But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

The volume is a piece of passionate special pleading, written with the heat -- and often with the wisdom, it must be said -- of a Liberal damning the shortsightedness of politicians from 1782 to 1832.

The most appalling aspect of Krim's piece is his reflection of the beat aesthetic.

That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.

every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main ''.

N.C.'s editorial `` Confrontation '' is a stunning piece of writing.

Moreover, the piece is written in five movements, rather than the conventional four of most quintets, and this gives the opus a serenade or divertimento flavor.

Pattern for circular base piece B is diameter of Aj.

After the frames and transom are set up on the jig and temporarily braced, a piece of three-inch-wide mahogany ( only widths will be given since the 13/16-inch thickness is used throughout ) is butted between frames one and two below the line of the keelson.

It is over this piece that the laminated stem and keelson are spliced.

The first piece is glued and screwed to the frames and transom and the piece butted between frames one and two.

The second piece is in turn glued and screwed to the first.

Note another piece of wood six inches wide is fastened to the transom between these pieces.

Another method of assuring a clean hole is to first drill a small pilot hole all the way through, then drill half way with the dimensional bit, turn the piece over, and finish from the other side.

As we find out at the end, it is not the stool ( symbolizing Doris, therefore the English ) that he is punishing but the piece of Venetian blind.

After a few tortuous moments of wondering who `` he '' is, the camera pans across the room to the plaster statue, and we realize that Neitzbohr is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of a mute piece of sculpture.

It made only a tiny bump over the two men like a tire over a piece of gravel then moved on.

Curious as to what made it work, he built a crude model of it in wood, and filed a piece of steel until he succeeded in making a metal pickup for the thread, enabling the crude machine to take stitches.

Picasso says that he himself had already made his first collage toward the end of 1911, when he glued a piece of imitation-caning oilcloth to a painting on canvas.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

They fasted or ate very little ; a statue of the god was made out of amaranth ( huautli ) seeds and honey, and at the end of the month, it was cut into small pieces so everybody could eat a little piece of the god.

The jewel is about long, made of filigreed gold, enclosing a highly polished piece of quartz crystal beneath which is set a cloisonné enamel plaque, with an enamelled image of a man holding floriate sceptres, perhaps personifying Sight or the Wisdom of God.

Many of the sweets produced in this region, such as quince, sweet potato, molasses and dulce de cayote jams, have given rise to a very well known and easily made dessert referred to as vigilante, or to so-called queso y dulce ( where a piece of fresh cheese is served with one of the sweets mentioned above ).

The ornament used for the piercing was made out of various materials, a piece of bark or bone, or an eagle ’ s feather shaft.

* Game piece ( gamepiece, counter, token, bit, meeple, mover, pawn, man, playing piece, player piece )— a player's representative on the gameboard made of a piece of material made to look like a known object ( such as a scale model of a person, animal, or inanimate object ) or otherwise general symbol.

Frederick Seitz, in a June 12, 1996 editorial-page piece in the Wall Street Journal complained that alterations made to Chapter 8 of the 1995 IPCC report were made to " deceive policy makers and the public into believing that the scientific evidence shows human activities are causing global warming.

The bow ( called the " prod " or " lath " on a crossbow ) of early crossbows was made of a single piece of wood, usually ash or yew.

Thus, for example, the same equation can be made to produce both a lyrical and melodic piece of music in the style of the mid-nineteenth century, and a fantastically dissonant cacophony more reminiscent of the avant-garde music of the 1950s and 1960s.

If the cannon is bronze, it will often have a vent piece made of copper screwed into the length of the vent.

Crankshafts can be monolithic ( made in a single piece ) or assembled from several pieces.

* Canterbury, a small piece of furniture made originally to house sheet music, also used for newspapers and magazines

Freeform crochet is a technique that can create interesting shapes in three dimensions because new stitches can be made independently of previous stitches almost anywhere in the crocheted piece.

The gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; ;

His letter to his daughter on the pains of growing up is surely as trenchant, forthright, and warmly understanding a piece of advice as ever a grown-up penned to a sensitive child, and with just the right tone of unpatronizing good humor.

The relative sophistication of this piece was not followed up for some time, with subsequent works in animation being limited to short, two or three frame effects, such as appeared in Edwin Porter's 1902 short " Fun in a Bakery Shop ", where a lump of dough was made to smile over the course of a three-frame sequence.

Another graffiti artist can go over a piece in a matter of minutes with a simple throw up.

Pinafore ran in London for 571 performances, the second longest run of any musical theatre piece in history up to that time ( after the operetta Les cloches de Corneville ).

Hesiod's patrimony there, a small piece of ground at the foot of Mount Helicon, occasioned lawsuits with his brother Perses, who seems at first to have cheated him of his rightful share thanks to corrupt authorities or " kings " but later became impoverished and ended up scrounging on the thrifty poet ( Works l. 35, 396 ).

* The jack is a thin, rectangular piece of wood which sits upright on the end of the keylever, held in place by the registers ( the upper movable, the lower fixed ) which are two long strips of wood running in the gap from spine to cheek with rectangular mortises through which the jacks can move up and down. Figure 2.

He wrote a consort piece with the punning title " Semper Dowland, semper dolens " ( always Dowland, always doleful ), which may be said to sum up much of his work.

Entrelac forms a rich checkerboard texture by knitting small squares, picking up their side edges, and knitting more squares to continue the piece.

During game play a piece moves from its starting square, clockwise around the perimeter of the board, and up the player's home column to the finishing square.

Once a piece has completed a circuit of the board it moves up the home column of its own colour.

* To speed the game up, extra turns or bonus moves can be awarded capturing a piece or getting a piece home ; these may grant passage past a block.

When the thirty-first day arrives, take out the root in the middle of the night and dry it in an oven heated with branches of verbena ; then wrap it up in a piece of a dead man's winding-sheet and carry it with you everywhere.

By moving the laser head, it is possible to stack the tracks and build up a 3D piece.

Most forms are pricked with a fork or a similar tool to keep the finished product from puffing up, and the resulting flat piece of dough is cooked at high heat until it develops dark spots, then set aside to cool and, if sufficiently thin, to harden to crispness.

Another option is called a rocking stitch, where the quilter has one hand, usually with a finger wearing a thimble, on top of the quilt, while the other hand is located beneath the piece to push the needle back up.

Dark must place a piece with the dark side up on the board, in such a position that there exists at least one straight ( horizontal, vertical, or diagonal ) occupied line between the new piece and another dark piece, with one or more contiguous light pieces between them.

This occurs when the grid has filled up or when neither player can legally place a piece in any of the remaining squares.

The Hmong of Southeast Guizhou will cover the rooster with a piece of red cloth and then hold it up to worship and sacrifice to the Heaven and the Earth.

On the reverse side of each piece, other than the king and gold general, are one or two other characters, in amateur sets often in a different colour ( usually red ); this side is turned face up during play to indicate that the piece has been promoted.