Is it not probable that there is always some bias of this kind?
Experience certainly shows us the frequent occurrence of moods in which we have an apparent bias for or against a particular kind of feeling.
The poetic and biblical, the august and epical bias which characterises the works of Millet, is not to be expected in Leibl.
But I honestly detect no shadow of pro-Ally bias in this book, and it is certainly no tirade against Germany.
What bias there is is that of the extreme republican against his autocratic government.
Cobbett, you see, was a man with an infinite capacity for scorn and indignation, and that bias very frequently led him to take no account of things that a more evenly-balanced temper would have found delight in.
It is not reason, but the circumstances and natural bias of the soul which are the first ground of virtue.
Deprived of his property by shipwreck, he took refuge in philosophy, incited also by an inner bias to such pursuits.
This is the more conclusive as Prestwich is the highest authority, and he approached the subject with a bias for shortening rather than lengthening the periods commonly assigned for the glacial epoch and the antiquity of man.
Now crack thy lungs and split thy brazen pipe; Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek Out-swell the colic of puff Aquilon'd.
Nor can one help seeing in Aristotle's own doctrine the usual want of coherence between an initial anti-Platonic bias and a final reversion to the very Platonic positions Aristotle is fond of impugning.
A professional who is captain seems always to think it proper to give every bowler a chance, whether a change of bowling is wanted or not, and a natural bias towards members of his own county is not always successfully resisted.
United States Fair to All Disclaimer of Bias Against Germany and Austria By William J.
This will ever be the case, while men possess passions, easily inflamed, which may bias their reason and lead them to erroneous conclusions.
Ruffle--finishing with bias bands on petticoat and drawers.
Bias bands--joining and applying to straight and curved edges, on princess aprons, drawers, top of petticoat.
New principles: (1) Flat fell--shaped and bias edges on princess aprons and drawers.
Bias band--applying to top of ruffle in petticoats and drawers.
Banding: Straight and bias bands placed by measurement from design made in Art Department.
These exaggerations are merely resorted to as a method of emphasising one view of the matter in dispute, and are not, as a rule, seriously intended to mislead the magistrate so much as to give a gentle bias to his mind.
After a moment of constitutional government, he reverts, with a bias which the fatalist might call irresistible, to despotism in some form" (p.
The divine lesson has been read, and it is the historian's duty to copy it faithfully withoutbias and without ulterior views.
He had to address men who had every opportunity of becoming familiar with the arguments of the enemies of the Church, and with the discoveries and conclusions of those whose studies were without the bias of any religious object.
If to follow this native bias is the first rule, the second is concentration.
To the bias of the individual mind must be added the most catholic receptivity for the genius of others.
But among the former class will be found many intellectually conscientious and even scrupulous persons, whom the recognition of this inevitable bias will drive to an extreme of caution.
Considering then the bias of the dominant scientific school, which makes it refuse even to examine the carefully gathered evidence of the S.
They do not follow Him to the heights, nor rise to sublimities"--a notion altogether congenial to Patmore's aristocratic bias in religion as in everything else.
The fact that a belief is "consoling," quite independently of its truth or falsehood, creates a bias towards its acceptance.
Indeed, it is just on this account that the evidence for it is so opposed by those who are pre-occupied by the anti-religious bias of contemporary science.
Their bias was to regard all inequalities as artificial.
At present Lenny's genius had no bias that was not to the positive and useful.
Pisistratus tries to look as if he had the opinion of Bias by heart, and nods acquiescingly.
As we have not the same bias as he has, we decline, for obvious reasons, to do so, although he points out that the verse in Matthew is not in the oldest codex.
Only an inquirer who has a bias against Christianity would think of disputing the quotation.
It records how Jesus forgave sins, to the sick gave health, to the blind sight, to the dumb speech, and to the dead life; all of which is out of keeping with his bias and the German rationalism with which he has such profound sympathy.
The case is treated fully, authoritatively and without bias in Infant Mortality by Dr.
There is no bias here, of mind or spirit, which would have changed the clear humanity of the poet into the philosopher or the mystic.
