Ascribed

Examples

• The vision of another world is ascribed to Er, the son of Armenius, who is said by Clement of Alexandria to have been Zoroaster. Plato. The Republic.
• Plate printing is a very old art, the plate printing press having been ascribed to Tomasso Finiguerra, of Florence, in 1460. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There were times when I would have given my right hand to possess the treasures he ascribed to me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• One of Boyle's critics, a professor at Louvain, while admitting that air had weight and elasticity, denie d that these were sufficient to account for the results ascribed to them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Commonly, this is ascribed to the geographical conditions under which they lived. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Though the honor of inventing the art of wireless telegraphy is generally ascribed to Marconi, this is to give him more credit than he deserves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We have observed, that our approbation of those, who are possess d of the advantages of fortune, may be ascribed to three different causes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This invention is usually ascribed to Johann Gutenberg, of Mentz, about 1436. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The most esteemed of the painted caves is ascribed to the latter part of this the first of the three subdivisions of the newer Pal?olithic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The honour of this public benefit has also been ascribed to me, but it belongs truly to that gentleman. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Indeed, so living is the tradition of his great raid, that almost any stone ruin in Central Asia is still ascribed to Iskander. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Other busts of a quite different man are also, with more probability, ascribed to him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The satisfaction we take in the riches of others, and the esteem we have for the possessors may be ascribed to three different causes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is to the Ph?nician contingent and to Aramean accessions in Babylon that the financial and commercial tradition of the Jews is to be ascribed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To these Jewish Khazars are to be ascribed the great settlements of Jews in Poland and Russia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The improvement and prosperity of Great Britain, which has been so often ascribed to those laws, may very easily be accounted for by other causes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• To that quite as much as to the amelioration of things by a diffused prosperity, this phase of quiescence among the lower classes is to be ascribed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is also to be ascribed in a measure to the greater study of the philosophy of history. Plato. The Republic.
• The change has evidently been too sudden to be ascribed to any change in the value of silver, which is always slow and gradual. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Caliphronas laughed at the indolent character ascribed to his countrymen, which, however, he could not deny with any great show of reason. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• What contradictory attributes of character we sometimes find ascribed to us, according to the eye with which we are viewed! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Not unto me the strength be ascribed; not unto me the wringing of the expiation! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He denounced the pride and irreligion of the clergy, and ascribed all the corruptions of the time to their pride and wealth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Similarly, to the nineteenth century thirteen important theoretical discoveries are ascribed, to the eighteenth only two, and to the seventeenth five. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• To him perhaps quite as much as to Jengis is the efficiency of the Mongol military machine to be ascribed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The personal appearance of Eliza, the character ascribed to her, are sketches drawn from life. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Reference has already been made to Black's discovery of carbonic acid, and of the phenomena which he ascribed to latent heat. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The comparative innocence of the other European powers is to be ascribed largely to their lesser temptations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They may have ascribed a sort of were-wolf existence to the dead, and wished to propitiate them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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