In what cases, accordingly, has science been most successful in explaining phenomena, by resolving their complex laws into laws of greater simplicity and generality?
On account of the short focal length of the three-foot mirror, the photographic resolving power of the telescope is much below its optical resolving power.
To this effect may be due, in part, the inferiority of the reflector for resolving bright doubles, as compared with a refractor of the same aperture.
Whilst this conversation was going on I had effected such change in my attire as was possible, resolving to take the first opportunity the following day to summon a tailor and give him orders for things for which I stood in need.
He did not attempt any reply, but slunk off, and inwardly resolving to clear out this nest of scorpions from Rome at the first chance, I rode out of the gate, followed by Jacopo, and we directed our way towards the Ponte S.
It was on the morning of her marriage when they had last met--when Julia Brabazon was resolving that she would look like a countess, and that to be a countess should be enough for her happiness.
Of course she had accepted Lord Ongar, but she had not put out her hand to take all these good things without resolving that she would do her duty to her future lord.
He could not write that letter then, on that morning, hurried as he was with the necessity of his journey; and he started for Clavering resolving that it should be written from his father's house.
Doodles, resolving that his courage should not desert him.
These sorrowful meditations fastened upon his mind; he passed four months in resolving to lose no more time in idle resolves.
I intreated the author to permit me to say nothing as to what alterations he might make in his engine, resolving to leave it to others to show him that upon that principle all he can do signifies nothing.
By resolving the duplex question of temperament and environment, I shall endeavour to discover and follow the thread of connection which leads mathematically from one man to another.
Monsieur de Carnavant's refusal vexed the Rougons; but Felicite consoled herself by resolving to make a more profuse display.
Again, since leagues govern through general councils, they must needs be slower in resolving than a nation dwelling within one frontier.
Therefore, resolving to ruin Tom, she complained to the king that he had behaved very insolently to her.
In short, resolving to leave off house-keeping, I left my farm, and in a few months returned to London.
I then proceeded to measure the difference of ground, resolving to make a canal, in order to bring the water to the canoe, since I could not bring the canoe to the water.
That night I reposed my wearied limbs in the boat, resolving the next morning to harbour what I had gotten in my new-found subterraneous grotto; & not to carry my cargo home to my ancient castle.
Next I steeped it in some rum an hour or two, resolving when I went to bed to take a dole of it: and, in the third place, I burnt some over a pan of fire, holding my nose over it as long as I could endure it without suffocation.
In short, being provided with all things necessary, we sailed out, resolving for my own part to make my escape, though it should cost me my life.
In short I travelled up to London, resolving upon a voyage, and a voyage I soon heard of, by my acquaintance with a captain who took a fancy to me, to go to the coast of Guinea.
Notwithstanding all I could say to them, they all left me but one, and the supercargo; so we three returned to the boat, where a boy was left, resolving to stay till they returned.
This morning I began seriously to ponder on what is written in the New Testament, resolving to read a chapter every morning and night as long an my thoughts would engage me.
Oddo looked mysterious, suddenly resolving to keep his secret for the present.
She still paused a moment, resolving that nothing should frighten her,--nothing should startle her.
As he went he applied his mind firmly to the task of resolvingwhat he would do.
She was resolving that she would be a castaway,--that she would have nothing more to do with godliness, or even with decency.
I was not pleased with this method of performing operations by rule without knowing what I was about: resolving geometrical problems by the help of equations seemed like playing a tune by turning round a handle.
I could not break through the resolution I had made on quitting the Hermitage of always having my apartment to myself; but I found a difficulty in resolving to quit the little castle.
This resolution taken, I entirely abandoned myself to my reveries, and, by frequently resolving these in my mind, formed with them the kind of plan of which the execution has been seen.
Then I put a ten-dollar bill of the housekeeping money into my purse, resolving to send it back to Dicky as soon as I could get access to my own tiny bank account, the remnant of my teaching savings.
Instead of getting off the train I passed to the next car, resolving to stop at the next village, Crest Haven, and take a taxi home from there.
Finally I temporized by resolving to say nothing to Dicky unless the man's tracking of me reached the point of attempting to speak to me.
Finding her immovable on this subject, I insisted on her accepting a present of thirty guineas, and took my leave, resolving to accommodate her with the same sum annually, for the more comfortable support of the infirmities of old age.
I found my error, and, resolving to make amends, fell one-half in my demand; upon which he stared at me and told me his hands were full.
He employed the whole evening in resolvingthis difficult question.
As for certain other problems which puzzled him, he would amuse himself in resolving them gradually, at her home, with the aid of subtle questions, for he meant to accept her invitation and would go to see her.
At last he screwed it up in a wooden case and put it at the bottom of his strong box, resolving never to look at it again.
I had breakfasted heartily before I left the prison, and resolving to hoard up my little treasure, determined to eat nothing more on that day.
In this way did I continue to live on with Ysaffich, daily resolving to leave him, and yet, by some curious chain of events, bound up inseparably with his fortunes.
Lead me to him, then," said I, resolving at least to see the person who claimed to be supreme in this strange household.
How many readers will recognize in it then the image of dissolving and resolving aught into its elements, and use it with a more or less conscious reference to this?
Resolving to put this question off with a joke, I answered, "I will take him for my husband.
He saluted us, and told us he was a stranger newly come to Bagdad; so that as brethren we joined together, resolving not to separate from one another.
I went to my chamber, resolving on the following days to open all the rest of the doors, excepting that of gold.
Our vessel being come to a port on the mainland in the Indies, we touched there, and not being willing to venture by sea to Bussorah, I landed my portion of the ivory, resolving to proceed on my journey by land.
He had seldom been there, but now walked into the dinner-room, resolving that he would not be ashamed to show himself.
She was not content with thinking and resolving that it should be so, but she declared her intention in so many words to her daughter.
Resolving to act as her conscience dictated, she quitted them, and made a living by spinning.
