Let us examine and investigate the system and arrangement of the world--that is, that portion of which we are a part and which so vitally concerns us.
Therefore, since among the organs of my body, there is a thinking portion, I am within the bounds of sanity when I investigate and express such thoughts, opinions and findings as my reason and understanding dictate.
But I was steeped in a tumultuous passion, which would not suffer me to investigate intervening difficulties.
The estimable youth to whom you refer has been carried away to the planet Mercury," said the head clerk to a German demonologist who came to investigate the matter at first hand.
You know how the Church rules all our affairs since the Concordat with Rome, and if I investigate this matter, and obtain no results, I am risking my post.
Of 827 men of talent (not merit class) Odin was able to investigate as to their education he found that only 1.
On the first day of August the board met and after due deliberation determined to investigate mosquitoes in connection with the spread of yellow fever.
The other seeks to investigate the pure understanding itself, its possibility and the cognitive faculties upon which it rests.
The explanation of Kant's failure either to investigate or to prove this assumption has already been indicated.
If I am to investigate the properties with which a thinking being exists in itself, I must interrogate experience.
The latter wandered in a perfunctory way toward his home, stopping at times to investigate various matters.
We can tell a great tale when we get back to the city if we investigate this thing," said he, in conclusion.
And in spite of the radio warning a hundred planes answered that signal and swept back to investigate this new mystery.
The monkey, after a quick look around, began to investigate the upper reaches of its new cage.
He had returned, to investigate perhaps what George Prince was doing in this corridor.
Mann remarked in 1856: "The more thoroughly we investigate the history of the Lutheran Church of this country, the better we will comprehend why all happened just so.
I hope that if this appendix is sympathetically understood, mathematicians and physicists will be moved to investigate the problem.
Neither the one nor the other stops to investigate natural laws—nature’s laws—laws of human nature—scientifically.
Ethics as a science will investigate and explain the essential nature of man and the obligations which the essential nature of man imposes upon human beings.
On getting out toinvestigate I found a hole through the lining, about seven feet from the floor, and two or three were rustling about on the shelves.
Immediately after breakfast a party of eight men set off in the launch to investigate Stillwell Island.
All our available rope was tied together but the total length was insufficient to reach the ledge and any idea of going below to investigate and to secure some of the food had to be abandoned.
The newly fallen snow obliterated these, and frequent halts had to be called in order to investigate the buried surface.
As the weather was fine, Hodgeman and Whetter went to investigate two odd-looking pyramids about five miles away.
His aim was to circumnavigate the Antarctic regions and to investigate the Weddell Sea.
It swam along with the ship, diving regularly underneath from one side to another, and we wondered what would happen if it had chosen to charge the vessel or to investigate the propeller.
On November 28 we took several soundings on the eastern side of the Auckland Islands, but did not prolong our stay as we wished to investigate the ridge south of Tasmania--the Mill Rise.
At one hundred and fifteen miles the line was so close that we left the sledge to investigate it, finding a depression ten feet deep, through which wound a glistening riband of sea-water.
The males of Bombus follow one remarkable habit, which I think it would interest you to investigate this coming summer, and no one could do it better than you.
Many thanks for all the curious facts about the unequal number of the sexes in crustacea, but the more I investigatethis subject the deeper I sink in doubt and difficulty.
I believe years may pass before another man appears fitted to investigatecertain difficult and tedious points--viz.
I am going to investigate this same point with all the breeds of fowls, as Mr. Tegetmeier will procure for me young birds, about two months old, of all the breeds.
If this be impracticable, toinvestigate best mode of separation.
By Edward Joy Morris, of Pennsylvania: To investigatepersonal liberty laws, and suggest amendments to fugitive-slave law.
I shall, accordingly, first investigatethe rights of the wife over her dowry, that is, the right of managing her own property.
Adequately to observe the decay of the vassalage of women, we must investigate the story of their rights in all its forms; and the position of women in marriage will next occupy our attention.
Her ladyship therefore determined to investigate the woman.
He walked up and down in the chamber, and said after a while in a tone considerably calmer, "I have appointed thee chief of a council which is to investigate the causes of those ever-recurring riots in Egypt.
They will be punished enough when they are put out of their present positions; they will live in learned temples to pray and investigate wisdom without hindrance.
He was the chief of that commission sent to investigate the condition of the people.
But first we must investigate and learn what the prince was doing day by day, after his return from the temple of Hator.
But Thou canst not be my adviser, though I beg thee to form a council to investigate the riots of working men, and, when I summon thee, declare what thy wisdom enjoins.
I will investigate this," interrupted Tutmosis, "but if I convince myself.
Although difficult to investigate in their precise economy, it is extremely probable (may I not say, certain?
I wish that, instead of perpetually misunderstanding the theory, you English botanists would help me by pointing out exceptions to these two rules, so that I might specially investigate them.
He was always willing to investigate such subjects as hypnotism, thought reading, &c.
In one of the letters to Mr. Darwin, Mr. Romanes alludes to the question of spiritualism, and his own determination to investigate the question so far as in him lay for himself.
There was some commotion outside and the men hurriedly left the table to investigate its cause.
Leaving the railroad we marched through Milledgeville on the 5th, but did not stop to investigate the condition of Gov.
In order to investigate the matter thoroughly, we constituted ourselves (the unknown number x) into a special Commission of Inquiry.
We also asked that a court of enquiry might be established to investigate the whole matter and bring the offenders and law-breakers to justice.
I was wholly at a loss to account for the matter and would not investigate any further.
The result was the formation of a committee of one hundred citizens to investigate municipal conditions.
They determined to send to the island of Española a person authorized to investigate conditions and decide all disputes.
Let this suffice concerning the operation and effects of heat; nor is it time for us to investigate them thoroughly before the forms and conformations of bodies have been further examined and brought to light.
But such conduct shows their method to be no less unskilful than mean; for nobody can successfullyinvestigate the nature of any object by considering that object alone; the inquiry must be more generally extended.
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