The doctrine that such a universal law existed was never more than a plausible generalisation, founded on a few inconclusive facts derived from domesticated animals and cultivated plants.
The facts were, and still are, inconclusive for several reasons.
This is a great defect, and renders his work inconclusive as an argument, and exceedingly tedious to the reader as well as the reviewer.
It carried him back into a state of inconclusive interrogation past Lummidge's Hotel.
His inconclusive interrogations elicited at the utmost that Lummidge's Private and Family Hotel is singularly like any other hotel of its class.
He who makes a technical mistake will be called, if the mistake is a stupid one, an ignoramus; he who makes an economic mistake, is a man who does not know how to behave in life: a weak and inconclusive person.
This failure to act at the moment when Jacob Brown was so valiantly endeavoring to wrest from the British the precious Niagara peninsula was responsible for the desperate and inconclusive battle of Lundy's Lane.
However, we have now said all that we had to say by way of preface to what we fear will be a dreary and inconclusive discussion of some of those abundant figures that Domesday Book supplies.
These inconclusiveopinions certainly do not agree with the favorable impression which other portions of the manufacturer’s literature create.
Methods of Agreement, and of Concomitant Variations, inconclusive 471 5.
His tall fine figure stood high on the days, his thoughtful tenor filled the air as he steered his hazardous way through sentences that dragged inconclusive tails and dropped redundant prepositions.
Footnote 5: We have here omitted a long, uninteresting, and inconclusivedisquisition on the supposed Terra Australis, as altogether founded on supposition and error.
Thus inconclusive is the argument, by which the existence of a reconciliation is inferred.
But if his experiments prove inconclusive either way, he is quit for his loss of time, no vital harm being done.
We both contrived to get to the affair, and heard a discursive gritty paper on Trusts and one of the most inconclusive discussions you can imagine.
But my uncle's thoughts ran in a different channel, and he made that vision the test of a spirited but inconclusive harangue upon Tariff Reform.
I perceived I could never face that old inconclusive dullness of life again, that stagnant disappointment.
On November 7th hostilities began again between the Samoan armies, and an inconclusive skirmish sent a fresh crop of wounded to the de Coetlogons.
Becker's conduct, equally timid and rash, equally inconclusive and offensive, had forced the other nations into a strong feeling of common interest with Mataafa.
The story of Panthea and Abradates, to which Professor Ebers refers so triumphantly, is equally inconclusive as to the existence of altruistic affection.
Equally inconclusive is Westermarck's reference (216) to what Azara says regarding the Guanas.
The first indeed is a very bald and inconclusive article, and gives hardly any information respecting the object and success of the voyage to the Moluccas.
There was indeed nothing so irritating to his nerves as the inconclusive outpourings of kind-hearted but brainless persons.
According to Percival Lowell these results were, however, inconclusive because the strong atmospheric lines lie redwards beyond the part of the spectrum then possible to observe.
It is a means of analysing and exemplifying surplus labour, but quite inconclusive as to the proof of the surplus value, or as an indication of the degree of the exploitation of the workers.
The remainder of the reign of Vasili presented no important features beyond a recurrence of inconclusive hostilities with the Krim Tartars, and occasional diplomatic intercourse with Constantinople.
With Sweden the Moskovites waged one of those short inconclusive wars, in which neither party seemed to have any definite object in view, beyond the fact that they "lived unhappily" as neighbours.
There are indeed three other modes of objection to which he may resort; but these are all either inconclusive or unfair.
The reason which Aristotle gives for discarding from his catalogue the life of the money-seeker, while he admits that of the pleasure-seeker and the honour-seeker, appears a very inconclusive one.
