Some of the speculations of these eminent philosophers were exceedingly profound, and it is really wonderful, Mr. PUNCHINELLO, to what an extent theory may be carried in the advance of science.

It would doubtless by this time have become a subject of gossip and speculation in the household and consequently would very soon become public.

The Brahmin and Atterley prepare for their voyage Description of their travelling machineIncidents of the voyageThe appearance of the earth; Africa; GreeceThe Brahmin's speculations on the different races of menNational character.

There were many speculations as to who would be charged by Grevy to form his first cabinetand almost permanent meetings in all the groups of the Left.

" "And is this really the origin," said I, "of that strange phenomenon, which has furnished so much matter of speculation to the sages both of Europe and America?" "Nothing is more true," replied he.

There was much speculation about Madame Grevyno one had ever seen hershe was absolutely unknown.

He made the dullest subjects interesting; he clothed the dry bones of metaphysics with flesh and blood; he invested the most abstruse speculations with life and charm; he filled the minds of old men with envy, and of young men with admiration; he thrilled admirers with his wit, sarcasm, and ridicule,a sort of Galileo, mocking yet amusing, with a superlative contempt of dulness and pretension.

He gave up metaphysical speculations for practical philanthropy.

But for all that, he seems to me to have been the first person to frame a complete system of geological speculation by founding the doctrine of evolution.

My presence there aroused some speculation among the loungers, I think; nevertheless, I waited in deepest anxiety whether, after all, Elma and Hornby had not disembarked at Helsingfors.

But in the three voyages I have made to the moon, I have acquired so many new facts, and imparted so many to the learned men of that planet, that it is, without doubt, the subject of their active speculations at this time, and will, probably, assume a regular form long before the new science of phrenology of which you tell me, and which it must, in time, supersede.

Generally I lay across my bunk smoking my pipe while Handy Solomon held forth, his speech punctuated by surly speculations from the Nigger, with hesitating deep-sea wisdom from the hairy Thrackles, or with voluminous bursts of fractured English from Perdosa.

These three Propositions are self-evident to those who are versed in Speculations of Morality.

They are not moral essays like those of Confucius, nor mystic and obscure speculations like those of Buddha, but grand treatises on revealed truth, written, as it were, with his heart's blood, and vivid as fire in a dark night.

There were many speculations over the new King of Italy, the Prince Humbert of our day.

Few of our hero-myths have given occasion for wilder speculation than that of Votan.

Continuation of the voyageView of Europe; Atlantic Ocean; America Speculations on the future destiny of the United StatesMoral reflections Pacific OceanHypothesis on the origin of the Moon.

He evidently thinks we Americans, at this remote point, are mere barbarians, and have some shrewd design of making a chowder, or a speculation out of our granites, and agates, and native copper.

An army of 200,000 men admirably disciplined and armed, of these a garrison of 15,000 men in Berlin and as many at Potsdam, are quite sufficient to keep in check all attempts to put political theories and speculations into practice.

But all this was pure speculation beside the needs of the hour, the nations which must be built up afresh and incessantly enlarged, pending the eventual definitive federation of mankind.

General WADE then spoke, to the purpose following:Sir, the learned gentleman who spoke last, must be acknowledged to have discovered a very specious method of reasoning, and to have carried his inquiry as far as speculation without experience can hope to proceed, but has, in my opinion, admitted a false principle, by which all his argument has been perplexed.

Among these simple people, who have few subjects of thought or speculation beyond the interests of their daily life, their affections and their animosities form the warp and woof of their character.

He reached this as the true method of speculation through a comparison of the two forms of philosophy which he found dominant at the beginning of his careerthe Illumination culminating in Kant, on the one hand, and, on the other, the doctrine of identity defended by Schelling and his circleneither of which entirely satisfied him.

Speculation along this line may be dangerous, even unjustifiable; certainly it introduces the peril of an attempt to intellectualize what cannot be apprehended by the intellectual faculty, an effort which has been the obsession of modernism and has resulted in spiritual catastrophe.

It would seem that there had been some speculation before and after Titian's death as to his exact age; that no one quite knew for certain; and that Titian with the credulousness of old age had come to regard himself as well-nigh a centenarian.