The faculty of making much of common things and convertingsmall occasions into great pleasures is, to a son of communities strenuous as ours are strenuous, the most salient characteristic of the so-called Latin civilisations.
I will try the effect of religion on this woman, converting her present feelings on that head, from an enemy into an ally.
The plan of a regular town was made, and laborers set about the construction of good substantial edifices, in which to lodge the army; thus converting the warfare into that of something like city against city.
The unbroken envelope retains the steam produced as the juice is heated, thus hastening the process of expanding and bursting the tiny cells and converting the firm pulp into a delicate sauce.
How can there be a gleam of prospective joy to any except to those who are converting its interest into their own channel, to serve a favorite design?
The founder and first president spent nine years in planting and raising up a new society, in converting forests into fields,--supporting many youths on charity.
In vivid language he depicts the great world-mælstrom, widening the margins of its prodigious eddy in the slow progress of millions of ages, gradually reclaiming more and more of the molecular waste, and converting chaos into cosmos.
The impression made upon him led to a mission for converting the natives of Britain, which set out from Rome under St. Augustine in 596.
Was its vitality as an evangelizer exhausted in converting Lincoln?
This curious substance had been originally discovered by Brandt, a chemist, of Hamburg, in the year 1669, as he was attempting to extract from human urine a liquid capable of converting silver into gold.
In the year 1722 he published his work on the art ofconverting iron into steel, and of softening cast-iron.
The gold at first was a metal, now it is a sulphur, capable of converting all metals into its own sulphur.
The ancients were in the habit of roasting sulphuret of antimony, and thus converting it into an impure oxide.
St. Patrick chose it as an emblem of the Trinity when engaged in converting the Irish, who have ever since, in the Shamrock, regarded it as a representative plant.
The Scotch proverb, which says of a very poor man that he is "Bare as a Birk at Yule e'en," probably refers to an old custom of stripping the bark of the tree prior to converting it into the yule log.
The banking machinery of the country being now complete, in a general sense, steps were taken in 1883 for converting the national banks into ordinary joint-stock concerns and for the redemption of all their note-issues.
Nevertheless they do not appear to have entertained much hope at any time of converting Nobunaga.
Heaven send my worthy brother may follow up the object of the meeting by converting Messrs.
Frequently electromagnetic coils have only the function of offering impedance, where no requirements exist for converting any part of the electric energy into mechanical work.
No desecration in converting Gods house into a laboratory to analyze soul and spirit into function and force!
This may be easily increased by placing a second converting crane on the other side of the furnace, for which the same blowing engine will be sufficient, as the actual blowing time will not exceed twelve minutes.
Taking the time of a single converting operation at half an hour it will be easy to obtain fifty blows per day, or a production of 30 tons.
God has ordained that a living ministry--the preaching of those who utter what they themselves know from personal experience to be true--shall be His most powerful instrumentality for converting the world.
A few days after that, our fathers, having found this method and plan of converting these peoples successful, gained another chief, from a different district, by practically the same measures.
It was in mounting the steps of the Capitol, in January, 1855, that the thought first arose of converting it into a volume.
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