This inference has often been drawn; but I prefer, in the meantime at least, to draw a wider but, I believe, a sounder and more useful inference.
The inference therefore is, that the conditions of military service have become universally more disagreeable.
From which assumption the practical inference followed, that the restraints which were held sacred between enemies who inherited the same traditions of military honour had no need to be observed in hostilities with the heathen world.
Here is a foregone conclusion on the subject of arsenic in Madame Duparc's mind, and an inference in connection with it, directed at the servant by Madame Duparc's lips.
My object is to get rid of your inference, not to substitute any new inference of my own.
When, therefore, your hat will purchase x quantity of labor instead of half x, the inference is irresistible that your hat has doubled its value.
So far from that, there is an end of all logic if such an inference be tolerated.
But is it possible that Mr. Ricardo can require me to abjure an inference so reasonable as this?
What was intended is left to inference from the language employed, which must be interpreted according to “the course of the Parliament,” precisely as what was intended by trial by jury is ascertained from the Common Law.
You cannot reject these without setting at defiance a fixed rule of interpretation, and resorting instead to vague inference or mere imagination, quickened, perhaps, by your desires.
The inference was plain that something which would have given Santoine the information Warden had had and which Eaton now required had been brought into Santoine's house and put in Santoine's safe.
Any inference to be drawn from this as to the seriousness of the injuries was plainly beyond Connery.
The inference is inevitable from the scenes and passages described and quoted by Mr Stahr.
The result of his observations was, that he could draw no inference from their intemperance or abstemiousness with regard to diet or drinking, but that they all agreed in one point, that of being early risers.
The inference to be drawn from such a remark, is, that the court of Pekin is well aware of the extortions committed against foreigners at Canton.
The inference was obvious, that the spectre knight was known in the country, and that he possessed adherents or accomplices there, who were at least so far his friends, as to avoid giving any alarm, which might be the means of his discovery.
Yet when he really wanted to resign he was not allowed to do so; and thus at last he was left to learn by inference that he had given satisfaction.
The inference from these is that the querist conceives A, or B, or C to be statesmen certainly not less eminent than E, or F, or G, whose names he sees upon the list.
He did not in direct words charge the other commissioners with culpable negligence; but it was an unavoidable inference from what he did say.
Rougé's theory may demand, their inference as to the direct connection between the Greek and other alphabets and the Phœnician alphabet is not necessarily to be accepted.
The recurrence of certain groups of characters led him to the inference that "the inscriptions were a fixed formula, only differing in the proper names.
Rougé's materials for observation and comparison, and there have been few more striking examples of ingenuity of classification and inference than those which, his work supplies.
But the inference does not rest upon mere supposition; the freshwater shrimps at Knowlmere were seen devouring the ova in the spawning-boxes.
From this fact a rash inference has sometimes been drawn, that rivers in general have grown smaller, or become less liable to be flooded than formerly.
The marine shells of the London clay confirm the inference derivable from the plants and reptiles of a high temperature.
But what inferencecan be drawn from this, or what would they amount to, if they were not to be supreme?
The inference will be, that a conduct tending to give an undue preference to either is much less to be dreaded from the former than from the latter.
Wells and apparently supported by many of the clergy, that the acts of God must square with human ideals of mercy or justice, and as many occurrences do not, the inference is that evil gets the best of it sometimes.
By the help of that darkness within him that he mistook for light, he had added inference to inferenceand conclusion to conclusion.
The necessary inference from Pitt's arguments seemed to be that Hastings ought to be honorably acquitted; and both the friends and the opponents of the Minister expected from him a declaration to that effect.
But this inference he very vehemently, and, we doubt not, very sincerely denied.
The inference which his enemies drew from his conduct was that he did not consider the conspiracy against the life of William as sinful.
The natural inference is, that there were faults on all sides.
If what Mr. Charles Lamb says were correct, the inference would be that these dramatists did not in the least understand the very first principles of their craft.
A certain amount of this comes from an unconscious inference on the part of the recipients.
The strength of Calvinism is its horrible resemblance to a natural inference from the facts of life; but if any sort of Calvinism is true, then it is a mere insult to the intelligence to say that God is loving or just.
