Many curious and interesting experiments may be performed by means of the machine, illustrating the generalproperties of electricity.
Mr. Edison is the inventor of many improvements in telegraphy, which have been adopted into general use, and are to him the source of a large income.
The general name of zoophytes, or plant animals, has since been applied to them.
There are twogeneral classifications, long-stapled and short-stapled.
Before this time, mahogany had been used partially in the West Indies for ship-building, but this new discovery of its beauty soon brought it into general use for making furniture.
Footnote: This general was Chares, to whom Cersobleptes had intrusted the defense of those places.
The general commands wretched unpaid hirelings; here are persons easily found, who tell you lies of his conduct; you vote at random from what you hear: what then can be expected?
That abundance is for the generalbenefit of the state, not for theirs in particular.
By this then may easily be seen, how the Macedonians in general are disposed to Philip.
It is unjust, that their authors should enjoy a popularity which has injured the commonwealth, while the adviser of salutary measures suffers by a displeasure that may lead to general improvement.
Footnote: This is a cautious way of hinting at thegeneral reluctance to adopt a vigorous policy.
Or should your general of horse sail to Lemnos, [Footnote: To assist at a religious ceremony held annually at Lemnos, where many Athenians resided.
Your writings are in advance of the general mind here; Boston is nearer their standard.
Thoreau graduated without much distinction, but with a good name among his classmates, and a high reputation for general scholarship.
His general conduct has been very satisfactory, and I was willing and desirous that whatever falling off there had been in his scholarship should be attributable to his sickness.
Yet there were a Few and a Many in Concord, between whom certain distinctions could be drawn, in the face of that general equality which the institutions of New England compel.
As soon as the burning commenced, there was a general rush to the door, and a crowd collected there, running out every half minute to get a breath of fresh air, and then coming in to see the volcano.
Ripley, as an old acquaintance, as they were talking together ongeneral matters, his young colleague, Rev.
The President as acting Commander-in-chief overrules General McClellan and Council of War as to immediate forward movement.
It was from General Cass and said that the bearer Gerolomo was a friendly Indian and that he must be given food and shelter.
Accordingly he sought the counsel of a certain Irish priest, to whom he made a general confession and confided his desire of entering upon a penitential life.
Such are some of the high qualities which have justly earned for General Washington the admiration even of the country he opposed, and not merely the admiration but the gratitude and affection of his own.
While this decree was being signed, another was unanimously passed, naming General Oudinot commander of the forces, and M.
In a moral epidemic the crowd, possessed with one idea, are the operators: it is the Panic possession of the ancients, which was not confined to general terrors, but applied to general delusions of every kind.
The Anglo-Saxon manuscripts lay unexamined in archives, and the important information they contained had never been made a part of general history.
Nevertheless, it was in this gazette, then under the control of Lang and McLean, that General Hamilton first gave to the public his numbers of The Federalist.
The lantern flared as Woodhouse entered his circular den, and the general darkness fled into black shadows behind the big machine, from which it presently seemed to creep back over the whole place again as the light waned.
Such were the first general impressions of Mr. Cave.
These reminded him at once of the master workers who are said to rule over the leaf-cutter ants; like them they seemed to be directing and co-ordinating the general movements.
So the time came on for the second examination, and Hill's increasing pallor confirmed the general rumour that he was working hard.
All that I had said, and thought, and done since the stuff had begun to work in my veins had happened, so far as those people, so far as the world in general went, in the twinkling of an eye.
He had a taste for singular characters, and he had more than once invited the old man to smoke and drink in his rooms, and to unfold his rather amusing views of life in general and of his wife in particular.
Mr. Maydig, a lean, excitable man with quite remarkably long wrists and neck, was gratified at a request for a private conversation from a young man whose carelessness in religious matters was a subject for general remark in the town.
He walked from his lodgings to the College with that volume of Browning in his shiny black bag, and his mind teeming with the finest general propositions about poetry.
The doctor was a blockhead, a just-qualified general practitioner, and quite ignorant of mental science.
The subsequent conversation threw absolutely no light on the matter so far as Fotheringay was concerned; the general opinion not only followed Mr. Cox very closely but very vehemently.
I have heard men of fair general education even refer to the great scenes at these meetings as vestry-meeting squabbles.
And now see we proved often that in sore weather or sickness by general processions God giveth gracious help.
And therefore, cousin, as I said, if we consider it well, we shall find this general prison of this whole earth a place in which the prisoners are as sore handled as they are in the other.
Let him call to remembrance the benefits that God hath given him, either in general among other men or privately to himself, and give him humble hearty thanks for them.
To theGeneral Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church.
McClelland's successor, and but for the conviction that he ought not to be removed from the Amoy Mission, his appointment would have been earnestly advocated by the General Synod.
He came in time to attend the General Synod of 1863.
At this first General Conference of the Protestant missionaries of China, held at Shanghai in May, 1877, Dr.
This utterance of the General Synod, while made with the best intentions, fell with exceedingly painful echo on the ears of the missionaries at Amoy.
We were indebted more to him, perhaps, than to any other one man for the success of the recentGeneral Missionary Conference (at Shanghai).
The general features of the work are very similar to what you witnessed at Pechui-ia.
He was a man of most extensivegeneral information.
And this committee goes up to General Moses' private office.
The girl who was to become the poetess became the goddess at the general delivery window and superintendent of the stamp-licking department of the home postoffice.
Treaties and compacts between the different tribes and the states, and later the general government, continued to be ratified by the interchange of wampum belts.
But then, though answering well in cases of barter, where two mutual desires met, were far too bulky and unwieldy for general use.
It thus appears that the Indians divided their beads into two general classes, the wompam, or white beads, and suckáuhock, or dark beads.
These shell beads were afterwards found to be in general use among the tribes of the Atlantic coast.
In 1748, the general had given them a large belt upon which was an emblem of the Six Nations joined hand in hand with the English.
At most this introduction will serve as a framework on which to fix a few certain dates, to hang some general observations.
It is better to hold to the earlier general opinion that Chinon was his native town; Chinon, whose praises he sang with such heartiness and affection.
Which general consent is not without some argument and reason in nature, the which every man may by himself very suddenly comprehend, without the instruction of any--and this we call the law of nature.
His Preface to the edition was the most weighty general estimate of Shakespeare so far produced, and remains a valuable piece of criticism.
Are these the qualities that have continued to win the most general appreciation?
There is now general agreement that The Two Noble Kinsmen was written by two authors with distinct styles, and that the author of the larger portion is Fletcher.
More significant in its effect on our general view have been the efforts of historical criticism.
A work of great value to scholars, but not of much service to the general reader.
While these are in general qualities of the Elizabethan drama, it is noteworthy that almost from the beginning Shakespeare outstripped his rivals.
If, now, in conclusion, we attempt to define our general impression of the man and his work, this must inevitably take into account considerations of environment and development.
Page Heading: Recent Editors] The conjectural emendation of Shakespeare still goes on, but since Dyce, comparatively few suggestions find general acceptance.
The temptation, which no editor has completely resisted, is naturally towards an eclecticism which adopts the reading that seems most plausible in itself, without giving due weight to the general authority of the text chosen as a basis.
The over-emphasis on the First Folio which has been noted in Knight and Delius is no longer found here, and in general the comparative value of Quarto and Folio is weighed in the case of each play.
The following are the most important contributions to the general question of the chronology.
For men don’t in general act furtively, save when they are doing something that runs counter to morality and public opinion.
Brindamour, who became a general in 1792, employed the customs of bygone days in the service of the Revolution and shot volunteers in grand style.
But I heard this very morning from someone who is very intimate with the Vicar-General that the nunciature and the ministry are practically in agreement as to the appointment of M.
He saw at once that on this special occasion he had acted in opposition to his general principles and habitual sentiments, and that on this point his conduct presented several marked singularities of which he noted down the strangest.
Society in general feels no interest in a matter which only concerns the chief actors in it.
Yet in general he isn’t a man who is difficult to get on with.
They tell me, in fact, that General Cartier de Chalmot’s support of M.
In order to make the best of a disaster it is desirable to fête the general and the army which has sustained it, and to blazon abroad all the beautiful incidents which prove the moral superiority of misfortune.
And the moment this general lost his hold on the army, he also lost it on the nation, and his power was gone.
Yet I have in the process lost all power of grasping a general idea or of following a subtle thought.
That is, a general was able to do what a demagogue could not have done.
It is difficult to present to our readers a general rule for temperance, yet we may here state a principle, the earnest observance of which we heartily recommend.
As a general thing this is true; yet it is not sufficient to give the necessary information about the principal articles of our food.
It is true, there are general rules by which a proximate success in predicting may be obtained.
Who does not know that every farmer gives his cattle salt from time to time, so as to improve their strength and general health?
During the forenoon a general desire for food is felt, while in the afternoon thirst is more common, in which case the best and most natural beverage should always be water.
If we cast a glance upon the phenomena of our atmosphere, we find that they are indeed computable, and that the weather in general may be foretold, even for large countries, with some degree of certainty.
And there was a general stir and movement, which instantly subsided again, as the people knelt to receive the parting benediction.
However, nothing in the general aspect and mental attitude of the village had altered very much since the early thirties, except the church.
Pray remember that we are quite in the dark as to the state of your health, your surroundings and your general well-being.
Bainton's sentiments were a fair reflection of thegeneral village opinion, though in the town of Riversford the tide of feeling ran high, and controversy raged furiously, over the ways and doings of Miss Vancourt and her society friends.
One person in the neighbourhood proved himself a mainstay of help and consolation during this time of general anxiety and suspense, and this was Julian Adderley.
Bishop Brent was fond of this room, and carefully maintained its ancient character in the style of its furniture and general surroundings.
XIX Outside in the churchyard, there was a generallittle flutter of local excitement.
As philosopher, general moralist and purveyor of copy-book maxims, he was looked upon in the village as the Nestor of the community, and in all discussions or disputations was referred to as final arbitrator and judge.
And the general practice upon these laws comes up fully to their spirit.
The fact that three new slaveholding conferences will be represented in the next General Conference of this body, augurs unfavorably.
At the last General Assembly fifty slaveholding presbyteries were represented.
When the New School General Assembly was organized only three slaveholding Presbyteries were represented.
They are not able in the least to modify the decided, unfaltering pro-slavery position maintained by the General Assembly.
Many Baptists are, however, warm friends of the slave, but they have not been able to change or modify in the slightest degree the pro-slavery position of the general body.
One notion, taken up by Tischendorf in the course of his collation in 1866, was received at first with general incredulity by other scholars.
The general absence of accents and breathings also would favour an earlier date.
More general is the use of the word in Ephraem the Syrian [d.
General Menon, and was presented by Mr. Harris of Alexandria to the Brit.
Although this book has not even yet been as thoroughly collated, or rendered as available as it might be to the critical student, itsgeneral character and appearance are sufficiently well known.
The Leicester manuscript contains between the Pauline Epistles and the Acts (1) An Exposition of the Creed and statement of the errors condemned by the seven general Councils, ending with the second at Nice.
The subscriptions to the Gospels have not, we believe, been assigned to any particular author, and being seldom found in printed copies of the Greek Testament or in modern versions, are little known to the general reader.
Weber and resuming the post of honor which I occupied with such distinction and to the general satisfaction under the name of M.
The prefect of police and the attorney-general did not rise from the chairs which they had occupied during their long conversation with the prime minister.
To the general disappointment, the promised information was not given.
He sent for the prefect and the attorney-general to see him in his room, talked to them and then sent for M.
This conclusion, which was echoed in all the other newspapers, was also the conclusion at which the general public had arrived.
Under my orders, you shall see how a generalwins a battle .
I say, it seems to me that the private soldier is giving his general a sound beating!
No, Monsieur le President, it would be dangerous and ridiculous; and I am sure that Mr. Attorney-General himself .
The man, whose name was Gustave Beudot, replied that he had closed the windows of five rooms on the previous day in accordance with his general instructions.
The general mêlée was carried on with immense spirit; the more violent members on either side pummelling each other with the most hearty and legislative determination.
A general chill pervades the domestic virtues: hospitality is aguish, and charity becomes more than proverbially numb.
And, by the way, it is a generalrule that most new men delight to carry big lancet-cases, although they have about as much use for them as a lecturer upon practice of physic has for top boots.
Is it some mighty general that has done Wonders in fight, and god-like honours won?
To one that shames the fair and sots the wise; Whose bod is an abstract or a brief, Contains each general virtue in the world.
As good as we desire: the Emperor Hath yielded to his highness friendly aid, And makes our king lieutenant general In all his lands and large dominions; Then via for the spatious bounds of France!
Guesses as to the cause were many, and the opinion was quite general that extreme old age had affected his reason.
Crochet should be carefully washed and should not be put in the general laundry.
Golden brown, dull gray or moss green are the most artistic for general use.
The general way in which a school or fraternity pillow is made is to cut out of felt the letters, figures and any design that is to be placed on it.
Your general anticipates them in applauding your noble ardor.
Struck with the reasonableness and justice of this suggestion, General Sullivan at once gave him his freedom.
His facetious and burlesque poetry was much admired in his day; but a great portion of it referred to persons and events no longer of general interest.
The Plaindealer was uniformly conducted with eminent ability; but its editor was too far in advance of his contemporaries to find general acceptance, or even toleration.
A deep sympathy is evinced for her sufferings, and a general determination to espouse her cause.
Ellwood says: "He that commanded the party gave us first a general charge to come out of the room.
With what face, after this, can the Postmaster-General punish a postmaster for any exercise of the fearfully dangerous power of stopping and destroying any portion of the mails?
