The earliest Buddhist texts explain that the four primary material elements are the sensory qualities solidity, fluidity, temperature, and mobility ; their characterization as earth, water, fire, and air, respectively, is declared an abstraction — instead of concentrating on the fact of material existence, one observes how a physical thing is sensed, felt, perceived.

In favour of the Synoptic chronology, E. P Sanders observes that a short ministry accords with the careers of other known prophetic figures of the time — who appear in the desert, raise large scale public interest, but soon come to a bloody end at the hand of the Roman military.

Sobran observes that the Sonnets " abound not only in legal terms — more than 200 — but also in elaborate legal conceits.

Barnett also observes that the opposing noises in the soundtrack — gritty little harp figures — are as hard as shards of steel as well as a jazz drum-kit placing the drama in the city – indicative of loneliness while surrounded by people.

Historian of psychology Mark Altschule observes that, " It is difficult — or perhaps impossible — to find a nineteenth-century psychologist or psychiatrist who did not recognize unconscious cerebration as not only real but of the highest importance.

Initially, Moore observes them from a distance, but eventually — while researching and writing From Hell — he joins them.

As Johnson's biographer Robert Caro observes, " Johnson's ambition was uncommon — in the degree to which it was unencumbered by even the slightest excess weight of ideology, of philosophy, of principles, of beliefs.

* 1747 — William Watson, while experimenting with a Leyden jar, observes that a discharge of static electricity causes electric current to flow and develops the concept of an electrical potential ( voltage ).

* 950 – 1000 — Ibn Yunus observes more than 10, 000 entries for the Sun's position for many years using a large astrolabe with a diameter of nearly 1. 4 metres

* 1802 — William Hyde Wollaston observes dark lines in the solar spectrum

* 1929 — Bernard Lyot invents the coronagraph and observes the corona with an " artificial eclipse "

* 1970 — George Carruthers observes molecular hydrogen in space

* 1521 — Ferdinand Magellan observes the Magellanic Clouds during his circumnavigating expedition,

* 1960 — Allan Sandage optically studies 3C 48 and observes an unusual blue quasistellar object,

* 1200 — Abd-el-latif observes and examines a large number of skeletons during a famine in Egypt and he discovers that Galen was incorrect regarding the formation of the bones of the lower jaw and sacrum.

The Catholic Encyclopedia observes: " In this way the difficulties of the future emperor reveal themselves from the beginning ; he wished to spare the religious susceptibilities of French Catholics " and yet to support " the national susceptibilities of the Italian revolutionists — a double aim which explains many an inconsistency " in his policy.

He observes that it is impossible to know whether Alger lived the life of a secret homosexual, " ut there are hints that the male companionship he describes as a refuge from the streets — the cozy domestic arrangements between Dick and Fosdick, for example — may also be an erotic relationship ".

" " All three names — Halia, Aphrodite, Amphitrite, and furthermore also Kapheira — must have been applied to one and the same great goddess ", Karl Kerenyi observes.

The tale is treated with scepticism by Walter Goffart, who observes that it conflicts with the Origo Gentis Langobardorum, where she was captured only after the death of her father.

During the journey Corum observes a mysterious giant who trawls the ocean with a net.

For example, a thermometer will not display different temperatures for each individual who observes it.

Instead, the econometrician observes the years of education of and the wages paid to people who differ along many dimensions.

" Parkin observes that much of Cumberland's material " is derived from Roman Stoicism, particularly from the work of Cicero, as " Cumberland deliberately cast his engagement with Hobbes in the mould of Cicero's debate between the Stoics, who believed that nature could provide an objective morality, and Epicureans, who argued that morality was human, conventional and self-interested.

The general form of the TSP appears to have been first studied by mathematicians during the 1930s in Vienna and at Harvard, notably by Karl Menger, who defines the problem, considers the obvious brute-force algorithm, and observes the non-optimality of the nearest neighbour heuristic:

However, that term is usually applied to a male who observes somebody through their window, and not in a public place.

Indeed, as Justice Brennan observes, the United States played an instrumental role in the criminal prosecution of Nazi officials who experimented with human subjects during the Second World War, and the standards that the Nuremberg Military Tribunals developed to judge the behavior of the defendants stated that the ' voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential ... to satisfy moral, ethical, and legal concepts.

Sleeman observes of the dithyramb, or circular chorus, " It is first mentioned by Archilochus ( c 665 BC )… Arion flourished at least 50 years later … probably gave it a more artistic form, adding a chorus of 50 people, personating satyrs … who danced around an altar of Dionysus.

The first-person narrator may be the principal character or one who closely observes the principal character ( see Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights or F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, each narrated by a minor character ).

She follows an afternoon " spy route " during which she clandestinely observes her classmates, friends, and people who reside in her neighborhood.

* Ruby Dee as Mother Sister, an older black woman who observes the neighborhood goings-ons from the window of her brownstone

" He observes that Americans talk a lot about the value of freedom, but are actually afraid of anyone who truly exhibits it.

The series focuses on Daria Morgendorffer, a smart, acerbic, and somewhat misanthropic teenage girl who observes the world around her.

" We may justifiably ask ," observes Kerenyi, " Why was this great mythical hunter, who in Greece became a mysterious god of the underworld, a capturer of wild animals and not a killer?

In a touching scene, Susan observes as Kris speaks in perfect Dutch with an orphaned immigrant girl who does not know English.

Berkeley does attempt to show things can and do exist apart from the human mind and our perception, but only because there is an all-encompassing Mind in which all " ideas " are perceived – in other words, God, who observes all.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at one point features the narration of an Arctic explorer, who records the narration of Victor Frankenstein, who recounts the narration of his creation, who narrates the story of a cabin dwelling family he secretly observes.

Harold Schonberg observes that " Smetana was the one who founded Czech music, but Antonín Dvořák ... was the one who popularized it.

An early image of winged Daedalus appears on an Etruscan jug of ca 630 BC found at Cerveteri, where a winged figure captioned Taitale appears on one side of the vessel, paired on the other side, uniquely, with Metaia, Medea: " its linking of these two mythical figures is unparalleled ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " The link was probably based on their wondrous, miraculous art.

He observes that in cases where the stool was not black, the black exanthum appeared.

Moses I. Finley observes " this typical bit of fiction must mean that there was an old Theban hero Hector, a Greek, whose myths antedated the Homeric poems.

Marlow observes how Kurtz's intellect was intact, but his soul has gone mad.

In relation to Greek concepts of pollution, Parker observes, " The fish that was most commonly banned was the red mullet ( trigle ), which fits neatly into the pattern.

It is possible, however, that Stephen had already begun to consider passing over Eustace's claim ; historian Edmund King observes that Eustace's claim to the throne was not mentioned in the discussions at Wallingford, for example, and this may have added to Stephen's son's anger.

He observes, " In the early Church, it seems, the new covenant presented by the New Testament was either taken to be an addition to the old covenant ( the religion of the Torah and the Jewish Pharisaic tradition, summarized in the Ten Commandments ), or it was taken to be a replacement for the old covenant.

" However, as they leave and pass the graves of their fallen comrades, Chris fatalistically observes, " The Old Man was right.

Monica Das Gupta ( 2005 ) observes that, in late 1980s to early 1990s China, there was no evidence of selective abortion of female fetuses among firstborn children, or in families with one or more existing sons ( in fact, families with multiple sons were, if anything, more likely to abort a boy than a girl ).

Frank observes many shamanistic rituals of his own invention, and it is soon revealed that Frank was the perpetrator of three deaths within his family-all other children and all before he reached the age of ten.

Art historian Jean Leymarie observes that Chagall began thinking of art as " emerging from the internal being outward, from the seen object to the psychic outpouring ", which was the reverse of the Cubist way of creating.

While the theme was used effectively by Clarke in the novel, McAleer observes that " it was not science fiction based on science, which he came to advocate and represent ".

The Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, observes, " Thus that scientific conspiracy of nations which is one of the noblest fruits of modern civilization was by his exertions first successfully organized.

" In 1926 he brought out a successor work, The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins, in which he looked at the theory that civilisation diffused northward and westward from the Near East to the rest of Europe via a linguistic group known as the Aryans ; with the ensuing simplistic abuse of " Aryan " by the National Socialists, Childe subsequently avoided mention of his book, as Colin Renfrew observes, though it " was very careful to distinguish between language and culture and supposed racial classification.