Supposes

Examples

• Superiority of birth supposes an ancient superiority of fortune in the family of the person who claims it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You saw him (as he supposes) just as he was passing through the door of communication. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The idea of motion necessarily supposes that of a body moving. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Volumnia, with her innocent little scream, supposes so. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Therefore he sulkily supposes that the young man must come up into the library. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The explanation given in the text supposes the two harmonies to make up the number 8000. Plato. The Republic.
• If they cannot earn this by their labour, they must make it up, he supposes, either by begging or stealing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And what he cares most about is having offended you, Mrs. Garth; he supposes you will never think well of him again. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Do you know, or do you not know, that the law of England supposes every man to be innocent, until he is proved--proved--to be guilty? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In fact, Boyle had sustained the hypothesis that supposes the pressures and expansions to be in reciprocal proportions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• A new obligation supposes new sentiments to arise. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Success supposes endeavour. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Agriculture, even in its rudest and lowest state, supposes a settlement, some sort of fixed habitation, which cannot be abandoned without great loss. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Plato supposes that when the tablet has been made blank the artist will fill in the lineaments of the ideal state. Plato. The Republic.
• A change of the obligation supposes a change of the sentiment; and a creation of a new obligation supposes some new sentiment to arise. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• No one supposes that our choicest productions have been produced by a single variation from the aboriginal stock. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He makes an allowance, too, for the quantity of each metal which, he supposes, may have been smuggled. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And the criticism is just: the differences affect the whole nature, and are not, as Plato supposes, confined to a single point. Plato. The Republic.
• Civil government supposes a certain subordination. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The debilitated cousin supposes he is 'normously rich fler. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But this reasoning is plainly unconclusive; because it supposes, that in our denial of a cause we still grant what we expressly deny, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Every effect necessarily pre-supposes a cause; effect being a relative term, of which cause is the correlative. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The constancy and steadiness of the effect supposes a proportionable constancy and steadiness in the cause. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But this supposes, that there is some antecedent rule of duty and morals. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• First, It supposes, that when the price of wheat has risen so high as 48s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• My Lady, slowly using her little hand-screen as a fan, asks him again what he supposes that his taste for likenesses has to do with her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No one supposes that all the individuals of the same species are cast in the same actual mould. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• No one supposes that the stripes on the whelp of a lion, or the spots on the young blackbird, are of any use to these animals. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• She supposes we have family affairs to speak about, I dare say. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Gibbon supposes that this public correspondence was founded on vanity, and that their remote situation left no room for a competition of interest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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