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Again, if the restriction and irregular distribution of the species be interpreted as a result of the desiccation of the range, then instead of increasing as it does in individuals toward the south where the rainfall is less, it should diminish.
The Northern papers, which came through the lines quite regularly, left no doubt that Democratic leanings were universally interpreted in the North as evidences of rebel sympathy, if not partisanship.
They were lost in wonder at my tale when it was interpreted to them, and said that adventures so surprising must be related to their King only by the man to whom they had happened.
"I wish we had got the driver to interpret for us before he left," I remarked, as we sat down to our meal.
He had seen the body of the future, before its extreme shadows had darkened other men's vision; and the whole course of his timid bearing, even including his flight from the Lugra, was interpreted into a prudent and prophetic policy, wonderful in its progress and sublime in its consequences.
A kind and Christian man interpreted with simplicity into the Turkish language.
From the dead sorcerer's finger, Thalaba takes a ring, inscribed with some unintelligible characters, which he is enabled to interpret by the help of some other unintelligible characters that he finds on the forehead of a locust; and soon after takes advantage of an eclipse of the sun, to set out on his expedition against his father's murderers, whom he understands (we do not very well know how) he has been commissioned to exterminate.
Evidently, he feared lest Scriptural denunciations of certain sins in ancient politics might be popularly interpreted against certain sins in modern politics.
Nothing is to be interpreted teleologically, but all must be interpreted from clearly known attributes, hence purely mechanically.
The khan sent to desire that I should not go far off, as he meant to speak with me next day; to which I answered, requesting him to send for the son of the goldsmith to interpret between us, as my interpreter was very incompetent.
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The communications were interpreted through the medium of imagination and desire.
So, at least, his action was interpreted at the time, and Crabbe's son takes no very different view.
But no text is to be interpreted without some reference to circumstances.
Spinoza had laid down the principle that Scripture must be interpreted like any other book (1670), and with the deists this principle was fundamental.
Look at the theory of light and colour as interpreted before my very eyes by Professor Fries of Jena.
One thing which I am unable to interpret among the oddities of the English, is their inconsistency respecting dramatic entertainments.
" So ended the famous visit to Hermitage, which was interpreted throughout Scotland as a token of Mary's love for her favourite earl.
They then went to stay at a farmhouse in Herefordshire, where, among other forms of work for the Master, she, ever thoughtful of others, interpreted on her fingers to the man of the house, who was quite deaf, the sermons she heard.