We, the prisoners, whose fate was thus in controversy, were unacquainted at the time with this transaction; and therefore enjoyed a night of tolerable tranquility, not in the least suspecting the reverse which was preparing for us.
The nature of Ennius was no more the nature of Virgil than the nature of Caedmon was that of Milton, for what is obvious and familiar is the reverse of the beautiful and the sublime.
But time calls for an arrest of hasty judgments, or brings forward some illustrious advocate to reverse the judicial decision, or set forth the misfortunes of the accused.
The Quakers, who held a majority in the Assembly, were from principle and practice the reverse of warlike, and, regarding the Indians with a blind partiality, were reluctant to take measures against them.
Sometimes a reverse twist in reasoning by a speculative mind will result in enormous practical utility.
The reverse is also true; knowledge gained in areas quite remote from outer space can have genuine value for the advance of space exploration.
An international arrangement that meets our requirements must be strong enough to reverse the motives, aggressive and defensive, which in the past have caused nations to arm.
As disasters hem her round, Cleopatra gathers up her faculties to meet them, not with the calm fortitude of a great soul, but the haughty, tameless spirit of a wilful woman, unused to reverse or contradiction.
Even though we should reverse their situations, and give to Imogen the filial devotion of Cordelia, and to Cordelia the conjugal virtues of Imogen, still they would remain perfectly distinct as women.
With the same admirable truth of nature, Juliet is represented as at first bewildered by the fearful destiny that closes round her; reverse is new and terrible to one nursed in the lap of luxury, and whose energies are yet untried.
I shall adhere to the definition of Madame de Staël, who uses the word vulgar as the reverse of poetical.
If this mean that the same faculties of mind are common to men and women, it is true; in any other signification it appears to me false, and the reverse of a compliment.
It was the reverse with the Greeks: their feeling towards Nature was quite different from ours.
Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things!
The commander may therefore consider the subject matter of Sections II and III in the order hereinafter followed, or he may reverse that order.
The commander may choose whether he shall, in his estimate, first consider the means available and opposed, or reverse the order and give priority to the characteristics of the theater.
However occasions may arise when consideration in the reverse order is preferable.
On the reverse side, page 224, will be found a Tabular Form of the Resolution of the Required Action into Detailed Operations.
A simple modification, however, of the electrical connections will reverse that, so that the reproduction shall be a positive.
Before it has completed a single revolution the "reverser" is operated, and just for a moment the reverse current goes to the wire.
Thus, we see, all that is necessary to start the receiving cylinder is to reverse the current for a moment.
The catch retains it, of course, until the reverse current arrives and releases it.
If those gases be collected in closed vessels over the water, so that they remain in contact with the water, as soon as the current is stopped a reverse action sets in.
Instead, it will first slightly overshoot the mark, which being followed by the reverse action, it will come back and overshoot it just as far in the opposite direction.
It will be well to reverse ends with the plug and force it up and down several times, until it travels quite freely past the point of obstruction.
It may, perhaps, be well to remark here, that nearly all Russian saws are made to cut backwards, and all the gun breech-screws made in that country are cut the reverse way to ours.
It is rather curious that with brass the softening process is the very reverse of that we use with iron.
File it to the right form, give it an even surface; then with a pencil sketch the letter, or mark, on the iron, only taking care to reverse the object as you would in drawing on wood.
Well, then, distinguished by the goddess in such a manner, we have it proved to us how she wished to favour: for the reverse wins, and we who are pinched blame not her cruelty but our blind folly.
She bore a likeness to her father, little to her mother, though he fancied the reverseand gave her the mother's lips and hair.
Her power is shown in the moving of her solicitors to think, instantly after they have made their cast, that the reverse of it was what they intended.
The habit of a realist to find things the reverse of their appearance inclined him to put every statement in a paradox.
Then reversethe saw in the clamp and set the alternate teeth in the same manner.
The Speed Jack on the left is used either to reduce or increase tumbling rod speed and to reverse the motion.
At the left is a reverse motion jack having the same speed turning either right or left.
Then reverse the saw in the saw clamp and file the other side, being careful to keep the bevel of each tooth the same.
But in this he was a happy reverse to some men, who owe all their bright parts in the management of affairs to the fumes of Burgundy and Champaign: for he was exemplarily temperate when he had any business of moment to attend.
It was usually said of Tom Killigrew that when he attempted to write he was dull, whereas in conversation he was smart; and this was precisely the reverse of Cowley, who did not shine in conversation, but sparkled with his pen.
The most serious reverse to British policy and the greatest disaster to British arms which have happened in the present century were the outcome of events which may thus briefly be recapitulated.
Peel was relieved from a position the reverse of enviable, and Melbourne had to stand the brunt of a tirade from the relentless Brougham and resume the reins which he had allowed to slip from a somewhat reluctant hand.
He took this reverse grievously to heart: harassed as he had been by the censures passed at home on his administration, his health gave way under this additional blow, and he succumbed to dysentery on the 29th.
It was a happy idea to give on thereverse of the medals the Queen's head, by W.
When the dip of the strata is north-east we expect the escarpments to face the south-west, and the reverse will be the case when the strata incline in the opposite direction.
Again, it is evident that when the mer de glace was gradually decreasing similar oscillations of the ice-flow would take place, but in reverse order, and thus would give rise to a second series of intercrossings.
When neatly constructed and glued together it is apparently impossible to make it, showing as it does a half lap on one side and a dovetailed half lap on the reverse side.
The very reverse of this, however, took place; Richard won more and more.
At the first time of sexual union the passion of the male is intense, and his time is short, but in subsequent unions on the same day the reverse of this is the case.
No leader ever set a finer example under reverse than did Mr. Gladstone during these tedious and desperate proceedings.
He was aware, as officials and as the public were aware, that his successor at Dublin Castle made little secret that he had come over to reverse the policy.
He must, accordingly, have signed the minute appointing Mr. Smith chief secretary, though of course Mr. Smith had gone over to reverse the Carnarvon policy.
He was sometimes pressed to reverse it, and to overthrow the dervish power at Khartoum.
But it has been in a most remarkable degree the reverse of self-guided and self-suggested, with reference I mean to all its best known aims.
I suppose all feel that those deaths which reverse the order of nature have a sharpness of their own.
The mechanism of the reverse turn is exactly the same as that of the turn to the right, except that it is accomplished with the other foot, and in the opposite direction.
