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in Occurrences 218%

If he can pursue advanced research in an allied or applied field, it will help him in his regular and prescribed work.

of Occurrences 117%

"I have sometimes amused myself by endeavoring to furnish a theory for the Spiritualists to stand upon, based upon the demonstrations of the past, the evidences brought to light by the researches of science, which at all events should have about it truth enough to give color and respectability even to an error as stupendous as that of Spiritualism.

into Occurrences 72%

"It was at this seat of science that I learnt, from one of our sages, the physical truth which I am now about to communicate, and which he discovered, partly by his researches into the writings of ancient Pundits, and partly by his own extraordinary sagacity.

by Occurrences 21%

In armies other than the British, the Chief of the General Staff is occupied solely with tactics and strategy, with the work of intellectual research by which Nelson and Napoleon prepared their great achievements.

for Occurrences 16%

The world would stand still but for the spirit of research for the practical; for experimental, and not theoretical knowledge, that is abroad.

to Occurrences 15%

The son had a gift of reticence concerning others, including his father and brothers, which in these latter days has been the cause of much wearisome research to scholars.

with Occurrences 7%

Among his successors, the Seleucidae and the Ptolemies imitated their great captain in blending schemes of civilization, of commercial intercourse, and of literary and scientific research with all their enterprises of military aggrandizement and with all their systems of civil administration.

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There are lawyers and judges, who enjoy a high reputation, whose fame rests upon their profound research among the worm-eaten tomes of black-letter law, and whose glory consists in their familiarity with the opinions and axioms of men who lived and died so long ago that their very tombs are forgotten.

at Occurrences 6%

Mr. and Mrs. D were on their way to Teherán, with the object of making scientific researches at Persepolis and other parts of Persia.

as Occurrences 5%

But never, in any age, did this study receive such careful treatment and give rise to such patient and laborious research as in our own.

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MAGIC AND MAGICAL RITES, &C. Few subjects present to a philosophic eye more matter of curious, important and instructive research than the natural history of religion.

after Occurrences 4%

To use the words of one who had experience in a similar undertaking: "The biographer of our day is too often perplexed in the toil of his researches after adequate information for composing the history of men who were an honor to their age, and of whom posterity is anxious to know whatever may be added to increase the need of that veneration, which, from deficient knowledge, they can but imperfectly bestow.

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There were about 8 to 10 students doing different kinds of research under Dr Ismail and all of us worked in a large room which was formerly the main library.

beyond Occurrences 2%

Ingenious men, possessed of leisure, are apt to push their researches beyond the period in which literary monuments are framed or preserved; without reflecting that the history of past events is immediately lost or disfigured when intrusted to memory or oral tradition; and that the adventures of barbarous nations, even if they were recorded, could afford little or no entertainment to men born in a more cultivated age.

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His father was owner and editor of one of the most powerful newspapers in New York City, and the boy had had plenty of inspiration for historical research from the time he was old enough to read.

about Occurrences 1%

Forster, in his "Researches about Atmospheric Phenomena," notices several prognostics of the weather by plants.

before Occurrences 1%

With this view, I have very diligently read the works of Shakespeare, and now presume to lay the result of my researches before your lordship, before that judge whom Pliny himself would have wished for his assessor to hear a literary cause.

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Research along these lines could further clarify the importance of the so-called "guest families" (k'o-hu) which were alluded to in these pages.

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In recounting her experiences as the pioneer of Christian Science, she states that she sought knowledge concerning the physical side in this research through the different schools of allopathy, homeopathy, and so forth, without receiving any real satisfaction.

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The Merrimack, in whose valley we were thus entangled, is the prime outlet of the various streams of the mine country, where Renault, and Arnault, and other French explorers, expended their researches during the exciting era of the celebrated illusory Mississippi scheme.

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