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...Browning. Style is that expression of a just thought in prose, or of a thought infused with imaginative passion in poetry, which is precisely adequate-neither more nor less. I have often thought that a happy image of it is an Italian girl with a jar of water on her head. The necessity of an exact balance gives dignity and something which may almost be called repose, to every motion. If the jar be of classical outline, as it often is, our pleasure is heightened. So in the matter of expression. The first requisite is (as Mrs. Glasse says...
...Cook excels. Instead of the eight men letting their bodies move gradually forward on the slides, allipull on their stretchers, making the first part of the slide very rapid, while they slow down just before finishing the slide, so as to avoid a sudden stop with its accompanying jar and retarding of the boat...
...sight of misery that he is callous to it, so used to vice that he ignores it. This kind of man may make a good historian or a good philosopher because he has a perfectly fair frame of mind. Provincial people on the other hand are unused to the jar and noise of the city, wonder at strange sights, shudder at crime and are shocked by vice. They cannot look at disturbances with equanimity and are more likely to form more intense convictions and to be moved by a sterner purpose than the careless city people. Their firmness of purpose...
...Franklin looked at the skies a hundred years ago to discover the nature of electricity, and we are doing the same thing now. What Franklin failed to see was that the discharge of electricity is not in one direction, but oscillatory. Josepe Henry noticed in 1835 that a Leyden jar gave out not one spark merely but several in succession. He discovered induction, and surmised wave motion, but he never thought of looking together for the source of that motion. It never occurred to him nor to us until very recently, that the electricity is not in the wires...
...boat house float while the boats are getting ready; neither will it be pleasant for the men who are waiting on the water. The second suggestion is, give up a place to see the races from. Again turning to our former experience, we remember having had to push and jar our way through a crowd of half-dressed men to a couple of starting gangways and a very small porch, where we were in constant danger of getting knocked into the mud by the stampede following the nose of a barge issuing from the boat house...