10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMPROBABLENESS»
Discover the use of
improbableness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
improbableness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Instruction
This was an advantage obtained from the old custom of 'boarding round.' "
Another essential to every one who is to be an educator is a confident belief in
the improbableness of human nature." DEPARTMENT OF HOME AND SCHOOL.
American Institute of Instruction, American Institute of Instruction. Meeting,
1905
If, therefore, we go on superadding coincident improbabilities, the resultant sum
of improbableness, increasing by a compound ratio at every addition, reaches at
length an unstateably vast magnitude ; and yet the capacities of credulity, once ...
3
The New Monthly Magazine
Alas, have I not left it already, not in body, but in spirit? Remembering the great
improbableness of my receiving a call to such a place as Thorny Rose,
remembering, too, the exact fitness of the call to my failings and misfortunes, I
cannot but ...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton,
1870
4
Shakespeare study programs: the comedies
... to the improbableness of the plot sufficiently to make it a questionable quality of
the plot that the characters are so much differentiated, or does it serve rather to
enrich the Play and make it far more interesting? Are there signs of character in ...
Charlotte Endymion Porter, Helen Archibald Clarke,
1914
5
The Bible Christian magazine, a continuation of the Arminian ...
So it was humanly possible for Christ to succumb to Satan, but the
improbableness of it was in the mind of God a moral and absolute certainty.
Moreover, where would be the freedom, or voluntariness of Christ's human will, if,
by a stern decree, ...
If, therefore, we go on superadding coincident improbabilities, the resultant sum
of improbableness, increasing by a compound ratio at every addition, reaches at
length an unstateably vast magnitude; and yet the capacities of credulity, once ...
7
Correspondence, etc., respecting the affairs of Turkey
Its circumstantiality seems to place it above the category of a vague rumour, but it
is difficult to say whether the improbableness of the scene of the alleged event
detracts from, or adds to, its credibility. If true, it would account for the rumours ...
Great Britain. Foreign Office,
1878
8
Proceedings of the Annual Congress of Correction
Philosophers like Fiske have answered that man's chief glory is " improbableness
. " Slowly the spirit of the old is passing. The dark, cold night is going, twilight is
moving toward day and noontide. The breath of love is on the world, dungeons ...
American Correctional Association,
1908
Opinion of Court. estedness of all this testimony. and the improbableness of a
stranger in a community undertaking to sell cattle known in the community for a
long time to an old resident, may have caused the jury to lend no credence to any
of ...
Florida. Supreme Court,
1898
10
The Gentleman's Magazine
All the certainties that a long succession of philosophers have by observation
and analysis learned concerning the true nature of beauty, and the unlimited
improbableness of that faculty for entertaining it which is called taste —
practically seful ...