The water is so transparent that the bottom can easily be discerned at the depth of twenty-five or thirty feet.
Bonaparte in particular discerned the advantages which peace would bring in the consolidation of his position.
Soon, it was close enough to be accurately discerned.
His opportunities for regular schooling must have been very scant; but he had cultivated friends who discerned his talents and encouraged their development, and he early formed the habits of wide reading and industrious study that were to persist through his life.
Leonardo's works are mainly developments of the results obtained by his predecessors; the influences of Greek, Arabian, and Indian mathematicians may be clearly discerned in his methods.