Saintsbury admits, such lines being frequent in his favourite Dryden; yet, on the other hand, it might be maintained, and would be maintained by its French critics, that our English poetry has been too apt to dispense with those prose qualities, which, though not the
indispensable qualities of poetry, go, nevertheless, to the making of all first-rate poetry--the qualities, namely, of orderly structure, and such qualities generally as depend upon second thoughts.
To avoid an arbitrary discretion in the courts, it is
indispensable that they should be bound down by strict rules and precedents, which serve to define and point out their duty in every particular case that comes before them; and it will readily be conceived from the variety of controversies which grow out of the folly and wickedness of mankind, that the records of those precedents must unavoidably swell to a very considerable bulk, and must demand long and laborious study to acquire a competent knowledge of them.
How simply are these facts explained on the view of an occasional cross with a distinct individual being advantageous or indispensable!
We can understand this remarkable fact, which offers so strong a contrast with terrestrial plants, on the view of an occasional cross being indispensable, by considering the medium in which terrestrial animals live, and the nature of the fertilising element; for we know of no means, analogous to the action of insects and of the wind in the case of plants, by which an occasional cross could be effected with terrestrial animals without the concurrence of two individuals.
That -- and good looks -- is an
indispensable qualification.
The long-distance talks, especially, have grown to be indispensable to the corporations whose plants are scattered and geographically misplaced--to the mills of New England, for instance, that use the cotton of the South and sell so much of their product to the Middle West.
In the supreme emergency of war, the telephone is as indispensable, very nearly, as the cannon.
After his death, he was called 'the
indispensable man.' Even to this day, it is commonly believed that the United States would not have come into existence if not for the incredible strength of character of Washington from the beginning of the revolution through to his stepping down voluntarily at the end of his second term in office.
Summary: Shanghai [China], November 22 (ANI): Given there is so much everyday dependency on own smartphones, China's biggest app WeChat decided to partner InterContinental to make a smartphone even more
indispensable.
An opposition lawmaker said Friday journalists play an
indispensable role in the healthy functioning of Philippine democracy.
OPEC has become an
indispensable 'organ of stability' in the oil market, Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, OPEC Secretary General said at the Algeria Future Energy Summit in Algiers, Algeria.
BAGHDAD (NINA) - Iraq is
indispensable to the support of its Arab and regional environment to face current challenges, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mohamed Al-Halbusi said.
In a rare joint statement, the three intelligence chiefs said co-operation between EU agencies was "
indispensable" against a background of "diverse foreign and security policy challenges".
