So we fell back on Sveaborg, which place was bombarded by the combined fleets, I venture to think most successfully, and I believe, had we had a force to land, we could have taken possession of that large and important fortress.
The American Government had determined to do everything in its power to stop blockade-running, and had lately increased the force of blockaders on the southern coast by some very fast vessels built at New York.
The result of this action enabled the force to establish itself in the village, and hold possession of the small belt of cleared ground around it, the extreme limit of which was still within the range of the guns of the ironclads.
My man seized a piece of wood, more like a little tree than a stick, and made a blow at the cat, which blow unfortunately came down with greatforce on Dick's head.
The military commander at Soukhoum had some idea, I believe, that this force would be able to make its way inland, and thus encourage risings amongst the tribes against the detested Muscovite rule.
However, about the time I speak of the English government had determined, in the general interests of trade, to oppose this monopoly, and to open a way of communication up the river by force if necessary.
The enemy had been evidently overawed by my preparations, and doubtless thought it would be better for them to allow the invading force to retire unopposed.
We had reduced our coals to about three-quarters of a ton, and had to cross the Gulf Stream at the narrow part between the Florida coast and the Bahamas, a distance of twenty-eight miles, where the force of the current is four knots an hour.
There was nothing left to us but to put on full speed, and if possible force her from the obstruction, which after two or three hard bumps we succeeded in doing.
When I was out in India my forcefaced a galling fire for two hours, and there was no shelter but a little rock for miles; yet though hundreds fell on every side of me, I came off without a scratch.
Force of habit had proved too much for bonds of discipline.
On the news reaching the capital, a force of about 800 men was collected.
There is no pressure from without to force improvements upon the authorities, and hence little is to be hoped for as to improvement except from direct administrative action.
Their chiefs are subjected to various punishments, and possession is taken of their villages and strongholds; but these are not always permanently held, from the insufficiency of military force to retain them.
He was conveyed by force in his pontifical robes to the vessel which transported him to Pangasinan.
On the 3rd of October, a large force of Pampangan Indians having arrived, a sally was resolved upon: it was very bloody, but of no benefit for the defence.
Until a seeker feels this magic force within him, he must continue to follow strictly and earnestly the rules given.
And this force will create new powers of perception.
This power which leads to inward calm is a magicforce that sets free certain higher faculties.
He ought not to force upon his environment anything for which it can have no appreciation, but at the same time he must be altogether free from the desire to do merely what can be appreciated by those around him.
Just as man in his physical being requires nervous force in order to use his physical senses, so also, in his psychic nature, he requires the force which is only produced in the courageous and the fearless.
Instead of placing the superman, of whom he had a poetic vision, in the spiritual kingdom, which is his true sphere, he strove to force him into the material world, which alone was real in his eyes.
If that is accomplished in the right way--possibly not until after numerous attempts--an inward force will make itself felt.
To a theosophist like Steiner, on the other hand, the cosmic force which elaborates the world comprises in its spheres, fitted one into another, the myriads of souls which crystallize and incarnate ceaselessly in all beings.
It may be possible by such means to evoke a force which would enable the soul to attain the inner vision.
This particular force results from a right knowledge: "Do not desire at all until you know the true conditions of any sphere.
But in this stupendous transformation, which implies millions and millions of years, he never explains the initial force of this universal ascent, nor the series of special impulses which cause beings to rise step by step.
One must not become wholly destitute of desire, for if we are to accomplish something it is necessary that we should desire it, and a desire will always be fulfilled if a certain special force is behind it.
Every resolution is a force, and even if such a force does not produce immediate effect on the point at which it was directed, nevertheless it works in its own way.
If this thought fully lives in me, and combines with the corresponding state of feeling, then, in due time, there will again develop a force in my soul which will ripen into a new kind of perception.
After I had been on the farm seven years, the tremendousness of the fight that my fellow farmers were waging disclosed itself to me with a force no figure of speech can convey.
Sixth, how much force must each part of the mechanism sustain, and how big must it be when made of suitable material so as not to break.
Our definition declared that the essayist will not try to force his views upon his reader nor hold them too feverishly himself.
If the subject is itself interesting or remarkable, the facts may speak for themselves, as in an account of the nebular hypothesis; if the subject is merely common, as for example the force pump, the primary aim should be clearness.
He was a forceof expansion, not a force of concentration.
I can soon tell whether a force pump is efficient; I may for some time pause before I estimate a picture or a lyric poem.
If he sticks to his task successfully his capacity for courage must grow to meet the demands; if he will not stick, he is sifted out by force of circumstance, leaving the stronger type of man to hold the farm.
Who thought only of deeds of muscular prowess, and who seemed to carry the assurance of a force that would lead armies and subdue nations!
They developed force--plenty of it, enough force to kick that big ship through space at the speed of light plus.
But a sword--or any other instrument of force for that matter--is a terribly ineffectual tool.
In such cases as this the fear to give offence may be reinforced by the mastering force of "suggestion".
This breathing of life into playthings is seen in all its magic force in play with dolls.
Even when fear is half awake the passionate longing to see will force its way.
And this is a force of the greatest consequence to the disciplinarian.
Here it was clearly the force of the young will resisting an unpleasant check which excited the sober faculties to something like deception.
The facts seem to show that they are exposed on different sides to the attacks of fear, and that the attacking force is large and consists of a variety of alarming shapes.
The fear of an eclipse of the moon and other celestial phenomena, owes something of itsforce and persistence to their unknown and inaccessible character.
I am disposed to think that there is another force at work in the little people's consciousness.
The force of the illusion, blotting out from the child's view the naked reality before its eyes, is a striking illustration of the vividness of early fancy.
This consciousness of absolute isolation and hostility reaches a higher phase when the opposing force is distinctly apprehended as human will.
She had used him roughly, but she had brought him up: and the fact of her being powerless to control him lent a pathetic force to a wish that would have been inoperative as an argument.
When to defend his affection tooth and nail, to persist with headlong force in impassioned attentions to her, was all he thought of, he was condemned ipso facto as a professor of the accepted school of morals.
The skin of the tiger is of so tough and yielding a nature, as to resist the horn of the buffalo when driven with full force against its sides.
These threads endure the force of the water, and are not easily corrupted thereby.
In using certain stratified rocks this would occur frequently, and so force itself on the attention of the creature.
The creature going on hammering, it would force itself on his notice that the sharp fractured end was doing better work than before.
There is a force within us by which we are moved in the direction of acquiring knowledge for its own sake and for the sake of truth, regardless of any material advantage to be derived from such knowledge.
One of the feats of the Australians now in this country, consists in parrying cricket balls thrown with full force by three persons at the same time.
This does not apply with the sameforce to collections of prehistoric objects, which during the last ten or fifteen years have received better treatment.
This is continued until the wood is quite soft, and then a number of cross-pieces are driven into the interior, so as to force the canoe into its proper shape, which it ever afterwards retains.
The truth of this, in so far as regards the limitation of the will, cannot fail to force itself upon the student of culture.
He has to learn learning and not only to play with knowledge, he has to learn to forcehis attention in adjustment to those factors of civilization which are foreign to his personal tendencies and perhaps unsympathetic.
The necessary counter action would be to force to consciousness the idea of the uninjured wrist and the corresponding reactions.
Sometimes you will give to the desirable idea sufficient strength by mere repetition, sometimes you force the attention better by unusual accentuation, connecting the suggestion with a kind of shock.
In other words I have always felt behind me a great forcepressing me out into public work.
There is thus certainly no special physical energy which like a magnetic force flows over.
Wherever a reasonable amount of own willforce and attention can be expected to overcome the antagonistic influence, there artificial hypnotic influence ought to be avoided.
Simply to withdraw a patient from the one kind of life and to force on him a new kind with new standards may not be a gain at all.
The limitations of my time force me to refuse the psychotherapeutic treatment of any case which has not a certain scientific interest for me, and of the many hundreds whom I have helped in the laboratory, no one ever had to pay anything.
What they mean by either, and what they understand by God and nature they do not know, except that they imagine the power of God to be like that of some royal potentate, and nature's power to consist in force and energy.
This view of the structure of the germ cell seems to force itself upon the observer.
Naegeli believes that there is inherent in protoplasm a growth-force, which makes each organism in itself a force making towards progressive evolution.
The argument that mimetic resemblances are produced in the most diverse ways, but the result is uniform, loses much of its force when we consider the various methods by which short-tailed birds appear to have long caudal appendages.
We desire merely to emphasise the fact that the phenomena of animal colouration almost force us to the conclusion that the colouring of each organism is the result of the development of a number of units.
The objection based on the lack of "missing links" loses some of its force if we accept the theory that species sometimes arise as sports.
The assumption of a growth-force or tendency for the development of one digit at the expense of the others, would explain the phenomenon equally well.
Commander of Li Hung Chang's trained force in the Taeping Rebellion, founder of the first Chinese Arsenal, Secretary to the first Chinese Embassy to Europe.
He says that if such a force as natural selection existed it would transform species much more rapidly than it does!
For if variations be not haphazard, if they are definite, if there be a directive force behind them, like fate behind the classical gods, then selection is not the fundamental cause of evolution.
So that, in this case, that force will act in a manner contrary to the interests of the species, if Stolzmann's idea is a correct one.
The objection gains greater force when directed against the theory that evolution proceeds by sudden jumps.
If the block be tilted slightly it will, when the force that has tilted it is removed, return to its old position.
This objection, however, loses much of its force in view of the fact that many perfectly distinct species are quite fertile when bred together.
His policy had been therefore to force the hand of those sovereigns, especially that of Henry, and to induce him to send more stringent instructions to Jeannin than those with which he believed him to be furnished.
Otherwise; I would break the truce in the Netherlands, and my own peace with them, in order to take from the Spaniard by force what he led me to hope from alliance.
In spite of the wearisome effort to say everything, and to force language into the mould presented by his theory, Bentham attracts us by his obvious sincerity.
The general position, however, is clear enough, and not, I think, without much real force as against the Paley form of utilitarianism.
He incurred the dislike not unfrequently excited by men who claim superiority of intellect without possessing the force of character which gives a corresponding weight in political affairs.
This applies to all 'dissemination of pernicious principles'; for in this case reason and not force is the appropriate remedy.
He was paying by a morbid reserve for the attempts made to force him into premature activity.
He has therefore to measure the force by which these motives will be opposed; or, in other words, the 'strength of the temptation.
Why, then, did Bentham's message come upon his disciples with the force and freshness of a new revelation?
The political machinery provided a sufficient channel for the really efficientforce of public opinion.
It would represent the practical arguments for establishing the police-force demanded by Colquhoun, and show the disadvantages of the old constables and watchmen.
Dugald Stewart followed Reid upon this main question, and with less force and originality represents the same point of view.
I mention the fact, however, merely to suggest that, whatever were then the difficulties of getting such schooling as is now common, an energetic lad even in the most neglected regions might force his way to the front.
Bores, however, represent a social force not to be despised, and Sinclair was no exception.
The Scottish philosophy, however, naturally presented itself as an antagonistic force to the Utilitarians.
Thus, force is the essence of government, and it is needless to go further.
In the centre of its web lies its greatest force for attack or defence.
To love with a rapid and burning love, to go straight to its goal, to seize and take up as it passes that vital force which will create an entire people.
They wanted nothing more than to force them to obey, and to recall them to their senses.
The valiant quarrymen whom I encountered battling against the rock with monstrous hammers which seem never made for the hand of man, I could willingly believe to possess the resistant force of the sandstone and the iron heart of the oak.
Love--the divine force which circulates in all things, like an universal soul--is the interpreter through whose agency our insects discourse and understand each other without speech.
The potent vitality which gives an extraordinary force to the muscles of such tiny creatures, seems also to endow their liquids with active properties and burning energies which the large animals do not possess.
To-day, the sameforce compels me, on the other hand, to descend below the earth, and embark along with you on the great living sea of metamorphoses.
He does not believe that Wrangel can do anything, or that force applied externally can bring Bolshevism down.
The Kemalists are the force of Turkey, and they are Asiatic.
The Petite Entente of Czecho-Slovakia, Serbia, and Roumania, is strongly opposed to a reunion of Austria and Hungary, and would stop it by force of arms.
Lincoln's Energy and Will Energy is usually a blind force in the conduct of human affairs and the greatest with which we have to deal.
Destiny versus Will Great men float into power on mystical waves moved by the force of destiny.
All opponents dreaded him in his originality of idea, condensation, definition, and force of expression, and wo be to the man who hugged to his bosom a secret error if Mr. Lincoln got on the chase of it.
The greater the mind the greater the fixture of force behind it.
But the fact was that this power came from a sense of reserve force of intellectual ability that no one took account of save in its results.
While others gave vague reasons for their political views he gave reasons based on law which he explained with simpleforce and lucid phraseology.
A forceof cavalry was sent out to bring on an engagement.
From here we were ordered back to Iuka, having received information that a force of rebel cavalry was in Russelville.
Skirmishing commenced early, and was kept up until in the afternoon, when the rebels were discovered to be pretty strong in force in our front, having a good position.
The rebels were seen advancing in force when the second brigade was ordered to support the 2d Iowa battery, which was sending its compliments in shell into the rebel ranks, who were advancing.
There was evidence of there having been a strong force there, as their shanties were left standing, and deserters informed us that there were 7,000 of Taylor's and Walker's men here when we attacked them in the morning.
We were here but a short time when the report was brought to headquarters that a rebelforce was marching on us with a heavy siege piece.
A few shell thrown amongst them caused them to get out of danger before the land force could get to where they were.
A small force of our men were there to hold this position, as it was situated on a very high bluff it did not require a strongforce to hold it.
Hurlbut was marching with a strong force to get in the rear of the rebels, and they met at the Hatchie river, where a severe engagement ensued, and our men were victorious, drove them back, and we marched to intercept them.
Ellett, with a strong force of cavalry intercepted the cars at Booneville with about 2,000 men on board, and an immense amount of arms and ammunition, which was burned and the railroad destroyed.
This return of trust in God's providence allayed the turbulence of my fears, and I was enabled to concentrate upon my situation all the force of my intelligence.
A hole was to be made large enough to hold fifty pounds of guncotton, whose expansive force is four times that of gunpowder.
To light a torch under these' conditions would have been impossible; and our last electric apparatus had been shattered by the force of the explosion.
An enormous force, a force of hundreds of atmospheres, generated by the extreme pressure of confined vapours, was driving us irresistibly forward.
But my uncle seemed to believe in his arsenal as in his instruments, and more especially in a considerable quantity of gun cotton, which is unaffected by moisture, and the explosive force of which exceeds that of gunpowder.
The homing sense that sets a wounded rock-rabbit of the kranzes crawling in agony to die in its burrow moved in her dimly; she could not even summon force to wonder at the apparition of the English-speaking, helpful Kafir.
It was rather impressive; there was so little show of force about it; but Mrs. Jakes had long known that it betokened a barrier of refusal that it was useless to hope to surmount.
He came to her bereft of the few faculties she had left him, grave, almost stern, gripping himself by force of instinct to save himself from the outburst of emotion to which the scene in the bar had made him prone.
It sounded above them, from the top of the dam wall, an outrageous bellow of melody that thrust itself obscenely between them and split them asunder with the rivingforce of a thunderbolt.
What interested her much more was the fact that this small, bleak woman was on the defensive, patently standing guard over privacies of her life, and acutely ready to repel boarders who might endeavor to force an intimacy upon her.
It is, or ought to be, the province of a medical man to soothe and assist Nature, not to force her.
These observations apply with especial force to the dramatic music, or compositions of the English school.
In some of his biographical sketches, with what forcehas he brought out the moral resolution which animated, or ought to have animated, the man of whom he is writing!
The foul elephantine leprosy, alleviated for an hour, re-appears in new force and desperateness next hour.
But, now, the whole truth flashed on me with the force of a new faculty.
The eye cannot see itself, nor a mechanic force measure itself, as if it were its own resistance.
Music is in itself no mean vehicle of expression; but, when connected with speech or language, it gives a vast additional force and power to the expression of the particular passion or feeling which the words themselves contain.
Latterly that point has begun to force itself upon the attention of the English themselves, as travellers by wholesale on the Continent.
Tis a large force for so skilful an officer, unless, indeed, the enemy should be very strong.
And what was true of Barry applied with equal force to Eustace.
In squads of six they took their breakfast, eating by sheer force of resolution what they loathed, that the hunger pains might not gnaw so hard.
With the hour of starting, the route and the force to be sent, Richard now knew all he had hoped to learn.
Joscelyn's accident had delayed him somewhat, and trusting to his citizen's dress, and the preoccupation of the whole force at the parade, he had thought to be beyond sight or pursuit ere the review was over.
As the days passed, however, Betty was full of concern for the privations Richard endured, and out of sheer force of habit she carried her plaint to Joscelyn.
In the upper hall Joscelyn held her hands tightly over her mouth to force back the stinging retort.
But what his course would be, when he would set out, and what force would be with him were things yet to learn.
At the ends of the bridge the slabs are narrower, and are placed in pairs side by side, thus giving the advantage of the greatest weight where the force of the stream is most strongly felt.
This would swing round with sufficientforce to unseat the rider.
The three others, through which an attacking force was obliged to penetrate, have all disappeared.
In the centre these are about 3 feet 6 inches wide, and the piers are supported by sloping stones to resist the force of the current.
Early in April, 1754, a French force of five or six hundred men from Canada, which had set out while Quebec was still in the icy grip of winter, reached the upper waters of the Ohio.
It carried some thousands of settlers, Edward Cornwallis, a governor clothed with adequate authority, and a force sufficient for the defense of the new foundation.
Never before had the English sent to North America a force so great.
The strategy decided upon was to stand at bay at Quebec, to strike the enemy if he should try to land, and to hold out until the approach of winter should force the retirement of the British fleet.
Wolfe landed a force upon the lower side of the gorge at Montmorency and another at the head of the Island of Orleans.
The tide of their power crept in slowly but it moved with the relentless force that has subsequently made nearly the whole of North America English in speech and modes of thought.
In October General Murray, who was left in command, saw with misgiving the great fleet sail away which had brought to Canada the conquering force of Wolfe and Saunders.
To forceon them the oath might even cause a rising which would overwhelm the few English in Nova Scotia.
In October, La Jonquiere, having pulled his force together, planned to win the small success of taking Annapolis, but again storms scattered his ships.
In 1691 this colony sent Peter Schuyler with a force against Canada by way of Lake Champlain.
Phips landed a force on the north side of the basin at Beauport but was held in check by French and Indian skirmishing parties.
