The drier blasts alone of Boreas away, And bear him soft on broken waves away; With gentle force impelling to that shore, Where fate has destined he shall toil no more.
If all the tendencies to movement were united into one they would not be able to produce at a distance an impelling power, nor move a mass that mechanical action could not set in motion.
I say, "The tables turn, because, when they receive an impelling force or undergo an attraction, they cannot help turning.
The impelling force or lateral attraction which account for rotations cannot account for levitations.
The maddening pangs of hunger were impelling him on; and in his starving condition the tempting food, which was almost within his reach, outweighed the instinctive sense of self-preservation.
For a short distance he ran with his usual fleetness, but the impelling force was excitement, which did not last.
It may easily be observed how a cow in heat exerts an exciting influence on other cows, impelling them to attempt to play the bull's part.
A sort of mania began to prevail, which, indeed, has not yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steam-engines.
There are, indeed, general objections to the use of the steam-engine for impelling boats, from which no particular mode of application can be free.
Together, they constitute the dual knowledge systemimpelling the advance of civilization.
Rather has He recast the whole conception of religion as the principal force impelling the development of consciousness.
God-like virtue, or reason impelling as well as directing.
In the instances which have been given, the impelling motive of the Southern Pacific was frankly to increase its profit by increasing the movement of freight over its line.
The hand of man was impelling it, an unseen hand, only telling of its presence by the thin tattoo it sent through the silence.
Besides that the need to give advice was strong upon her, and the natural desire to interfere in a matter of the heart was another impelling impulse.
The contrivance which was to take the place of the hand and eye of man in holding, applying, directing and impelling a cutting tool to the surface of the metal work was the slide-rest.
No doubt he was actuated by motives irresistibly impelling in a man of his peculiarly sensitive nature.
He lingered near the premises for a time, from an impelling sympathy to be near her in her trouble, and hoping she would re-appear, but in that he was disappointed.
This defect of the Cartesian system operated as animpelling motive to those which succeeded.
As action and re-action must be equal, the repulsion produced by the action of the gases upon the air is equal to the force impelling the rocket.
The impelling force also increases as it consumes, being a uniformly accelerated motion.
The impelling power, as in the large Congreve rocket, of which we had occasion to speak, is regulated in proportion to its size, and the accuracy with which the materials have been driven.
The generation of gaseous fluid, and its impelling power, and the consequent recoil of pieces, predicated in fact on the ingenious experiments and conclusions of Mr. Robins, may furnish some data on this head.
Was that the true reason of her return, or was there some impelling magnet too compelling to be resisted, or even to be acknowledged?
She felt something newimpelling her on--a haste and a warning.
The impelling and inhibiting ideas we call motives or reasons for and against the proposed act.
This impelling and guiding power from the past we call instinct.
But something more impelling quickly makes him forget his hurt feelings and he is happy again.
His will at the time, as we noted before, is tempted to take a rest, and his interest is ready to follow bodily feeling unless something more impelling is offered.
To wish that God would abstain from impelling the wicked is, according to Luther, tantamount to wishing that He cease to be God.
Donatello's conscience was evidently perplexed with doubt, whether the communion of a crime, such as they two were jointly stained with, ought not to stifle all the instinctive motions of their hearts, impelling them one towards the other.
It may mean feelings apart from ideas, blind and vague mental states unenlightened by thought, propelling and impelling tendencies undirected by either memory or anticipation.
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