I will mention two volumes of specific comment on this malaise that appeared last year.

The last three volumes are again more dependent on the past, as Hardy's creative powers declined in his old age.

The philosophical works, occupying the first six and the last of the twenty-one volumes, are generally divided according to the Aristotelian scheme of the sciences, and consist of interpretations and condensations of Aristotle's relative works, with supplementary discussions upon contemporary topics, and occasional divergences from the opinions of the master.

From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

The works of Anderson amount to six thin quarto volumes, and as the last of them was published in 1619, it is probable that the author died soon after that year, but the precise date is unknown.

The first of his four volumes appeared in 1940 ( the year he retired ) and the last in 1953, two years before his death.

The last encyclopedia of the four, the Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau, amounted to 9. 4 million Chinese characters in 1, 000 written volumes.

The last person known to have been able to read Etruscan was the Roman emperor Claudius ( 10 BC – AD 54 ), the author of a treatise in twenty volumes on the Etruscans, Tyrrenikà ( now lost ), who compiled a dictionary ( also lost ) by interviewing the last few elderly rustics who still spoke the language.

The last three volumes are the 2002 Book of the Year ( black spine ) and the two-volume index ( cyan spine ).

In 1847, Emily published her novel, Wuthering Heights, as two volumes of a three-volume set ( the last volume being Agnes Grey by her sister Anne ).

The Ōmi Code, consisting of 22 volumes, was promulgated in the last year of Tenji's reign.

Most of Palestrina's masses appeared in thirteen volumes printed between 1554 and 1601, the last seven published after his death.

In these volumes, the last of which was completed when she was about 75, Hildegard first describes each vision, then interprets them through Biblical exegesis.

The Grammar was continued in three volumes, treating principally derivation, composition and syntax, the last of which was unfinished.

One recent study notes that the difference between summer and winter flow volumes has increased significantly in the last 100 – 200 years.

The 125th and last fascicle, covering words from Wise to the end of W, was published on 19 April 1928, and the full Dictionary in bound volumes followed immediately.

In the last five to six decades, professionals and scientists using the metric system of units defined the standard reference conditions of temperature and pressure for expressing gas volumes as being and 101. 325 KPa ( 1 atm or 760 Torr ).

His last volumes were Tordenskjold ( 1833 ), Dronning Margrethe ( 1833 ), Sokrates ( 1835 ), Olaf den Hellige ( 1836 ), Knud den Store ( 1838 ), Dina ( 1842 ), Erik Glipping ( 1843 ), and Kiartan og Gudrun ( 1847 ).

Several of his works, including the last two volumes of The Metamorphosis of the Gods ( L ' Irréel and L ' Intemporel ) are not yet available in English translation.

When OUP arrived on Indian shores, it was preceded by the immense prestige of the Sacred Books of the East, edited by Friedrich Max Müller, which had at last reached completion in 50 ponderous volumes.

Edward Stratemeyer and Howard Garis wrote most of the volumes in the original series ; Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, wrote the last three volumes.

He appears in the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings ( The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers ), and is mentioned in the last volume, The Return of the King.

That girl last night, what was her name??

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.

'' For the last half hour Mary Jane had criss-crossed half the length of the Gardens and, at last, come upon her knight.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

In the last pages of the book Sibylla comes to Rome to seek an audience with the great Pope and to give her confession.

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

Harriet's mouth watered with anticipation when after months of dreaming she sat down at last to her much-craved milk and fresh bread.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

She had done it last year, and the year before, and the year before that, and she, and her people were dependent upon these cans for food.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

At last he consented to meet her, and following that brief interview Claire wrote him a yet more remarkable proposal:

Offer her a cup of tea and she would say, `` Why, these cups look just like a set I gave to the Salvation Army last year ''.

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.

Betty is 16 years of age and had several wins to her credit last year.

But at long last came a time when I broke away from Mother and her society `` chi-chi '' in order to spend a cosy evening with Viola and her chaperon at her home.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

After declaring, in an article last month in Frontier Magazine, that the Russian testing `` carries with it the possibility of the most tragic consequences of any action in the history of the world '', he gave this estimate of the biologic and genetic consequences if the new Soviet shots totaled 200 megatons:

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

The last few years have witnessed what have been perhaps the most rapid advances in military technology in history.

Marketing in the new decade will be no picnic -- for the sixties will present possibly the most intense competitive activity that you have experienced in the last 20-25 yrs..

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

Perhaps the Pirate who will be the unhappiest over the news that Musial probably will sit out most of the series is Bob Friend, who was beaten by The Man twice last season on dramatic home runs.

The most famous undergraduate of South Philadelphia High School is a current bobby-sox idol, Dreamboat Cacophonist Fabian ( real name: Fabian Forte ), 17, and last week it developed that he will remain an undergraduate for a while.

It is to this same tradition that most of the creative figures in the last century and a half of American theology also belong.

And in this country Gustave Weigel's delineation of the line between the sacral and secular orders during the last presidential campaign served to provide a most impressive Roman Catholic defense of the practical autonomy of both church and state.

The last program of this festival, which during two weeks had sampled most compositional categories, brought the Cologne Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester and Rundfunkchor to Bonn's gold-filled hall for a performance of the Missa Solemnis.

The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K ( for Keys ) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well And Stay Well.

Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.

In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case ; at least one intermediate appellate court ; and a supreme court ( or court of last resort ) which primarily reviews the decisions of the intermediate courts.

One seed-to-seed life cycle for an annual can occur in as little as a month in some species, though most last several months.

In the last of Kurosawa's films as an assistant director, Horse ( Uma, 1941 ), Kurosawa took over most of the production, as Yamamoto was occupied with the shooting of another film.

Referring to the above sketch of Spartan history, we find Agesilaus shining most in its first and last period, as commencing and surrendering a glorious career in Asia, and as, in extreme age, maintaining his prostrate country.

The Alexander Technique is most commonly taught privately in a series of 10 to 40 private lessons which may last from 30 minutes to an hour.

Workshops do exist, but usually do not last long enough to fulfill educational requirements for most students, who must then attend additional private lessons if they want to gain proficiency.

* Full stops / Periods in abbreviations: Americans tend to write Mr., Mrs., St., Dr .; the British will most often write Mr, Mrs, St, Dr, following the rule that a full stop / period is used only when the last letter of the abbreviation is not the last letter of the complete word.

Chios, the greatest and most powerful of the original members of the Delian League save Athens, was the last to revolt, and in the aftermath of the Syracusan Expedition enjoyed a success of several years, inspiring all of Ionia to revolt.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".