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I did not believe you; I do not believe you now; but your object in making the statement is easy to understand. I've no doubt you realize that you lie open to a very ugly suspicion." "No!" a strained voice broke in. "That is not just!" Looking up, Prescott saw that it was Muriel who had spoken.
"Question nothing!" raved L. W. "I'm making a statement! He's not only a liar he's a thief! He robbed me, the dastard; he got two thousand dollars of my money without giving me the scratch of a pen. Oh, I tell you " "Well, that's curious," broke in the engineer as he stared at a paper, "he's got your name down here as a reference."
Hobbes was content to rest on a simple statement of the fact, that nothing can produce itself; but it is not every logician who is willing to rely on the inherent strength of such a position. Ask a child, Did you make yourself? and the child will answer, No. Propound the same question to the roving savage, or to the man of mere common sense, and he will also answer, No.
"Wants to leave India, does he?" said the Inspector, looking Moussa over as he heard the statement of the Superintendent. "I admire his taste. India is a magnificent country to leave." The Educational Inspector, a very keen, thoughtful and competent educationist, was a disappointed man, like so many of his Service. He felt that he had, for quarter of a century, strenuously woven ropes of sand.
"Well, as I said afore, he couldn't have found a better man." "HE thought he could, two better men. I rather think he was right. You are the two, gentlemen." This statement did not have the effect which the Judge expected. He expected exclamations and protests. Instead his visitors looked at each other and at him in a puzzled fashion. "Er er what was that?" queried Mr. Hamilton.
The first philosophic statement of the hypothesis is found in Immanuel Kant's "Kritik der Urteilskraft," 1790.
Mountjoy Scarborough was, he declared, undoubtedly legitimate. And then he made Merton and the clerk bring forth all the papers, as though he had never brought forth any papers to prove the other statement to Mr. Grey. And he did expect Mr. Grey to believe them. Mr. Grey simply put them all back, metaphorically, with his hand.
Of course I accepted, you know how it irked me to remain at home, but I gave him at the same time a statement of my reason for quitting the Virginia service, that I could not consent to be outranked by every subaltern who held a commission from the king." I nodded, for the question was not new to me, and had already caused me much heart-burning.
As soon as Crawford had his things away from Potlurg, satisfied the cup was nowhere among them, he made a statement of the case to a magistrate he knew; and so represented it, as the outcome of the hypocrisy of pietism, that the magistrate, hating everything called fanatical, at once granted him a warrant to apprehend Dawtie on the charge of theft. It was a terrible shock.
The chief difficulty by which explorers are embarrassed is manifest in this statement of Mr.
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