So little disposed was he to thus use the work of others that a given device or idea which had been in previous use was often rejected and search made for another, different and original, even though it might involve only some relatively trivial part of the work.

He must lead or have none of it, and thus the fact that a device or expedient was in common use would furnish an argument against rather than for its adoption.

He passed an electric current through a circuit, which was located close to another circuit containing a galvanometer,a device for showing the presence of an electric current and measuring its strength,but failed to obtain any result.

It consisted of a simple device for measuring the amount of hydrogen and oxygen gases liberated by the passage of an electric current through water acidulated with sulphuric acid.

As is well known, this instrument is a device for raising or lowering electric pressure.

Faraday's early electric motor consisted essentially in a device whereby a movable conductor, suspended so as to be capable of rotation around a magnet pole, was caused to rotate by the mutual interaction of the magnetic fields of the active conductor and the magnet.

An important device, called the series-parallel controller, is employed in all systems of electric street-car propulsion.

It is probable that Hippocrates and many others after him carried the physical examination of the chest still further, for it is difficult to imagine, for example, that so simple a device as that of thumping a partition to make out the situation of a joist by the sound evoked should not early have been applied to the human chest.

Make out for the fellow That came with this device.

Sir Richard Huntlove, who longs to be among his own tenants and eat his own beef in the country; his lady, who loves the pleasures of the town, balls in the Strand, and masques; Device, the fantastic gallant,these are well-known figures in Shirley's plays.

Enter Monsir Device.

Friend Device, how does thy body?

Most pretious Alamode, Monsir Device!

He is one of my inamoratos, Sir; They call him Mounsir Device.

And myne Mounsieur Device.

Enter Device.

My compleat Monsier Device, this is a grace to us.

[Device. Sis.

Leave that to me: I weare not worth the name of him that serv'd you To loose my glorious hope for want of such A thinne device.

Enter Device, Sister.

Now you talke of the cold it puts me in mind of the new device of fire for brewing and bakeing.

Omitting this, therefore, and taking all the other vowels and consonants whether actually represented in the device or not, I now got the proverb in the form mens sana in ... pore sano.

In either case it is, be it remembered, not a part of the elective machinery designed by the legislature, but a political device to increase the chances of victory through unity of purpose and action.

Tiberius, however, got him in his hands by a clever device and through the agency of certain persons who pretended to sympathize with the upstart.

Sometimes he would fell his adversary at a blow; his sword, as Boswell said, would be through your body in an instant without preliminary flourishes; and in the excitement of talking for victory, he would use any device that came to hand.

There was no man so cunning or strong, so rich or valiant, who could devise to carry bread and wine, flesh and flour, for their sustenance.

He bade them travel the whole night through, outstripping the Britons, and devise such ambush as would rescue their comrades from these barons.

They pained themselves greatly, doing all that craft might devise to bring the combat to an end.

She had driven from her husband's councils the only man who combined with the penetration to perceive the absolute necessity of a large reform and the character of the changes required, the genius to devise them and the firmness to carry them out.

And, whilst yet smoking from the bolt he lay, His shattered body to a tomb convey; And o'er the tomb an epitaph devise: 'Here he who drove the Sun's bright chariot lies; His father's fiery steeds he could not guide, But in the glorious enterprise he died.

Of this evasion Captain Cook, of the 89th regiment, had given a shocking instance; and Chief Justice Ottley had candidly confessed, that "he could devise no method of bringing a master, so offending, to justice, while the evidence of the slave continued inadmissible."

Rewards also might be given to those slaves who should raise a certain number of children; and to those who should devise means of lightening negro-labour.

I explained, however, that one must have a few hours to devise suitable plans.

It is certainly possible that a poet might devise a story of such a kind that we could easily take it as something which might have been a real human experience.

There was a time when all the body's members Rebelled against the belly; thus accused it: That only like a gulf it did remain I' the midst o' the body, idle and unactive, Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing Like labor with the rest, where the other instruments Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel, And, mutually participant, did minister Unto the appetite and affection common Of the whole body.

By the time her father had finished his supper she was trying, but in vain, to devise means for the prisoner's escape.

New subjects are started as old ones cease to operate, and thus all that ingenuity and art, industry and perseverance, can devise or effect is accomplished.

England had not borne her share in the seven years' war without a considerable augmentation of the national debt, and a corresponding increase in the amount of yearly revenue which it had become necessary to raise; and Mr. Grenville, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, had to devise the means of meeting the demand.

Cook again complains of the thefts committed so continually, and says that no punishment they could devise was effectual, for "flogging made no more impression than it would have done upon the mainmast."

[-3-] This being so, any one might reproach us quite as much, even if we had nothing of the sort in mind at the beginning and were to begin to devise it only now.

She had been included in the conspiracy and all its details had been trusted to her without reserve; yet she revealed none of these though often tortured in all the ways that the skill of Tigillinus could devise.

And at once they began to devise means by which they might kill Manabush, or Nanahboozhoo, as he was now called, when they should find him.

Thus the most effectual guards were provided against abuses and dangers of every kind which human ingenuity could devise, and the whole people rendered more competent to the self-government which by an heroic exertion they had acquired.

If the State governments had not been restrained from encroaching on the powers vested in the National Government, the Constitution, like the Confederation, would soon have been set at naught; and it was not within the limit of the human mind to devise any plan for the accomplishment of the object other than by making a national constitution which should be to the extent of its powers the supreme law of the land.

What should incite Fallerio to devise, The overthrowe of this unhappie boy? Vesu.

Inevitable fates, could you devise, No means to bring me to this pilgrimage, Full of great woes and sad calamities, But that the father should be principall, To plot the present downfall of the sonne?

But as they were savouring their "double" coffee and liqueurs, and Undine was wondering what her companion would devise for the afternoon, the Princess clapped her hands together and cried out: "Dearest, I'd forgotten!

''Is it in the compass of human imagination to devise a more perfect exemplification of the art of committing the lamb to the tender custody of the wolf?''The representative is thus constituted, not the friend, agent and trustee of the person whom he represents, but the most inveterate of his foes.

Then it were well that some of youtrue men Men sound at heart, should secretly devise, How best to shake this hateful thraldom off.

After doing all the mischief that their vicious minds could possibly devise, they weighed anchor; but in the mean time, perceiving a sail bearing towards them with all possible speed, they hastened to prepare for her reception, and made towards her.