This work appeared in 1691, when the panic in America had not yet reached its height; and being widely circulated there, is said to have contributed much to stimulate the persecutions.
It would have been impossible to take any measure more calculated to stimulate the prosecutions, and we accordingly find that in Suffolk sixty persons were hung for witchcraft in a single year.
Terrifying as these prodigies were, this impression upon him was no more than momentary, and served only to stimulate his love of the marvellous.
He has been brought up too much on milk and sugar to stimulate my jealousy.
Never have I employed the iniquitous art of seduction by suggestive language, nor have I ever allowed myself the slightest freedom which might stimulate desire.
Let us keep the new actor in reserve to stimulate the public when our own attractions fall off.
Finding no enemy to stimulate them, they were enfeebled by too lasting a peace, and whereas they were formerly styled good and upright, they are now called cowards and fools, having been subdued by the Catti.
The first inevitable outcome of the German race heresy has been to stimulate the belief in the supremacy of the Teuton and to transform the natural conceit of patriotism into an odious megalomania.
To achieve that end the Government must have its own popular papers, whose aim it will be to stimulate patriotism, to preach loyalty to the Kaiser, to resist the disintegrating influence of Social Democracy.
Nor does it kill the muscles, for the muscles still react if you stimulate them.
By proper legislation we can encourage the reforestation of our denuded hillsides and stimulate the planting and care of valuable timber trees through relieving such land from undue taxation.
These new influences helped to denationalise Roman thought and literature, to make the individual more conscious of himself, and to stimulate the passions and pleasures of private life.
Valerius Maximus mentions 'that the older men used at banquets to celebrate in song the illustrious deeds of their ancestors, in order to stimulate the youth to imitate them.
It could stimulate to virtue as well as denounce flagrant offences.
Yet economic law has not operated to stimulate agriculture, because the returns from steadily mounting prices have not really reached the producer.
All movements, as direct nominations, that stimulate local initiative and develop the sense of responsibility in the people will help toward this end.
It is a well-known law of our nature that an excessive indulgence in emotion that does not end in action tends rather to deaden than to stimulate the moral nerve.
They cause money to change hands; they do not stimulate industry.
Hence, he did not stimulate thought and inquiry as Luther did, nor inaugurate a great revolutionary movement, which would gradually undermine papal authority and many institutions which the Catholic Church indorsed.
So far, the wealth of the world increased; but the men who returned to riot in luxury and idleness did not stimulate enterprise.
But who, also, in circumstances so awful, could require the exhortation of a priest or the example of a congregation, to stimulate devotion?
The fiery words did not stimulate his ardour; they plunged him still deeper in a train of anxious thought, until utter weariness gave way to sleep.
But such war could not absorb the energy or stimulate the interest of the people as a whole.
A rumour had spread that Praeneste was to be seized by its slaves, and it was sufficient to stimulate a praetor to execute nearly five hundred of the supposed delinquents.
Miss Avery is a woman of great dignity and strength, and her presence and lectures can not fail to stimulate the girls to a noble womanhood.
The third and most important object is, to write to the soldiers in the field, thus reaching nearly every private in the army, to encourage and stimulate him in the way that ladies know how to do.
The war checked the enthusiasm I had succeeded in rousing, and I have not been able to pause in my special work of collecting and observing facts, to stimulate it afresh or to solicit personally the necessary means.
How much easier is all this, than to wait and watch alone with nothing to stimulate hope or ambition.
Potomac, and thus become a medium for the diffusion of all that can stimulate and inspire courage and loyalty.
Your course aggravates their weaknesses, when you should raise their ambition and stimulate them to self-reliance.
If so, their exchanges would have been at an end; the capital would have gone to stimulate other industry; the Indians would have ripped up the goose with the golden eggs.
She did not relish her food, her company, or her surroundings; and in utter ennui tried to stimulate herself with her favourite brand of sweet champagne, insisting on another bottle when they had emptied one between them.
Then his whole body must be rubbed vigorously with a hair-glove, to stimulate the circulation; then he must be obliged to drink a glass of old port; and then he must lie stretched for at least an hour in a very warm bed.
Desirous, I must confess, to stimulate their flattering disapproval, I hasten to admit in advance my many shortcomings, a full list of which they will doubtless oblige me with in due process of censorious comment.
Under the circumstances we need not wonder that the Islam did so little to stimulate art in Java.
If we wish to stimulate the growth of an old tree somewhat debilitated, we go to work and cut off a large portion of the top.
But after many years they revived sufficiently to stimulate me to action again in the line of pecan culture.
Then, with mind and body jaded—probably after undergoing a series of consultations upon many bills after the rising of the committees—the exhausted engineers would seek to stimulate nature by a late, perhaps a heavy, dinner.
There is, indeed, in the words of genius a glow which never dies; but it only dazzles and misleads, if it fails to stimulate and strengthen our own powers of vision.
Both are born to do and to endure; and in educating girls, we now understand that it is our business to strengthen them and to stimulate them to self-activity.
The teaching of the school becomes a subject of passionate interest, through our belief in its power to educate sentiment, stimulate will, and mould character.
Opinion governs the world, but ideals draw souls and stimulateto noble action.
His main endeavor was to stimulate enthusiasm and rivalry among the men.
Hoover to administer food distribution throughout their lands and to stimulate food production by the farmers of the United States.
