Forgive my petulance and often, I fear, ill-founded criticisms, and forgive me that I have, by this time, made your eyes and head ache with my long letter; but I cannot forego hastily the pleasure and pride of thus conversing with you.

A thing that is productive of an enormous amount of republican talk in Great Britain is the suspicionI believe an ill-founded suspicionthat there are influences at work at court antagonistic to republican institutions in friendly states and that there is a disposition even to sacrifice the interests of the liberal allies to dynastic sympathies.

Do you think there is any chance?" "Doctor Voorhes," the brave little woman answered, "let us not waste the few moments which yet remain, in idle or ill-founded hopes.

It was easy to see that Smedley's alarm had not been altogether ill-founded.

Charles had conceived a furious and not ill-founded hatred for his base yet formidable neighbor and rival, Louis XI. of France.

" Much that Lady Mary wrote was of great value in exploding many ill-founded beliefs at home as regards Turkish life, and especially concerning the manners and customs of Turkish women.

After due examination it appears that the major part of the complaints against this trade are ill-founded.

All objections against it in this respect were ill-founded.

The pretence is so ill-founded that it falls to the ground upon examination.

This assumption was indeed preposterous and ill-founded; nevertheless it was credited by many Republicans.

But your arrogant man will not tolerate a presumption which he sees to be ill-founded.

In Hume's case, there was no ill-founded conclusion of the availability of the freshly-discovered district.

Nor is this common Judgment and Opinion of Mankind ill-founded: for certainly it denotes no great Bravery of Mind to be worked up to any noble Action by so selfish a Motive, and to do that out of a Desire of Fame, which we could not be prompted to by a disinterested Love to Mankind, or by a generous Passion for the Glory of him that made us.

This view, however, we think unjust, and ill-founded.

It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection.

It was evident now, however, that these fears had been ill-founded, for no play could receive such laudatory reviews as these and fail to set New-Yorkers aflame.

The flaming hopes of its friends, the wild and desperate prophecies of its antagonists, are found to be each as ill-founded as the other.

A few years' experience must have convinced him that his suspicions were ill-founded.

Nor is this common Judgment and Opinion of Mankind ill-founded: for certainly it denotes no great Bravery of Mind to be worked up to any noble Action by so selfish a Motive, and to do that out of a Desire of Fame, which we could not be prompted to by a disinterested Love to Mankind, or by a generous Passion for the Glory of him that made us.

I however see, that when he had resolved to claim Messiahship publicly, one of two results was inevitable, if that claim was ill-founded:viz., either he must have become an impostor, in order to screen his weakness; or, he must have retracted his pretensions amid much humiliation, and have retired into privacy to learn sober wisdom.

Murray spoke for the first time, with the greatest applause; Pitt answered him with all his force and art of language, but on an ill-founded argument.

EUDOCIA, the ill-fated daughter of an Athenian Sophist, wife of Theodosius II., embraced Christianity, her name Athenais previously; was banished by her husband on an ill-founded charge of infidelity, and spent the closing years of her life in Jerusalem, where she became a convert to the views of EUTYCHES (q. v.) (394-400).

The news aroused the sleeping jealousy of Prussia among the French people; the suspicion and irritation of the Government was extreme, and this feeling was not ill-founded.

After due examination it appears that the major part of the complaints against this Trade are ill-founded.

All objections against it in this respect were ill-founded.