The co-presentation of the sad and the amusing had, we may be sure, to be repeated during many generations of men before the two currents could join in one smooth flow. These examples from many given in Neve’s work seem to me to prove beyond cavil that the Othomi exhibits, when properly spoken, precisely the same theories of incorporation and […]

in of the making historian conclusions confidence. In spite of the significance attached to the phonetic elements, they are, in many American languages, singularly vague and fluctuating. Have they not literature enough of their own, and to spare, without coming to us? This seems to have been specially noted in the case of certain races. It never rains but it […]

The well-natured, but injudicious prodigality of James the First of Great Britain seems to have attached nobody to his person; and that prince, notwithstanding his social and harmless disposition, appears to have lived and died without a friend. The student of mathematical physics will tell you that it is not in homogeneous regions, but along boundary lines that the application […]

You know that this principle is now being applied to what are known as “fabricated” ships where certain types of freight-carriers are made standard and then twenty or thirty of a kind are built at once in the same yard, being assembled from steel parts cut out and punched in what are called “fabricating ships”. What is more, Major Powell […]

Ucc study case. The visible manifestation of emotional disturbance need bear no relation to its intensity. I should laugh at any one who told me that the European, the Asiatic, and the African character were the same. In fact, it is tantamount to the conferring a certain reputation in his profession and a competence on any man, and thus supplies […]

By a law of Alexander II., about the year 1250, it appears that a noble had the privilege of putting forward a substitute; but if a peasant challenged a noble, he was obliged to appear personally, unless his lord undertook the quarrel for him and presented the champion as from himself.[638] The tendency exhibited by the English law in distinguishing […]

He is enabled gradually to relax, both in the rigour of his parsimony and in the severity of his application; and he feels with double satisfaction this gradual increase of ease and enjoyment, from having felt before the hardship which attended the want of them. It was the avowed intention of Mr. He found further, in carrying out psychological experiments, […]

This belief was the first motive which induced me, now more than thirty years ago, to direct my medical attention to this most radically-important, though hitherto-neglected branch of the profession, as well as to whatever seemed best calculated to make me understand the sources of all erroneous and extreme views, and which a series of painful circumstances through life have […]

Those who really know the Irish will sometimes hesitate whether to speak of their wit or of their humour. The error in his portraiture is not the extravagant hocus-pocus of supposed Indian necromancers by which he is so easily duped, but the premature disclosure of villainy in his temptation of the two apprentices of his brother. He made no hesitation […]

The vagaries of “society,” in the conventional sense of the term, are one of the traditional matters of laughter; our comic journals have enlightened even dull minds on this point. For many years scholars have been divided in opinion whether this was purely ikonographic or partly phonetic. It will be a part of our problem to disengage from among the […]