47 Metaphors for testing

It is not impossible that a Spiritualist might urge that the test which I apply is not a fair onethat guile will beget guile, that the Spirits meet me as I meet them.

The real test of character is joy.

Our tests of geologic time are denudation and deposition.

The real test of the pupils' mastery of a principle discussed in the text will be their ability to put it into practice.

These are traits, and measures, and modes; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops,no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Perhaps it would not destroy, but only transfigure, after all,yet the test was lightning; and for whom that we love dare we venture such an ordeal, though it were to win them Paradise?

It only implies that perfect simplicity is perfect elegance, and that the true test of taste in the toilette of a gentleman is its entire harmony, unobtrusiveness and becomingness.

The first test, which is called "ground work," is a hopping stunt.

As restraints upon the people themselves they are but self-denying ordinances which the people may revoke, but the supreme test of capacity for popular self-government is the possession of that power of self-restraint through which a people can subject its own conduct to the control of declared principles of action.

With this exception the test is an infallible one, as by it the demarcation between cankered and healthy tissue can be clearly traced, and as a result we can with equal confidence radically remove[A] all cankered tissue, and conserve all healthy.

The long run of this first day was most encouraging; but the test is not the first day, nor the second, nor even the first week, nor the second, but the steady pull of week in and week out.

Its two tests are its universal interest and its personal style.

Of such geniuses, if the test applied be the work accomplished, there have been few with higher claims to respectful and admiring consideration than Lieou Pang, who after the fall of the Tsins became the founder of the Han dynasty under the style of Kaotsou.

" "That is right," said Father Payne, "I think the test is simply thisthat whenever you feel yourself paralysed, and your natural growth arrested by your obedience to any one claiminstinct, reason, conscience, whatever it isthe ultimate power cuts the knot, and tells you unfailingly where your real life lies.

Tests on Green Material The tests on all bolts, except those from which a comparison of green and dry timber is to be gotten, will be as follows: Static bending: One stick from each pair.

The best test of British and American military qualities, both for men and weapons, was Scott's battle of Chippawa.

That the Winnebagos had all passed the test was a matter of considerable pride to them, and also to Nyoda, to whom they had promptly written the good news.

" Law says this letter was a forgery, but as the Nawab did not write any letters himself, the only test of authenticity was his seal, which was duly attached.

The crucial test is the fact that bad workFichte's philosophy, for exampleif it wins any reputation, also maintains it for one or two generations; and only when its public is very large does its fall follow sooner.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

A still more serious test of the faith of Abraham was the sacrifice of Isaac, on whose life all his hopes naturally rested.

The test of success is influence,that is, the power of shaping events by informing, guiding, animating, controlling other minds.

Compression parallel to grain: This test will be on specimens 2" X 2" X 8" in size.

The test of any scientific law is our verification of its anticipations.

The test of a man's call to the ministry is his power to seize the Sword of the Spirit: wield the spiritual forces of the world, insight, conviction, persuasion, truth.

47 Metaphors for  testing