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For the first few months we were unable to place our braziers on the ground; they would have sunk into the mud. If we attempted to cook anything we would stick a bayonet into a sandbag and hang the brazier on it, then cook in our mess tins over that. To-day there are dugouts, trench platforms and other conveniences which simplify the domestic arrangements of the trenches to a marvelous degree.
By reducing the size, it has been possible further to simplify the construction, and at the same time to reduce the price, thus making of the new form a genuine amateur apparatus. It will be remembered that the Demeny principle consists especially in the avoiding of traction upon the perforated part of the band, which is the portion that always presents the most fragility.
My time has not been lost, however, for I have ascertained with certainty that the Telegraph of a single circuit and a recording apparatus is mine.... "I found also that both Mr. Wheatstone and Mr. Davy were endeavoring to simplify theirs by adding a recording apparatus and reducing theirs to a single circuit.
These they visit, comfort, clothe, and frequently liberate, either by paying the fine imposed on them as the penalty of their offence, or by arranging matters with their creditors. With a wise charity they endeavor to simplify and shorten causes; and they employ a solicitor, who assists in settling disputes, and thus putting an end to litigation.
Again, as was eloquently and forcefully said by Daniel Webster in the U. S. Senate in 1834: "The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty, and liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just division of political power. Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretense of a desire to simplify government.
The old preacher nodded, staring into the dust. "Sho! 'tonomous 'velopment." Peter saw that his language, if not his thought, was far beyond his old companion's grasp, and he lacked the patience to simplify himself. "Why don't you want to marry us, Parson?" Parson Ranson lifted his brows and filled his forehead with wrinkles. "Well, I dunno.
He accused himself of making believe to his own mind that Sarah's presence, her impression, her judgement would simplify and harmonise, he accused himself of being so afraid of what they MIGHT do that he sought refuge, to beg the whole question, in a vain fury. He had abundantly seen at home what they were in the habit of doing, and he had not at present the smallest ground.
Take the living lines out of that landscape, simplify it to a right angle, and you flatten it out to a mere diagram on paper. They stand for the unalterable things; the calm, eternal, mathematical sort of truths; what somebody calls the 'white radiance of' " He stopped, and before the next word came something had happened almost too quickly and completely to be realized.
Things that in the North we had come to regard as inevitable garments, firing, income tax, morality evaporate or simplify themselves with instructive ease and phantasmagoric readiness. Malthus and the food question assume fresh forms, as in dissolving views, before our very eyes.
"Well, to simplify it somewhat, was he, or rather had he ever been connected with any organization sequestered from secular concerns and devoted to self-sacrifice in the interests of morality?" "All down but nine set 'em up on the other alley, pard." "What did I understand you to say?" "Why, you're most too many for me, you know. When you get in with your left I hunt grass every time.
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