Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent
energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.
It is greater than the stars--that moving procession of human
energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
"Your men of
energy are the very fellows TO fail," he said; "however, they shall find if I have had extraordinary
energy in running into debt, that I have extraordinary
energy, too, in getting out of it.
Taking it for granted, therefore, that all men of sense will agree in the necessity of an energetic Executive, it will only remain to inquire, what are the ingredients which constitute this
energy? How far can they be combined with those other ingredients which constitute safety in the republican sense?
Among the difficulties encountered by the convention, a very important one must have lain in combining the requisite stability and
energy in government, with the inviolable attention due to liberty and to the republican form.
On these occasions, he would redouble in
energy, and declare that black was white, and blue yellow, with much conviction and heat of manner; but in the morning such a licence of debate weighed upon him like a crime, and he would seek out his father, where he walked before breakfast on a terrace overlooking all the vale of Thyme.
We may say, speaking somewhat roughly, that a stimulus applied to the nervous system, like a spark to dynamite, is able to take advantage of the stored
energy in unstable equilibrium, and thus to produce movements out of proportion to the proximate cause.
He saw in him a remarkable, clear-thinking man of vast intellect who by his
energy and persistence had attained power, which he was using solely for the welfare of Russia.
The work had begun immediately and carried on with indefatigable
energy. Instead of digging round the Nautilus which would have involved greater difficulty, Captain Nemo had an immense trench made at eight yards from the port-quarter.
he gave one last thought to his master; and began to struggle with all the
energy of despair, feeling himself the while drawn along, but not toward the bottom of the lake, as is the habit of the crocodile when about to devour its prey, but toward the surface.
But he did not have the
energy to consider the lie.
Of what in other worlds shall be--and given In beauty by our God, to those alone Who otherwise would fall from life and Heaven Drawn by their heart's passion, and that tone, That high tone of the spirit which hath striven Though not with Faith-with godliness--whose throne With desperate
energy 't hath beaten down; Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown.