On this assumption pleasure is every bit as mathematically measurable as is warmth, the whole difficulty being due to its subjective and therefore inaccessible nature.

The only difference to him is that poetry is in verse and oratory in prose. Poetry, therefore, is where any worke is learnedly compiled in measurable speech, and framed in wordes conteyning number or proportion of just syllables, delighting the readers or hearers as well by the apt and decent framing of wordes in equal resemblance of quantitycommonly called verse, as by the skylfull handling of the matter.

I very soon ascertained that the cloudlet consisted, as I had supposed in the former case, of a multitude of points of light less brilliant than the stars, the distance between which became constantly wider, but which for some time were separately so small as to present no disc that any magnifying power at my command could render measurable.

It has been shown that when the bladder tone and the intestinal tone are of a definitely measurable size, one has the desire to empty them.

Now if Mr. Steffano Gairdi happened to have a cut or the mark of one upon the inside of his left hand, I felt that I should be within measurable distance of the end of the affair.

Adj. measuring &c v.; metric, metrical; measurable, perceptible, noticeable, detectable, appreciable, ponderable, determinable, fathomable; geodetical, topographic, topographical, cartographic, cartographical.

We have been taught to cherish, and we have been reluctant to abandon, a false standard of defence, though adherence to such a standard can be shown to have brought the country within measurable distance of grievous peril.

A tiger can stretch himself out some two or two and a half feet more than his measurable length.

But if the velocities be as the times, and the total space passed through be as the squares of the times, then the total space passed through must be as the squares of the velocity; and as the vis viva or mechanical power inherent in a falling body, of any given weight, is measurable by the height through which it descends, it follows that the vis viva is proportionate to the square of the velocity.

If the speed of a fly-wheel be doubled, it has four times the vis viva it possessed beforevis viva being measurable by a reference to the height through which a body must have fallen, to acquire the velocity given.

Power is not measurable by force but by force and velocity combined.

The strains subsisting in engines are usually characterized as tensile, crushing, twisting, breaking, and shearing strains; but they may be all resolved into strains of extension and strains of compression; and by the power of the materials to resist these two strains, will their practical strength be measurable.

What was this secret that made words into a book, houses into cities, and restless and measurable stars into an unchanging and immeasurable universe?

The book of the universe is written in mathematical characters; motion is the fundamental phenomenon in the world of matter; our knowledge reaches as far as phenomena are measurable; the qualitative nature of force, back of its quantitative determinations, remains unknown to us.

Previous to the mills being started, they could get a comfortable competence, but year by year the margin of profit has been narrowed down, till at length absolute starvation is beginning to stare them in the face, and that within measurable distance.

"Stops, or pauses, are a total cessation of sound during a perceptible, and in numerous compositions, a measurable space of time.

"Pauses or rests, in speaking and reading, are a total cessation of the voice during a perceptible, and, in many cases, a measurable space of time.

"The measurable constructive powers of a few associable constituents.

The epigrams are never good, they never come within measurable distance of La Rochefoucauld, Balzac, or even Goncourt.

Few minds, it seems, can conceive of any deity as other than some anthropomorphic extension of themselves, for the idea is too greatly blinding to admit human thought within a measurable distance even of a faintest conception.

The Woman's Man expresses himself wholly in that Motion which we call Strutting: An elevated Chest, a pinched Hat, a measurable Step, and a sly surveying Eye, are the Marks of him.

Either responsibility for the fault cannot be fixed, or the defect is one not measurable by any easily applied standard.

And here, though no doubt the poetic beauty reaches a climax in the song to Sabrinaa song for pure music certainly unsurpassed and probably unequalled by anything else that Milton ever wrotethere are others, such as 'By the rushy-fringed bank,' as well as less distinctively lyrical passages, which come within measurable distance even of its perfection.

But of them all, fifty-seven of themfor the most part lightly coming and lightly goingonly one ever really reached his heart, and was within measurable distance of a seat on his thronethe woman to whom he wrote in the hey-day of his passion, "Never has man loved as I love you.

This volume combines measurable completeness with an amount of editing sufficient for supplying needed help to the college student, and for furnishing material for class room work.