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When there was heavy fighting to be done, and rapid marching, the provisions became as theoretical as the hours of sleep. I heard the graphic recital of a sergeant of infantry, which was typical of many others in those early days. His section awakened one morning near Armentieres with a famishing hunger, to find an old peasant woman coming up with a great barrow-load of potatoes.
When we remember that the Dutch maintained their government in the new world for little more than fifty years, it is surprising how deep a mark they made there. It is partly because their story lends itself to picturesque and graphic treatment; it is so rich in character and color, and telling in incident.
M. Taine, who has a theory to sustain, does it by a graphic catalogue of details and traits that cannot be denied; only there is a great deal in English society that he does not include, perhaps does not apprehend. Nature, he thinks, was never so completely acted out.
Whether the reasoning of Macnab had much influence at that time could not be ascertained, for he was yet in the middle of one of his most graphic anecdotes when the Indian's owlish eyes shut with a suddenness that was quite startling, and he roused himself just in time to prevent his chin from dropping on his chest. "Waugh!" he exclaimed with a slightly-confused look.
Interesting articles on Edison's first electric railroad were published in the technical and other papers, among which may be mentioned the New York Herald, May 15 and July 23, 1880; the New York Graphic, July 27, 1880; and the Scientific American, June 6, 1880. Edison's second electric railroad of 1882 was more pretentious as regards length, construction, and equipment.
The squaring of a number the raising of it to its second power finds graphic expression in the plane figure of the square; and the cubing of a number the raising of it to its third power in the solid figure of the cube. Now squares and cubes have been recognized from time immemorial as useful ornamental motifs.
That wonderful book, side by side with its philosophical teaching, gives a graphic picture of one side of Balzac's restless, feverish youth, as "Louis Lambert" does of his repressed childhood.
This is the great characteristic of the graphic or picturesque school of French history; and there can be no question that in regard to the first requisite of history, trustworthiness, and the subordinate but also highly important object, of rendering the narrative interesting, it is a very great improvement, alike upon the tedious narrative of former learning, or the provoking pretensions of more recent philosophy.
His account of the speakers and their arguments is one of the most graphic pages of historical painting in our language; but it is said to have been drawn up at the desire, and almost at the dictation, of Locke's friend, Lord Shaftesbury, who himself took a prominent part against the Bill.
A powerful picture of that phase of modern life in which unscrupulously acquired capital is the chief agent. Boston Post. Perhaps the most accurate and graphic account of these portions of the country that has appeared, taken all in all.... A book most charming a book that no American can fail to enjoy, appreciate, and highly prize. Boston Traveller. Mr.
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