I will not attempt to speculate.

To go deeper into this matter, to speculate upon the possible germs, the first vague intimations to the mind of Coleridge of the weird spectra of "The Ancient Mariner," the phantasmagoria of "Kubla Khan," would be, perhaps, over-refining.

He grew impatient with seeking to speculate.

But if you are willing to speculate not only the causes of fables, but of other theological dogmas, you will find that some of them are scattered in the Platonic dialogues for the sake of ethical, and others for the sake of physical considerations.

If it were presumption so to speculate, the present owners of the mansion had least reason to complain.

My good friends, the Moors, continue to speculate upon the progress of the French army in Algeria.

After saying that 'no account can be given' of the position of one of the stones, he continues:'There are so many important things of which human knowledge can give no account, that it may be forgiven us if we speculate no longer on two stones in Col.'

But it was useless to speculate without facts.

He tells us, in language of the most impressive simplicity and grandeur, that he was directly instructed and commissioned by Jehovah to communicate moral truths,truths, we should remember, which no one before him is known to have uttered, and truths so important that the prosperity of nations is identified with them, and will be so identified as long as men shall speculate and dream.

If a key could be supposed to peep through a keyhole, and speculate on the nature of the service it was rendering to humanity, in keeping safe the contents of the room into which it gazed, this key might have indulged in fine conjectures, and have passed its lifetime in a state of chronic bewilderment.

We never speculate individually, at least that is a condition of our agreement.

He scarcely made any secret that he was already contemplating the probability of his succession; and, as there were not wanting courtiers to speculate also on the chance, it soon became known that there was no such sure road to the favor of monsieur as that of disparaging and vilifying the queen.

Joe had no time to speculate on what might have been the romantic history of the woman.

I shall not, therefore, speculate upon it.

I doubt, however, if even the most ardent and optimistic of capitalists would care to speculate deeply upon the stability of any government capital might organize, which rested on the fundamental principle that the American people must be ruled by an army.

It is useless to speculate as to which party was in the right.

There are some countries, where, however insupportable the condition of the masses, still the government has an ally in the mighty and influential class of bankers, who lend their money to support despotism, and in those who have invested their fortunes in the shares of these loans, negotiated by bankers, who speculate on and with the fortunes of small capitalists.

It was, however, a general rule of Roman economy that one should rather take small shares in many speculations than speculate independently; Cato advised the capitalist not to fit out a single ship with his money, but in concert with forty-nine other capitalists to send out fifty ships and to take an interest in each to the extent of a fiftieth part.

Any further explanation that may be given of their fate will be in the nature of hypothesis, if not actually mythical in its character; and I may leave the reader to speculate upon the matter for himself.

The crudest intellect cannot speculate on such a subject without having a presentiment that Time is something ideal in its nature.

But the country of the Dahcotah,let it be new to those who fly at the beckon of gainwho would speculate in the blood of their fellow-creatures, who for gold would, aye do, sell their own souls,it is an old country to me.

He that without danger will know God, and will speculate of him, let him look first into the manger, that is, let him begin below, and let him first learn to know the Son of the Virgin Mary, born at Bethlehem, that lies and sucks in his mother's bosom; or let one look upon him hanging on the Cross.

They do not speculate on the mysteries of existence, they are content to be, to labour, to suffer, to die when their time comes like a dog, because it is Kismettheir fate.

Although throughout the report I have used freely the psychological terms idea and ideation, it has been my aim to describe the behavior of my animals rather than to interpret it or speculate concerning its accompaniments.

Why on earth did he go and speculate?