Now it is self-evident that this success cannot be ascribed to the efforts of the body, but altogether to the mind, which probably, during sleep perceives and computes the duration of time, so that it makes an impression on the body, which enables us to awake at an appointed hour.

Go! say to the secluded zealot: "Withhold thy blame; for know, I find the arch of the Mihráb but in an eyebrow's bow." Between the Ka'bah and the wine-house, no difference I see: Whate'er the spot my glance surveys, there equally is He. 'Tis not for beard, hair, eyebrow only, Kalandarism should care: The Kalandar computes the Path by adding hair to hair.

And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers?

An ancient historian computes, that his annual fixed income, besides escheats, fines, reliefs, and other casual profits to a great value, amounted to near four hundred thousand pounds a year [t]; a sum which, if all circumstances be attended to, will appear wholly incredible.

Sir Henry Spellman computes, that, in the large county of Norfolk, there were not, in the Conqueror's time, above sixty-six proprietors of land

In Minnesota and some other states, he computes all the taxes for the county, [Footnote: In some states, among them Wisconsin, this computation is performed by the several town clerks, and the moneys are collected by the town treasurers.] and makes the tax-lists, showing in books provided for the purpose just how much the tax is on each piece of real estate and on personal property.

The state auditor, also, comparing the legislative appropriations with the assessed value of the property of the state, computes the rate of the state tax and reports it to county auditors.

The final estimates being reported to the computing officer, and the various sums to be raised having been reported to him, he finds the rate of taxation, computes the taxes, and turns the books over to the collecting officer.

Thus miserably erroneous are the estimated distances in old navigators, who could only compute by the dead reckoning, or the log.

Every one who is acquainted with simple arithmetic, can compute the terminal pressure of steam in a cylinder, when he knows the initial pressure and the point at which the steam is cut off; and he can also find, by the same process, any pressure intermediate between the first and the last.

He computes his Communicants at about three Hundred.

Slavery, not the law of God, practically determines whether husbands shall dwell with their wives: and an amount of anguish, which God alone can compute, testifies that slavery has thus determined, times without number, that husbands shall not dwell with their wives.

Compute the value of a MAN in money!

Compute the value of a MAN in money!

Compute the value of a MAN in money!

" When the pack'd audience from their posts retir'd, And Julius in a general hiss expir'd, Sage Booth to Cibber cried, "Compute your gains; These Egypt dogs, and their old dowdy queens, But ill requite these habits and these scenes!

It is however certain, that no estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

Let ingenuity here keep her seat, For works minute, or works immensely great, We to thy native sons the gift impart, Of bright invention, and of matchless art, Skill'd to devise, to reason, to compute, Quick to suggest, and prompt to execute; What some have but conceiv'd, do thou amend, Mature and perfect, to some noble end.

L'Etoile computes them at one hundred and twenty-seven.Journ.

L'Etoile computes the number of individuals who lost their lives in these illicit encounters at several thousands; nor did the tardy edicts issued by the King produce a cessation of the custom.

" Surely, "to cast up" is to cast somehow, though the meaning of the phrase may be "to compute."

No doubt, the severance of the entail, if made at all, would be made in accordance with the young man's wishes, and on certain terms which should be declared to be just by persons able to compute the value of such rights.

He computes the elasticity of the ether to be 490,000,000,000 times greater than air in proportion to its density.

I pull a flower from the woods, A monster with a glass Computes the stamens in a breath, And has her in a class.

He computes that by Christmas the Government must come to the aid of the pauper operatives, of whom there are now seven hundred and fifty thousand, a number which will then have increased to nearly a million.