Raising a wine glass, he continued: "Suppose I choose to call this a character, fancy it a man, endue it with certain qualities; and soon the fine filmy webs of thought, coming from every direction, we know not whence, spin and weave about it, until it assumes form and beauty, and becomes instinct with life".Scholars have pondered this mystery for well over a century.
And at Harvard, it has assumed forms of absurdist logic and suppressed discussion.
The problem is complicated further by the great difference in time between the autograph (original writing) of a biblical work, even when it assumed written form from its inception, and its oldest extant exemplars.
As the story rocketed worldwide, it assumed cartoon form.
In 1947 it assumed permanent form as the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), an umbrella organization of the various national Lutheran churches.
It assumed multiple forms at once, with a polyrhythmic vamp as its base and a tightly scripted melody, arranged for guitar and piano, skittering overhead.
It assumed its present form on November 1 , 1956 when the States Reorganization Act came into force.
This is the biggest proposed change to the select agent program since it assumed its current form 7 years ago.
It assumed its current form in 1850 and is named for Mobile's founder, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
The earliest identifiable work in the castle dates from the thirteenth century, but it assumed its present form during one of the most creative and productive periods of Scottish medieval architecture, between 1375 and 1425, when numerous castles were being built and remodelled, including Dirleton and Tantallon in Lothian, and Bothwell in Lanarkshire.
The United Irishmen were preparing for rebellion, which broke out in May 1798 but was widespread only in Ulster and in Wexford in the southeast, where, despite the nonsectarian ideals of its leaders, it assumed a nakedly sectarian form resulting in the slaughter of many Protestants.
