Thirdly, the judgment of the multitude is apt to be biassed by that surprise which is the effect of seeing an artist foiled at his own weapons, by one who engages him only for amusement.
Her observations touching the loss of the chain were such as a suspicious woman, biassed by hatred and envy, would naturally make.
His affection for his friends indeed sometimes biassed his judgment, and led him to the commending their writings beyond their merit.
The accurate calculation of longitude at that time, however, was impossible, and as will be seen in the following note Columbus's calculation was biassed by powerful preconceptions.
It is exactly one of those suppressions which help to create the deep misgiving as to the historic exactness of this biassed and late historian.
In this and similar instances commentators, biassed by a priori considerations, have imagined that Ahaz did not in person offer sacrifices.
Sidenote: Secular historians] A great deal that was not much biassed by creed was written on the Reformation during this period.
The Marquis of Saldanha is a descendant of Pombal; and his Secretary has naturally beenbiassed in favour of his patron's ancestor.
I do not think that this negative line of evidence presents much weight; and, to show that I am not biassed in forming this judgement, I may here state that few have more reason than myself for appreciating the weight of such evidence.
That Mr. Wallace himself should be biassed in this matter might, perhaps, be expected.
They are biassed by their Christian faith, you say.
Be it so: are you less biassedby your anti-christian unbelief and disposition?
He must have been biassed by his own remembrance of earlier years, when Wordsworth was still a bone of contention.
For Whately's so-called impartiality consisted in being equally biassedagainst Evangelicals and Tractarians; and both were accused by their unfriends of being a little addicted to the encouragement of flatterers and toadies.
The early folk were thinkers, but their reasoning was confined within the limits of their knowledge, and biassed by preconceived ideas.
Not a few of these are obviously biassed and prejudiced, while some are so vague and fragmentary that the conclusions drawn from them cannot be otherwise than hypothetical in character.
Whatever others might say, she never allowed herself to bebiassed against me, or indeed against any one else, contrary to her own convictions.
There is, however, a melodramatic effect of the narrative of old Sanzi which entitles it to notice as contemporary and unpublished, although apparently biassed in favour of Galeazzo.
We afterwards learned that the King had comprehended much of what the Doctor had sought to convey; but prejudice ran high, and though personally inclined to befriend us, he was biassed by his ministers.
This was a powerful reinforcement for the approaching struggle; but with the Secretary biassed against us, and resolute opposition from the chairman of the committee, the odds were heavy.
Hearn's literary judgments were as capricious and biassed as his political ones.
When the motive is not biassed by heavenly attractions, it is called spiritual purity.
When the motive is not biassed by worldly attractions, it is called ascetic purity by the Sûfîs.
It is many years since I heard one of the greatest seers in our nation, in horror and with fear, dreading the heavy judgments of God upon the biassed professors in the west of Scotland.
The art of Cole was however, largely biassedby the literature of England.
William Page, a native of Albany, who studied law, and for a time also theology, at Andover Seminary, was from the first biassedin favor of art.
His judgments have remained authoritative; but some of his final judgments, which were unshaken for generations, such as for instance his estimates of Pushkin and Lermontov, were much biassed and coloured by his didacticism.
The most biassed of English or French critics is broad-minded compared to a Russian critic.
If the Convention who are comparatively so little biassed by local views are so much perplexed, How can it be expected that the Legislature hereafter under the full biass of those views, will be able to settle a standard.
What was to be done after improper Verdicts in State tribunals obtained under the biassed directions of a dependent Judge, or the local prejudices of an undirected jury?
Accordingly she came to me, and told me all the discourse; in short, she soon biassed me to consent, in a case which I had some regret in my mind for declining before; so I prepared to see him.
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