Word: motion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 in her receipt for jugged hare-first catch your hare) to catch your thought or feeling as the case...
...yarn of their discourse, and at the same time supply the material for their spinning. Montaigne set the example of this method, though he commonly found in his library the peg on which to hang his inspired twaddle, and must have his wits shaken up and put in motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement in his own bodily economy that set his fancy going, and it is wonderful into what a fairyland of agreeable and even profound suggestion he contrived to blunder, through the bypath...
...overwhelmed by the noble spirit with which the Corporation has, entirely of its own motion, met my simple request to be allowed to resign...
...same meeting the advisory committee announced the appointment of Mr. J. B. Fine as head coach in foot-ball next season. On their recommendation a motion was passed to the effect that the joint committee should authorize the expenditure through Mr. Fine of money only for travelling expenses and board bills of such coaches as are invited, and for such times only as they are asked...
...table of motions has been arranged by placing on the margin names of such motions as are used in common parliamentary practice with their classification and order of precedence, the motions having the highest order of precedence in a deliberative body being placed at the top of the book; and descending in regular consecutive order will be found those having the next highest order of precedence, viz.- privileged questions, incidental questions, subsidiary motions and the main question-thus can be seen without turning a page, and in a moments time, whether a motion is in order. Between each marginal reference...