He had made himself familiar with all the advantages the garden and orchard offered a hunted man ere he had been a week at Boobyalla.
Many of these routes are operated by farmers who first learned the advantages of motor-truck transportation by using trucks for their individual needs.
The detailed survey among patrons of a number of these routes discovers the fact that there are three great economic advantages in this method of transportation: 1.
According to one irate editor, "Few people are aware of the boundless advantages that the national banks have under our present accursed system.
In the evening Mr. Gregg asked the boys and Jessie to visit his room, and he would try to explain the principle and advantages of the wheel and axle, as the winch they were to make was in a measure related to that principle.
One of the advantages of this system is that dirt drawn up by the suction fan can be carried away with the water down the kitchen drain.
The advantages gained by this are many for just so much as the length of the plane exceeds its perpendicular height is an advantage gained.
The modern chemical letter copier offers distinctadvantages over other methods.
Your Grace is then resolved to forego all the advantages which may arise?
Bridgenorth; "or do you think me poor enough in spirit to give up the advantages I now possess over the family of Peveril, for the awe of a parcel of boors, whom the first discharge will scatter like chaff before the whirlwind?
Although the boding words of Bridgenorth sometimes occurred to Lady Peveril's mind, she did not suffer them to weigh with her in opposition to the advantages which the patronage of the Countess of Derby secured to her son.
She did not forget to enumerate the many advantages of Kirkton, and sang the city's praises with the utmost enthusiasm, setting it down next to London itself in the variety of opportunities of every sort which it afforded.
Your uncle and I feel that if, for our own selfish love of your company, we were to refuse to part with you, you might some day justly reproach us for having kept you from social advantages which we cannot give you.
If you wish to stay here, you will have the benefit of many social advantages which you would certainly not find at Kirkton; but, on the other hand, I cannot undertake to encourage your study of the violin.
Though Mildred thoroughly appreciated the advantages of her new life at The Towers, she nevertheless missed the Grahams continually.
The company broke into groups, representing fairly well the various sets of the Form, and began eagerly to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of the various members proposed for the delegateships.
That is one of the advantages of having railroads.
And yet, when discussing the advantages of the two-meal system, uninformed people talk about "getting faint if they go so long" without nourishment!
By another year," he adds, "I shall be able to give you still more information on this subject, as others are beginning to be impressed with the advantages of this regimen.
And the peril previously incurred in the want of union among the several states was a solemn warning not to lose the advantages of that league, so tardily and so laboriously cemented.
Placed between two rivers, the Crathis and the Sybaris--possessing extraordinary advantages of site and climate, this celebrated colony rose with unparalleled rapidity to eminence in war and luxury in peace.
Aristotle cites among the advantages of wealth, that of being enabled to train horses.
This mode of colonization, besides the ordinary advantages of all colonization, proffered two peculiar to itself.
But Pericles, aware of all the advantages to be gained by words, embellished words with every artifice that his imagination could suggest.
This principle acknowledged, the surrender of advantages or conquests that were incompatible with it was but a necessary detail.
If utility is the sole measure of the goodness of actions, I must consider only one thing when an action is proposed to me to do,--what advantages can result from it to me?
I shall do every thing to preserve the advantages I have received.
I respond that, at first, it is the future that is uncertain, but the present is certain; if I can reap great and unmistakable advantages from an action, it would be absurd to sacrifice them to the chance of a possible misfortune.
A simple declamation rightly accented is certainly preferable to stunning accompaniments; but to music must be left its character, and its defects and advantages must not be taken away from it.
It is true that we love society for the advantages that it brings; but it is none the less true, that we also love it for its own sake, that we seek it independently of all calculation.
Its advantages are: First, educational, by placing before the interested public an aggregation of building intelligence in the form of exhibits of the actual materials, appliances, and inventions employed in modern construction.
The Institute of Building Arts is free to the visiting public, who are welcome to all its advantages of information and to the inspection of the numerous exhibits it contains.
At present there are six well-equipped architectural schools connected with as many colleges, each with its own corps of instructors and each presenting special advantages to students.
Other advantages accruing are incalculable, for the children themselves have become intelligent and conscientious co-operators with their elders, instead of passive receivers or antagonists.
But the woman who aspires to higher game should be quite willing, it seems to me, to resign some of these advantages in compensation for the greater honour and satisfaction of being wife to a man of merit, and mother to his children.
Another reason for the relatively late marriages of superior men is found, perhaps, in the fact that, as a man grows older, the disabilities he suffers by marriage tend to diminish and the advantages to increase.
The only establishment of the sort now connected with the service is located at Boston, and the advantages of a similar establishment convenient to the hemp-growing region must be apparent to all.
I am nevertheless not without hope that the great advantages which were intended to be secured by the treaty may yet be realized.
Such are some of the manyadvantages which will accrue to the Eastern and Middle States by the ratification of the treaty--advantages the extent of which it is impossible to estimate with accuracy or properly to appreciate.
Cities thus relatively situated would possess advantages over cities otherwise situated of so decided a character as most justly to excite dissatisfaction.
If, however, he should fall into error by importing an excess above the public wants, he could readily correct its evils by availing himself of the benefits and advantages of the system thus established.
By this fatal folly James lost all the advantages of his position; for the English formed behind him, and Flodden was open and accessible to them.
Wace, according to Hallam the historian, was a prolific versifier who has a “claim to indulgence, and even to esteem, as having far excelled his contemporaries without any superior advantages of knowledge.
Nature had marked out the rocky height as a stronghold, and a race like the Britons could scarcely have failed to avail themselves of all the advantages it offered.
The Australian Red Cross has become a gigantic Commercial Institution with attendantadvantages and disadvantages.
After all, we are interlopers here, and he has all the advantages of his race and his high rank.
What opportunities were lost, and what advantages neglected, may be conjectured from the success of his inconsiderable force.
The chief advantages that we gained over the French, in their wars, were the consequences of our victories by land.
It is needless to enter into any further particulars, to shew the advantages of the regulations adopted with regard to the settlement of the landed revenue.
SMITH, ADAM, on the advantages of Java, for commerce, i.
They are as industrious and laborious as any people could be expected to be, in their circumstances of insecurity and oppression, or as any people would be required to be, with their advantages of soil and climate.
Many of the commercial advantages which recommended its selection still exist, to an equal or greater extent; especially those which related to Cochin China, Champa, and Cambodia.
The state board of immigration, appointed "to encourage immigration, by disseminating information regarding the advantages offered by this state to immigrants.
What are some of the advantages possessed by a written constitution over an unwritten one?
Three from each state would bring no advantages which are not now secured, while the Senate would be unnecessarily large and expensive.
Explain the workings and advantages of each method.
He could not be blind to the advantages that such a connection would ensure to him.
Nor was there anything wrong in this appreciation of the advantages of his position.
A good landlord he was, and a kind neighbour too; and when the many advantages of their new home were being told over by the children, the living so near to Mr Snow and little Emily was never left till the last.
What cared he, with his sad, sore heart, for the lives of those prosperous men, gifted with social advantages that had been denied to himself, and that he felt a proud consciousness he could have put to a far richer profit?
The advantages of the "Edison lamp" are, in short, multitudinous.
The advantages arising out of a ready means of communication, freed from the shackles of expensive connecting wires and cables are, in the main, obvious enough.
The advantages of the Telautograph over the ordinary telegraphy may be briefly summed up as follows:-- Anybody who can write can use it; the need of skilled operators is abolished.
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