This fact will, doubtless, be a revelation to that large class of men who still seem to share the views of Voltaire and Proudhon that women are incapable of inventing even the simplest article of domestic use.
Our rhetoric we have inherited from the middle ages, from scholiasts, refiners, and theological logicians, a race of men who got their living by inventing distinctions and splitting hairs.
Not only while his home-building was new, but even years after, we find him still hard at work and still inventing new things.
Bastard or Modern Western Civilization: the art of inventing fictitious wants and working to supply them.
It would, however, soon wander away and lose all connection with its relatives, forgetting perhaps in the course of time whence it had sprung, or inventing a pedigree more pleasing to the vanity of its members.
No one indeed--as we see plainly enough now--but a hero like one of these, was equal to the task of inventing an alphabet.
On this, the king said to Sissah: 'Your ingenuity in imagining such a request is yet more admirable than your talent in inventing the game of chess.
Every writer ought to choose his words carefully, neither inventing nor copying ugly forms of speech.
The people who first called marmalade "swish" could have no reason for inventing the new name except to seem odd and different from other people.
But great writers have not only added new words and phrases to the language by inventing them; sometimes the name of a book itself has taken on a general meaning.
All through history men have beeninventing new things.
My Author, says Monsieur Maucroix, is learned for me, the Topicks are all digested, the Inventingand Disposing are none of my Business; I have nothing to do but to utter my self.
Weber in inventing the electrodynamometer, and later Lord Kelvin devised ampere balances for the measurement of electric currents based on the attraction between coils conveying electric currents.
Siemens effected a great improvement by inventing a shuttle armature and improving the shape of the field magnet.
The comedies of Goldsmith abound in humor and gayety, and those of Sheridan have an unintermitted fire of epigrams, a keen insight into the follies and weaknesses of society, and great ingenuity in inventing whimsical situations.
I got tired of inventing new answers to that question, and by and by I got horribly tired of the question itself.
There are no gospels which are immortal, but neither is there any reason for believing that humanity is incapable of inventing new ones.
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others.
Hegel was the first non-mystical writer to face the dilemma squarely and throw away the ordinary logic, saving a pseudo-rationality for the universe by inventing the higher logic of the 'dialectic process.
As he recovered his breath he was inventing a beautifully plausible tale of his relations to some mess-scullion, and at the same time keeping a keen eye on and a little under the chaplain's left armpit.
It behoved him to forget his holidays (there would always remain the fun ofinventing imaginary adventures) and, as Lurgan Sahib had said, to work.
If I were inventing these things, I could be wonderfully humorous over them; but they are too true to be talked of with hearty levity, even at this distant day.
Meantime, Myrtle Villers improved each idle hour, and kept Leslie busy inventing excuses to get away from her, and Julia Cloud busy worrying.
But he was a man of the kind who needs no encouragement, and he did return many times and often, until he became a fixed institution, which taxed all their faculties inventing ways of escape from him.
To my mind, it is a curious question how men ever thought ofinventing wheels; and, again, when they first thought of it.
The abbot of Baigne, a man of great wit, and who had the art of inventing new musical instruments, being in the service of Louis XI.
Scarron was acquainted with that language, and he found it easier to use materials already prepared, than to rack his brain by inventing subjects.
Lady Gregory, whom it would be unfair to praise as a great writer, has at least qualified as one by inventing a new language out of her knowledge of Irish peasant speech.
He has succeeded in interesting us largely by inventing himself as a public figure, as Oscar Wilde and Stevenson did before him.
But this, the Archbishop says, only multiplies the difficulty and the astonishment; for, to put it briefly, his biographers in that case were as good at predicting and inventing as himself.
While the Inquisition was exterminating heresy and purifying the faith, Galileo was inventing the telescope.
Mr. Quinn liked to throw out these aphorisms, and he spent a great deal of time in inventing them.
He could not tell her the real reason why Gilbert had not kept his promise to join the supper-party and he was a poor hand at inventing convincing lies.
It was characteristic of him that he should palliate his submission to the conventional thing by inventing a sensible excuse for it.
Later, as the workmen grew equal to their tasks, I found more and more leisure for dedicating myself to inventing improvements.
Remember that we were speaking of actual experiences, not inventing tales of black fogs and glass palaces and men walking on their heads, and I know not what other marvels.
It went against my conscience to be the only liar amongst these exceedingly veracious Orientals, and so I could not think of inventing anything.
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