"Sept" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... before the First International Congress of Philosophy at Paris in 1900, on Our Belief in the Law of Causality,[Footnote: Notre croyance a la loi de causalite (Revue de metaphysique et de morale, Sept., 1900, pp. 655-660).] Bergson showed that it has its root in the co-ordination of our tactile impressions with our visual impressions. This co-ordination becomes a continuity which generates motor habits or tendencies ...
— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn
... assemble, and petition the throne for a redress of their grievances was undoubted, and that this right included that of appointing delegates for such purpose. The House passed resolutions approving of the proceedings of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia (4th of Sept. 1774) and declared their determination to use their influence in carrying out the views of that body. Whereupon, the Governor, by advice of his council, dissolved the Assembly, by proclamation, after ...
— Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical • C. L. Hunter
... Composers Sketched Joseph Bennett London, Musical by Themselves"—No. 1, Haydn. Times, Sept. 1877 An estimate of Haydn drawn mainly from ...
— Haydn • J. Cuthbert Hadden
... totemistic. In the body of this work the word clan is usually applied only to the large exogamous groups of the Rajputs and one or two other military castes. The small local or titular groups of ordinary Hindu castes are called 'section,' and the totemic groups of the primitive tribes 'sept.' But perhaps it is simpler to use the word 'clan' throughout according to the practice of Sir J.G. Frazer. The vernacular designations of the clans or sections are gotra, which originally meant a stall or cow-pen; khero, ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India--Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell
... reached the archway and discovered the powder barrels, the besieged, finding everything silent outside, came to a realisation of the true condition of affairs. We faced them with bayonets fixed, while Sept, the man who had captured the sentinel, took the hatchet he had brought with him at his girdle, flung over one of the barrels on its side, knocked in the head of it, allowing the dull black powder to ...
— The Strong Arm • Robert Barr
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