Suppositions
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Examples
- All this I was forced to define and describe by putting cases and making suppositions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Lydgate felt uncomfortable under these kindly suppositions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Why then look any farther, or multiply suppositions without necessity? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The absurdity of the two last suppositions proves sufficiently the veracity of the firSt. Nor is there any fourth opinion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But, say that the event was to be, as the event fell out, and how idle are such suppositions! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He let the kindly suppositions pass. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I cannot conceive how such trivial qualities of the fancy, conducted by such false suppositions, can ever lead to any solid and rational system. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But if we deny this, we must make one of the two following highly improbable suppositions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I think it was you who were first hasty in your false suppositions about my feeling, said Dorothea, in the same tone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Manfred