The great place which he occupied among the astronomers of that time caused his theory to exert a preponderating influence on scientific thought during the century which followed.
As might be gathered from their extreme tenuity, comets are so exceedingly small in mass that they do not appear to exert any gravitational attraction upon the other bodies of our system.
And yet what delicacy and tact are necessary properly to "offer" this material, to give in an interesting way a lesson calculated to exert a direct action upon the child's spiritual activity!
We have charts of four different kinds as regards ornament and color, for such details exert a considerable influence upon the work of the children.
He promised to exert his influence to the uttermost.
I am your mistress, and mustexert my authority for your good.
Exert (to the utmost), put to the utmost strength.
You take the initiative when you are the Power that wants something, in which case you naturally exert yourself to obtain it, while the adversary who merely says No to your request, acts only in resistance.
Frequently the heaviest fish take some time after being hooked before they are roused to a sense of their position, and exert themselves to the full to get rid of the annoying restraint.
A heavy-handed man will soon render a sensitive-mouthed young horse half demented, whilst at the same time quiet, strong hands exert just that influence that is needed to control his vagaries.
If we suppose the fecundation of the flowers of forest trees to be attended with a tenth only of this calorific power, they could not fail to exert an important influence on the warmth of the atmospheric strata in contact with them.
By means of channels conforming to the dip of the strata, these reservoirs communicate with the lower basins, and exert upon them a fluid pressure sufficient to raise a column to the surface, whenever an orifice is opened.
Will not this fact exert an influence on the condition of many springs, whose basin of supply thus undergoes a partial or complete transformation?
Tucker has been a hero, my son," rejoined the old lady in a stately voice, "and the privilege of having once been a hero is that nobody expects you to exert yourself again.
He still saw Will Fletcher daily; but when the spring came he ceased consciously, rather from weariness than from any nobler sentiment, to exert an influence which he felt to be harmful to the boy.
The mash-tun is now closely covered up, and the mash allowed to repose for about two hours, in order that the diastase may exert its saccharifying power upon the unconverted starch of the malt.
Rain water, which of itself is too pure to give rise to these incrustations, cannot be used alone for boiler purposes, for it has been found to exert a highly corrosive action upon the iron plates and fittings.
In medicine and pharmacy, substances which exert a chemical action on each other, and cannot, therefore, with propriety, be prescribed together in the same formula or prescription.
These bodies are insoluble in the fluids of the body, and, consequently, any injurious action they may exert upon the system whilst they are retained in it must entirely depend upon mechanical attrition or irritation.
There are, probably, few remedies which exert this specific power on the uterus, the majority of repeated emmenagogues acting rather by their influence on the system generally, or on parts contiguous to the uterus, than in the uterus itself.
A number of power purchases, attached to the barrel of a gun constructed to project harpoons, will exert a power, if suddenly relieved, proportioned to their aggregate forces.
Evidently, the layer of vapour between the plate and the drop must exert a considerable upward pressure in order to sustain the drop, but the exact origin of this pressure is difficult to trace.
Although A is single-handed, he has the advantage of a straight pull, whereas B and C can only exert their strength at an angle, and the larger the angle the more they are handicapped.
Origin of bills from this source, too, is apt to exert an important influence on rates, in that it is often sudden and often concentrated on a comparatively short period of time.
What is needed is rather a clear and definite knowledge of the movement of exchange--why it moves as it does, what can be read from its movements, what effects its movements exert on the other markets.
The emotions exert a remarkable influence upon the action of the perspiratory glands.
In the vast majority of cases we prefer the vegetable alteratives, but in rare instances they exert a beneficial influence, in small doses.
Black cohosh seems to exert a specific and salutary influence in this disease, and the tincture or fluid extract of the root of this plant may be advantageously combined with the aconite.
When the reaction is established, the patient should remain quiet, and not attempt to exert himself.
It is a well established fact that improper diet, cold, exposure, and over-work exert a very powerful modifying influence upon the urinary secretion, frequently causing an acrid and irritating condition of this fluid.
He was put upon a tonic and alterative course of treatment, which also embraced the use of such medicines as have been found toexert a specific, tonic action upon the muscular tissues of the heart.
This may be retained sufficiently long to exert its remedial effects upon the mucous surface, which usually takes from five to eight minutes.
Mental impressions made upon the sick exert a powerful influence upon the termination of disease.
Medicines to be strictly remedial, should exert a tonic influence upon all the vital processes.
When that is done, I mean to exert all my power in the extermination of this said sect of Lutherans.
Having no means of support except by the labor of my hands, I now commenced again to exert myself at hard labor.
I willexert the utmost diligence to uphold the honour and fame of our celebrated handicraft, without bating one jot of its present credit.
It is believed by some vegetable physiologists that trees exert this power through their own inherent warmth, which always remains at a fixed standard both in summer and winter.
What Influence do Stimulants and Narcotics exerton the Development of the Child?
I will exert my utmost endeavours to gain your affection, and if you should treat me unkindly I will not be offended; or if, like the parrot, your food should be sugar, I will devote my sweet life to your support.
Exert thyself to cast a covering over the poor, that God's own veil may be a covering to thee.
Now, Norway was the home of that child of the North who was to exertso strong an influence over his unawakened heart.
That was the first digestive tube, which was toexert so baleful an effect on the entire animal kingdom, and later on mankind itself.
I will exert no influence in the matter, I will not see her, until she has decided.
For a long time he deferred its fate; and when at last Caesarea was betrayed by the perfidy of a physician, he cut his way through the Persians, who had been ordered to exert their utmost diligence to take him alive.
After the murder of Geta, the Praefect was commanded to exert the powers of his skill and eloquence in a studied apology for that atrocious deed.
Confiding in the superiority of his genius and military power, he determined, without any previous injury, to exert them for the destruction of Licinius, whose advanced age and unpopular vices seemed to offer a very easy conquest.
Neither prudence nor honor could permit the emperors to forsake the cause of the Armenian king, and it was resolved to exert the force of the empire in the Persian war.
So avaricious is man, that few persons will exert the needed firmness and perseverance to remove the excess which the beautiful vine annually affords.
