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His aunt was obliged to begin by insisting that the walls should be safe from geological investigations. 'But it is such waste, Aunt Jane. Only think of building up such beautiful specimens in a stupid old wall.
Thus commencing our investigations by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of organic structure may, as it were, reconstruct the whole animal to which that bone belonged."
That the night cometh when no man can work, haunts those who have gone so far in their investigations, and draws their entire energies into their pursuit with an exclusiveness which astonishes the rest of the world. But the energies might be more unfitly directed.
Such grave accusations, embodied in numerous reports, could not fail to perturb profoundly the mind of a despot already obsessed by the fear of impending rebellion among his subjects. A commission was accordingly appointed to inquire into the matter, and report the result of its investigations.
Such are some of the eddies in which we are liable to become involved and carried back out of the broad stream of philosophical, or, in other words, truth-loving, investigations. The causes of disease, in the mean time, have been less earnestly studied in the eagerness of the search for remedies. Speak softly!
'Before he mentioned it to his family, and in order to satisfy his own uneasiness, Dr. Leatrim thought it best to obtain a private interview with the Earl, and inquire what he had given, as a foundation upon which to ground his own investigations. The information he obtained from this quarter did not lessen the difficulty.
By dusk Keith, who had been called at three, had all but completed the long tale of his testimony, had finished recounting, not only what he had seen of the quarrel and the subsequent shooting, but also a detailed account of the trial, the adverse influences brought to bear on the prosecution, and his investigations into the question of "undue influence."
Brown; for, alas! the investigations of long ago had proved that the benevolent Brown, like 'Jack Hunt, was not a real person, but a sheer invention of that gifted rascal, Williams burglar, Harvard graduate, son of a clergyman. WE took passage in one of the fast boats of the St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Company, and started up the river.
The post-mortem examination revealed no physical reason why Thomas May should have ceased to breathe. Neither did the subsequent investigations of a Government analytical chemist throw any light upon the sailor's sudden death. No cause existed, and therefore none could be reported at the inquest held a day later. The coroner's jury brought in a verdict rarely heard, but none dissented from it.
It was here that we began our serious investigations, desirous of ascertaining if it were possible to prolong this subterraneous peregrination.
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