An exact survey of the mouth of the Congo, and the rectification of the coast-line, in which there had previously been a considerable error, were the only results of this unlucky expedition.
Important as were their actual discoveries, their rectificationof the errors of their predecessors were of yet greater value.
He goes on to say that the dearest interests of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy are involved in the rectification of the course of the Danube, recommending a Royal Commission to be appointed.
It is in the concrete thing as experienced that all the grounds and clues to its own intellectual or logical rectification are contained.
Neither could it be justly maintained that, in agreeing to a rectificationof the Greek frontier at Berlin, the Turks had recognized the right of the Greeks to annex a territory equal in extent to half of the Greek Kingdom.
But when the proposed end involves any deviation from usual action, or any rectification of it--as in the case of standing straight--then the main thing is to find some act which is different from the usual one.
The fire can be put out only by changing objective conditions; it is the same with rectification of bad posture.
Satisfied revenge may feel like justice vindicated; the prestige of learning may feel like an enlargement and rectification of an objective outlook.
And yet the cold fact of the situation is that the chief means of continuous, graded, economical improvement and social rectification lies in utilizing the opportunities of educating the young to modify prevailing types of thought and desire.
The most urgent need of the postal service is the rectification of the enormous wrongs which have grown up in the perversion and abuse of the privilege accorded by law to second-class matter.
And these other bright fires famous in the world, were created for the rectificationof the Agnihotra rites when marred by any defects.
If the fires interlap each other by the action of the wind, then the rectification must be made with the Ashtakapala rites in honour of the fire Suchi.
If the fire of a lying-in room comes in contact with the perpetual sacred fire, then rectification must be made with the performance of Ashtakapala rites in honour of the Agniman fire.
And if the perpetual fire is touched by a woman in her monthly course, then for rectification the Ashtakapala rites must be performed in honour of the fire called Dasyuman.
If at the time of the performance of this Agnihotra rites the death of any creature is spoken of, or if animals die, then rectification must be made with the performance of the Ashtakapala rites in honour of the Suraman fire.
And if the southern fire comes in contact with the two other fires, thenrectification must be made by the performance of the Ashtakapala rites in honour of the fire Viti.
He who has performed the Darsa and the Paurnamasya rites must make the rectification with the performance of the Ashtakapala rites in honour of the Patikrit fire.
Besides the Indian proposition, the British note of August 19 had conveyed also the explicit views of the ministry as to rectification of frontier.
These were essentially two: suitable arrangements for the Indians, and a rectificationof the frontiers.
Regeneration involves an enlightenment of the understanding and a rectification of the volitions.
The rectification of moral judgments is one of the most important elements of civilisation; it is upon this that the possibility of moral progress on a large scale chiefly depends.
By rectification the oil becomes entirely colorless.
The other method for the complete purification of expressed oil is by rectification or distillation with water.
The finest oil of mirbane is prepared from pure crystallizable benzol, and again purified by washing with potassium bichromate and sulphuric acid, and by rectification with steam.
By rectification it can be obtained colorless, but is thereby partially converted into metastyrol, an isomeric, amorphous, odorless, and tasteless substance which is solid at an ordinary temperature.
No further operation for rectification should be undertaken for at least two or three months.
Rectification of a faulty curvature of the tarsus.
The proper steps to obtain the rectification of the boundary were taken, and it was rectified.
By this rectification the Butter of Antimony becomes more fluid; and by re-distilling it a second time you may give it the thinness and fluidity of an oil.
In two hours time white vapours begin to appear, as in the rectification of common Oil of Vitriol.
Rectification is of use not only for procuring to Essential Oils the tenuity and levity they may have lost by age, but also to separate them from other oily matters with which they may be adulterated.
As they grow older they rectify their judgments, and such a rectification Judith had now to make.
A fault in process of rectification every day," said he, blowing through the stem of his pipe.
The reader will remember[111] how long and how ineffectually I once strove to obtain the rectification of accounts relative to the true amount of the postal revenue.
Rectification was an affair of great difficulty:-- "May 27th.
The only thing that displeased him was that the candidature was inspired by France, as he feared that the latter might demand a rectification of the frontier from Prussia in return for this good office.
Moreover, such a rectification of the frontier would most decidedly be against the interests of Germany and Austria, who must prevent the mouths of the Danube from falling into the hands of a great Power.
And if the southern fire comes in contact with the two other fires, then rectification must be made by the performance of the Ashtakapala rites in honour of the fire Viti.
And if the perpetual fire is touched by a woman in her monthly course, then for rectification the Ashtakapala rites must be performed in honour of the fire called Dasyuman.
If the fires interlap each other by the action of the wind, then the rectification must be made with the Ashtakapala rites in honour of the fire Suchi.
If the fire of a lying-in room comes in contact with the perpetual sacred fire, then rectification must be made with the performance of Ashtakapala rites in honour of the Agniman fire.
If at the time of the performance of this Agnihotra rites the death of any creature is spoken of, or if animals die, then rectificationmust be made with the performance of the Ashtakapala rites in honour of the Suraman fire.
He who has performed the Darsa and the Paurnamasya rites must make the rectification with the performance of the Ashtakapala rites in honour of the Patikrit fire.
And these other bright fires famous in the world, were created for the rectification of the Agnihotra rites when marred by any defects.