Fortnight
A fortnight is a measure of time equivalent to two weeks: that is 14 days, or literally 14 nights. The term is most commonly used in the UK. It derives from the archaic fort meaning fourteen.In the VMS operating system, some configuration parameters are specified in microfortnights (one millionth of a fortnight, or approximately 1.2096 seconds). Millifortnights (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnights (1.2096 milliseconds) have also been used occasionally in computer science, usually in an attempt to be deliberately over-complex and obscure. The aim is generally to slow users down, to allow them to set parameters, but only after some thought.
Nichol's works, either this, or those
such a task. But in this view it is sufficient to have made the general
works, and his oral lectures upon astronomy, are to be considered as
generation. More important it is, and more in reconciliation with the
which Dr. Nichol's works are framed; the breadth of his views, the
quarter, or at that point, happens to be absolutely walled out for the
the hostile intrenchments. Another feature challenges notice. In
is usually most faulty) a wish either for the naked severities of
else, if the cravings of human sensibility are to be met and gratified,
Of that kind is the enthusiasm of Dr. Nichol. The grandeurs of
They are none at all to him who has not. To the mean they become
in the theatre of his own brain. I know writers who report the marvels
It is obvious that in _their_ way of insisting on our earth's
mortify _you_. And, besides, these fellows are answerable for
statement of this nature, about how many things the Earth had done that
harnessed as a _tandem_, which the Earth would fly past, without
heart I could not help exclaiming--'That's nothing: I've done a great
there must be some inaccuracy _there_. How different is Dr.
shows itself not merely in reflecting the grandeurs of his theme, and
grandeurs that arrange themselves from any distance, upon or about that
enthusiasm awakens itself upon _every_ road that leads to things
which, like dubious theories or imperfect attempts at systematizing,
knowledge, viz., to intellectual _power_, to the augmented.
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