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He might have boasted that he never took a step without calculating the cost, carefully considering the object, and proportioning the means to his end.
In the movable-fulcrum forging hammer the operations of starting and stopping, and the giving of heavy or light blows, are under the complete control of one foot of the workman, who requires therefore no assistant; and by properly proportioning the diameter of the driving pulley and size of belt to the hammer, the heavy blows are given at a slower rate than the light ones, owing to the greater resistance which they offer to the driving belt.
Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant.
Valuable cheese may be made from a tolerable pasture, by taking the whole of two meals of milk, and proportioning the thickness of the vat to the quantity, rather than having a wide and flat one, as the former will produce the mellowest cheese.
Some may call it an improvement, but it might almost be called a revolution in mechanical engineering which Mr. Maudslay introduced. Before his time no system had been followed in proportioning the number of threads of screws to their diameter. Every bolt and nut was thus a speciality in itself, and neither possessed nor admitted of any community with its neighbours.
Gaskell seems to me one of the chief illustrations of the extreme difficulty of the domestic novel of the necessity of exactly proportioning the means at command to the end to be achieved. She "means" well in Herbert's sense of the word: but what is meant is not quite done.
Of these he wrote out a list, amounting to fifteen thousand foot and five hundred horse, proportioning the contingent of each state to the number of its young men, and ordered those present to go directly from the spot to the gate of the city; and, in order to expedite the business, to proceed to raise the men.
Mac-Candlish an acute tact in ascertaining the quality of her visitors, and proportioning her reception accordingly: To every guest the appropriate speech was made, And every duty with distinction paid; Respectful, easy, pleasant, or polite 'Your honour's servant! 'Mister Smith, good-night. On the present occasion she was low in her courtesy and profuse in her apologies.
Weighing each sin and wickedness With so much equity, Proportioning of thy distress And woful misery. 22. With so much justice, doing right, That thou thyself shalt say, My sins have brought me to this plight, I threw myself away. 23. Into that gulph my sins have brought Me justly to possess, For which I blame not Christ, I wrought It out by wickedness. 24.
The day wore on; the silence grew on the group. When Andrew, proportioning the work for supper, sent Joe to get wood, Jeff for water, and began himself to work with Scottie on the cooking, he was met with ugly looks and hesitation before they obeyed. Something, he felt most decidedly, was in the air.
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