If a decrease in the value of the decrement at yₒ were essentially produced by previously keeping the wire oscillated for some time through a smaller range, much more should there be a decrease if it were previously kept entirely unoscillated.

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They lived in a huge, castlelike mansion.

It was still the heroic age of commerce, and the marches of these merchants-in-arms, escorting their packages to the fairs of Europe, had a military and risksome look, which we no longer deem in keeping with matter of such peaceful kind.