The extravagances are eliminated, new invention and energy spring up to meet the call of necessity, and when the boom years come again it finds industry, like a highly trained athlete, ready to pour out the goods and pay the wages.
It is when the pinch begins to be felt that men will investigate with relentless zeal their whole method of production, will welcome every procedure which reduces cost, and seek for every new invention which promises an economy.
Invention gives these gifts, and compels man to use them.
This narrative was very shortly afterwards exposed as 'an invention of the fat friars of Puerto Rico,' but Raleigh believed it, and it greatly encouraged him.
In China its invention is attributed to the legendary Emperor Hwang-Ti, who is supposed to have lived about 2697 B.
Its invention required no great effort of intelligence, and its fabrication presented no great difficulties.
The invention of barbs is worthy of special notice; the series of points made the blow much more dangerous, as the projectile remained in the flesh of a wounded animal which was not able to get it out.
At first it was written in sympathetic ink, then a new invention and imported by General Lafayette, which only disclosed its message when the paper on which it was written had been dipped in another fluid.
It was supposed that this scheme—an invention of Bismarck—would prove the key to the conquest of the Netherlands, for the plans were also put into operation in Holland.
His first attainment was the remarkable invention of Printing; but his second was horrible.
My nobleinvention will sow more good, and will be more profitable to the human race, than all the popes from St. Peter down to thyself.
An inventionin science or in art, may justly be considered as possessing the rights of property in the highest degree.
What we want to know is whether it was a copy of the rough notes of the examination, signed by Fawkes himself, or a pure invention either of Salisbury or of the seven Commissioners and the Attorney-General.
Consequently all arguments, attributing the invention of the plot to Cecil for the sake of gaining greater influence with the King fall to the ground.
Father Gerard, I fancy, fails to take into account the difficulties of note-takers in days prior to the invention of shorthand.
Telephone= and telephone exchanges: their invention and development.
In England, on the contrary, the invention of these appliances has gone on unremittingly for sixty years, and there are about twenty different varieties, each possessing its own merit or ingenuity.
This indicator is that which has been most used in this country, and was the invention of Alfred Cotgreave, then Librarian of the Wednesbury Public Library, in 1877.
The card-index is the invention of librarians, and is perhaps the most important contribution to method that commerce owes to them.
Till the Sinbad "Magnetic Mountains" begin to be felt pulling, or the circles of Charybdis get you in their sweep; and then what an invention it was!
A much-admired invention in its time, that of letting go the rudder, or setting a wooden figure expensively dressed to take charge of it, and discerning that the ship would sail of itself so much more easily!
Tom Hunter, his thoughts reverting involuntarily to a former invention of the Hon.
He had seen the value of the inventionand had given it his ardent support.
It was nearly three months now since Conyers, in a moment of unusual expansion, had laid before him the invention at which he had been working for so many silent years.
After this invention there was no longer Number One, Two, and Three Grade--there was only Number One Grade.
The inference that these tribes represent the stage of culture before the invention of pottery is confirmed by the absence of buried fragments of pottery in the districts they inhabit.
Along such stages of improvement and invention the bridge is fairly made between savage and barbaric culture; and this once attained to, the remainder of the series of stages of civilization lies within the range of common knowledge.
Are we not here obliged to assume that the visions are a literary invention and nothing more?
Indeed we are forced to the conclusion of Rawlinson: they scarcely contributed an idea or invention to the great store of knowledge transmitted by the past to the modern world.
The story of the funeral pyre is probably an invention of the Greeks, or, if it had any foundation whatever, it may be that Croesus requested such an honorable end in preference to swearing allegiance to an unknown conqueror.
And a brighter, sweeter-tempered comrade, or one possessed of more diversified talents for the invention of games or the telling of stories, it would have been difficult to find.
Thus was Prince Alexander convicted of having burglarized Bulgaria upon an invention which should not have deceived Mr. Labouchere.
In the Prout papers, while his genius finds its chief expression in fantastic invention and sarcastic and cynical wit, it is everywhere sweetened by gentle sentiments and an unfailing fund of human nature and kindly humor.
It is as perfect a specimen of the pure invention which Field delighted to deck out in the form of truth with facts and the names of real personages as he ever wrote.
His Excellency was badgered a little on the reports of his alleged ill health, but he was disposed to treat it as 'an invention of the enemy.
A modern invention practised in Tammany Hall is for the genl.
It was once the palace of the patrician family Moro, a name well known in the annals of the Republic, and one which, it has been suggested, misled Shakespeare into the invention of a Moor of Venice.
They are not, as a class, imaginative, I think--their fancy seldom rising beyond theinvention that their fagots are beautiful and sound and dry.
Monastic orders, though not by any means an invention of the Middle Ages, may yet fairly be said to have attained their height, both of prosperity and of usefulness, during this period of Church History.
Who, pray, since the inventionof Printing was ever known to put forward any existing Text as "a final standard"?
With regret we record our conviction, that these accomplished scholars have succeeded in producing a Text vastly more remote from the inspired autographs of the Evangelists than any which has appeared since the invention of printing.
Westcott and Hort), from theinvention of Printing till now.
And,--What standard more reasonable and more convenient than the Text which, by the good Providence of GOD, was universally employed throughout Europe for the first 300 years after the invention of printing?
You have, in short, evidently swallowed their novel invention whole.
The Phœnician merchants having lighted their fire by chance in the cavity of a rock which concentrated the heat, obtained a commencement of vitrification of nitric salt: in this no doubt the invention of the Phœnicians consisted.
According to Pliny’s testimony the invention of glass has long been attributed to the Phœnicians.
The invention of glass-blowing soon followed: the oldest coloured glass vase known bears the name of Thothmes III.
Here, more clearly than in the other branches of art, we find imitation of Egypt and Assyria taken for granted, as a witness of the poverty of invention of the Phœnician intellect.
My inventionis dearer to me than the overthrow of present institutions.
Were the inventionto prove a failure--but there was small hope of this.
I have an invention ready with which I propose to experiment in a place he has already prepared for me.
I have a reason for keeping my identity quiet till my invention is completed.
The books were choice; the invention to all appearance a practical one; the art of a high order and the music, such as was in view, of a character of which the nicest taste need not be ashamed.
If my invention halts and other interests stale, you have furnished me this day with a problem which cannot fail to give continual occupation to my energies.
