Between 3 and 4 there was to be a setting out of some work to the men by a sort of Dutch Auction (the usual way of setting out the work here): some refuse ores were to be broken up and made marketable, and the subject of competition was, for how little in the pound on the gross produce the men would work them up.

The men urged me to climb the ladders to a level where the air was better, but they might as well have urged me to lift up the rock.

During his stay in Russia, there was a great desire manifested by the astronomers and scientific men of Russia that he should be presented to the Emperor.

* There were in all 19 Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Laws conferred on the 9th of June, including men of such eminence as Armstrong, Faraday, and Fairbairn.

Both of them were men of the highest mathematical powers, but diametrically opposed in their views of the use of Mathematics.

I do not quite understand your reference to Stokes and Adams, as types of the men who alone retain their abstract Analytical Geometry.

And if men, after leaving Cambridge, were designed to shut themselves up in a cavern, they could have nothing better for their subjective amusement.

So much time is swallowed up by the forced study of the Pure Mathematics that it is not easy to find anybody who can really enter on these subjects in which men of science want assistance.

The packages were all burst, and many things were lost, but a good deal was recovered by men suspended by ropes.

Circumstances have enabled me lately to obtain private information of a most accurate kind on the late Mathematical Tripos: and among other things, I have received a statement of every individual question answered or partly answered by five honour-men.

I go at 12, and find men at the room copying from my big papers: I lecture from 1 to 2, and stop till after 3, and through the last hour some men are talking to me and others are copying from the papers; and I usually leave some men still at work.

He was not an educated man, nor was he what men call a gentleman, and yet there was a refinement about him which made one feel at once that he was no common man, and had no common history.

How tremendously those men pulled!

A long string of men and lads laid hold of the strong cable fastened to the boat.

"It's a mistake for a woman to marry a man younger than herselfwomen age so much faster than men.

The Renaissance was essentially bromidic; Art danced in fetters, men looked back at the Past for inspiration and chewed the cud of Greek thought.

As if he were a Martian newly come to earth, he sees things separated from their environment, tradition, precedentthe dowager without her money, the politician without his power, the sage without his poverty; he sees men and women for himself.

Most vain men are vain of qualities which they do not really possess, or possess in a lower degree than they fancy.

Other biographers had given excellent memoirs of men considered in relation to the chief historical currents of the time.

A levée, chiefly of literary men, surrounded him; and he seemed to be regarded as a kind of oracle to whom every one might resort for advice or instruction.

"Yes, sir," replied Johnson, "many men, many women, and many children."

"Hume, and other sceptical innovators," he said, "are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense.

This the men did by touching their hats and bowing, and the women, by making a low courtesy, and adding, sometimes, "howdy, massa," or "mornin', massa."

The men and women were intermingled; the latter kept pace with the former, wielding their hoes with energy and effect.

"George and his men will be ready in a moment.