She turned them over one by one, to satisfy herself that nothing she wanted had been forgotten, and returned once more to her post of
observation by the window.
Favorable as this view of the subject may be, some
observations remain which will place it in a light still more satisfactory.
Miss Murray made several trivial
observations as we passed up the park, to which (in spite of my reluctance to let one glimpse of my feelings appear) I could only answer by monosyllables.
After an hour's
observation they retreated, no less wise, it is thought, than when they had come.
But you spoke just now of
observation and deduction.
observations have been from time to time carried on with more or less correctness, until in the present day the altitudes of the lunar mountains have been determined with exactitude.
First, errors of
observation, concerning the distance of the projectile from the surface of the moon, for on the 11th of December it was impossible to see it; and what Joseph T.
Richard Wilson, Jane's younger brother, sat in a corner, apparently good-tempered, but silent and shy, desirous to escape
observation, but willing enough to listen and observe: and, although somewhat out of his element, he would have been happy enough in his own quiet way, if my mother could only have let him alone; but in her mistaken kindness, she would keep persecuting him with her attentions - pressing upon him all manner of viands, under the notion that he was too bashful to help himself, and obliging him to shout across the room his monosyllabic replies to the numerous questions and
observations by which she vainly attempted to draw him into conversation.
Containing a few common matters, with a very uncommon
observation upon them.
2) Indirect reasons, derived from
observation of animals
Low as was his opinion of Golenishtchev's capacity for understanding art, trifling as was the true remark upon the fidelity of the expression of Pilate as an official, and offensive as might have seemed the utterance of so unimportant an
observation while nothing was said of more serious points, Mihailov was in an ecstasy of delight at this
observation.
in Hornsey, Highgate, Brixton, and Camberwell--they cannot but entertain a lively sense of the inestimable benefits which must inevitably result from carrying the speculations of that learned man into a wider field, from extending his travels, and, consequently, enlarging his sphere of
observation, to the advancement of knowledge, and the diffusion of learning.
Deceit, according to him, was an impossibility in the case of one trained to
observation and analysis.
To be the friend of Swiveller you must reject all circumstantial evidence, all reason,
observation, and experience, and repose a blind belief in the bookcase.
These
observations she will soon be repeating to you in person.
