As to the archaeological evidence, the fact seems to be that the account is archaeologically so inexact that it has given great trouble to one eminent antiquary, Knut Stjerna.
The whole of this passage, says Gosselin, is full of mistakes, and it would seem that Strabo quoted from an inexact copy of Cæsar.
To me it seems entirely mathematical; but Eratosthenes himself set the example; for he frequently runs into scientific speculations, having little to do with the subject in hand, and which result in vague and inexact conclusions.
In some cases where foreign names beginning with h occur we occasionally find instances of this inexact alliteration, as Hólofernus únlyfigendes Jud.
We may therefore reject as inexact the pretended law of eccentricity of the physiologists, who suppose that sensation is first perceived as it were centrally, and then, by an added act, is localised at the peripheric extremity of the nerve.
No doubt it would be inexact to say that the perception of one of our ideas always takes place through the same mechanism as the perception of one of our sensations.
To be quite complete, I ought to mention the facts which I have not been able to verify, and those which seem inexact to me.
Allow me, for convenience of language, to express my thought in a way altogether crude and even inexact by saying that our series of muscular sensations are classed in three classes corresponding to the three dimensions of space.
These rules, it must be said, are incomplete andinexact to a degree that will shock any person with a scientific knowledge of Polish pronunciation.
The rendering of zajazd by foray is of course inexact and conventional; but the translator did not wish to use the Polish word and could find no better English equivalent.
Let a stockbroker be dead stupid about poetry, or a poet inexact in the details of business, and we excuse them heartily from blame.
This statement, which implies that bad treatment was not universal, is inexact and therefore of little use.
In the other cases we are not informed at all how the individual or family comes into possession, or are informed in such an inexact way[954] that we cannot attach much value to the information.
In all these cases it is necessary to pierce through the literal meaning to the real meaning, which the author has purposely disguised under an inexact form.
If he has given inexact information, it is indifferent whether he did so intentionally or not; to draw a distinction would complicate matters unnecessarily.
Innumerable historical errors owe their origin to false or inexact interpretations of quite straightforward texts, perpetrated by men who were insufficiently acquainted with the grammar, the vocabulary, or the niceties of ancient languages.
Such a sentiment must come gradually by a slow adaptation of the spirit to the inexactideas supplied to one by the senses.
Historically nothing could be more inexact than Mr. Arnold’s method, which essentially consists in making a present of the most refined conceptions of our epoch to primitive peoples.
Now the word 'feudalism' is and always will be an inexact term, and, no doubt, at various times and places there emerge phenomena which may with great propriety be called feudal and which come of evil and make for evil.
Moreover such terms as 'dependent' and 'independent' are not words that we can profitably quarrel over, since they are inexact and ambiguous.
An inexact Aesthetic must of necessity drag after it an inexact Logic.
This arises from his inexact idea of the essence of the aesthetic faculty or of art, which, as we now know, is pure intuition.
The reason is that he looks upon the word in too unilateral a manner, as a means of developing logical thought, and his ideas of Aesthetic are too vague and too inexact to enable him to discover their identity.
It would beinexact to identify art in the Middle Age with philosophy and theology.
Our estimate of men is apt to be as inaccurate and inexact as that of things, or more.
If you have beeninexact in any point, you had better correct it.
Humboldt adopted so inexact a description as that of Alzate.
I have said there were some inexact statements, but they are very few.
Can it be said that there were no inexactstatements made by the communicator during all these sittings?
In all literary enjoyment there is something incalculable, something wayward, eluding the precision of rule, and rendering inexact the precepts of him who would point out the path to it.
Evil is only an inexact description of a lesser good, or good in the making.
Ballard calls Theomonism, but a far less carefully thought-out and tested theory of life, which at the present time is making a successful appeal to multitudes of inexact thinkers.
Now the intensity of a sound indicates its extent only by accident, and therefore in an inexact manner.
Inexact phrasing throughout: Health is first in every line of activity.
Inexact noun: Promptness is an item which a manager should possess [Use quality].
Inexact adjective: He looked awfully funny when I told him he had made a mistake [Use surprised].
Inexact verb: He had not sufficiently regarded the difficulties of the task [Use considered].
These examples prove how inexact Vasari is here once more.
It is conceivable that what Shelley said about his mother's endeavour to lure him into signing a parchment-deed, was his vague and inexact recollection of some incident of his last visit to the old home.
Is the bare statement of so inexact a letter-writer to be held good evidence, that Byron withheld a letter he was bound in honour to pass on to Mrs. Hoppner?
It is thus the author of Shelley's Early Life by turns disproves his own charges against Hogg's accuracy, or shows himself more inexact than the biographer whom he accuses of falsehood.
In the inexact modern way, every curious old knocker on church doors is “sanctuary”; but in reality the ancient privilege was too valuable to be granted with the indiscriminate freedom this would argue.
