Probably as much good would be done by excluding the students who only encumber the science by aimless and desultory inquiries, as by fitly instituting those who can better fulfill its conditions.
He wants nothing that will encumber him, and your watch would only be a nuisance when the water had soaked in.
Of the greater part of all that skill and strength, no vestige is left, but fallen stones, that encumber the fields and impede the streams.
There is quite enough of the best,--much more than we can ever read or enjoy in the length of a life; and it is a literal wrong or sin in any person to encumber us with inferior work.
The slightest obstacle which may encumber The path downhill is something grand.
With the details of the embarrassments of Drury-Lane Theatre, I have endeavored, as little as possible, to encumber the attention of the reader.
The very repetitions, the redundancy, the accumulation of epithets which gave force and momentum in the career of delivery, but weaken and encumber the march of the style, when read.
The Alarmists will hear this with new apprehensions; they will no doubt return to us with a view to diminish our force, and encumber us with their alliance in order to reduce us to insignificance.
But, already, the Yaquis had renounced their wish to finish with the two whites and fled, flinging away their weapons not to encumber their flight.
The steamer's deck was at a slope of forty-five, everybody clinging to the uppermost gunwale, save the unlucky ones who had rolled to the down scuppers, in among the rubbish which a Mexican captain allows to encumber his upper planks.
As they disputed more for victory than truth, they denied all things, even to those principles which are self-evident; pretending thereby to encumber their opponent.
Beware, not to trouble yourself with the management of worldly business; nor even to encumber your inferiors with it, on any occasion whatsoever.
She did not think Mervyn in earnest, nor suppose that he would encumber himself with a companion who could not be set aside like a governess, and was of an age more 'proper' and efficient than agreeable.
To extend the circuit courts equally throughout the different parts of the Union, and at the same time to avoid such a multiplication of members as would encumber the supreme appellate tribunal, is the object desired.
In negotiating these agreements, we intend to seek settlements which will not encumber world trade through war debts of a character that proved to be so detrimental to the stability of the world economy after the last war.
To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
They carried water and a week's provisions on two ponies, but did not encumber themselves with a tent; sheltering themselves at night from the dew in little huts made of branches.
Do not let us encumberand disfigure religion by absurdities, impossibilities, and antinomian abominations.
It is a pity those self-satisfied theorizers have not something else to do, than to encumber religion and perplex good people by their miserable speculations.
They should notencumber themselves with the shackles of a new prosody.
A man may have a great gift for the use of these forms and not be a great poet, just as he may be a great poet and fall flat when they encumber him.
He immediately assembled all his available troops, and, advancing to meet the foe, selected his own ground for the battle in a narrow defile where the vast masses of the enemy would only encumber each other.
The conquerors did not wish to encumber themselves with captives.
I could leave here to-morrow, but want to clear my columns of the vast crowd of refugees and negroes that encumber us.
All surplus servants, noncombatants, and refugees, should now go to the rear, and none should be encouraged to encumber us on the march.
Yes, my lord; prisoners but encumber us; shall I give orders to the provost to end his captivity?
Of works so universally known as those of Tasso it would be presumptuous to offer new analyses, and superfluous to encumberour pages with trite criticism.
