Now this favourable presumption with regard to human beings is not a causeless prepossession, it is no idle superstition of the mind, nor is it a natural instinct.

It has been presumed to be the body of Philip Romilly, the poor relation, a starving young art teacher in London with literary aspirationsbut I hold that that presumption is a mistake.

This reasonable presumption is an argument, too often disregarded by late grammarians, for considering our poetic feet to be quantitative, as were the ancient,not accentual only, as some will have them,nor separately both, as some others absurdly teach.

"My point is that the presumption of innocence is a pure fiction; that the treatment of an accused man, from the moment of his arrest, is that of a criminal.

"All presumption of death's being the destruction of living beings, must go upon supposition that they are compounded, and so discerptible."Butler's Analogy, p. 63.

The presumption and boldness of the sophists and School-divines is a very ungodly thing, which some of the Fathers also approved of and extolled; namely of spiritual significations in the Holy Scripture, whereby she is pitifully tattered and torn in pieces.