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SUGGESTION. By the older British writers on psychology the words " suggest " and " suggestion " were used in senses very close to those which they have in common speech; one idea was said to suggest another when it recalled that other to mind or (in the modern ...

... olitan frontier. To the overtures of Ricasoli in 1861, Pius IX., at Antonelli's suggestion, replied with the famous " Non possumus," but subsequently (1867) accepted, too late, Ricasoli's proposal concerning ecclesiastical property. After the September Convent ...

... find Antony meeting the dictator at Narbo the following year, and rejecting the suggestion of Trebonius that he should join in the conspiracy that was already on foot. In 44 he was consul with Caesar, and seconded his ambition by the famous offer of the crown ...

... ral principles of mathematics in which were included Apollonius' criticisms and suggestions for the improvement of Euclid's Elements; (5) 'QKVTOXIOV (quick bringing-to-birth), in which, according to Eutocius, he showed how to find closer limits for the value o ...

... is — natural " selection " — may or may not be true; it was at least a fruitful suggestion. If true, it need not be exhaustive. Again, evolution itself need not apply everywhere. We are offered a philosophical rather than a scientific speculation when E. Caird ...

... he finest in the world. Its beginnings may be traced back to 1762, when, at the suggestion of Lord Bute, the duke of Argyll's trees and shrubs were removed from Whitton Place, near Hounslow, to adorn the princess of Wales's garden at Kew. The duke's collection ...

... ermanence of being. Knowledge resides not in sense but in reason, which, on the suggestion of sensations of changing individuals, apprehends, or (to be precise) is reminded of, real universal forms, and, by first ascending from less to more general until it ar ...

... g species of animals were provided for in the ark, are obviated by adopting the suggestion of Bishop Stillingfleet, approved by Matthew Poole, Pye Smith, le Clerc, Rosscnmuller and others, that the deluge did not extend beyond the region of the earth then inha ...

... he proved impossibility of bringing about the proposed union with Parma's army. Suggestions were made that the Armada should sail to Hamburg, refit there, and renew the attack. But by this time the Spanish force was incapable of energetic action. Medina Sidoni ...

... the mountain land of Israel. Prof. Cheyne (Encyc. Bibl. s.v.) again, following suggestions of H. Gunkel, H. Zimmcrn and P. Jensen, compares the dragon of the Apocalypse with the Babylonian Tiamat, thinks that some myth is referred to, and finds the nayiduv of ...

... ernments should appoint representatives to be present at the Vatican council, a suggestion which was rejected by Bismarck, and foretold that the promulgation of papal infallibility would bring serious political difficulties. After the recall of the French troo ...

... haft, came into use. On the other hand, the Greek word T«x»J. with it* distinct suggestion of the root signification to make or get, acted probably as a safeguard against this tendency. The distinction between T^x*1!. Art or practice, and trio-HiM, knowledge o ...

... e of importance. The name of this city is quite uncertain; Ecetra is a possible suggestion. The modern village, which was called Monte Fortino until 1870, owes its present name to an unwarrantable identification of the site with the ancient Volscian Artena, de ...

... nd " seas " of the moon have never been superseded. He, moreover, threw out the suggestion (in his Cometographia, 1668) that comets move round the sun in orbits of a parabolic form. The establishment, in 1671 and 1676 respectively, of the French and English na ...

... y, we may note thai electric telegraphy took its rise in 1820, beginning with a suggestion of Ampire immediately after Oersted's discovery. It was established by the work of Weber and Gauss at Gottingrn in 1836, and (li.it of C. A. Su-inheil (i,Soi-i87o) of Mu ...

... gs ii. 23-35) — presents an ethical difficulty which is scarcely removed by the suggestion that the narrative has lost some particulars which would have shown the real enormity of the children's offence. We may prefer to imagine that among the homely stories t ...

... application of it to mark distinctive grades of rank was begun in France at the suggestion, it is said, of Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, due de Belle-Isle, in 1759- In modern times it always appears as a shoulfler ornament for military and naval uniforms. At ...

... ere thus probably originally lacking in the address, and were inserted from the suggestion of the title. Either the address was general (" to the saints who are also faithful ") or else a blank was left. In the latter case the name may have been intended to be ...

... life of a court was hardly more favourable to study than that of Steyn. At the suggestion of a friend, James Batt, he applied to his patron for leave to go to Paris University. The bishop consented and promised a small pension; and in August 1495 Erasmus ente ...

... Esau's characteristic hairiness (Gen. xxv. 25, xxvii. n) has given rise to the suggestion that his name is properly 'eshav, from a root corresponding to the Arab, 'athiya, to have thick or matted hair. Mt Seir, too, where he resided, etymologically suggests a ...

... 1888), p. 83. < Montclius. Cn. Prim, en Itaiie. house construction, but give no suggestion that the Etruscans had any artistic sense in architecture. Such tombs arc mostly later than the 5th century B.C., and show the most simple form of wood construction. Pos ...

... Palmerston's suspicions were again aroused by [HISTORY Fnacethe somewhat naive suggestion of Thiers that France should once more intervene as in 1823, a suggestion that was firmly rejected. Palmerston's counter-proposal of an English '• expedition met with as ...

... e offices, introduced a system of free trade in food- Reforms or stuffs (at the suggestion of the Sienese Sallustio Leopold II. Bandini), promoted agriculture, and reclaimed wide areas of marshland to intensive cultivation. He reorganized taxation on a basis o ...

... e with the saint's desire as expressed by vision. More probable is John Earle's suggestion that in the legend as now current we have the survival of some pagan or possibly prehistoric day of augury, which has successfully sheltered itself under the protection ...

... complete metallic circuit, but K. A. Steinheil of Munich, however, acting on a suggestion given by Gauss, made in 1838 the important discovery that half of the circuit might be formed of the conducting earth, and so discovered the use of the earth return, sin ...

... and thus give out as many pulsations as there are breaks in the current. These suggestions were to some extent an anticipation of the work of Reis; but the conditions to be fulfilled before the sounds given out at the receiving station can be similar in pitch ...

... the sinner was personally in no condition to offer. Whatever other elements and suggestions are present, the atmosphere of the medieval world, and its sense of personal claims, are unmistakable. With Anselm Ritschl takes Abelard, who explains the Atonement sim ...

... Republican Calendar, each of the days of Thermidor was, in accordance with the suggestion of Fabre d'Eglantine, consecrated to some useful object. Thus i Thermidor was consecrated to spelt, 10 Thermidor to the watering-pot, 15 Thermidor to sheep, and 27 Therm ...

... he was a native of the Attic deme of Aphidnae, and was invited to Sparta at the suggestion of the Delphic oracle to assist the Spartans in the second Messenian war. According to a later version, he was a lame schoolmaster, sent by the Athenians as likely to be ...

... plateau. The generally transverse course of these rivers has given rise to the suggestion that they are of antecedent origin; but there are many objections to this over-simple, Gordian explanation. The south-east course of the middle-section rivers is the res ...

... time to time as a source of vaccine lymph. Jenner had, indeed, put forward the suggestion that " grease " was a necessary antecedent to cowpox; but even taking this term to have been used by him in the sense of horse-pox, he was, in all probability, mistaken ...