These two losses, the one already probable, the other hypothetical, would still leave Austria in the unquestioned position of a Great Power.

" "He who will determine," returned Imlac, "against that which he knows, because there may be something, which he knows not; he that can set hypothetical possibility against acknowledged certainty, is not to be admitted among reasonable beings.

Even when the upholders of the former and more popular system mix up revelation with scientific discussion,which we decline to do,they by no means thereby render their view other than hypothetical.

Scientifically considered, the two opposing doctrines are equally hypothetical.

Moreover, Mr. Darwin would insinuate that the particular philosophy of classification upon which this whole argument reposes is as purely hypothetical and as little accepted as his own doctrine.

The student of Vergil should rather remember how great was the need of that age for some practical philosophy capable of lifting the mind out of the stupor in which a hybrid mythology had left it, and how, when Platonic idealism had been wrecked by the skeptics, and Stoicism with its hypothetical premises had repelled many students, Epicurean positivism came as a saving gospel of enlightenment.

It is a sufficient reply to these objections to say that they are all hypothetical, and that none of them in practice have been found to existto such an extent at least as to occasion any inconvenience; but it is not difficult to show that they are altogether unsubstantial, even without a recourse to the disproofs afforded by experience.

The difference between the actual speed and this hypothetical speed, is the slip.

This is the extreme opposite of Wallace's and Darwin's view, and is quite as hypothetical.

I inquired minutely into the habits of my hypothetical victims; ascertained who were their associates, friends, enemies and servants; considered their diet, their residences, their modes of conveyance, the source of their clothing and, in fact, everything which it was necessary to know in order to achieve their deaths with certainty and with absolute safety to the murderer.

They were wedded, ceremonially dined as befitted the occasion, and departed upon their hypothetical honeymoon, surreptitiously abbreviated from an extravagant swing over half of North America to seventy miles by rail and twenty by water,and a month of blissful seclusion, which suited those two far better than any amount of Pullman touring, besides leaving them money in pocket.

Barmecide first washed in hypothetical water, Schacabac followed his example.

BEN'ENGEL'I (Cid Hamet), the hypothetical Moorish chronicler from whom Cervantês pretends he derived the account of the adventures of don Quixote.

BIG-EN'DIANS (The), a hypothetical religious party of Lilliput, who made it a matter of "faith" to break their eggs at the "big end.

"We don't have any solid information other than that, so we can only guess what level of connection there may be between any such hypothetical civilization and the pirates.

They are not applicable to a future uncertainty, or to any mere supposition in which we would leave the time indefinite and make the action hypothetical; because they are commonly understood to fix the time of the verb to the present or the past, and to assume the action as either doing or done.

25."Lowth, Priestley, Murray, and most grammarians say, that hypothetical, conditional, concessive, or exceptive conjunctions; as, if, lest, though, unless, except; require, or govern the subjunctive mood.

Encouraged by his return and by the regular habits of my hypothetical bullfinch, Miss Ropes let him out again next day.

A doctor must make up his mind from examining the patient, except so far as hypothetical questions may be used.

The intercourse between natives of opposite sides of the continent (though it is certainly possible) has never been established, and while it remains hypothetical, cannot be adduced to overthrow another hypothesis.

Consequently, this little thread of a tie between herself and the captain, woven merely of some hypothetical arithmetic, was but a cobweb of a thread.

and that the idea of the hypothetical black lady is again traversing his ingenuous mind.

TOMMY ATKINS, the British soldier, as Jack Tar is the British sailor, from a hypothetical name inserted in a War Office schedule at one time issued to each soldier.

The pervading soul, of which the body was but the physical manifestation, remains; it does not return to heaven or any hypothetical point in either space or speculation.

The scientist and the materialist in the ardent pursuit of knowledge soon experience the necessity of indulging in assumptions concerning force and matter, the hypothetical ether and molecules, atoms and vortices, which are as purely metaphysical as any assumptions concerning the soul.