Word: effect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Melville said in effect: Less than a century ago an engineer would have seemed out of place before an audience in Cambridge. Now he meets with a cordial appreciation and sympathy, which is a token of the closer relations which are beginning to exist between the literary and the scientific professions...
...message is sufficiently moderate in tone.- (a) It does not exaggerate resultant possibilities.- (b) It does not menace.- (x) Last paragraph is simply a definite and necessary statement of exact effect of finding of the Commission.- (c) England, the menaced nation, has not taken offence: Daily Papers...
...effect which was actually produced, however, disturbed every mint in Europe. We have to read the accounts of the scarcity of this or that metal with a certain degree of incredulity; because the people of that time believed the overflow of one metal was an actual loss to the country, although it really had beneficent effects...
Last evening Dr. McPherson conducted the last of his series of services in Appleton Chapel. The attendance was unusually large. Dr. McPherson chose his text from Matthew v, 7: "I came not to destroy but to fulfil." He spoke, in effect, as follows...
Human character may be classed in two main phases; it is at once an effect and a cause. Looking to the past and to the future, character moulds itself partly into conservatism and partly into progress. As Emerson says, each of the two makes a good half but a poor whole. On the one hand excessive conservatism is a mere negation; on the other, excessive radicalism recklessly destroys the virtue of healthly discipline and blots out the good of the past with its bad. The one maintains established evil; the other destroys established good...