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From th' highest office in th' land to th' lowest, fr'm th' chief pizener to th' throne, to th' humblest ixicutioner that puts a lady in a bag an' dumps her into th' lake in th' Nine Millionth Assimbly district they look to Hadji Mohammed f'r their places. He is th' High Guy, th' Main Thing. He's ivrybody. When he quits wurrk th' governmint is over f'r th' day.
When the time comes, the queens leave, and are off up into the unheard-of sky, as if an earthworm should soar with eagle's feathers; past the gauntlet of voracious flycatchers and hawks, to the millionth chance of meeting an acceptable male of the same species.
Here is the outcome of the liberty that infidels talk so much about. “Art-liberty” is to ANNIHILATE CONSCIENCE and the distinction between virtue and vice so completely that there will be no more use for the words, “they will be obsolete.” “All benefiting selfishness will then govern humanity.” Reader, are you prepared for such a state of society? “If all contracts in accordance with present ‘law’ were fulfilled to the letter, and if all the ‘duties’ enjoined by present moralism were unflinchingly performed, and if all which ‘virtue’ styles ‘vice’ was entirely abstained from, and if what is now ‘free trade’ according to ‘law,’ had a ‘fair field,’ how long would it take a millionth of the earth’s inhabitants to accumulate all its wealth?
At a pressure of 0.0055 mm., 0.066 millionth, the highest exhaust obtained in any of the experiments, even a one-inch spark from an induction coil refused to pass. It was also ascertained that there is neither condensacian nor dilatation of the gas in contact with the terminals prior to the passage of the discharge.
As he listened he thought of his eldest son, partly imbecile, all but a lusus naturae, separated from his wife immediately after marriage, through whom there could never be succession he thought of him, and for the millionth time in his life winced in impotent disdain.
Some leaned forward, as though to anticipate by the millionth of a second the silvery accents of Mr.
To constitute the millionth part of a Legislature, by voting for one or two men once in three or five years, however conscientiously this duty may be performed, can exercise but little active influence upon any man's life and character.
Since the farad is far too large for practical purposes a millionth of a farad, or microfarad, whose symbol is mfd., is used. What Inductance Is.
I would there were more love like it: the world would be centuries nearer its redemption if a millionth part of the love in it were of the sort. All I insist, however, on my reader's believing is, that it showed, in a youth like Robert, not less but more love that he could go against love's sweetness for the sake of love's greatness.
"I mean, how far would she be willing to go in this wife business?" "God knows but the whole way, I fancy." "Would it be worth while to bluff her by pretending to acknowledge her claim and, then, inviting her to take her place at the head of your establishment?" "Acknowledge her! Not for the millionth of a second." "Oh, I mean only before witnesses who understood the scheme."
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