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The island of Quibo or Coibo is almost in the same parallel with Panama, being about twenty-four English miles from N. to S. and twelve from E. to W. It is of moderate height, covered all over with inaccessible woods, always green; and, though never inhabited, abounds with papaws and limes, and some other fruits I never saw before, which are nearly as good, though wholly neglected, as those that are most carefully attended to in other islands in similar latitudes, whence it may be inferred that the soil is fertile; and, if ever inhabited and cleared, it promises to be as productive as the best of our West-India islands.
It followed that Zorzi had used the precious book, and Giovanni inferred that the rest was a lucky accident. "Will you sell me one of those beautiful things you have in the oven?" Giovanni asked, in an insinuating tone. Zorzi hesitated. The master had often paid him a fair price for objects he had made, and which were used in Beroviero's house, as has been told.
They were inferences from the observations; facts inferred, as distinguished from facts seen. But these inferences were so far from being a part of Kepler’s philosophical operation, that they had been drawn long before he was born. Astronomers had long known that the planets periodically returned to the same places.
"I only inferred, from your scarcely intelligible words, that you felt a solicitude concerning its safety. If it is in this room " Doctor James paused. Did he only seem to perceive a flicker of understanding, a gleam of suspicion upon the ironical features of his patient? Had he seemed too eager? Had he said too much? Chandler's next words restored his confidence.
On the absence of intermediate varieties at the present day On the nature of extinct intermediate varieties; on their number On the vast lapse of time, as inferred from the rate of deposition and of denudation On the poorness of our palæontological collections On the intermittence of geological formations On the absence of intermediate varieties in any one formation On the sudden appearance of groups of species On their sudden appearance in the lowest known fossiliferous strata.
Joe's mind seemed to leap ahead of the story, and he made a very pertinent question. "The white squaw. Maybe she'll tell?" Harold glared at him. The man inferred that he couldn't master his own woman. "Didn't you hear me say she was my squaw? I'll tend to her. Besides the way I've got it planned, she won't know at least she won't understand. Now listen, you two, and don't make any mistake.
It must not be inferred that the members of the Council are aristocrats far from it, but with the lieutenant-governor they form a "house of lords" which may or may not agree with the policies of the chief magistrate. They can aid him greatly, or they can "clip his wings" and materially curb his freedom of action.
He inferred that this could not last long; that they would soon be driven away by the musketry from above; that, in short, things were going well. After a time, becoming anxious lest Clara should expose herself to the missiles, he went to Coronado's room, sent one of the Mexicans to reinforce Meyer, and then climbed rapidly to the tower, taking along sabre, rifle, and revolver.
According to another mode of expression, the question, What are the laws of nature? may be stated thus:—What are the fewest and simplest assumptions, which being granted, the whole existing order of nature would result? Another mode of stating it would be thus: What are the fewest general propositions from which all the uniformities which exist in the universe might be deductively inferred?
But it is inferred approximately by means of the appearances we can observe. It then turns out that these appearances can be exhibited by physics as a function of the matter in our immediate neighbourhood; e.g. the visual appearance of a distant object is a function of the light-waves that reach the eyes. This leads to confusions of thought, but offers no real difficulty.
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