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The baseball, revolving as it flies, may suggest the orbs, or your girdle suggest the equator, or the wiping of your face on a towel suggest the absorption of the rain by the soil; but does the blacking of your shoes suggest anything celestial? Hinges and levers and fulcrums are significant, but one's old hat, or old boots, have not much poetic significance.
By the very nature of our government our executive cannot be liked and trusted as the Swiss or the American is liked and trusted. Out of the same history and the same results proceed our tolerance of those "local authorities" which so puzzle many foreigners. In the struggle with the Crown these local centres served as props and fulcrums.
So the liberation of this trap, considering the time, was a Herculean task, because it had to be accomplished with little or no noise. Cold chisels, fulcrums, prying, heaving, boring. To free the under edge; the top did not matter. Not knowing if Kitty were below that was the worst part of the job. The sweat of agony ran down Hawksley's face; but he never faltered.
*Application to the Body.*—In the body the bones serve as levers; the turning points, or fulcrums, are found at the joints; the muscles supply the power; and parts of the body, or things to be lifted, serve as weights.
He drew up lists of the most incongruous things and was unhappy until he succeeded in establishing kinship between them all kinship between love, poetry, earthquake, fire, rattlesnakes, rainbows, precious gems, monstrosities, sunsets, the roaring of lions, illuminating gas, cannibalism, beauty, murder, lovers, fulcrums, and tobacco.
In five minutes the raid would be in full swing from the roof, from the street, from the cellar. With their short crowbars braced by stout fulcrums the two men heaved. Noise did not matter now. Presently the trap went over. "Look out for your hands; there's lots of loose glass. And together when we drop."
"No, no," I said; "that isn't right." "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Bigley. "Then what is it, please, Mr Clever? Doctor Stacey said bars were fulcrums, and you put the end under a big stone, and then put a little one down for a lever just so, and then you pressed down the end of the bar so, and then " "Oh! Look at it," cried Bigley.
All these movements, both of motion and of locomotion, occur according to certain fixed laws of mechanics. The bones, to which a great proportion of the muscles in the body are attached, act as distinct levers. The muscles supply the power for moving the bones, and the joints act as fulcrums or points of support.
In the second class the weight is between the fulcrum and the power. In the third class the power is between the fulcrum and the weight. I.* Two levers of first class showing fulcrums in different positions. II. Lever of second class. III. Lever of third class. F. Fulcrum. P. Power. W. Weight. a. Power-arm. b. Weight-arm.
In every community, the foundation principles of righteousness must be laid, before there can be fulcrums for the levers to be employed in overthrowing the sins which prevail in it. You will doubtless, then, agree with me, that it is not probable that the Apostles taught their heathen converts, directly and specifically, the sinfulness of war.
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