He had read all these things, and now reported them as he had read: each man could decide for himself as to their credibility.

The fact that he had shown no reluctance in disclosing in his evidence that he was a criminal and the associate of criminals seemed to add to the credibility of his evidence.

Conflicting rumours of varying credibility came in to us during those three days, rumours of big advances both to the north and to the south.

For what is Benthe pleasant sailor which Bannister gives usbut a piece of satirea creation of Congreve's fancya dreamy combination of all the accidents of a sailor's characterhis contempt of moneyhis credulity to womenwith that necessary estrangement from home which it is just within the verge of credibility to suppose might produce such an hallucination as is here described.

But comedy is not this unbending thing; for this reason, that the same degree of credibility is not required of it as to serious scenes.

The degrees of credibility demanded to the two things may be illustrated by the different sort of truth which we expect when a man tells us a mournful or a merry story.

For what is Benthe pleasant sailor which Bannister gave usbut a piece of a satirea creation of Congreve's fancya dreamy combination of all the accidents of a sailor's characterhis contempt of moneyhis credulity to womenwith that necessary estrangement from home which it is just within the verge of credibility to suppose might produce such an hallucination as is here described.

The naming of Thraso gave the highest degree of credibility to the story in the mind of the tyrant.

[76:1] Lardner, Credibility, &c., ii.

[249:1] The quotations from Athenagoras are transcribed from 'Supernatural Religion' and Lardner (Credibility &c., ii.

[251:1] Credibility &c., ii.

[308:2] Lardner, Credibility, &c., ii.

[317:1] See Lardner, Credibility, &c., ii.

The following story of his adventures is no more improbable than many a story we read in the daily newspapersand surely no one could question the credibility of the daily newspapers.

The next Method of reconciling Miracles with Credibility, is by a happy Invention of the Poet; as in particular, when he introduces Agents of a superior Nature, who are capable of effecting what is wonderful, and what is not to be met with in the ordinary course of things.

F. Since, then, you have thus explained all the power of an orator, what have you to tell me about the rules for an oration? C. P. That there are four divisions in an oration, of which the first and last are of avail to excite such and such feelings in the mind, for they are to be excited by the openings and perorations of speeches: the second is narration: and the third, being confirmation, adds credibility to a speech.

Such was the contrast when we last visited the "Grove;" the picturesque cottage was then as we have described it, and its new-born neighbours were rising fast on every side, and we would not insure its existence for a week longer; for the slicing, cutting, and carving of this once beautiful spot, exceeds all credibility.

Let reason, then, at her own quarry fly, But how can finite grasp infinity? 'Tis urged again, that faith did first commence By miracles, which are appeals to sense, And thence concluded, that our sense must be The motive still of credibility.

"Our power to discern reasons for them, gives a positive credibility to the history of them."Id.

"Is not the bare fact, that God is the witness of it, sufficient ground for its credibility to rest upon?"Chalmers cor.

All oral tradition, all contemporary literature, all satiric art, tell the same horrid tale; and the number of bottles which a single toper would consume at a sitting not only, in Burke's phrase, "outraged economy," but "staggered credibility."

I can admit the possibility of the snow shoes and their appearance at the very moment they're needed, but the evocation of a river and a canoe at the opportune instant puts too high a strain upon credibility.

It is impossible to warrant the authenticity of these Papers; on their credibility, however, rests the whole proof of the most weighty charges brought against the King.

A shepherd of Bohemia has, by long abode in the forests, enabled himself to understand the voice of birds; at least he relates with great confidence a story, of which the credibility is left to be considered by the learned.

So in the Lusiads, while the conflict and the crisis, as shown in the national energy of colonization in the East, are clear, the machinery of the heavenly plot frankly reverts to mythologic and pagan forms and loses all credibility.