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... our ancestors to bind them to the peace with strong iron chains. Of which invention the original occasion was this: When the works of Scotus first ca... ...ients, thinks fit to answer, that, if one may judge of the great genius or inventions of the Moderns by what they have produced, you will hardly have ... ...nt to the hearers, as much as to themselves, to see them upon the rack for invention, and in perpetual constraint, with so little success. They must d... ..., for fear it should slip out of their memory; and thus they confine their invention, which might otherwise range over a hundred things full as good, ... ..., although it may seem a paradox, usually springeth from a barren ness of invention and of words, by which men who have only one stock of notions upo... ... death is their proper punishment, because they fear it most. The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compa... ... virtues. It is easy enough to do either to people of moderate characters. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age; so that our judgment...

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..., not confessing Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers With strange invention: but of that to morrow, When therewithal we shall have cause of s...

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... his pasts, and I must even piece out what he had told me with my own poor inventions while Charlie wrote of the ways of bank-clerks. I got together a...

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...assed since Noirtier first fell into this sad state, Valentine’s powers of invention had been too often put to the test not to render her expert in de...

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..., an “Imperial Englishman,” and his first wish and his last was to see his invention the privilege and monopoly of the Empire. Only— It was there the ... ...ympathy. On the other hand it was extremely curious about Mr. Butteridge’s invention. But when Mr. Butteridge could be deflected for a moment from the... ... a vigorous agitation and canvass to induce the Government to purchase his invention. One fact, however, remained permanent throughout all the develop... ...ERMAN RIOT IN BAGDAD. THE MUNICIPAL SCANDALS AT DAMASCUS. MR. BUTTERIDGE’S INVENTION FOR AMERICA. Bert stared at these over the card of pump-clips in ... ... right in supposing yourself to be in danger of murder for your invaluable invention.” “Funny!” said Bert, and meditated. Then he went through the oth... ...ocoa smoking, without the use of match or flame of any sort. It was an old invention, but new to Bert. There was also ham and marmalade and bread, so ... ...and wrangled with the impe- rial spirited Butteridge and his extraordinary invention. That also was not in play—and could not be for some months at th... ...ted people ‘what for.’ The only thing we were at all uneasy about was your invention. And here you are!” “But!—you a German?” asked Bert. “Lieutenant ... ...ce. He would have to stick it out now that he was Butteridge, and sell his invention. And then, if they found him out! He had a vision of infuriated B...

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...rible infectious disease. The new war, the war on the modern level, is her invention and her crime. I perceive that on our side and in its broad outli... ...lated great personages have emerged. Never has there been so much ability, invention, inspiration, leader- ship; but the very abundance of good qualit... ...splintered timber, old iron, rags, and that rusty thorny vileness of man’s invention, worse than all the thorns and thickets of nature, barbed wire. T... ... development of war has depended largely upon two factors. One of these is invention. New weapons and new methods have become available, and have modi... ...the machine gun; secondly the increasing use of the spade, and thirdly the invention of barbed wire. By the end of the century these things had come s... ... cess of B2 depends upon the completeness of the aerial obser- vation. The invention of an anti-aircraft gun which would be practically sure of hittin... ...aterial, you hoped to snatch your victory before the industrialisation and invention of the world could turn upon you. But you failed. You were not ra... ...ar and the Future method of using them will change very rapidly. Any added invention will necessitate the scrapping of old types and the production of... ...essity to the Allies if they are to win this war outright that the lead in inventions and enterprise which the British have won over the Germans in th...

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...d critics, you scrapers-up of words, harpies who mangle the intentions and inventions of every- one, that as children only do we laugh, and as we trav... ...th God in the valley of Jehoshaphat?” asked she of the bishop. “’Tis is an invention of the devil, who has adulterated the 16 Balzac holy book,” repl... ...n the rooms were royal tapestries, furniture, Saracen pomps, vanities, and inventions which were much admired by people of Tours, and even by the arch... ... I reserve you for a chastisement more ample then death.” And doubting the inventions, snares, arguments, and arti- fices familiar to women in these d... ...ncil chamber to the T rahoir cross among the common people, and fertile in invention for the desperate cases of love. Then, while weeping for the dece...

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...ces, the language of France was a little disturbed also, on account of the inventions of the poets, who at that time, as at this, used each to make a ... ...n of arabesque pictures, which at that time were much esteemed, the wanton inventions of debauchery. Then did his eyes shoot flame, his words burn, an... ...the queen of raptures—a fair de- mon, in whom is concentrated all feminine inventions. I wished that once in thy life thou, who has never tasted the e... ...publication of this narrative will be forgiven, in spite of the diabolical invention and vengeance of Monseigneur d’Orleans. The just death of this ra... ... pyramid in which is cemented for ever the seed of all fantastic and comic inventions, besides magnificent instruction in all things. Although rare ar...

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...ole to be an The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding 294 invention formed only to impose upon him, and that the fellow had in realit... ...oublesome and perplexed situation; for while I was distracted with various inventions to supply her with pleasures, she very kindly— betrayed me to on...

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...f thou canst accuse, Or aught intend’st to lay unto my charge, Do it without invention, suddenly; As I with sudden and extemporal speech Purpose to an...

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...rning bullets full of fire, shot out of cannon, according to the curi- ous invention of Stephen Bathian, King of Poland, whereby that prince utterly r... ...reby that prince utterly ruined the great Muscovite city of Mos- cow. This invention, Captain Dalgetty owned, he had not yet witnessed, but observed, ... ...rific importance. It was of the last consequence to prove that this was no invention of the outlaw’s, for the purpose of passing an impostor as the ch... ...ling Monks of late or- der in all their hoods and dresses, so as the Roman invention of good and bad daemons and guardian angels particularly assigned...

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...st of confiscating his property after a short term of enjoyment, as though invention were on a par with felony. The system had uniformly found great f... ...on Office, originated in this feeling. He asked his partner to explain the invention to him; ‘having a lenient consideration,’ he stipulated, ‘for my ... ...the world, had occasion for the services of one or two engineers, quick in invention and determined in execution: practical men, who could make the me... ...tner’s face was quick in suggest- ing it, ‘except that I will abandon your invention.’ ‘That’s the request, and you know it is,’ said Doyce. ‘I say, N... ...xed if you don’t take warning by the past and keep away from us.’ ‘And the invention?’ said Clennam. ‘My good fellow,’ returned Ferdinand, ‘if you’ll ... ...ll excuse the freedom of that form of address, nobody wants to know of the invention, and nobody cares twopence-halfpenny about it.’ ‘Nobody in the Of... ...is to say?’ ‘Nor out of it. Everybody is ready to dislike and ridicule any invention. Y ou have no idea how many people want to be left alone. You hav... ...my mother’s house. Why have you done it? What prompted you to the devilish invention?’ Monsieur Rigaud, after frowning at him for a moment, laughed. ‘...

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... fine word,—legitimate! Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, And my invention thrive, Edmund the base Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I pros...

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...to one’s self. ‘Egregious folly—too absurd to require contradic- tion—mere inventions of the imagination, which you ought to be ashamed of. If you wou...

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...is head, and answered sadly, but without anger, “Thou, Varney, whose ready invention has involved me in a web of most mean and perilous falsehood, kno... ...Master T ressilian, to your man, Richard V arney.’— Now, Varney, ply thine invention, whose forge hath availed us so often for sure as my name is Dudl... ...Think of something else, Varney,” said the Earl, in great agitation; “this invention is nought. If I could give way to it, 256 Kenilworth she would n... ...ther or some of her friends would be instantly summoned hither. Urge thine invention once more.” “My lord, I know not what to say,” answered Varney; “... ...and the most varied—some articles tasteful, some perhaps grotesque, in the invention and decoration, but all gorgeously magnificent, both from the ric...

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... guard. Men who have not even a thimble, give a thimbleful,—were it but of invention. One Citoyen has wrought out the scheme of a wooden cannon; which... ...e want the way of satisfying it. The wonted tumbles down; by imitation, by invention, the Unwonted hastily builds itself up. What the French National ...

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...d either from reading or from memory, but, in the gen- eral case, are pure invention. I found it too troublesome to turn to the collection of the Brit... ...ew on my memory as long as I could, and when that failed, eked it out with invention. I believe that in some cases, where actual names are affixed to ...

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...o pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. The hero of the story is likewise invention, though, as Froissart ascribes to King Robert II. ‘eleven sons wh...

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...t it might almost be feared that some of her progeny were anticipating the invention of Chinese roasting-pigs. However, their propri- etor, Jobst, cou...

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...gety ways. You would have supposed that I was showing her some wonder ful inventions, by her study of them; and if you had seen her, whenever I jingl... ...e pretty objects, my little tastes and fan cies, my little methods and inventions which they used to laugh at while they praised them, my odd ways...