The mass of mankind are ever more readily deluded by hope than benefited by experience; and the French, being taught by the revolutionists to look for that relief from changes of government which such changes cannot afford, now expect that the restoration of the monarchy will produce plenty, as they were before persuaded that the first efforts to subvert it would banish want.

The South in rejecting it, and imagining itself able alone to maintain a situation which will become graver day by day, deludes itself most strangely.

One thought only had all, and swore for their wrongs to have vengeance, And for the bitter loss of their hope thus doubly deluded.

It was done simply for the purpose of more effectually deluding poor human beings.

We mourn also for these poor deluded heathen.

Old Harriet may have been lying, but was, I imagine, merely self-deluded.

The Greek verb [Greek: hemaiso] has the signification primarily to deride, to mock, to scoff at, and secondarily to delude, to deceive, to disappoint, but it has not the meaning to despise.

But these dear men are singularly deluded in many ways, and upon these delusions clever women play, as a master plays upon an organ.

For some time she thus successfully deludes her husband, but when the despicable La Branche openly boasts of her favors and allows some of her letters to fall into the hands of one of her numerous lovers, her perfidy is soon completely exposed.

"Was I so utterly deluded?"

But to confound these products of their own mind with revelation is the error only of the uninstructed or the wilfully self-deluded.

Elvi´ra (Donna), a lady deceived by Don Giovanni, who basely deluded her into an amour with his valet Leporello.

Were they not all strangely deluded to go so far to their oracles, to be so gulled by them, both in war and peace, as Polybius relates (which their argurs, priests, vestal virgins can witness), to be so superstitious, that they would rather lose goods and lives than omit any ceremonies, or offend their heathen gods?

Much search among the rocks was finally rewarded by the discovery of some dates, which were particularly welcome, as the lovers had been bitterly deluded by the sight of some apples of Sodom.