"Elucidation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... prone to moralize In scientific doubt On certain facts that Nature tries To puzzle us about,— For I am no philosopher Of wise elucidation, But speak of things as they occur, ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) • Various
... In a passage from L. L. L., lately winnowed in the pages of "N. & Q.," divers attempts at elucidation (whereof not one, in my judgment, was successful) having been made, it was gravely, almost magisterially proposed by one of the disputants, to corrupt the concluding lines (MR. COLLIER having already once before corrupted the ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 • Various
... may be, therefore, expressed as Formal, Inanimate, Animate, and Mental. In these sciences, the idea is to view exhaustively some department of natural phenomena, and to assume the order best suited for the elucidation of the phenomena. Mathematics, the Formal Science, exhausts the relations of Quantity and Number; measure being a universal property of things. Natural Philosophy, in its two divisions (molar and ...
— Practical Essays • Alexander Bain
... removed to the Galleria Lapidaria of the Vatican, and arranged on the walls by Marini. They are invaluable as mementoes of the early Church at Rome. Aringhi has also devoted a work to their elucidation. The Rev. C. Maitland's "Church in the Catacombs" is an able general summary, clearly displaying their ...
— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli
... in Dr Howitt's narrative which demand elucidation. He says, for example, that noa individuals become "tippa-malku for the time being[158]." This suggests, probably erroneously, that the tippa-malku relation is merely temporary; but I am unable to say whether it ...
— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas
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