Such an honest and thorough treatment of the subject in all its bearings that it will carry weight and be accepted as an authority in tracing the process by which the scientific method has come to be supreme in modern thought and life.
There is no falsity so gross that honest men and, still more, virtuous women, anxious to promote a good cause, will not lend themselves to it without any clear consciousness of the moral bearings of what they are doing.
The Rush-bearings which are still held in Westmoreland, and were until quite recently general in Cheshire, would appear to be a relic of the custom of the Dedication Feast.
At these Rush-bearings young men and women carry garlands in procession through the village to the Church, which they enter and decorate with their floral tributes.
I give you my word that I lost my bearings more completely than ever since I strapped a middy's dirk to my belt.
But I've taken my bearings now, and I see my course right before me.
The lower ends of these bars are pivoted to a crank formed upon the shaft, which revolves in bearings attached to the rear bar of the frame.
It will be perceived that the bearings may be readily adjusted to curtains of different widths, and the parts may afterward be locked in position by the set screws, E.
On the beach the captain slackened his pace, and riding along the shore for about half an hour, he seemed to be examining the bearings of the coast with great attention.
The poems have their various bearings on morals and graces; and there is an index called a key to the moralities.
By no means a list of new-found facts; but the bearings of them on common subjects.
A) shows, for convenience, a pair of bearings (B).
Having dwelt here for several weeks, he knew his bearings well, but it was not until they came much nearer to the deserted mansion that Rebecca recognized several landmarks which convinced her that he had made no mistake.
In twenty-four hours the shrewd and resourceful New England woman was able to learn many things, and she rapidly found her bearings among the strange people and stranger institutions by which she was surrounded.
On the 5th of October he again set sail, and after having taken the bearings of the Bay of Almirante, he anchored opposite to the village of Cariaz.
He distinguished the forms of Robert, and Stephen, and the Atheling, and the armorial bearings and ensigns of the various detachments of European chivalry, and he struggled like an imprisoned bird to be free.
Hastily untying her scarf, she fastened it to the end of his spear, and the Crusader, with the armorial bearings of Navarre streaming from his lance, rode slowly and proudly from the lists.
As soon as possible after anchoring secure your bearings by pelorus and have them checked up by the quartermaster at regular intervals.
Two bearings of a known object separated by an interval of time, with a run during that interval.
The Pelorus This is an instrument for taking bearings of distant objects, and for taking bearings of celestial bodies such as the sun, stars, etc.
The distance run by the ship between the two bearings will be her distance from the observed object at the second bearing.
Two bearings of the same object, separated by an interval of time and with a run during that interval.
If possible choose an anchorage that will enable you to get bearings from two or three fixed points on shore.
The best point to mount it is in the bow or on the bridge of the ship, where a clear view for taking bearingscan be had.
Where the two lines intersect, will be the position of the ship at the time the bearings were taken.
For the same reason, bearings of distant objects may be slightly off when laid down on this chart in a straight line.
These bearingswill be secured in the best way by the use of your pelorus.
Transactions which have such direct bearings on freedom, on health, on morals, on the permanent well-being of the nation, can never be morally indifferent.
Having now ascertained the general nature of the contemporary socialistic movement, we shall be in a better position to judge of its bearings and importance.
In science the facts bearing on a given problem are presented as completely as possible and are classified with reference to their significant bearings upon the problem.
Thus what at first sight might seem a fantastic suggestion may, when its bearingsare logically followed out, be seen in one of its aspects to be the key to the solution of a problem.
What concerns us in this connection, however, is the nature of this absolutistic conception, and its bearings on the governance of human conduct.
There are men so absorbed in probing the crevices of their own little niche of knowledge that they forget the bearings of their researches.
The man to whom every event is flooded with imaginative possibilities and emotional suggestions is a useless or a dangerous character in situations where it is essential to discriminate the immediate and important bearings of facts.
The gross suggestion may seem wild and absurd, but when its bearings and consequences are logically developed there may be some item in the development which dovetails into the problem as its solution.
There is not necessary any intelligent analysis on the part of the agent, of the bearings and consequences of his actions.
Up to the present most people have been, and will probably remain for a long time to come, too ill-educated or too poorly endowed by nature to understand the bearings of the great social movements in which they are involved.
In logically elaborating a suggestion, as we have already seen, we trace out the bearings of a given situation.
Unless the individuals that compose a society are alert and conscious of the bearings of their actions, they will be completely and mechanically controlled by the customs to which they have been exposed in the early periods of their lives.
The parts of a shaft or axle which rest upon the bearings or supports are called journals, pivots, or collars.
This wood is much used for bearings of machines which are under water.
If my eyes did not deceive me, I beheld cockades in the hats of honest Republican "helps," and armorial bearings on the panels of democratic broughams.
Quite a new side of the problem--that of its moral bearings and abstract rights as opposed to the merely material right to daily bread which had first appealed to my sense of justice and humanity--now opened before me.
All the bearings were loose, and although there was plenty of oil in the sump, one was devoid of metal altogether.
I fished out all the big lumps of the broken piston that remained in the crank-case and tightened up the bearings as well as I could.
St Paul vibrates between the theological and practical bearings of the truth, marked α, β, respectively.
The cylinder A is fastened to the steel shaft B, which runs in the two bearings D and D', the bearing D' having an internal thread corresponding to that on the shaft.
M, to which are attached the two bearings B and B'.
The bearings are preferably of the concentric type.
These charts are based upon estimated bearings and distances between the principal ports or capes, the intervening coast-line being filled in from more detailed surveys.
The armorial bearings introduced on the lower edge of the drawing are supposed to be those of M.
The picture is in its original frame, surmounted by the armorial bearings of the Tron family.
The compass was taken to the foot of the beacon, and the bearings of the land which I had discovered in the distance accurately determined.
The door was securely closed, and one bright morning we were ready to start, first taking, by means of the compass, the bearings of the mountain.
Now if the bearings are correct, and I run two lines accordingly, the place where they meet will be the place for your corner stake; say at C.
Sighting the trees, the tall, straight stems of which were both visible over the knoll, he had found that their bearings corresponded with those copied in his notebook.
But I think I can find your corner, if the bearingsare all right.
I'll get the bearings of those trees in the mean while, and see how far wrong they make us out to be.
I took bearings and sketches of all that was visible, an operation which caused much astonishment to the Dyaks who accompanied me, and produced a request to exhibit the compass when I returned.
I amused myself as I best could till evening, by walking about the high ground near, to get views of the country and bearings of the chief mountains.
