There are lands such as large sections of Africa and many of the Pacific Islands where no education whatever existed, where the language was not even reduced to writing, until Christian missionaries began their work.
He applied for a transfer and was reduced to the ranks, on October 1.
As the diameter is reduced below this limit the ratio of the repulsive to the attractive force increases, but soon reaches a maximum, after which it diminishes down to a diameter of 0.
But the prohibition against reduction means that the capital must not be reduced by the voluntary act of the company, not that a company's capital must be kept intact.
If [delta] is a considerable negative fraction, the eccentricity will be so reduced that the comet will after the approach be one of short period.
During the first period, the lands inclosed consisted mainly of common arable fields; during the second, many great tracts of moor and fen were reduced to severalty ownership.
In 1872 a portion of the tribe, the Quanhada or Staked Plain Comanches, had again to be reducedby military measures.
The company may in such a case write off the lost capital and go on trading with the reduced amount.
Between the end of the first spiral and the beginning of the second the current of gas is reduced to a much lower pressure p2 by passing through a tap with a fine orifice.
The most favourable conditions will, of course, be attained when the influx of heat is reduced to a minimum.
The present work, on the contrary, is addressed to those who are already sufficiently convinced of the certain existence of social laws, and desire only to have them reduced to a true and conclusive system.
I have one or two little purchases to make, and possibly by now the things will be reducedin price.
Egyptian tale has other traits which reminds us of the Dun Bull in 'Katie Woodencloak', as well as incidents which are the germ of stories long since reduced to writing in Norse Sagas of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries?
Accordingly the bark was this autumn dried on stages, and the number of keepers was reducedto three.
The fallow deer of the Forest were reduced in number after the year 1850 by killing a large number of does.
Reduced Bank Annuities, raising its annual income to 150 pounds, the nomination to the incumbency being transferred to the Queen and her successors.
In the North border warfare reduced the population, and the effects of the Great Plague have to be considered.
Under the heading virgators it is said, "If they do the full day's work set out above each of them ought to have his rent reduced 12d.
He used his position to partition the manor so as to get rid of the intermingled holdings, and at the same time so harassed the smaller tenants that they were reduced from twenty-three to eight.
Reduced to its elements their complaint is a very simple one, very ancient and yet very modern.
The rents and services of the customary holdings, however, cannot be reduced to any such simple and uniform plan of adjusting rent to acreage.
Certain classes of manorial documents offer material which can easily be reduced to a statistical shape.
The commission conclude that the quotas for the draft should be based upon entire population, and they proceed upon this basis to give a table for the State of New York, in which some districts are reduced and some increased.
I suggest that the difference of opinion, reduced to its lowest of terms, is no other than the difference between the men who think slavery a wrong and those who do not think it wrong.
This list may be reduced two in number by corrections of confusion in names.
Mr. Chairman, for the purpose of reviewing this message in the least possible time, as well as for the sake of distinctness, I have analyzed its arguments as well as I could, and reduced them to the propositions I have stated.
In a purely military point of view, this reduced the duty of the administration in the case to the mere matter of getting the garrison safely out of the fort.
In fact, they have reducedthe decision to an absolute nullity.
Would you have that question reduced to its former proportions?
The decrease since 1860 in the annual amount of transportation has been only about twenty-five per cent, but the annual expenditure on account of the same has been reduced thirty-five per cent.
He admits, too, that it was left in thisreduced and ruined state at the close of his administration.
The disposable revenue was still further reduced by the jaghires which Mr. Hastings granted, but to what amount does not appear.
We interfered in every part of the Nabob's government; we reduced his authority to nothing; we introduced a perfect scene of anarchy and confusion into the country, where there was no authority but to rob and destroy.
Was he to seek refuge with the Mahrattas, who, though Gentoos like himself, hadreduced every nation which they subdued, except those who were originally of their own empire, to a severe servitude?
The best opinions, however, seem to have reduced the admissibility of witnesses to a few heads.
The Vizier, he says, by this treaty was reduced to a state of vassalage; and he makes this curious distinction in proof of it.
His successor is to bereduced to a miserable condition.
With this impression on our minds, we reduced the whole cause to four great heads of guilt and criminality.
We have shown you the servile obedience of the natives of the country; we have shown you the miserable situation to which a great prince, at least a person who was the other day a great prince, was reduced by Mr. Hastings's system.
The eye-piece is then replaced, and the light reduced as much as desired by means of the diaphragm.
Even as it was, they were often reduced to the necessity of dependence on their "iron" rations.
The whole transportation service, in fact, had been reduced to a state of chaos.
It is, however, stipulated that the number of these wagons should be reduced to a minimum, in order to avoid congestion either of the stations or of the railway lines.
The cook left abruptly, and Mrs. Bassett was reducedto despair.
I've seen many soaring young autocrats reduced to a proper humility at New Haven, and I dare say you girls have your own way of humbling a proud spirit.
Dan waited for him to invoke deity with the asthmatic wheeziness to which mirth reduced his vocal apparatus.
From the languor and exhaustion to which pain and my frequent doses of laudanum have reduced me, it suited the feeble temper of [my] mind, and I have transcribed it on the other page.
When he was not quite sixteen years old, my grandfather became bankrupt, and by a series of misfortunes was reduced to extreme poverty.
Only when reduced to the last extremity did he demand and obtain succour from Marshal Clauzel, whose column relieved him in 1836.
The off forefoot then showed itself with a stocking, and the price was reduced to fifty douros.
At first they could hardly recognize him, so utterly exhausted was he, so blackened by the sun, and reduced to such a skeleton.
It was they, in short, who were the last reduced to submission.
Greville Williams showed that emeralds lost about 9% of their weight on fusion, the specific gravity being reduced to about 2.
Soon various influences reduced the creatures of double sex to a male and a female, and the world was replenished with organic life.
Emin remained behind with the sick, and with a very reduced following left the lake district in March 1892 for the Congo river.
They show that the dielectric constant of a liquid generally undergoes great reduction in value when the liquid is frozen and reduced to a low temperature.
In general the dielectric constant is reduced with decrease of temperature towards a certain limiting value it would attain at the absolute zero.
The same remark applies to a large number of similar cases; for instance, the reduced digits of the bird's hand and foot and the limbs of snakes.
But spoons, too, were chiefly pewter, though often merely wood, and table service was thus reduced as nearly to first principles as possible.
Consumption found a cure in a squirrel, baked alive and also reduced to a Powder, and a horrible witches' broth of earth-worms and other abominations served the same purpose.
The Gros Ventres were a very weak tribe, or band, who had, by incessant wars with the surrounding tribes, become reduced to a very insignificant number of warriors.
In 1879, according to the official census of the Indian Bureau, the tribe had been reduced to one thousand four hundred and forty.
Their rations were reduced to four ounces of flour per head a day, for a few days, until relief came.
We were again put upon reduced rations, one pint of beans per day being the allowance to a mess of four men, with other articles in proportion.
Then the creeks and rivers slowly rose, and the land of the Shoshones was greatly reduced by the encroachment of the water.
In consequence, when the gaps GS spark over, the lower end of the high resistance is reducedpractically to ground pressure.
The contacts are metal caps shrunk on the ends; the resistances are permanent in value and the inductance is reduced to a minimum.
Low lagging power factor on a system, therefore, will generally mean limited output of prime movers; greatlyreduced kilowatt capacity of generator, transformer and line; and increased energy losses.
The rheostat is first turned in until the exciter voltage is greatly reduced and the regulator circuit is then closed.
When a fuse blows, the arc causes oscillations in the line, which cause excessive rise of pressure under certain capacity conditions, whereas this disturbance is reduced to a minimum with an oil switch.
Now, the ~back pressure~ may be considerably reduced by exhausting into a condenser as represented by the card, fig.
If this be represented by DB, since AB remains constant, the power factor is reduced to 10 or 15 per cent.
The rebellion, which eleven months before had threatened to hurl Cromwell from his place, had been completely quelled, and the country had been again reduced to internal quiet.
The crap-shooting circle is always either stuffed with banknotes or reduced to a few sous--which latter predicament is a bit serious here, where we have to pay eight to ten francs a day to get sufficient nourishing food.
Rudiments of various muscles have been observed in many parts of the human body;[23] and not a few muscles, which are regularly present in some of the lower animals can occasionally be detected in man in a greatly reduced condition.
They must be rendered stronger, or acquire more effective teeth or claws, in order to defend themselves from new enemies; or they must be reduced in size so as to escape detection and danger.
In this case, the jaws, together with the teeth, would have become reduced in size, as we may feel sure from innumerable analogous cases.
In some cases organs have been reduced by means of natural selection, from having become injurious to the species under changed habits of life.
They abound in the Lepidoptera: one of the most extraordinary is that certain male butterflies have their fore-legs more or less atrophied, with the tibiae and tarsi reduced to mere rudimentary knobs.
In his table of measurements, the stature of each man is taken at 1000, and the other measurements are reduced to this standard.
When an organism has once been rendered extremely fertile, how its fertility can be reduced through natural selection is not so clear as how this capacity was first acquired.
It was felt that if Virginia were occupied, and her people reduced under the Federal authority again, the Southern cause would be deprived of a large amount of its prestige and strength.
This work was defended by the two hundred and fifty men of Harris's Mississippi Brigade, and these fought until their numbers were reduced to thirty, killing or wounding five hundred of the assailants.
They have seen, with profound indignation, their sister State deprived of every right, and reduced to the condition of a conquered province.
Every period of respite had been quickly followed by a relapse, and all his work, brilliant and varied as it was, had been done under conditions which would have reduced almost any other man to inactivity.
Reduced as we were, we still had a few bottles of champagne left.
His parents, Henry Kepler and Catherine Guldenmann, were both of noble family, but had been reduced to indigence by their own bad conduct.
Apparently the experiment did not succeed; and, almost reduced to despair, Kepler betook himself to the advice of a friend, who had for some time past complained that she was not consulted in this difficult negotiation.
She reduced the number of her servants and attendants, but in a measure increased the splendour of their costumes.
The Duke of Somerset, when protector, had reduced the household expenses of Edward VI to about half what they had been in the reign of his father, Henry VIII.
