He deceives himself by this argument, for the argument is utterly .

* Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.

The moment we were alone Eveena said "I have never seen illness, but if Eunané is not ill, and very ill, all I have gathered in my father's household from such books as he has allowed me, and from his own conversation, deceives me wholly; and yet no illness of which I have ever heard in the slightest degree resembles this.

Answer: 'If that doctrine be true, which I will never believe, then the Bible mocks and deceives poor miserable sinful man, instead of teaching him.

He again deceives himself with respect to the perfection with which man is held to be originally vested.

The reader asks whether the author deceives himself or if he wishes to throw some dust into the eyes of the public?

Or she deceives herself.

In the one case it is a man's purpose to deceive his fellow-man; in the other case it is simply his purpose to conceal what his fellow-man has no right to know, and that fellow-man receives a false impression, or deceives himself, in consequence.

An effort at right concealment may include truthful statements which are likely, or even sure, to result in false impressions on the mind of the one to whom they are addressed, and who in consequence deceives himself as to the facts, when the purpose of those statements is not the deception of the hearer.

"] "Of course," he says, "such a procedure presupposes a certain relation of guardianship, on the part of the one who speaks untruth, over him whom he deceives, and a relative irresponsibility on the part of the other,an incapacity to make use of certain truths except to his actual moral injury.

Men huddle up their life here as a thing of no use, and wear it out like an old suit, the faster the better; and he that deceives the time best, best spends it.

If I have concealed my emotions in addressing you it is only the thrawn national way that deceives everybody except Scotsmen.

If adversity hath killed his thousand, prosperity hath killed his ten thousand: therefore adversity is to be preferred; haec froeno indiget, illa solatio: illa fallit, haec instruit: the one deceives, the other instructs; the one miserably happy, the other happily miserable; and therefore many philosophers have voluntarily sought adversity, and so much commend it in their precepts.

And, unfortunately, it sometimes happens that it is worse than valueless; it becomes a forgery (which it may not have been when it came into circulation), and deceives those who traffic with it, flattering them with an unfounded possession.

For a time she deceives herself, Felix.

It must be his consummate self-conceit that deceives him, if he is deceived.

" "End at once your tedious narrative!" said the datto, "What did my wife do?" "Sir," answered the slave, "she deceives you shamefully.

I believe that God arranges our various burdens and fits them to our backs, and that He sets off a loss against a gain, so that while some seem more favored than others, the mere aspect deceives.

"So willingly are adverbs, qualifying deceives."Cutler's Gram., p. 90.

Willingly is an adverb of manner, and qualifies deceives.

She deceives us with a shadow, offers us a name in place of what we crave for with every nobler instinct of the soul.

But he deceives himself; For Prudence

The crops of the farmer are stinted; his cattle die; his markets are bad; and the purchaser of his commodities proves to be a cheat, who deceives his confidence and runs away with his property.

Yet this, though bad, is not the worst; my father deceives himself in the hopes of the very child he has brought into the world; he suffers his house to be the seat of drunkenness, riot, and irreligion, who seduces, almost in my sight, the menial servant, converses with the prostitute, and corrupts the wife!

It deceives us with no false hopeswith no breakings in the serried cloudswith