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It is plain, therefore, that, if the batteries be taken off, the positive current of the aurora cannot increase nor the negative decrease the working state of the line to the same extent as when the batteries are connected; but that, whichever pole is presented, the magnetism can be made use of by the operator for the ordinary duties of the line.
The child who is to save your name from oblivion is like his mother. The duchess persuades you that the child is yours. The negative compensation becomes deluding. Here is one of the most charming compensations known. One morning the Prince de Ligne meets his wife's lover and rushes up to him, laughing wildly: "My friend," he says to him, "I cuckolded you, last night!"
Nor is it the least important or the least attractive of Dryden's qualities, as a critic, that both the positive and the negative elements of the prevailing tendency both the determination to understand and the wish to bring all things under rule should make themselves felt so strongly and, on the whole, so harmoniously in his Essays.
Here we at once come to the interesting negative fact that there is nothing in tradition to indicate that Socrates ever occupied himself with theological questions. To be sure, Xenophon has twice put into his mouth a whole theodicy expressing an elaborate teleological view of nature. But that we dare not base anything upon this is now, I think, universally acknowledged.
Does it consist of hurtful admissions? Is it undesigned evidence? Is it negative evidence? III. Test of argument from authority. A. Is the witness an acknowledged authority on the subject about which he testifies? To overthrow or weaken argument from authority, one may either discredit its source or bring to light some inconsistency in the statement itself.
With regard to the resemblance of the ramifications of the branches and leaves of plants to the traces of the positive electricity, and that of the roots to the negative, it is a circumstance calling for especial remark, that the atmosphere, particularly its lower strata, is generally charged positively, while the earth is always charged negatively. The correspondence here is curious.
After that he asked me if the strings were all right and changed them at once when I answered in the negative. Altogether we had great fun.... Hale at the celebration of the centenary of Dr. My teacher and I expect to be present at the meeting tomorrow in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of Dr.
After passing through the motor the current escapes to the rail R by a brush or sliding contact C', and so returns to the negative pole of the generator. A very general way is to allow the return current to escape to the rails through the wheels. Many tramways, covering thousands of miles, are now worked on this plan in the United States.
Again Kars made a sign, but this time in the negative. "I don't think it," he said. "Right. I'll be on the trail in an hour." The factor turned to the Padre. "Say, just rouse out the boys while I get other things fixed. There isn't a minute to waste." He waited for no reply, but turned at once to Kars and Bill. "Maybe you fellers'll keep your outfit right here. There's the women-folk.
Yet with rare consistency and steadfast courage these ends were held in view. Ever an opportunist as to means, Wilfrid Laurier has never been an opportunist as to ends. The historic task of Liberalism the promotion, by negative and positive means alike, of individual freedom with full opportunity for self-development has been less urgent in Canada than in many other lands.
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