12,417. But the Ascertainment of the current price is left entirely to the merchant?
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
As a necessary result of a system of natural philosophy based on assumptions, largely illustrated indeed, but not corroborated by the observation of phenomena, with no verification of experiment or Ascertainment of special laws, there is throughout the poem the utmost hardihood of assertion and inference on many points, on which modern science clearly proves this system to have been as much in error as it was possible to be.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
In fact, I believe that, inasmuch as the purely scientific Ascertainment is a comparatively simple matter, I stood a better chance of more scientifically and more accurately marking the actual spot than Mr. Peary.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook