Many of his fragments show indeed that he possessed the caustic spirit of a satirist; but it was in the light of common sense, not of humour, that he regarded the follies of the world.
The caustic sense of Ennius, the generous scorn of Lucretius, the license of Catullus, attest their affinity, in some elements of character, to the Roman satirists.
I snatched the cup from his hand and stirred the caustic myself.
It was necessary to wait three or four days before renewing the caustic to deepen the eschar made by the first application.
I called Guy, who lingered in the laboratory, and bade him apply the first layer of caustic to my breast, over the heart.
I gave the causticto Guy; but at the same moment the door opened behind us, and he sprang forward with a sudden cry, dashing the cup in pieces on the floor.
This report also gives the following suggestion for a preservative finish to be used on leather bindings: "Boil eight parts of stearic acid and one part of caustic soda in fifty parts of water, until dissolved.
An almost colorless, oily liquid, with a penetrating, smoky odor, and a burning, caustic taste.
Colorless, transparent crystals, with an aromatic, penetrating odor and a bitterish, caustic taste.
Colorless plates, darkening on exposure to light in the presence of organic matter; odorless; strongly caustic and having a bitter, metallic taste.
Fats belong to the starches and sugars as heat producers; they are insoluble in water, and by boiling them in caustic alkali they are decomposed into soap and glycerine.
This principle has been utilized to produce causticeffects at the positive pole.
The caustic action is due chiefly to the soda, potash, and lime.
The poor Italian regained his caustic smile as he uttered that wise, villainous Italian maxim.
The poor Italian regained his caustic smile as he uttered that wise, villanous Italian maxim.
As the name (caustic soda) indicates, it is a very corrosive substance, having a disintegrating action on most animal and vegetable tissues.
A lamp chimney is filled with sticks of the compound known as sodium hydroxide (caustic soda), and suspended from the beam of the balance, as shown in Fig.
It is also used to remove carbon dioxide and sulphur compounds from coal gas, to remove the hair from hides in the tanneries (this recalls the caustic or corrosive properties of sodium hydroxide), and for making mortar.
The dazzling wit that flashed for both sides in the French civil wars flashed for one only in the English; the Puritans had no comforts of that kind, save in some caustic repartee from Harry Marten, or some fearless sarcasm from Lucy Carlisle.
It drew an epigram of eulogy from the caustic pen of Voltaire, and has been fondly painted by sympathetic historians.
If this becomes common, it will not be long before baldness will overtake the young mothers as well as the fathers, and the time will be hastened when even children will have no hair to destroy with ammonia or other caustic cosmetics.
Rub some lunar caustic or potash in the wound, or heat the point of a small poker or a steel sharpener white hot, and press it into the bite for a moment.
Not only was it efficacious, then, if taken while the opium was still in the stomach but, just as with Fontana's causticpotash and the snake venom, it followed the opium into the tissues and at least blunted its action.
Since the lunar caustic supposedly had a moon quantity, therefore it would be good for moon-struck people--the lunatics of the old time and of our own time.
Fontana, toward the end of the eighteenth century, was sure that he had discovered in caustic potash an absolute specific for snake poisoning.
The two end chambers are filled with salt water, or brine, while the centre one is filled with a solution of caustic soda.
Brine is continually fed into the outer chambers and the solution of caustic soda is drawn from the centre one, while the chlorine is collected over the anodes.
We cannot obtain the other product, the caustic soda, by the same simple means.
In another chapter reference is made to the production of causticsoda from a solution of common salt by electrolysis.
To this fat is added some caustic soda solution and the whole is kept boiling for some considerable time.
Important though this salt is in connection with our food, it is perhaps still more important as the source from which is derived chlorine and caustic soda.
But it would have been mixed up with much ordinary salt, and for commercial purposes we need the caustic soda separate from the salt.
In another chapter reference has been made to that substance which is made from common salt and which is so important in so many manufactures called caustic soda.
She has been treated by the speculum and the causticfor months, as an out-patient at University College Hospital.
So too in the case of Demetrius and Lysander the lines of individuality are exceedingly faint; the former being perhaps a shade the more caustic and spiteful, and the latter somewhat the more open and candid.
The piece, however, abounds in quick andcaustic wit; in some parts there is a good share of dialogue as distinguished from speech-making; and the versification is far more varied and compact than in Tamburlaine.
In complete contradiction to her caustic beliefs, she seemed to the young the soul of sincerity, working ever the most unselfish conditions for their enjoyment.
Holding my little one's hand, I tried to forget, in her sweet, unconscious talk, the caustic brilliancy of the woman I had left.
After the removal of the acid and tar, the clear oil is agitated with either caustic soda or ammonia and water.
With this article there is no difficulty in producing a pure potash soap, either for wool scouring, fulling, or sizing, by a cold process very similar to that described for the production of hard soda soap with pure powdered caustic soda.
During the last two years, however, caustic potash has been introduced, that manufactured by the Greenbank Alkali Co.
The following directions will produce an excellent soap for wool scouring: Fifty pounds of Greenbank pure caustic potash are put into eight gallons of soft water; the potash dissolves immediately, heating the water.
Heating caustic potash to a white heat, and adding warm or hot water, produces explosion.
He is described in the following caustic terms by Zach.
To the title of each book so specified, Wanley appends some caustic remarks, exposing Dr.
They therefore submitted a separate report, reviewing the entire proceeding in language more causticthan Mr. Wilson and Mr. Woodbridge had seen fit to employ.
By the caustic sentence of Mr. Stevens it had been totally overthrown.
Mr. Shellabarger gave an answer to that question, which, as a caustic summary, is worthy to be quoted in full.
Camphorated spirit, with caustic volatile alkaly, was applied to the stomach, emulsion given for common drink, and the same medicines repeated.
In the LXIst case the patient was too much reduced, and the disease too far advanced to allow of a cure by any method; but it teaches us that a caustic may be used with safety.
He lashed the follies of his day, particularly the vices of the clergy, with caustic satire, scathing wit, and bitter stinging irony.
My blood boiled, and I was about to make a caustic reply, when my uncle interposed, informing him briefly that I did my work exactly in the way he wished, and that in legal matters of this kind he alone was responsible.
To one extremity of this barrel was fitted a tube containing a quantity of caustic potash.
With such minerals, caustic potash or soda may be substituted with advantage; and there are some of them that cannot be analyzed without having recourse to that agent.
He obviated this difficulty by reducing the mineral to an extremely fine powder, and, after digesting it in caustic potash ley till all the water was dissipated, raising the temperature, and bringing the whole into a state of fusion.
Quicklime, or caustic potash, mixed with fæces, puts a stop to the evolution of gas, doubtless by preventing all fermentation.
He had a caustic tongue and a fine assortment of damaging epithets, most of which were levelled at my devoted skull during those three months.
