Results 10 of 1034
|
[ ENGLISH MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
|
| ... to be no more or less than the quality, which, as I mentioned of the shore at the Naze, is found to be in much of the stone all along this shore, viz., of the copperas kind; and it is certain that the copperas stone (so called) is found in ... |
|
[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
|
| ... it is true; I found I could express them more shortly this way than in prose itself; and nothing is more certain, than that much of the force as well as grace of arguments or instruction depends on their conciseness. I was unable to treat this part of my subject ... |
|
[ SOCIOLOGY]
|
| ... disappears, credit vanishes, factories are closed, the mass of the workers are in want of the means of subsistence, because they have produced too much of the means of subsistence; bankruptcy follows upon bankruptcy, execution upon execution. The stagnation last for years; productive forces and products are wasted and destroyed ... |
|
[ ENGLISH MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
|
| ... to be no more or less than the quality, which, as I mentioned of the shore at the Naze, is found to be in much of the stone all along this shore, viz., of the copperas kind; and it is certain that the copperas stone (so called) is found in ... |
|
[ ENGLISH MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
|
| ... all the parallel ribs together into one frame. The back of each abutment is in a wedge-shape, so as to throw off laterally much of the pressure of the earth. Under the bridge is a towing path on each side of the river. The bridge was cast in an ... |
|
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
|
| ... to have it thought the affair was somewhere else than in his brain. "He could like to take a trip to England," and asked much of the English ladies. - Stay where you are, I beseech you, Monsieur le Marquis, said I. - Les Messieurs Anglois can scarce get a kind look ... |
|
[ FRENCH FICTION]
|
| ... respect, and put it by with the same respectful manner in a drawer, stowing it away so that it should not take up too much of the room which was reserved to his bulbs. The parcel thus being secreted, Cornelius de Witt got up, pressed the hand of his godson, ... |
|
[ SOCIOLOGY]
|
| ... motives of men who act in history and which constitute the real ultimate driving forces of history, then it is not a question so much of the motives of single individuals, however eminent, as of those motives which set in motion great masses, whole people, and again whole classes of ... |
|
[ FICTION]
|
| ... found in the river; and upon this very river was this known outrage committed? The connection of the two events had about it so much of the palpable that the true wonder would have been a of the populace to appreciate and to seize it. But, in fact, the one ... |
|
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
|
| ... for indeed I deem of thee, that but for thy helping my life had been cast away that morning in Littledale." So they made much of the Meadham man for three days, and thereafter they rode into Meadham and to Meadhamstead, Christopher, and Jack of the Tofts, and Goldilind, in ... |
|
[ FICTION]
|
| ... pumps, and, as might have been expected, one of the boilers exploded with terrific force, carrying away the boiler-deck and tearing to pieces much of the machinery. One dense fog of steam filled every part of the vessel, while shrieks, groans, and cries were heard on every side. Men ... |




