This multitude, corrupted by deleterious cross-breeding and weakened by bad selection, became unable to {26} oppose the invasion of the Asiatic chimeras and aberrations.
The clearest minds accepted the chimeras of astrology and magic.
All chimeras are built on assumptions, and so far are "castles in the air;" in many forms they are simply ridiculous; but when they pretend to the supernatural they are pernicious and often wicked.
We have thus reviewed summarily, chimeras which are mainly associated with Astronomy, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Mechanics, and which have swayed the human mind more or less from a period anterior to the Christian era.
To the spread of education alone, can we look with any reliance for the downfall, or at least the diminishing of the hold on the human mind which Chimeras of every order usurp in our own, in common with every other country.
The ties of blood are weak, if not the mere chimeras of prejudice, unless sanctioned by reason, or cemented by habits of familiar and affectionate intercourse.
Tell me, that I have indulged too long the wild and extravagant chimeras of a romantic imagination.
In all times it is possible for a man to arise great enough to feel that they and their doctrines are chimeras and cobwebs.
Let us leave all these calumnious chimeras, as chimeras ought to be left.
Cobwebs and chimeras ought verily to disappear; for a Reality there is.
Through some section of History, Nineteen spectre-chimeras shall flit, speaking and gibbering; till Oblivion swallow them.
The empire of chimeras was later to become the tower of ivory.
The empire of chimerasover which he holds sway is about as far on one side of reality as George Sand’s kingdom of dreams is on the other.
Where the Rousseauist goes beyond the ordinary dreamer is in his proneness to regard his retirement into some land of chimeras as a proof of his nobility and distinction.
It hovers before the imagination as a sort of Golden Age of pure beauty, a land of chimeras that is alone worthy of the æsthete’s habitation.
Popular chimeras are nearly allied to contagious diseases; quickly do they become stale and change their shape.
They suppressed the chimeras which went with belief in a complete survival after death, chimeras which were homicidal at the time, in so far as they robbed man of the true notion of death and led him to multiply murders.
True morality is founded on the nature of man; the morality of religion is founded only on the chimeras of imagination, and on the caprice of those who speak of the Deity in a language too often contrary to nature and right reason.
Are mankind sufficiently advanced in knowledge to be able to overcome the prejudices and chimeras which render them unhappy during the greatest part of their lives?
Their chimeras serve but to torture weak minds, and to set the passions at war with nature and their dogmas.
Do not, then, abandon yourself to superstitious reveries, but collect all the strength of your judgment to combat the chimeras which torment your imagination.
Although my attachment for her did not impose the necessity of responding to her confidence, the love of truth would oblige me to make efforts to dissipate the chimeraswhich render her unhappy.
When you entered society where for a long time such chimeras have been disbelieved, you were insensibly undeceived, and at present you blush at your former credulity.
In short, education, public opinion, and the laws point out to us our mutual duties much more clearly than the chimeras of an incomprehensible religion.
It is from all these ideas that we are to look for regret and remorse, even in those who do not believe in the chimeras of another world.
We find much difficulty in conquering them, because imagination, when once occupied in creatingchimeras which astonish or excite it, is incapable of reasoning.
They needed souls and chimerasto populate the imaginary regions which they have discovered in the other life.
Let the vain chimeras which beset the people be dissipated, and very soon rational opinions will fill the minds of those who were believed fated to be always in error.
Wherefore the hermaphrodite was one of the most ardently-cherished chimeras of the ancient idolatry.
My dreams are made of those, and all the palaces I build for my chimeras are constructed with those materials.
If it were possible to suppose such chimeras prevailing, the natural redress would soon be seen to lie through secret tribunals, like those of the dreadful Fehmgericht in the middle ages.
It would be absurd, however, seriously to pursue these anti-social chimeras through their consequences.
These chimeras found partisans for many years, and when these ideas went out of fashion, new pretenders to inspiration mounted upon the ambulatory stage.
Thou art a peripatetic and I a Platonist; we are therefore both in the wrong; for thou opposest Plato, because his chimeras repel thee; and I fly from Aristotle, because it appears to me that he knew not what he said.
Gentlemen: All the objects of science are within your jurisdiction; allow chimeras to be so also.
It is a clear proof that, in serious business, no more attention is paid to these chimeras than in a council of state to theses of theology.
There was not a mouth in the apartment unfurnished with a tube, so that they resembled a congregation of chimeras breathing fire and smoke; and our gentlemen were fain to imitate their example in their own defence.
I began to say that I could not make any headway with the women; my head was filled with chimeras which I preferred to realities.
To our knowledge, no investigations of periclinal chimeras have been made with nuts, following treatment with colchicine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chimeras" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
