In the drama, the episodes are short, but it is these that giveextension to Epic poetry.

After making the greatest opposition between thought andextension, Descartes, like Plato, supposes them to be reunited for a time, not in their own nature but by a special divine act (compare Phaedrus), and he also supposes all the parts of the human body to meet in the pineal gland, that alone affording a principle of unity in the material frame of man.

'the change of motion is proportional to the impressed force,' or that 'whatever hasextension is divisible,' these propositions are to be understood of motion andextension in general; and nevertheless it will not follow that they suggest to my thoughts an idea of motion without a body moved, or any determinate direction and velocity, or that I must conceive an abstract general idea ofextension, which is neither line, surface, nor solid, neither great nor small, black, white, nor red, nor of any other determinate colour.

Merchant ships are butextension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, other fragments of the land like themselves, without seeking to draw their living from the bottomless deep itself.

Theextension of our own commerce in our own vessels cannot give pleasure to any nations who possess territories on or near this continent, because the cheapness and excellence of our productions, added to the circumstance of vicinity, and the enterprise and address of our merchants and navigators, will give us a greater share in the advantages which those territories afford, than consists with the wishes or policy of their respective sovereigns.

Catherine was delighted with thisextension of her Bath acquaintance, and almost forgot Mr.

As far as this would be conducive to the interests of commerce, so far it must tend to theextension of the revenue to be drawn from that source.

He consented to help in preventing anextension of the franchise; but he refused to be concerned in obstructing the repeal of taxes on knowledge.

Its jaws were pried apart to their greatestextension, and a stout stake, sharpened at both ends, was so inserted that when the pries were removed the spread jaws were fixed upon it.

It seems to me that we have abundant evidence of great oscillations of level in our continents; but not of such vast changes in their position andextension, as to have united them within the recent period to each other and to the several intervening oceanic islands.

I felt a considerableextension of power and authority, and was anxious to acquit myself creditably.

They had the bloom of health and happiness; and yet, as if I had been in charge of a pair of little grandees, of princes of the blood, for whom everything, to be right, would have to be enclosed and protected, the only form that, in my fancy, the afteryears could take for them was that of a romantic, a really royalextension of the garden and the park.