Passive resistance is a misnomer.

But, then, it will be a big temptation for you" "Resistance is my nickname; you may trust me.

The quiet and sustained resistance to indifference and lack of appreciation, is truly the steady ballast which has prevented our Theosophical ship from aimless and fatal wanderings, though of inclement weather and adverse winds we had plenty.

The body resists this deflection, and this resistance is its centrifugal force.

In bending the forearm on the arm, familiarly known as "trying your muscle," the power is supplied by the biceps muscle attached to the radius, the fulcrum is the elbow joint at one end of the lever, and the resistance is the weight of the forearm at the other end.

Our readers are aware that the Resistance is an obsolete ironclad which has finished her career as a battle ship, and that nothing could have converted her into a modern armorclad.

Everywhere resistance to the invasion of barbarians became the national attitude of the Franks, and they proudly proclaimed themselves the defenders of that West of which they had but lately been the conquerors.

Doubtless, also, there is the inertia incident to long tradition, but I suspect that the resistance is rather due to a subtle and, as yet, nearly unconscious instinct, which teaches the numerical majority, who are inimical to capital, that the shortest and easiest way for them to acquire autocratic authority is to obtain an absolute mastery over those political tribunals which we call courts.

But he wanted time; he wanted liberty to choose his own life or enjoy his restlessness, and he realized the more keenly, from the sense of power that was so chafed in the curbing, that he was too young to be forced into such ruthless service; and he could not but acquiesce the less fervently because it was not open to him to give himself, since the claim of Venice was absolute and resistance was a crime.

This was accomplished, for Arthur had not time to turn his bridle for flight, and resistance would have been madness.

They knew full well that resistance or flight was an invitation to their guards to kill them, and that this invitation was likely to be promptly accepted.

" "You cannot always tell when resistance is principle, and when temper or distaste.

But whatever thought, general or special, this first verse may be dismissing, we come at once thereafter into the light of a definite question: 'Which is noblerto endure evil fortune, or to oppose it à outrance; to bear in passivity, or to resist where resistance is hopelessresist to the lastto the death which is its unavoidable end?'

These pieces are inclosed in a nickelized copper box provided with a screw cap, C. The resistance of both the receiver and transmitter bobbin is 200 ohms.

According to Mr. Gooch's experiments upon a train weighing 100 tons, the resistance of the engine and tender at 13.1 miles per hour was found by the indicator to be 12.38 lbs.; the resistance per ton of the train, as ascertained by the dynamometer, was at the same speed 7.58 lbs., and the average resistance of locomotive and train was 9.04 lbs.

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

XXX When Resistance Is Only a Pretense I was delighted to learn before my departure for the country, that your mind was more at rest.

She appeared, in relation to the future, to resemble a diver in the deep sea, who, the deeper he strives, finds a more resistant pressure, till, at no great depth, resistance becomes prohibition, and he can no further strive.

The resistance of the Spaniards, for instance, was certainly a popular resistance.

At first it moves quietly and the rider congratulates himself on having convinced the animal that resistance will be ill vain.

From this moment I grew quite convinced that her resistance was only a question of time.

Resistance is not the outcome of love, but since those two forces can exist side by side like two birds in a nest, one does not exclude the other.

Resistance, therefore, is not disbelief, unless by an act of my own reason I give it an absolute veto, which I do not do.

Her resistance is all the stronger, the more unexpected it is.

This resistance is a frank expression of genuine unwillingness, or aversion, and has nothing in common with real coyness, which signifies the mere semblance of unwillingness on the part of a woman who is at least half-willing.