Conceiving

Examples

• I had come in with an idea of distinguishing myself rather, conceiving that I was very well prepared; but it turned out to be quite a mistake. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it disgusted me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Such an inference would amount to knowledge, and would imply the absolute contradiction and impossibility of conceiving any thing different. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• All said I was wicked, and perhaps I might be so; what thought had I been but just conceiving of starving myself to death? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• All her dear plans were embittered, and she thought with disgust of Sir James's conceiving that she recognized him as her lover. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Or is the Idea of Good another mode of conceiving God? Plato. The Republic.
• Let him aid his fancy by conceiving these points to be of different colours, the better to prevent their coalition and confusion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is certain, that the belief super-adds nothing to the idea, but only changes our manner of conceiving it, and renders it more strong and lively. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• His was the mighty achievement of conceiving and executing in all its details an art and an industry absolutely new to the world. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Here also there is a right and a wrong way of conceiving its value. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But let us keep them distinct, and we shall find no difficulty in conceiving the precedent argument. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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