The true meaning of this maxim has been discussed and ascertained in another place, and has been shown to be entirely compatible with a partial
intermixture of those departments for special purposes, preserving them, in the main, distinct and unconnected.
You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelligence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or by instinct, or simply because he had been tutored to it, or by any
intermixture of all these, even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb, spontaneous literal process.
At any rate I will permit myself the luxury of frankly saying that while I had a deep sense of the majesty and grandeur of Dante's design, many points of its execution bored me, and that I found the
intermixture of small local fact and neighborhood history in the fabric of his lofty creation no part of its noblest effect.
But we may not take up the third sword, which is Mahomet's sword, or like unto it; that is, to propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences; except it be in cases of overt scandal, blasphemy, or
intermixture of practice against the state; much less to nourish seditions; to authorize conspiracies and rebellions; to put the sword into the people's hands; and the like; tending to the subversion of all government, which is the ordinance of God.
From these and their degraded slaves and a later
intermixture of the blood of the anthropoids sprung the gnarled men of Opar; but by some queer freak of fate, aided by natural selection, the old Atlantean strain had remained pure and undegraded in the females descended from a single princess of the royal house of Atlantis who had been in Opar at the time of the great catastrophe.
As every article in the great trunk was the sweeter for the rose-scent, so did all the thoughts and emotions of Hepzibah and Clifford, sombre as they might seem, acquire a subtle attribute of happiness from Phoebe's
intermixture with them.
"Ah, this, indeed, is true nobility, this is the right and perfect
intermixture. The lieutenancy is yours, fair lord.
The end and the means, the gamester and the game, --life is made up of the
intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers, whose marriage appears beforehand monstrous, as each denies and tends to abolish the other.
In such a novel
intermixture, however, of men born and nurtured in freedom, and the compliant minions of absolute power, the catholic and the protestant, the active and the indolent, some little time was necessary to blend the discrepant elements of society.
It is the lurid
intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions.
Because of its ancient role as a land bridge over which species have migrated between the continents, the isthmus is home to a rich
intermixture of plant and animal life.
In the last stage of a research project that began with a December 2012 international conference and accompanying exhibition in Leuven, scholars of literature and other humanities explore various links between the notion of the "documentary" and the "literary" in order to reveal the
intermixture of literary genres in several dimensions.
intermixture - any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"
intermixture - an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base; "the growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure"; "a large intermixture of sand"
intermixture - the act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio"