 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1881 - 522 pages
...very carefully to see whether the same duties might not be performed by an officer of another rank. It is difficult to draw a hard and fast line between the duties of officers who are close upon the same rank. But, of course, as I said before, it should be... | |
 | John Evans - Bronze age - 1881 - 548 pages
...class of tools it is not unlikely that some of the narrow celts of the other forms should be referred. It is difficult to draw a hard and fast line between the flat colts and tho flanged, and between these latter and the so-called palstaves. I propose, therefore,... | |
 | Walter Copland Perry - Literary Criticism - 1898 - 292 pages
...to see in the New Comedy a powerful and wholesome reaction in the direction of decency and virtue. It is difficult to draw a hard and fast line between the three comedies, Early, Middle, and New, because while in the one preceding there are sometimes indications... | |
 | Nathan Oppenheim - Conduct of life - 1902 - 336 pages
...parts of the spinal cord. This is only one example, although many exist, of the statement made above, that it is difficult to draw a hard and fast line between the different parts of the whole system. Try to remember that these divisions are mainly for the purpose... | |
 | John Gordon Drummond Campbell - Thailand - 1902 - 418 pages
...resorted to. Much real prayer is not expressed in words, but consists in the silent yearning of the heart. It is difficult to draw a hard and fast line between the vague aspiration of the soul and actual prayer, and many an avowed agnostic would probably have to... | |
 | Pathological Society of London - Pathology - 1903 - 458 pages
...different sites elementary endotheliuni, ordinary connective-tissue cells, and spindle-celled sarcoma. It is difficult to draw a hard and fast line between the Hattened endothelial cells of lymphatic spaces and the sarcomatous cells, and also between oval spindle-cells... | |
 | 1906 - 610 pages
...species. They are usual ly quite different in coloration, but in * large series from this locality, it is difficult to draw a hard and fast line between the two forms. P. texanus is a somewhat smaller and quite different species. А contribution to our knowledge... | |
 | Clinical medicine - 1907 - 434 pages
...commencement of this lecture, inasmuch as all forms of endocarditis are probably microbic in origin, it is difficult to draw a hard and fast line between the two. But it is important clinically to try to differentiate between this and the other, because this... | |
 | Thomas Clifford Allbutt, Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston - Medicine - 1908 - 792 pages
...and the case becomes one of acute or subacute nephritis, with dropsy and suppression of urine. Hence it is difficult to draw a hard and fast line between the febrile albuminuria produced by toxins, or the nephrite passagere of the French, and a permanent and... | |
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... that it is difficult to draw a hard and fast line between the physical and the life sciences. 
