In no temperate clime can you ever enjoy this peculiar effect of a strong breeze on your naked skin without even the faintest surface chilly sensation.
He belonged to the mildest and most temperate section of the Puritan body.
The temperate zone trims between the climate in which men are roasted and the climate in which they are frozen.
Yet an enlightened and temperate Protestant will perhaps be disposed to doubt whether the success, either of the Albigensians or of the Lollards, would, on the whole, have promoted the happiness and virtue of mankind.
The new House of Commons was more temperate and more respectful to the throne than any which had sate since the death of Elizabeth.
It was therefore determined that they should be sent to colonies where a Puritan could hope to inspire little sympathy, and where a labourer born in the temperate zone could hope to enjoy little health.
The interglacial beds which next succeed contain remains of a well-marked temperate fauna and flora, which point to something more than a mere partial or local retreat of the inland-ice.
According to Mr. Williams, it was accumulated under genial or temperate climatic conditions like the present.
The precipitation and accumulation of snow, and the formation of neve and glacier-ice, must have taken place over enormous regions in what are now the temperate latitudes of Europe.
It is impossible to believe that a temperate or even cold-temperate flora could have flourished in central Scotland at a period when thick glacier-ice mantled any portion of our Lowlands.
Thus, in general terms, we may say that the coast-lines of arctic and temperate North America and Eurasia are further withdrawn from the edge of the continental plateau than those of lower latitudes.
If Greenland could be divested of its inland-ice--if its winter temperature never fell below that of our own island--it would doubtless become clothed in time with an abundant temperate flora.
Their organic contents indicate in some cases cold climatic conditions; in others, they imply a climate not less temperate or even more genial than that which now obtains in the regions where they occur.
The lower member of the system is crowded with southern forms, which indicate warm-temperate conditions.
Continental observers are equally convinced that the interglacial epoch, of which so many interesting relics have been preserved over a wide region, was marked at its climax by a temperate climate and endured for a long period.
Germany, justify geologists in concluding that the interglacial epoch was one of long duration, and characterised in Germany by climatic conditions apparently not less temperate than those that now obtain.
It is a struggle of some kind which begets something like ill-temper in vegetation--heat and drought in the desert, and browsing animals and poor soil in the temperate zones.
What a picture of the plenty and the flowing beneficence of our temperate zone it all presents!
This morning I sent twelve on board, in pots, to discover where they would thrive the best, the air being more temperate on board the ship than on shore.
The fertile soil, moreover, with a mild climate in which tropical plants flourish as well as those of the temperate zone, provides the elements of a local comfort which is complete in itself.
Its basin belongs to the temperate zone, and does not extend northward as far as the area of tropical summer-rain.
Its position in the temperate zone of South America had retarded its entrance into world-commerce, and this explains the slowness with which its colonization proceeded at first.
Demme studied ten families of drinkers and ten families of temperate persons.
How often we see a quiet country family, whose members have for generations led calm, temperate lives, suddenly produce one or two great men and then relapse into obscurity.
Natural selection had far more to do in removing those unfit to survive in the intemperate than in the temperate families.
Yet now, close to the ranges where Sturt spent the burning summer months of his detention, there has sprung up one of the inland townships of New South Wales, where men toil just as laboriously as in a more temperate zone.
This is done by such medicines which are not only temperate in heat, but also by a gentle viscosity, fill up or stop the pores, that so the heat of the part affected be not scattered.
It is temperate in respect of heat, but dry in the second degree.
In fevers of flegm, where the cause is cold and moist, and the effect hot and dry; in such, use temperate medicines which may neither encrease the fever by their heat, nor condensate the flegm by their coldness.
They are far more temperate than Carduus Benedictus, open obstructions of the liver, help the jaundice and dropsy, provoke urine, break the stone.
Belshazzar's court fed on fish of every type, birds of every flight, brutes of every clime, and added thereto each finer luxury known in the catalogue of the temperate Epicurus.
Much greater uncertainty thus attaches to declination results in the Arctic and Antarctic than to those in temperate latitudes.
In northern temperate stations a decided minimum is usually apparent in December.
Similarly, what we may call the temperate type is seen--with comparatively slight modifications--both in summer and winter at stations such as Greenwich or Pavlovsk.
With diminishing latitude, there is a gradual transition from the temperate to the tropical type of horizontal force diurnal variation, and at stations whose latitude is under 45 deg.
The Nilgiri hills enjoy the climate of the temperate zone, with a moderate rainfall.
There is not, as in the case of the declination, any essential difference between the phenomena at temperate stations in the northern and southern hemispheres.
The special tendency to disturbance seen in equinoctial months in temperatelatitudes did not appear in the "Discovery's" records in the Antarctic.
In temperatelatitudes the differences of type are much less, but still they exist.
A fair idea of the variability in the case of declination in temperate latitudes may be derived from Table XVIII.
Toronto and Hobart, though similar in latitude to Tiflis, show a closer approach to the temperate type.
Thus in temperate latitudes where V is considerably in excess of H, whilst diurnal changes in V are usually less than those in H, it is the latter which chiefly dominate the diurnal changes in inclination.
In a number of cases Birkeland observed small simultaneous movements in the curves of his co-operating stations, which appeared to be at least sometimes decidedly larger in the equatorial than the northerntemperate stations.
He replied to this by writing to William Bidlake:-- “I would intreat you and my niece your wife at the time of hearinge of these differences before his Lordshipp to be very temperate in your utterances.
Justin Winsor, in his Narrative and Critical History of America, has treated of the matter in a temperate spirit.
He has remembered Him, and his pleasures have grown the sweeter because they were gifts from Heaven, and because he has taken them, in a thankful spirit, for a temperate enjoyment.
He cannot but see that the best of men sin sometimes, that even the most temperate are hurried into excesses which their prudence condemns.
Unclouded by gusts of passion, the wise temperate Oriental carries a "bright countenance" to the king's divan.
It is the part of prudence to lay hold on both; to permit a temperate indulgence both in virtue and in vice, carrying neither to excess (ver.
The second rule which this temperate Monitor infers from his general theory is, That we are not to be overmuch troubled by what people say about us.
Solid matter, temperate argument, and genuine work, in the long ran, pay the best.
The temperate and thoughtful arguments put forward by a paper in which they have confidence directly affect the tenant-farmers.
Thus gradually snow and ice would cover all the lands down to temperate latitudes.
The creatures inhabiting arctic and temperate regions contrast strongly with those that tenant the tropics.
Owing to the vast accumulation of snow and ice in the northern hemisphere, the difference of temperature between equatorial and temperate and polar regions would be greater in that hemisphere than in the southern.
In temperate regions, vegetation frequently accumulates, under certain conditions, to form very considerable masses.
The general result would be, that in our hemisphere ice and snow would cover the ground down to low temperate latitudes--the British Islands being completely smothered under a great sea of confluent glaciers.
The angular debris found at the base of all cliffs in temperate and arctic regions, and on every hill and mountain which is subjected to alternations of extreme heat and cold, is also the effect of weathering.
And another that of so-called temperate Mysticism, of which the adepts were Saint Francis de Sales and his friend the celebrated Baroness de Chantal.
This is temperate in colouring and beautifully lighted.
With regard to Vaccinium, this is the more anomalous, as several species grow in the temperate regions of Sikkim.
The vegetation in the, neighbourhood of Lamteng is European and North American; that is to say, it unites the boreal and temperate floras of the east and west hemispheres; presenting also a few features peculiar to Asia.
I left here the temperate flora of northern Sikkim, tropical forms commencing to appear: of these the nettle tribe were most numerous in the woods.
The Bactrian camel also thrives and breeds at Lhassa, together with a small variety of cow (not the yak), both signs of a much more temperate climate than Jigatzi enjoys.
In the East the sun itself is so regular and so rapid in rising and setting that the sleeping hours of insects and birds are far more regular than in temperate lands, with their shifting periods of light and darkness.
