There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

First was the period of codification of existing law: the Code Napoleon in France and the peculiar codification that, in fact, resulted from Austin's restatement and ordering of the Common Law in England.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

Not through fear of disobeying orders, as Eichmann kept trying to explain, but through a peculiar giddiness that began in a half-acceptance of the vicious absurdities contained in the Nazi interpretation of history and grew with each of Hitler's victories into a permanent light-mindedness and sense of magical rightness that was able to respond to any proposal, and the more outrageous the better, `` Well, let's try it ''.

It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.

She compared the results with tape recordings of modern singers and was not unpleased although her own tapes had a peculiar quality about them, not at all unharmonious, merely unique.

A peculiar feature of these Taoist thinkers, like the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, was the concept of feng liu ( lit.

If amber is heated under the right conditions, oil of amber is produced, and in past times this was combined carefully with nitric acid to create " artificial musk " – a resin with a peculiar musky odor.

This peculiar thing, called Mind ( Nous ), was no less illimitable than the chaotic mass, but, unlike the logos of Heraclitus, it stood pure and independent ( mounos ef eoutou ), a thing of finer texture, alike in all its manifestations and everywhere the same.

Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented for example, in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands.

In January 1846, a peculiar skull was taken from the banks of Murrumbidgee River near Balranald, New South Wales.

A peculiar feature of these Taoist thinkers, like the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, was the concept of feng liu ( lit.

A peculiar feature of these Taoist thinkers, like the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, was the concept of feng liu ( lit.

The power of making by-laws was “ tacitly annexed to corporations by the very act of their establishment .” While they must not directly contradict the overarching laws of the land, the central or local government cannot be expected to regulate toward the peculiar circumstances of a given body, and so “ they are invested with authority to make regulations for the management of their own interests and affairs .”

He wrote of meeting the Chumash people, and of his exploration of a small island on the Alaskan coast on which an important burial site was marked by a sepulchre of " peculiar character " lined with boards and fragments of military instruments lying near a square box covered with mats.

The script on a monument at Boğazköy by a " People of Hattusas " discovered by William Wright in 1884 was found to match peculiar hieroglyphic scripts from Aleppo and Hamath in Northern Syria.

The earliest definition of hypnosis was given by Braid, who coined the term " hypnotism " as an abbreviation for " neuro-hypnotism ", or nervous sleep, which he opposed to normal sleep, and defined as: " a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature.

Humphry Davy said of him that " Those who consider James Watt only as a great practical mechanic form a very erroneous idea of his character ; he was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and a chemist, and his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius, the union of them for practical application ".

During the latter half of the century, there was a retrenchment movement in Mormonism in which Mormons became more conservative, attempting to regain their status as a " peculiar people ".

" This sentiment was echoed further in 1930 by Igor Stravinsky, when he stated in the revue Kultur und Schalplatte that " there will be a greater interest in creating music in a way that will be peculiar to the gramophone record.

However, in the Western thought, it is generally supposed that it was a specific area peculiar merely to the great philosophers of Islam: al-Kindi ( Alkindus ), al-Farabi ( Abunaser ), İbn Sina ( Avicenna ), Ibn Bajjah ( Avempace ), Ibn Rushd ( Averroes ), and Ibn Khaldun.

There still remains to be mentioned Mommsen's peculiar view that Marcellus was not really a bishop, but a simple Roman presbyter to whom was committed the ecclesiastical administration during the latter part of the period of vacancy of the papal chair.

Drawing on his long-term research, and using the criteria of course, outcome and prognosis, he developed the concept of dementia praecox, which he defined as the " sub-acute development of a peculiar simple condition of mental weakness occurring at a youthful age.

Millennia ago, the Japanese imperial family developed its own peculiar system of hereditary succession.

A peculiar system of logograms developed within the Pahlavi scripts ( developed from the Aramaic abjad ) used to write Middle Persian during much of the Sassanid period ; the logograms were composed of letters that spelled out the word in Aramaic but were pronounced as in Persian ( for instance, the combination " M-L-K " would be pronounced " shah ").

Chosen as a town site by the St. Paul and Dakota Railroad Company and developed by the Catholic Church, Adrian is one of many Minnesota towns that owes its existence to that peculiar combination of railroads and religion.

He stated that chemical phenomena are not governed by any peculiar laws special to themselves, but are explicable in terms of the general laws of mechanics that are in operation throughout the universe ; and this view he developed, with the aid of thousands of experiments, in his Mécanique chimique ( 1878 ) and his Thermochimie ( 1897 ).

From this, a complete system of Carbonarism developed, whose peculiar principles were introduced from Italy by two of Bazard's friends.

The sport of competitive rowing has developed a peculiar tradition of using an oar as a memento of significant race wins.

As early as 3 March 1914, Nazarene mission policy developed for the work in Japan by Reynolds encouraged the creation of " self-supporting and self-governing churches ": When a Mission Church reaches a place where it can become entirely self supporting it shall be organized by the District Missionary Superintendent ( SIC ) Into a self supporting body according to the manual of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene adapted to the needs peculiar to the country, and shall be governed by the same.

** A peculiar function of pectoral fins, highly developed in some fish, is the creation of the dynamic lifting force that assists some fish, such as sharks, in maintaining depth and also enables the " flight " for flying fish. Bigeye tuna Thunnus obesus showing finlets and keels. Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling

He concludes that the term is an " Americanism that is derived from the Chinese, but its several accepted American meanings have no resemblance whatever to the recognized meaning in the original language " and that its " various linguistic uses, as they have developed in the United States, have been peculiar to American speech.

However, there are various oral traditions peculiar to each school ( Ryu ), that describe how their art developed and came to be used within their system.

The peculiar " gumdrop " army helmet was based on a prototype " B / II " helmet, developed for the Wehrmacht by Prof. Dr .- Ing.

A 2007 newspaper account agreed that a " peculiar ritual " of handling the " shining orbs " of the statue's scrotum seems to have developed into a tradition.

Without a knowledge of the terms of these formulae it is impossible to solve the most interesting question in the history of Roman law, and show how the rigid rules peculiar to the ancient law of Rome were modified by what has been called the equitable jurisdiction of the praetors, and made applicable to new conditions, and brought into harmony with the notions and the needs of a more developed society.

He responded to criticism by saying ,” We have developed a kind of symphony music that, no matter what else you think, is different and distinctive, and that lends itself to the playing of the peculiar compositions of our race … My success had come … from a realization of the advantages of sticking to the music of my own people .” And later, “ We colored people have our own music that is part of us.

For feeding on larger cockles such as Austrovenus stutchburyi ( New Zealand cockle ), at least some New Zealand Teals have developed a peculiar technique, as of now undocumented in other birds, to force their rather soft bills between the cockle shells and tear out the flesh with a jackhammer-like pumping motion.

It was not till after Hendenberger's death that Mind fully developed his peculiar talent for drawing.

In his studies he had come under the influence of Schleiermacher, Hegel and Franz von Baader ; but he was a man of independent mind, and developed a peculiar speculative theology which showed a disposition towards mysticism and theosophy.