"Remanent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not subject, but there is worse in it, he cannot be subject to the law of God. This is certainly to throw down the natural pride of man, that always apprehends some remanent ability in himself. You think still to make yourselves better, and when convinced or challenged for sins, to make amends and reform your lives. You use to promise these things as lightly and easily as if they were wholly in your power, and as if ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning
... magnetism left in a bar of steel or other paramagnetic material after the application of a powerful magnet. It is distinguished from coercive force, as the latter is the amount of negative magnetizing or of demagnetizing force required to reduce the remanent magnetism to zero. ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone
... lies bene at all tymes cairfull to procure be hir craft of fair wordis, fair promeissis, and sumtyme buddis, to allure your simplicitie to that poynt, to joyne your self to hir suldiouris, to dantoun and oppres us, that ye the remanent, (we being cut of,) may be ane easie pray to hir slychtis, quhilk God, of infinite gudnes, lies now discoveritt to the eyeis of all that list to behald. Bot credeit the warkis, (deir Brethren,) gif ye will not creddeit us; and lay the exampill of forane natiouns, yea, of your awin brethren, ...
— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox
... be so hardy to crye havock upon peyne that he that is begynner shall be deede therefore: and the remanent that doo the same, or follow, shall lose their horse and harneis ... and his body in prison at ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 44, Saturday, August 31, 1850 • Various |
