controversy; and the Epistle in some of its most vital portions is a dead letter.
These forms, however, are obsolete in English and therefore the Bohemian forms ought to be translated by you are, you have, you call etc.
It is true that he too frequently resorts to quaint, obsolete, and outlandish terms, thinking thereby to render his style more gorgeous or grand.
This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.
The soldier was regarded as an obsolete necessity, and the profession of arms had become absolutely disreputable in many parts of the country.
It was still the day of the obsolete nightshirt, and that ghostly garment was at its best or worst upon a moonlight night.
It awakens pleasing emotions to be able to picture to ourselves, even imperfectly, states of the world and of society that have long been obsolete.
The Admiralty embarks, without question, upon the construction of a great battleship, although it knows that each huge craft will speedily become obsolete.
Both roads had obsolete rolling stock, rickety, tumbled down cars and wood-burning locomotives of a type used in our country fifty years ago.
Far be it from me to disparage the motives of the men who have conducted this revolt against a distinctly vicious and obsolete government.
The natives were vastly outnumbered, and made a stubborn resistance with their obsolete arms against all the Boers could bring against them.
And pernicious in the highest degree, although, nevertheless, not quite obsolete yet, is the practice of continuing to beat children already hardened to blows.
It will be well for us to look into the real value of military training for schoolboys before we adopt in a wholesale fashion obsolete militarism.