You have no right to come to explain, or qualify by wretched suppositions, a grand idea of the country thus grandly and freely manifested."

She wanted to prepare Lenore, yet did not mean to confide her own suppositions.

It has been proper to act upon remote suppositions, and to conclude alliances which were only to be publickly owned, in consequence of measures taken by some other powers, which measures were sometimes laid aside, and the treaty, therefore, was without effect.

Such suppositions, my lords, can be intended only to prolong a controversy and weary an opponent; nor can such trifling exaggerations contribute to any other end, than of discovering the fertility of imagination, and the exuberance of eloquence.

You must have a starting-point, and not go wandering about in the realms of suppositions.

Whether I was right in my suppositions I could not tell then, but I knew that I should in all probability be permitted a better opportunity of judging later on.

To answer these arguments in the clearest and fullest manner, we are under the necessity of making two suppositions, first, that the scriptures are true; secondly, that they are false.

Having now silenced the whole argument, we might immediately proceed to the discussion of other points, without even declaring our opinion as to which of the suppositions may be right, on which it has been refuted; but we do not think ourselves at liberty to do this.

Both which suppositions are false, no names of complex ideas having so settled determined significations, that they are constantly used for the same precise ideas.

Will you deprive changelings of a future state?) is founded on one of these two suppositions, which are both false.

To suggest to it a course of action, to try to guide it, when not really antagonizing it, is to presuppose that it is capable of erring, and as I have already said to you such suppositions are menaces to the existence of colonial governments.

But we are dealing with facts and not with suppositions, and the facts are that through Professor Gale he was made acquainted with the discoveries of Joseph Henry, which had been published to the world several years before, and could have been used by others if they had had the wit or genius to grasp their significance and hit upon the right means to make them of practical utility.

Maryland and Virginia "suppositions" must be potent suppositions, to abrogate a clause in the United States Constitution!

Maryland and Virginia "suppositions" must be potent suppositions, to abrogate a clause in the United States Constitution!

That clause either gives Congress power to abolish slavery in the District, or it does notand that point is to be settled, not by state "suppositions," nor state usages, nor state legislation, but by the terms of the clause themselves.

If "suppositions" are to take the place of the constitutioncoming from both sides, they neutralize each other.

To argue a constitutional question by guessing at the "suppositions" that might have been made by the parties to it, would find small favor in a court of law.

If this question is to be settled by "suppositions," suppositions shall be forth coming, and that without stint.

If this question is to be settled by "suppositions," suppositions shall be forth coming, and that without stint.

On their return to their companions, the sailors related what they had seen; Dower did not fail to do the same among the officers; and this evening, at the encampment on the shore, in the forecastle as well as on the quarter-deck, there were narratives and suppositions that would 'amuse an assembly of Puritans through the whole of Lent,' says the account from which we borrow a part of our information.

Both these suppositions preclude the likelihood that the war has so great a share in relaxing the activity of your commerce, as is pretended.

The conclusions of Political Economy, consequently, like those of geometry, are only true, as the common phrase is, in the abstract; that is, they are only true under certain suppositions, in which none but general causescauses common to the whole class of cases under considerationare taken into the account.

And now I see other inconsistencies in all of these suppositions.

I could see in her face her alarm at these suppositions.

ce sont là de pures suppositions ... car je suis certain que monsieur de Flavigneul n'est pas ou n'est plus dans ce château.