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An outfit lends itself to dispute, because the selection of its component parts is not an exact science. It should be, but it is not. A doctor on his daily rounds can carry in a compact little satchel almost everything he is liable to need; a carpenter can stow away in one box all the tools of his trade. But an outfit is not selected on any recognized principles.
The rifts and modulations, as well as the general outlines, are the same as those of clouds of vapor or dust, and one notices also the characteristic thinning out at the edges. But we must beware of supposing that the component suns are thickly crowded as the particles forming an ordinary cloud.
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In order to understand more clearly what must be done, let us recall once more the symbol of the “rosy cross.” When we meditate on this we have before us a picture, of which the component parts have been taken from the world of the senses: there is the black colour of the cross, the roses, etc., and yet the combination of those various parts into the “rosy cross” is not derived from the world of the senses.
I have thought a good deal about it and I should like to understand it." She looked at him coaxingly, and he smiled, for he understood women very well; but he gave her the explanation she desired. "The reason is simple enough. The admired qualities, even when they are the component parts of a personality of one who more or less resembles a cherished ideal, never yet inspired love.
The program I have proposed will assure the ability of our Navy to operate in high threat areas, to maintain control of the seas and protect vital lines of communication, both military and economic and to provide the strong maritime component of our rapid deployment forces.
Johnson said, 'that must be a better liquor than the Cornish, for both its component parts are better. He also observed, 'Mahogany must be a modern name; for it is not long since the wood called mahogany was known in this country. I mentioned his scale of liquors; claret for boys, port for men, brandy for heroes. You'll be drowned by it, before it has any effect upon you.
And most children not only admire such acts, but will seek to defend them on moral grounds, even when they are old enough to know what a lie is. The explanation for this is to be found in the fact that the child sees every situation or problem as a whole; he has not yet learned to separate problems into their component parts.
Even when confidence in the one-sided mechanical interpretation of vital processes sometimes fails in face of the great and striking riddles of life, it is to be expected that it will revive again with each new success, great or small. The mechanical conception of life which now prevails is made up of the following characteristics and component elements.
The vertical component p of any pressure P may be ascertained by the formula In the first trial there was a distance of 1½ in. between the jet and point of its contact with the plate, while in the second trial this space was diminished to ½ in.
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