If Stangrove's father had not been somewhat of the same kidney, he and I would have had little chance of discussing our theories on the banks of the Warroo.
But the powers of the will were unstable to-night, the whole seat of being was shaken, and my fine theoriesin regard to Pescini seemed to lack the stuff of truth.
The conceptions I had formed of it, the theories and decisions, seemed less and less convincing as I sat overlooking those shadowed, silent grounds.
This I do know: that I should have had far less to tell of Letitia Primrose, who might have gone on mooning of a better world had Dove not gone to one, leaving no theories but a son and husband to Letitia's care.
To my mind, he has established a stronger presumption in favor of the theory he champions than has been established in favor of the theories of any of the learned and able scientific men from whose conclusions he dissents.
Periodically throughout the history of the UFO people have come up with widely publicized theoriesto explain all UFO reports.
Some of them were evidently familiar with the theories because they nodded their heads in agreement.
He repeated the balloon, canopy-reflection, and sundog theories but he refused to comment on them since, as he said, he was an astrophysicist and would care to comment only on the astrophysical aspects of the sightings.
But whatever theories we have, we have at last to be governed by the facts.
Haynes admits that he cannot answer the theories of Robertson Smith in popular addresses.
When Liszt gave up all hope of entering the Church, he began a restless orgy of effort for mental diversion; all manner of theories and foibles allured him.
Shall we blame all this to music, and if so, shall we say that music has atoned sufficiently in the devotion of Wagner and his second wife to each other, and their lofty theories of art?
He, whose conscience, or whose theories of political or individual right, forbid him to support and maintain it in its fullest integrity, may relieve himself from the duties of citizenship, by divesting himself of its rights.
If the infidel says that these doctrines are mere theories, we can ask him how these theories arose, and challenge him to produce a cause which so adequately accounts for them as the incarnation of the Son of God.
It is impossible to find a shred of the anti-Jewish theorieswhich the Gnostics taught.
These two sceptical theories as to the place where the Epistle was written contradict one another effectively.
So far as he was aware, he wanted to find out everything about the business, but he did not choose that any one else should find out, or should prejudge or venture to form theories about it even to himself.
To marry the daughters of the masses was not perhaps the way in which Oxford men could best influence those masses for good--and yet why not so if all their theories were true?
Such are many of the senseless theories that militate against exertion and industry in Ireland, and occasion many to shrink back from the laudible race of honest enterprise, into filth, penury, and crime.
For the first time he had the opportunity for unrestrained study; and much of that time was spent, no doubt, in thinking out the theories of cavalry action which were yet to bring him fame and our arms success.
There can be no fixed conditions, and so there can be no final theoriesas to the conduct of warfare.
His theories of the character might be natural ones; but his own likelihood for entanglements, to judge by his reputation, was apt to prejudice him, rendering him unduly charitable toward any other fellow who was unlucky.
The opponents of the new truth will discover, as those of Darwin are doing, that, after all, theories do not alter facts, and that the universe remains unaffected even though texts crumble.
In this way it naturally happened that many untenable theoriesoccurred to him; but fortunately his richness of imagination was equalled by his power of judging and condemning the thoughts that occurred to him.
This tendency, in the case of Charles Darwin, was fully kept in check by the determination to test his theories to the utmost.
Such were the theories as suddenly rejected as they were suggested.
Those dictations were sometimes on high questions of state, and on theories of war; sometimes on matters of the day, as in the following instance.
We discussed these theories in detail, made many corrections, and finally went down to buy.
We always do, but after all--and here come mytheories again.
Cynthia, with a smile that he hardly understood, since he could not know how thoroughly he had routed Mrs. Devar's theories of the previous night.
As explanation of this paradoxical dark photography--or whatever it is--two theories may be advanced.
The assumption that there is such a thing is justified only in so far as that assumption explains and reconciles phenomena of which we have experience, and enables us to form theories which can be scientifically demonstrated correct.
It was not until the latter part of the eighth century that such theories and ceremonies were accepted by Chinese Buddhism, but they now form a large part of it.
This, if not exactly parallel to anything in Indian philosophy, is similar in idea to the evolutionary theories of the Sânkhya and the phases of conditioned spirit taught by many Vishnuite sects.
We had been friends for three weeks when I took the liberty of asking him how he reconciled his theories with his attachment to Brigida Sabatini.
I will grant his poetical ability but not his learning, for he ridiculed the system of Copernicus, and said that if his theories were followed astronomers would not be able to calculate lunations or eclipses.
If I had spoken out like an honest man and told her that her theories were nonsensical, she would not have believed me; she would have thought me jealous of her knowledge, and I should have lost her favour without any gain to her or to myself.
That substructures and retaining walls designed according to the Rankine or similar theories have an additional factor of safety from too generous an assumption in regard to earth pressure is practically admitted everywhere.
We were speaking about dogmatic Darwinism then, and it is about dogmatic Lamarckism that we are reasoning at present; both theoriesmust fall in their dogmatic form, though a small part of both can be said to stand criticism.
What is actually known on this subject is not much at present, but nevertheless is of great theoretical value, being the only real foundation of all theories of descent, as we shall see in the next lectures.
It is from this phenomenon of nuclear union as the main character of fertilisation that almost all theories of heredity assume their right to regard the nuclei of the sexual cells as the true “seat” of inheritance.
Let us first try a method of explanation which was also adopted occasionally by Darwin himself: let us study that form of transformation theories which is commonly known under the title of Lamarckism.
This is perhaps the most basic, bedrock, and therefore radical, of nursing theories and is essential to all that is truly nursing.
How will new relationships among nursing theories be discovered and described?
Nursing as Caring was one of four caring theoriesincluded in a comparative analysis reported by McCance, McKenna and Boore (1999).
Such theories then explain how nursing acts to right the wrong, meet the need, or eliminate or ameliorate the deficit.
By these and other theories Ihre attained a much higher standpoint as a scientific critic than his contemporaries.
The native and imported scholars were characterized by great learning and versatility, but abused their genius by Utopian theories and vainglorious dreams, and violated the laws of history and sound research.
Through his remarks on bowlders, he gave rise to the later theories of Berzelius and Saefstrom of a bowlder period.
In the sciences of economics and war he was well read, himself inaugurating novel theories in both.
His experiments and theories in physics have been confirmed by the discoveries of the polarity of light and the galvanometer and its magnetic properties.
But there is absolutely no evidence to prove the now antiquated theories of various immigrations into Sweden by different races on different stages of civilization.
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