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Louis were both forced to retire, not by the weight of fire from the coast, but by a petty Spanish gunboat, aided by "a small gun on shore."
The variations of science depend upon the variations of human needs, and men of science are wont to work, willingly or unwillingly, wittingly or unwittingly, in the service of the powerful or in that of a people that demands from them the confirmation of its own desires. But is this really a dead weight that impedes the progress of science, or is it not rather its innermost redeeming essence?
But all on a sudden, down came the cloud again. Nobody could detect any reason. Affronts abounded- -not received with an explosion that would have been combated, laughed at, and disposed of, but treated with silence, and each sinking down to be added to the weight of cruel injuries.
On this account it is reasonable to eat sparingly of candy, cake, and other sweets; but further attempts to reduce the weight of the fetus by discrimination against different articles of food are not advisable.
The mere weight of his limbs, he was sure, would crush the little bed-stead like an eggshell. Then, as this first sensation wore off, he began to feel the charm of the little chamber. It was as though Trina were close by, but invisible. McTeague felt all the delight of her presence without the embarrassment that usually accompanied it. He was near to her nearer than he had ever been before.
Each adult Martian female brings forth about thirteen eggs each year, and those which meet the size, weight, and specific gravity tests are hidden in the recesses of some subterranean vault where the temperature is too low for incubation.
"Those that were sound in the faith, how proper was it for them to labor for liberty, ... that men might not be trampled upon for their consciences! Had not they labored but lately under the weight of persecution? And was it fit for them to sit heavy upon others? Is it ingenuous to ask liberty and not to give it?
"The weight of steam at the temperature of 212° compared with the weight of water at 212°, is about as 1 to 1694, so that a pipe that is filled with water at 212°, contains 1694 times as much matter as one of equal size filled with steam.
At another time, discovering on the scales in the morning a weight with which he had weighed out a package of tea for a woman the night before, he saw that he had given her too little for her money. He weighed out what was due, and carried it to her, much to the surprise of the woman, who had not known that she was short in the amount of her purchase.
Having thus let Him carry the weight, do not you try to carry it too. As our good old hymn has it 'Why should I the burden bear? It is a great deal more God's affair than yours. We have, indeed, in a sense, to carry it.
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