"Erg" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ERG. The young men have given me the name of "the mistress," for this reason, because invocated [1] I am wont to attend at the banquet. I know that buffoons [2] say that this is absurdly said, but I affirm ...
— The Captiva and The Mostellaria • Plautus
... of them, therefore the waste of the strings is the cause of the music, while in fact it is the hand of the player, and even the spirit behind the hand, which is the real and efficient cause of the music. So the form of the infinite and universal energy, which we may call erg-dynamic, is the cause of the waste of the body through which it works; and this is at once made good by the increased trophic metabolism which occurs, to replace the waste—this increased trophic metabolism showing ...
— The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington
... steel out of the way, and penetrate. The same is true of any other matter, lux metal or relux—it will penetrate. To continue in existence it must. And it has great energy, and will expend every erg of that energy of existence to ...
— Invaders from the Infinite • John Wood Campbell
... diameleisti tamon hoplissato dorpon;] [Greek: Esthie d' oste leon oresitrophos, oud' apeleipen] [Greek: Enkata te, sarkas te, kai ostea mueloenta.] [Greek: Hemeis de klaiontes aneschethomen Dii cheiras,] [Greek: Sketlia erg' ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) • Jacob Bryant |
