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In connection with the conduct of the non-praedials, he mentioned the following instance of white brutality and negro magnanimity. A planter, whose negroes he was classifying, brought forward a woman whom he claimed as a praedial.
Having now endeavoured to remove some sources of doubt in classifying the reefs of the West Indies, I will give my authorities for colouring such portions of the coast as I have thought myself warranted in doing.
Obviously, in the presence of these zoophyte and mollusk specimens, the fine lad was classifying his head off.
The philosophical problem to which the mediaval thinkers addressed themselves is one that it is essential to the progress of human thought to solve. Thus for the purpose of classifying our knowledge we use certain terms, such as genera, species, and others more technical. Do these in reality exist independently of particular individuals or substances?
The Superintendent of the Seventh Census is diligently employed, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in classifying and arranging in tabular form all the statistical information derived from the returns of the marshals, and it is believed that when the work shall be completed it will exhibit a more perfect view of the population, wealth, occupations, and social condition of a great country than has ever been presented to the world.
No method of classifying them is provided by the practice of historians; history, which began by being a form of literature, has remained the least methodical of the sciences. II. In every science the next step after observing the facts is to formulate a series of questions according to some methodical system; every science is composed of the answers to such a series of questions.
Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. I was just going to say, when I was interrupted, that one of the many ways of classifying minds is under the heads of arithmetical and algebraical intellects. All economical and practical wisdom is an extension or variation of the following arithmetical formula: 2 + 2 = 4.
But, familiar of old with the quizzical expression which at times could be discovered to underlie the exterior of charmed absorption, I understood that the Philosopher was quietly and skilfully classifying a new, if not a rare, specimen. When the guests had lingeringly departed I saw, as I went to my room, three male forms leaping up the second flight of stairs toward the Judge's den.
If not, of course his executors would pay the amount, but there would be delays, long delays, Mrs. Batch in meshes of red tape. Red tape for her, green weeds for him he smiled at this poor conceit, classifying it as a fair sample of merman's wit. He swam on through the quiet cool darkness, less quickly now. Not many more strokes now, he told himself; a few, only a few; then sleep.
And as we watch it seems to us that men may be said to be dividing themselves roughly and flowingly at all times into three great streams or classes. They are either Inventors, or they are Artists, or they are Hewers. Of course in classifying men it is necessary to bear in mind that their getting out of their classifications is what the classifications are for.
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