Sir Norman Lockyer's recent observations at the summer solstice have placed the date of erection at about 1680 B.C., and the discovery of flint implements beneath some Roman remains also points to neolithic times.

Kepler's merit as an astronomer has long obscured his philosophical importance, although his discovery of the laws of planetary motion was the outcome of endeavors to secure an exact foundation for his theory of the world.

[A.D. 795-816] should have been so lost without being utterly destroyed, and so buried under the slowly-accumulating soil of the Campagna, that the very tradition of the existence of its remains should have disappeared, and its discovery have been the result of scientific archæeological investigation.

"The discovery will be the subject of the servants' talk till it gets all over the place and into the papers.

This discovery was such a relief that I muttered a "Thank God," and began rubbing his chest as though in effort to restore the fellow to consciousness.

After that, discovery was only a question of days.

It had hardly occurred to him that his discovery of the principle of never doing anything yourself that you can win others to do for you and never failing, when you have a minute to spare, to do a thing yourself when you can do it better than any assistant, was already a practice with leaders in trade and industry before the Pharaohs.

In going round the northern part of these basaltic hills, near Letloche, I was only ten days distant from the lower part of the Zouga, which passed by the same name as Lake Ngami; and I might then (in 1842) have discovered that lake, had discovery alone been my object.

The discoveries which he has made, the writings which he has counted upon leaving behind him, these are his pride, they are creatures of his bloodhis childrenand whoever destroys, whoever burns them, burns a part of himself.

After a long and tedious interval of misty, dripping weather, we obtained sufficient sun at noon, to find ourselves in latitude 72.19; but a discovery that afforded me most pleasure was the appearance of a sea-horse, lying at some distance from us, on an elevated piece of ice.

I however took refuge in the consideration, that when Jesus wrought one great miracle, popular credulity would inevitably magnify it into ten; hence the discovery of foolish exaggerations is no disproof of a real miraculous agency: nay, perhaps the contrary.

Briefly speaking, my new discovery was an improvement on the famous C. powder, invented by Lemartre.

" "Yes?" "The significant fact is this," explained Carroll"when he made the discovery that his alibi was no goodhe was the most surprised person in the room!"

The discovery of the laws and conditions of morality is the mission of practical philosophy.

I've thought things out a good deal, and we can do a lot, you and me, before going to the police, though I don't think it 'ud do any harm to tell this man Chettle, supposing he were herebecause his discovery of that photo is the real thing.

Such scientific discoveries are particularly welcome as demonstrating the power of the finer, as contrasted with the more brutally obvious, manifestations of force; for they thus illustrate the probable nature of those spiritual forces whose operations we can plainly see, without being able to account for them.

The intermediate links are called proofs; their discovery is the work of the reason, and quickness in finding them out is termed sagacity.

But the discovery of Delsarte is the application to æsthetics of a natural law, proven and established by science.

"The child's first utterance is force," says Froebel, and his first discovery is the resistance of matter, when he "pushes with his feet against what resists them."

For honour is a man's own act; a discovery is fortune's; and for its advantages, did I stay, I should not have to thank you.

"But the most remarkable discovery is an old Roman tomb, by far the finest I have seen in its preservation and perfection.

It is possible however that further discoveries will be made on American soil, but it is my opinion that the most valuable discoveries will be further east and south of the present claims, and would advise prospectors to work east and south of Klondyke.

A further examination of the river resulted in likely-looking results being obtained; and the discovery is now a matter of history, the world-wide Palmer rush to north Queensland being the result in 1874.

His discovery of the sociological factors of mind was a real advance on his master.

The unexpected discovery, at midnight, of this party of countrymen, when we had just given up all hope of shelter, and almost of life, was a God-send to our disheartened spirits, and I hardly knew in my excitement what I did.