10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNPLAUSIBLY»
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1
The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus, from the Greek, Translated ...
... which the materials were taken from the cycle of this Theban legend — namely,
Laius, Oedipus, The Sphynx, and the Eleusinians ;* and it has been not
unplausibly conjectured that some of his other plays, of which the names are
preserved, ...
2
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. ...
... duration: and had not some active pens fallen in to improve the good
dispositions of the people upon the late change, and continued since to
overthrow the falsehood plentifully, and sometimes not unplausibly, scattered by
the adversaries, ...
Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols,
1801
3
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal
Some of the omissions, it is true, are such as might not unplausibly be attributed
to the poet himself, exercising in maturity of years a severe judgment on the
imaginative and passionate effusions of his youth. But there are others which we
can ...
The maps of Ptolemy, then the sole guide of geographical inquirers, were spread
out; and on viewing in them the general aspect of the continent, it was inferred,
incorrectly indeed, yet not unplausibly, that an empire which stretched so far ...
Now it is not unplausibly imagined that the earth, at a great distance from the
body or nucleus of the comet, passed through this luminous train, and that the
watery vapor, which it held in solution, was condensed by the inferior
temperature of ...
6
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
He maintains, and not unplausibly, that this was the case with regard to the
sailors* wives who first discovered the miraculous eye-moving picture. The
Canon of Lyons too, a French emigrant, if he were the only • man who gives his
name, and ...
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths,
1797
7
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
... know there is but one step more to their utter destruction. All, authority, in a
great degree, exists in opinion : royal authority most of all. The supreme majesty
of a Monarch cannot be allied with contempt. Men would reason not unplausibly
...
Plato and Aristotle thought, not unplausibly, that the Reason was the noblest
thing in man, and the highest life, therefore, the life of the Reason as lived by
poets, artists, philosophers and men of science, St Paul has a different
conception of the ...
Richard Livingstone,
2013
9
Theories of Mind: An Introductory Reader
Yet the general assertion that all intelligent performance requires to be prefaced
by the consideration of appropriate propositions rings unplausibly, even when it
is apologetically conceded that the required consideration is often very swift and
...
Yet the general assertion that all intelligent performance requires to be prefaced
by the consideration of appropriate propositions rings unplausibly, even when it
is apologetically conceded that the required considera— tion is often very swift ...