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Example sentences for "enumeration"

Lexicographically close words:
enuironed; enumerate; enumerated; enumerates; enumerating; enumerationem; enumerations; enumerative; enumerator; enumerators
  1. In this enumeration Argo is not counted, but its four subdivisions are taken as separate constellations.

  2. The most complete enumeration of the lucid stars by magnitudes has been made by Pickering ('Annals of the Harvard Observatory,' Vol.

  3. Even though we examine all the sources of our knowledge, and conclude them unfit for such a subject, there may still remain a suspicion, that the enumeration is not complete, or the examination not accurate.

  4. But that this enumeration is complete, and that there are no other principles of association except these, may be difficult to prove to the satisfaction of the reader, or even to a man's own satisfaction.

  5. Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them.

  6. There are several peculiar animal substances which do not enter into the general enumeration of animal compounds, and which, however, deserve to be mentioned.

  7. The substance which comes next in our enumeration of the immediate ingredients of vegetables, is extractive matter.

  8. We must now confine our attention to the enumeration and classification of the simple bodies in general.

  9. This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the people; and all powers not herein delegated remain with the people.

  10. I suggested, as Mrs. Groves hesitated in her enumeration of accomplishments.

  11. It was composed of all sorts of costly spices--an enumeration of which I may repeat later, should I take up the trade of concocting various potations, the efficacy of which may not be doubted.

  12. The Lamas of Sera failed not to acquire great enthusiasm for the Nomekhan; they regarded him as a saint of the first degree, and compiled an enumeration of his perfections as extensive and pompous as that of the perfections of Buddha.

  13. Of this inborn and irresistible tendency there are so many facts in proof that an enumeration is needless: it is the rule.

  14. It is impossible to enter here upon an enumeration that would be endless.

  15. For an enumeration of the Tuatha De Danann chieftains and their respective territories see Silva Gadelica, ii.

  16. In the mind of the reader the enumeration of their names is to give rise to voluptuous images of a troop of young girls, ministrants of pleasure, of pictures of a harem or of the paradise of Mahomet.

  17. The enumeration of these five feminine names, occupying two lines of the stanza, is a method of versification characteristic of the mystic.

  18. And in the face of such splendid, such overwhelmingly grand results, the enumeration of which could easily be doubled and trebled, does anyone dare to speak of the shipwreck of science, and of the incapacity of the empirical method?

  19. An empty and mechanical enumeration of completely indifferent aspects under the pretext of description exacts no effort.

  20. The following is an enumeration of the subjects.

  21. See the enumeration of 'the diseases of the simple solids,' in Cullen's Works, vol.

  22. The Metaphysics" of Aristotle opens by an enumeration of "the principles or causes"[718] into which all existences can be resolved by philosophical analysis.

  23. We do not profess to be able to give a clear explication and complete enumeration of all the ideas of reason, and of the necessary and universal principles or axioms which are grounded on these ideas.

  24. This enumeration is at present to be regarded as provisional, and in part hypothetical--a verbal generalization of the different principles which seem to be demanded to explain the existence of a thing, or constitute it what it is.

  25. And although we have touched upon them above, yet we think it right to give a brief, bare, and simple enumeration of them in this place.

  26. The speaker began to add a faltering enumeration of some very grave symptoms.

  27. They easily passed to a competitive enumeration of the rare books they had seen or not seen here and there in other towns and countries.

  28. He avows that he had no great regard for a precise enumeration of the species of each genus; holding it enough to distinguish the more remarkable.

  29. Here I might run into a pleasing enumeration of many instances of this; but, fearing that I have already trespassed upon your patience, shall desist.

  30. We may cite the following among the most remarkable passages of this book: the enumeration of the systems of mountains; the examination of the relations existing between their directions and the general form of continents (p.

  31. If I should seem to dwell on the specific enumeration of these bodies, and of comets, longer than the general nature of this work might warrant, I have not done so undesignedly.

  32. A brief enumeration of the totality of natural phenomena, presented under the form of a 'general delineation of nature.

  33. Enumeration of the causes which produce disturbances in the form of isothermal lines, i.

  34. But the descriptive picture of nature which we purpose drawing must not enter too fully into detail, since a minute enumeration of all vital forms, natural objects, and processes is not requisite to the completeness of the undertaking.

  35. In this enumeration of the forms which compose the world in space, we have delineated them as possessing an actual existence, and not as objects of intellectual contemplation, or as mere links of a mental and causal chain of connection.

  36. Enumeration of the causes which tend to raise and lower the temperature.

  37. Misunderstood popular knowledge, confounding cosmography with a mere encyclopedic enumeration of natural sciences.

  38. For an enumeration of the thickness of coal measures in America and the Old Continent, see Mantell's 'Wonders of Geology', vol.

  39. It should be remembered that the enumeration of these extensive prerogatives by no means indicates a limitation to the rights of the emperor.

  40. They could not quite get rid of the notion that the slaves, being human, ought to be included in the enumeration of population, notwithstanding that their enumeration as citizens must necessarily disappear in their representation as chattels.

  41. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.

  42. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

  43. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct.

  44. As the largest animals are the best known, and about which there is the least uncertainty, in this enumeration they shall follow nearly according to their size.

  45. This general fact is too important not to be supported by every proof; we shall, therefore, continue our comparative enumeration of the animals of the old continent with those of the new.


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