On other occasions Napoleon employed the word which became the intellectual catchword of the following period--he described religion as order.
The language employed on the occasion was something in this style: 'Ye who have been the tools of fanaticism, ye saints and holy ones of every description, show now that ye are patriots, and help your country by marching to the Mint!
Several robust fellows were near me, some knee-deep in water, employed in hauling the seine upon the strand.
If it survived the risks of manufacture, the pot often needed repair when in use, and several examples are shown of rivets, large and small, employed for this purpose (No.
Snails were a favourite dish with the Romans, and the spoon got its name (cochleare) from being employed in this way.
Some are made in the form of a shoe or the sole of a foot, and this is a shape frequently employed by the potters of the Roman period in Italy for stamping their names on vases.
The engraved ring was usually employed for purely personal purposes, such as the sealing of a letter or document, and the device of the seal was more or less ornamental.
Besides being used in various kinds of games, knucklebones were also employed as dice.
This was principally employed for mixing and spreading ointments, while the olive-shaped ends were used as probes.
They were doubtless for household use, employedin much the same way as modern images of the Madonna.
The instrumentemployed was a pointed implement, called by the Romans a stilus.
It was a curved piece of metal, usually bronze, but sometimes iron, employed by athletes for removing dust and oil after exercise, and by bathers for scraping away sweat and dirt.
Owing to its portability, it was doubtless much employed by hawkers and street-sellers, as at the present day.
The encaustic process was that employed in the case of the framed portrait (No.
To technical criticism he made no sort of pretension; painting was to him but the visible language of emotion; and where it did not aim at exciting it, or employed inadequate means, his admiration would be withheld.
Domestic troops were also employed as guards and ornamental bodies attached to the throne and other great offices of the Empire.
In dealing with Westerners the Chinese had at first employed a code far more Draconic than the provisions of Chinese penal practice.
The government was formed in a manner similar to that employed in the U.
Hence it will be as interesting as it is useful to complete the preceding statements by a brief summary of the methods employed for acquiring these bold conclusions.
Hence, it is of particular moment for us to give an exact account of the means employed in determining them.
Later on we will discuss the methods that have been employed in measuring these distances.
These minutes and seconds of arc have no relation with the same terms as employed for the division of the duration of time.
This period was known to the Greeks under the name of the Metonic Cycle, and the Chaldeans employed it three thousand years ago under the name of Saros.
If these methods have been clear to my readers, they may also be interested perhaps in knowing the means employed in weighing the worlds.
Fourteen generations of stokers would be employed on this celestial excursion before the bold travelers could bring back news of the expedition to us.
This distance, calculated thus by geometry, is positively determined with greater precision than that employed in the ordinary measurements of terrestrial distances, such as the length of a road, or of a railway.
We will leave aside the method of which we have been speaking; that now to be employed is quite different, but equally precise in its results.
Other means, on which we will not enlarge in this summary of the methods employed for determinations, confirm the precisions of these measurements with certainty.
Vision is not employed here to express any magical display before the eyes of the prophet of the very words which he was to speak to the people, or any communication to his thoughts by dream or ecstasy.
It is very striking that it was not till they were employed to translate the Old Testament ideas of poverty that the Greek words for "poor" and "lowly" came to bear an honourable significance.
We see this most clearly if we contrast the Hebrews' use of their words for poor with that of the first language which was employed to translate these words--the Greek in the Septuagint version of the Old Testament.
Her willingness to toil in any direction attests the grand purpose of her life and the ingenious methods employed in assisting and saving souls.
How significant are the words employed to denote their hearty appreciation of her worth.
On the day of the great storm, her husband left Washington, where he had been employed some time, and has never since been heard of.
What extraordinary events cluster around this special agency employed by the Holy Spirit to bring about such a glorious result.
But there are other occupations in which they could be diligently employed in order to maintain their families.
Felicie, sitting by the window with a sardonic smile on her lips, employed herself about ripping up an evening dress of Josephine's.
My uncle spent vast sums of money and employed detectives all over the world in his efforts to find him, and to let him know that the old home was open to him, and would always be just what it had been in the past.
For this last work very few men were retained, and but few have been employed there since, those few being men whom the company thought could be trusted, or upon whom they had some hold by which they could compel them to silence.
The miners employed by the company throughout this group of mines were of the lowest class, and they were none too friendly to Houston, while the better class of men employed in the other mines were not familiar with these workings.
He knew the name and face of nearly every man employed in the various shifts, and by his keen perception and insight, was able to form a very correct estimate of their character and standing in that little community.
Many of them were strangers to him, being employed in other mines than those with which he was familiar, but among them were many of his own men.
I was employed there until very recently, and from the first had a thorough understanding of the course and extent of the different workings, and consequently am perfectly familiar with them.
Brauchle was not the Countess Erdoedy's music-teacher, but the tutor of her children, in which capacity he could hardly have been employed at a time when the eldest was not six years of age!
Czerny says in the supplement to his "Pianoforte School": It was at the wish of the clarinet player for whom Beethoven wrote this Trio that he employed the above theme by Weigl (which was then very popular) as the finale.
In 1856 he again came back to America and sought employment, finding it this time in South Orange, New Jersey, where Lowell Mason employed him to catalogue his musical library.
Hesse calls to witness a clerk employed in Simrock's establishment with whom Beethoven had business transactions, and who had written on the back of the announcement of Beethoven's death, "L.
Here, for a space, the Editor reverts to the original manuscript not employed by the German revisers, except as a foot-note.
Yon shall receive me as a great artist but as a better and more perfect man, and if the conditions are improved in our fatherland my art shall be employed in the service of the poor.
It will hereafter be seen that the boy Ludwig van Beethoven was often employed at the pianoforte at the rehearsals--possibly also at the performances of the company of which Neefe was the musical director.
The men whom I employed to go into the mountains of Alvarez for the Mexican hickory tell me that the trees are so loaded down with mistletoe that they rarely bear a crop, and there are few nuts with well developed kernels to be found.
That we believe trained and experienced men should be employed in field and laboratory to study the diseases in all its phases.
They are employed both as borders and to fill up incomplete lines of writing.
White, in the shape of dots and as heightening, may be largely employed if there is any want of harmony detected.
The colors employedby the copier were of a more mixed and complicated character than those for the other page from the Lambeth Library.
The Colors are represented in the engraving by means of lines (as explained on page 18), so that by the aid of these directions the student can reproduce them in the colors employed in the original MSS.
The illuminators employed both what we call "shell gold" and leaf.
The figure pictures in both look as if they were not painted by the same artist as the writing and illumination of the letters, and it is probable two or more were employed in the production.
An attempt has been made to represent the colors employed by means of lines.
I employed my second summer in looking for a sympathetic woman, with the intention of making her my wife.
It would have been better to stick to good Della-Cruscan Italian, or to have employed some English school-usher to come here as resident reviser of Roman Latinity.
It is employed as well in determining what is right or wrong in itself--the due proportion of injuries and their remedies or punishments--as in enforcing what is useful and expedient.
Paying no rent, the Norwegian yeoman farmer is not usually employed in prospective improvements, but simply in raising food, so that he can see at once whether the land is sufficient to produce subsistence for himself and his labourers.
After the word 'Catholic' had acquired its later and technical use, it could not have been employed in its earliest meaning without the risk of considerable confusion.
But while the Bank still advances money on the security of landed property, two-thirds of its resources are now employed in the discount of mercantile bills.
There are some books which by their nature lend themselves to a snatchy method of perusal, and a few minutes may often be well employed in reading an ode of Horace, or the disjointed conversations of Dr.
That no individual shall sell to any dealer without presenting his card, as it is the only way to detect those employed by the Defence Unionists, and that we call on the other branches to follow this example.
A lad employed in some chemical works in the early part of 1862, finding a syphon did not act, sucked through it some of the fluid, which happened to be nitro-benzole.
A distilled water obtained from the leaves of the cherry laurel, which was formerly employed in medicine, proved dangerous from its very variable strength; it has been used as a poison.
Since the use of strychnia by those notorious criminals Palmer and Dove, this formidable agent has been employed by other murderers.
This poison has been employed as an aphrodisiac and to induce abortion, by persons ignorant of its dangerous effects.
Garrod has described a series of experiments in which he employed purified animal charcoal as an antidote.
Artificial respiration was employed for fifty minutes, and subsequently galvanism; but stupor rapidly succeeded to faintness, and the patient died comatose fifty-five minutes after admission.
These tests are so delicate, especially the first, that they will detect the 8000th part of a grain of arsenic in solution; they should beemployed successively.
Galvanism may be employed to keep up the action of the diaphragm, either directly or through the phrenics.
Gentle emetics, purgatives, and stimulants are the means employed to prevent death in poisoning by any of these vegetable substances.
A consideration of the treatmentemployed in this instance cannot but suggest the idea that the first patient might have had a better chance of recovery had the stomach-pump been used when Dr.
This heavy, oily looking liquid is met with in two states, concentrated and diluted; and being extensively employed in commerce and manufactures is much more frequently used as a poison than the other mineral acids.
Chlorine is employed by the calico-printer and paper-maker for its bleaching properties.
Moulded in cylinders, it is often employedas a caustic (Potassa fusa).
This proved absolutely useless, as the masters employed worn-out workers as teachers, and in consequence the children learnt nothing at all.
They were all taught to use their hands as well as their heads, and at Osborne, in the Swiss cottage, the boys worked at carpentering and gardening, while the girls were employed in learning cooking and housekeeping.
One of the first results of machinery taking the place of human labour was that an enormous number of women and young children of both sexes were employed in the factories in place of grown men, who were no longer needed.
But the hereditary foes of his family were soon actively employed in working his ruin; and even his sister, who had married into that family, proved not the least formidable of his enemies.
On Easter Monday the survivors were employed in burying the dead and attending to the wounded.
St. Aengus presented himself at this monastery as a poor man seeking for service, and wasemployed for some time in charge of the mill or kiln, the ruins of which have but lately yielded to "the improving hand of modern progress.
The importance and value of Latin as a medium of literary intercommunication, had been perceived from an early period: hence that language was most frequently employed by Irish writers after it had become known in the country.
Madden still expresses his doubt as to who was the person employed by Higgins as "setter.
The new governor employed himself actively in erecting castles and oppressing the unfortunate Irish.
His son, William, conspired against the King, and even employed an assassin to kill him.
The voice, the leg and the whole body, may be employed to soothe and encourage.
Van Braam, the old Dutch fencing-master, being the only French interpreter conveniently at hand, was employed to go and bring in the terms of surrender.
Man in a savage stage is the same animal everywhere, and his constructive powers, whether employed in the formation of a legendary story or of a battleaxe, seem to expatiate almost everywhere in the same rugged track of invention.
No doubt, they employed native labour, but they do not appear to have instructed the natives how to make use of the ores they themselves valued so highly.
The proceeding is similar to that employed by the workers of Byzantine mosaic,--tile decoration undoubtedly took the place of this mosaic work in Moorish buildings.
It was to be seen in the cathedral of Cordova as late as the 16th century, when it was destroyed, and its materials employed in the construction of an altar.
The proceedings employed in this industry are too well known to require repetition in this volume.
In order to carry this out, the king allowed them to have as many foreign masters and workmen as they might require, with the sole condition that a fourth part of the workmen employed should be Spaniards.
The colours employed are brown and blue on a yellow ground, the metallic lustre is extremely pale, of a mother-of-pearl colour.
The use of these azulejos was not restricted to Moorish buildings; they were largely employed to decorate the walls of Christian churches, convents, palaces, and private houses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "employed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: busy; employed; engaged; hired; let; mercenary; occupied; paid; sublet; used; working
