Thoroughly revised and corrected, and in part re-written by J.
Portion of a shoe and various bits of leather, one being closely set with copper nails (=Fig.
A short time after this was done I was walking in one of my fields adjoining, and picked up some perforated bone implements.
The rapid survey of the commerce of India during the middle ages, which it has been necessary to introduce into the preceding narrative, will also serve to throw light on a subject hitherto but imperfectly investigated.
Already I have obtained some facts which appear to throw light on the subject.
This is a question which has an interest not only for Russians, but for all students of social science, for it tends to throw light on the difficult subject as to how far institutions may be successfully transplanted to a foreign soil.
These facts tend to throw light on some of the dark questions of social development in its early stages.
Should the native rock be hereafter identified, with traces of the manufactured celts in its vicinity, it may help to throw light on the age and history of the primitive American implement-makers.
On the other hand, the multiplication of dialects is no less apparent, and in many ways helps to throw light on the history of the race.
A few facts, however, have been noted from time to time, some of which, in the absence of more precise observations, may help to throw light on the physical characteristics of the primitive British races.
Of all the theories respecting the origin of the soul this seems to me the most plausible, and therefore the one most likely to throw light on the question of a life to come.
And who knows but what our soul, in the unknown secret of its essence, has power some day to throw light on its successive journeyings, like those streaks of flame to which we are comparing it?
We said that philosophy is that endeavor which seeks to throw light on the process of human thought.
It desires to throw light on the natural process of thought, which was temporarily unbalanced by a bent for the supernatural, and for this reason it first loses itself in the clouds.
It appeared to him, that that House had a right to call for any papers which might throw light on their deliberations.
It is yet unaccompanied with any documents to throw light upon it.
He was so sensible of his obligations to Sweden, that, as a public testimony of his gratitude, he undertook to throw lighton the History of the Goths, in hopes of doing honour to the Swedes, who regarded them as their ancestors.
They will contribute what they can of counsel and wise suggestion to throw light on his trials and lift him into hope.
Here the priest appears as an angel-interpreter, and the passage seems to throw light on Elihu's meaning.
He is to express what he knows without any other motive than to throw light on the matter in hand.
A quotation from one of these classic authors on a point at issue was supposed to throw light on any difficulty that might be the subject of discussion.
For a time in his earlier life he devoted himself to the study of fishes, because they seemed to promise to throw light on certain problems in human anatomy and pathology.
To the very last he continued to {184} take pleasure in hearing of any advance of knowledge that tended to ameliorate the condition of man, or to throw light on his relations to a future state.
The episode may be employed to throw light on existing conditions or to add interest to the general narrative.
This consists of a statement of the theme and the various facts, arguments, and illustrations that are designed to throw light upon it and establish its truth.
Sometimes it is designed tothrow light on some phase of human character or human experience.
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