This observation of the Red Men is a kind of parable representing a part of the purport of the following treatise.

Which observation, when Mr. Crull condescended to speak at such length, was a favorite argument with him.

One of the objects was to obtain statistical facts; though personal observation, with a view to future laws, was the principal motive.

In Proa Bay, 1 mile west of Settlement, with Fox's Needle C, with index error applied: 35 14 6 S. On board the ship, at anchor at Port Essington, same needle corrected for local attraction and index error: 33 48 0 S. Note: The observations on board the ship at this station are the nearest to the truth, there being much ironstone strewed over the country about the observation spot onshore.

Observation and experience are his reason's labours, and patience with conscience are the lines of his love's measure; contemplation and meditation are his spirit's exercise, and God and His Word are the joy of his soul.

He equals Bacon in his high estimation of sensuous experience in contrast to the often illusory conclusions of the reason, and of the value of induction; but he does not conceal from himself the fact that observation is merely the first step in the process of cognition, leaving the chief rôle for the understanding.

Quick observation is the first essential for my work.

As with other invisible forces all we can know of the mind is by observing what it does, but with this difference, that since we ourselves are this mind, our observation is an interior observation of states of consciousness.

An observation I made on visiting this time the upper course of the Swan, is worth recording.

His observations, of course, were purely accidental errors.

The fact that, besides ethics and religion, psychology was chosen as a favorite field, is in complete harmony with the general temper of an age for which self-observation and the enjoyment of tender and elevated feelings in long, delightfully friendly letters and sentimental diaries had become a favorite habit.

The reason why jelly should be innutritious and beef tea nutritious to the sick, is a secret yet undiscovered, but it clearly shows that careful observation of the sick is the only clue to the best dietary.

All observations which involve the comparison of minute differences should be the mean result of at least three readings, and should be as much as possible the province of the same individual observer.

But an observation which gave greater satisfaction was a steady reduction in the thickness of the floes.

Other observations, again, were merely ribald, some were humorous, while all were enlightening.

falsis nominibus virtutem vocant, &c. ('Twas Galgacus' observation in Tacitus) they term theft, murder, and rapine, virtue, by a wrong name, rapes, slaughters, massacres, &c. jocus et ludus, are pretty pastimes, as Ludovicus Vives notes.

Observation, and accuracy in observation, are the foundation of this science.

A man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

The observation is "quelconque"; I should prefer the more interesting allegation that since the Reformation no born Catholic has written a book of literary value!

He possesses a singularly wide, clear, and minute power of accurate observation, both of things and of persons; but his observation, keen and true to actualities as it independently is, is not a dominant faculty, and is opposed or controlled by the strong tendency of his disposition to pathetic or humorous idealization.

But, to sum up with some of Miss Nightingale's useful maxims:Observation is the nurse's best guide, and the patient's appetite the rule.

"Observation," "view," and "survey" are nearly synonymous terms.

He, as well as Overtop, was surprised to find that the single stereotyped observation, "It's a fine day," was, after all, more acceptable than a longer and more strikingly original remark for it imposed no tax upon the conversational resources of the ladies, and left them unfatigued to succeeding scores of visitors.

A CRITIC Is one that has spelled over a great many books, and his observation is the orthography.

The observation was not redolent of much Christian spirit; but it evinced that which many of the saints are troubled withhuman nature.