There are two passages of some length which are without doubt evangelical quotations, though whether they are derived from the Canonical Gospels or not may be doubted.

As his son writes with aching heart in the biography: "To Gublitz, who doubted of his ability to undertake the journey to London, he replied, in a tone of melancholy irony: 'Whether I can or no, I must.

He then doubted that the black race would live in such a rigorous climate.

It may be doubted, with good Reason, whether there ever was in Nature a more abject, slavish, and bigotted Generation than the Tribe of Beaux Esprits, at present so prevailing in this Island.

This egregious Fault in a Man of the World, should be a Lesson to all who would make their Fortunes: But a Regard must be carefully had to the Person with whom you have to do; for it is not to be doubted but a great Man of common Sense must look with secret Indignation or bridled Laughter, on all the Slaves who stand round him with ready Faces to approve and smile at all he says in the gross.

Now that it could no longer be doubted that the plague was on the decline, it seemed as if a miracle had been performed in favour of the city.

Whatever defects the critic of pure poetry might discover in its workmanship, the poem was read for its storiesfor a truth of realism that could not be doubted, and for a pity that could not be unshared.

This Tale alone should be a decisive answer to those who have doubted Crabbe's possession of the gift of humour, and on this occasion he has refrained from letting one dark shadow fall across his picture.

" FitzGerald's selections are made with the skill and judgment we should expect from a critic of so fine a taste, but it may be doubted whether any degree of skill could have quite atoned for one radical flaw in his method.

Nevertheless it is advisable to separate this species of inferences from experiencewhose certainty is not doubted except by the philosophersfrom uncertain probabilities, as a class intermediate between the latter and demonstrative truth (demonstrationsproofsprobabilities).

But it seems to me that this unskilled labor of fishing from a steamboat must be epidemic, if not contagious; for even Young New York, who in the early forenoon doubted visibly his discretion at having got himself into such an ugly scrape as an "excursion-spree," put off his delicate gloves, and set to hauling, hand over hand, as if for a bet.

It cannot be doubted, however, that the peril will pass by, with advancing knowledge.

Meanwhile, Lorenzo, running to and fro, had flashed his lantern upon a creature so wretched, so emaciated, that he doubted to think her woman.

Erasmus doubted whether Duns Scotus and the Venerable Bede had been complimented in being made name-fathers to a couple of owls; but he said Argus and Juno were good cognomens for peacocks.

Still he doubted.

I was also oppressively struck with the melancholy forebodings that appeared in Chloe's manner, rather than in her words, and which made it apparent that she doubted of her young mistress's recovery.

I could see the same view myself, and perceived that her eyes were riveted on the little wood where Rupert and I had met the girls on our return from sea; a favourite place of resort, and one that, I doubted not, had often been the witness of the early confidence between Grace and her recreant lover.

If the result proved satisfactory, I have never doubted that it would seal the fate of slavery throughout the civilised world.

I had about fifty more, that had fallen to me from the disposal of my property at the death of my father; but that was so vested as to preclude it from immediate use, and I even doubted whether it would not be found better ultimately to resign it, than, by claiming it, to risk the furnishing a clew to what I most of all dreaded, the persecution of Mr. Falkland.

But that there have been important climatic changes, since the Christian era, cannot be doubted, unless we doubt history.

18.As to the application of this suffix to nouns, when we consider the signification of the words thus formed, its propriety may well be doubted.

In the following example, the first pronoun is the antecedent to all the rest: "And he that never doubted of his state, He may perhapsperhaps he maytoo late.

20.Cobbett, who, though he wrote several grammars, was but a very superficial grammarian, seems never to have doubted the propriety of putting with for and; and yet he was confessedly not a little puzzled to find out when to use a singular, and when a plural verb, after a nominative with such "a sort of addition made to it."

With these restrictions and qualifications, it cannot be doubted that every Master Mason has a right to demit from his lodge at his own pleasure.

"I expect that when you first began to go round the wards, you doubted whether you were cut out for medical practice.