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Enquiry and proved
After many months, and taking testimony from a number of eyewitnesses, bridge analysts, and character witnesses, the " Foster Enquiry ", as it was called, concluded that Reese and Schapiro had not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and therefore acquitted them.

Enquiry and little
Pinkerton next collected and printed in 1789 certain Vitae sanctorum scotiae, and, a little later, published his Enquiry into the History of Scotland preceding the Reign of Malcolm III.
A Board of Trade Enquiry that followed at Margate on the 22 ~ 3 December reported, in the closing pages of the Principal Officers statement that, ‘ There can be little doubt that the Margate boatmen are a bold and adventurous race, who think little of the dangers of the sea when afloat ’ but in the same breath underestimated and insulted their zeal and ability with " but I fear that so long as they use a boat such as the Friend to all Nations it will be hopeless to expect them to wear lifebelts, however much it is desired.

Enquiry and more
For Woodcock a more elaborate sketch of anarchism, although still without the name, was provided by William Godwin in his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ( 1793 ).
This uses a national IT system developed for major crime enquiries by all UK forces, called Home Office Large Major Enquiry System, more commonly referred to by its acronym, HOLMES ( which recognises the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes ).
A more lasting work was his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge ( 1919 ), a pioneering attempt to synthesize the philosophical underpinnings of physics.
After deciding that the Treatise had problems of style rather than of content, he reworked some of the material for more popular consumption in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ( 1748 ).

Enquiry and than
In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume uses Epicurus as a character for explaining the impossibility of our knowing God to be any greater or better than his creation proves him to be.

Enquiry and Treatise
The Enquiry dispensed with much of the material from the Treatise, in favor of clarifying and emphasizing its most important aspects.
In 1739 and 1748, David Hume published A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, arguing for the associations and causes of ideas with visual images, in some sense forerunners to the language of film.
* Theophrastus, ( 1916 ), Enquiry into Plants: Books 6-9 ; Treatise on Odours ; Concerning Weather Signs.
# David Hume – Treatise on Human Nature ; Essays Moral and Political ; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
But its chief fruits were the Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics, and the Enquiry into the Credibility of the Early Roman History, in which he vigorously attacked the theory of epic lays and other theories on which Barthold Georg Niebuhr's reconstruction of that history was based.
# David Hume – A Treatise of Human Nature ; Essays Moral and Political ; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; History of England
In his Observations on Man, published in 1749 ( 11 years after Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature and one year after the better known An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding ), opened the path for all the investigations of like nature that have been so characteristic of English psychology.
He later also " cast anew " Book 3 of the Treatise as An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals ( 1751 ), which Hume wrote is " of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best.

Enquiry and .
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in 1748.
The end product of his labours was the Enquiry.
The Enquiry is widely regarded as a classic in modern philosophical literature.
The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another.
In the first section of the Enquiry, Hume provides a rough introduction to philosophy as a whole.
Hume insists that the conclusions of the Enquiry will be very powerful if they can be shown to apply to animals and not just humans.
* An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding The Enquiry hosted at infidels. org
His two major works, Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants constitute the most important contribution to botanical science during antiquity and the Middle Ages, and held that position for some seventeen centuries after they were written.
In Descartes, The Project of Pure Enquiry, Bernard Williams provides a history and full evaluation of this issue.
* B. Williams, Descartes, The Project of Pure Enquiry ( Penguin, 1978 )
From 1746, Hume served for three years as secretary to Lieutenant-General St Clair, and wrote Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, later published as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
Irgun was described as a terrorist organization by the United Nations, British, and United States governments, and in media such as The New York Times newspaper, and by the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry.
* Quiz Forum and Debating Society: The quiz forum and debating societies are two separate societies – Enquiry, the Quiz Club and the JUDS, which have been functioning under one umbrella.
Benjamin Franklin in his 1729 essay entitled " A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency " is sometimes credited ( including by Karl Marx ) with originating the concept in its modern form.
It is clear that Whitehead respected these ideas, as may be seen for example in his 1919 book An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge as well as in Process and Reality.
Rowland Hill then received a summons to give evidence before the Commission for Post Office Enquiry on 13 February 1837.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge.
In 1792, the British Baptist shoemaker William Carey published his missionary tract An Enquiry of the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of Heathens.
Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition.

proved and little
The Peter family proved wonderful and helpful friends in the following days, Mrs. Peter, little Esther, and Raoul, who generously lent me his sleeping bag for my `` Watch on the Rhine ''.
BeOS PE and BeIA proved to be too little too late, and in 2001 Be's copyrights were sold to Palm, Inc. for some $ 11 million.
The ancient Roman concept of virtus ( i. e. of virtue that had to be proved by a political or military career ), which Cicero suggested as the solution to the societal problems of the late Republic, meant little to them.
The arrangement proved to do little to appease opposition.
His reign proved uneventful, and he took little public part in politics, devoting himself to military affairs, in which his advice and experience were of the greatest value, not only to the Saxon corps but to the German army in general.
Singer's position proved correct: the fires had little impact beyond the Gulf region.
His objective and material universe is proved to consist of little more than constructs of our own minds.
Making matters worse, most of the younger players that the Royals received in exchange for these All-Stars proved of little value, setting the stage for an extended downward spiral.
Furthermore, unfounded allegations, when proved untrue, receive little or no media attention.
As king, Edward VII proved a greater success than anyone had expected, but he was already an old man and had little time left to fulfil the role.
Even as late as 1915, the Caesar cipher was in use: the Russian army employed it as a replacement for more complicated ciphers which had proved to be too difficult for their troops to master ; German and Austrian cryptanalysts had little difficulty in decrypting their messages.
He proved to be intensely religious, cursed with little political sense, and with too many able and ambitious sons.
Although his contract allowed for filming interruptions due to religious observances, the clause proved difficult to work around due to the production schedule and as the season progressed, an increasing number of episodes featured little of Dan Briggs.
( There is a fundamental theorem holding in every finite group, usually called Fermat's little Theorem because Fermat was the first to have proved a very special part of it.
There is no special reason to think that Cavour now envisaged the unification of the rest of Italy under Piedmontese rule since these areas were of little interest economically and could be a financial burden, but events proved to have a life of their own.
The marriage proved an unhappy one and lasted little more than a year.
The 6th Duke had inherited Chatsworth fifteen years earlier and had previously shown little interest in improving the neglected garden, but he soon formed a productive and extravagantly funded partnership with Paxton, who proved to be the most innovative garden designer of his era, and remains the greatest single influence on Chatsworth's garden.
In this capacity, Scott proved to be as much of a tinkerer, or improvisational engineer, as a high-tech specialist, often apparently holding the Enterprise together with little more than baling wire and his own spittle.
The idea of a Common Peace proved to be enduring, however, and numerous attempts would be made to establish one, with little more success than the original.
Styling of this little car was by Peter Kirwan-Taylor ( better known for his work with Colin Chapman of Lotus cars ), but it proved to be too heavy for the diminutive engine to endow it with adequate performance.
Although the Act had proved to be of little assistance in Panola County, progress was still being made.
Their farm proved successful and in 1928 they built Blyth Homestead as an outstation a little further south, so their cattle could take advantage of the good grazing among the paperbarks in this area.
The mining activity at nearby Ruby Creek spurred growth for a short time in 1880, gaining the city a new hotel, but little else was accomplished when the mines proved to be shallow.
In general all these initial German designs proved difficult to operate, often becoming death traps for their pilots, and had little effect on the bombing raids.

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