"Maintainable" Quotes from Famous Books
... moment to England a matter of duty even more than of interest. If the time should come when the effort to maintain the unity of the State is too great for the power of Great Britain, or the only means by which it is found maintainable are measures clearly repugnant to the humanity or the justice or the democratic principles of the English people,—if it should turn out that after every effort to enforce just laws by just methods our justice itself, from ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — England's Case Against Home Rule • Albert Venn Dicey
... copper flask, the flask may be corked up, as there will be scarce any steam produced so long as the high temperature is maintained; but so soon as the temperature is suffered to fall below 350 deg. or 400 deg., the spheroidal condition being no longer maintainable, steam is generated with rapidity, and the cork will be projected from the mouth of the flask ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Catechism of the Steam Engine • John Bourne |