There are verbal coincidences with forms given in the text, the dialogue beginning "Mother, the broth is boiling over!
These coincidences seem to point to a remote antiquity of usage.
That gentleman has also observed a number of such remarkable coincidences between the courts of Alcinous and Solomon, that they may be thought curious and interesting.
There are some strange coincidences between a part of his remarks and a certain work of mine, now in MS.
Here is one of the interesting coincidences that uphold the contention that the Japanese were in the peninsula at that time.
These Japanese are carefully described and much color is given to this statement by certain coincidences which will be brought out later.
Of all the apparent coincidences I have noticed between Shakspere's previous plays and the essays, none has any evidential value.
Let us take first the more decisive coincidences of phrase.
The first requirement in the study, obviously, is an exact statement of the coincidences of phrase and thought in Shakspere and Montaigne.
Correspondences of thought which in themselves do not establish their direct connection, have a new significance when it is seen that other coincidences amount to manifest reproduction.
While I find new coincidences of detail on a more systematic search, I am less impressed by the alleged general resemblance of tone.
One might be disposed to think no more about these double coils; but here comes in one of the curious, inexplicable coincidences which happen so often in plant life.
There are the most extraordinary coincidences in its behaviour.
It is when one meets coincidences of this nature that the full meaning of plant life begins to dawn upon the mind.
It is a series of similarcoincidences which has led us to consider the dagger, the musket, and certain innocent-looking white powders as having some little claim to be regarded as dangerous.
It would be only necessary to multiply such coincidences indefinitely, and the mind of every philosopher would be disturbed.
If religious beliefs are the fruits of invention, how shall we account for the strange coincidences of thought and worship which prevail throughout all myths and cults?
But these coincidences may be wholly accidental, the more as there are also striking resemblances to expressions in the Scandinavian Edda and in the Hindoo Veda.
Is there reason to think that (lucky coincidences apart) this has ever happened?
Some of those who pray to Neptune are saved from shipwreck, and the drowned are forgotten: all confirmatory coincidences are deeply impressive, and failures are overlooked or excused.
Striking coincidences are not very rare: there is an illogical prejudice that they are rare because they excite wonder.
For further illustrations of the influence of coincidencesin establishing a belief in Magic, see ch.
In the former edition I collected several references on the coincidences between sudden falls in the barometer and earthquakes; and between earthquakes and meteors.
These resemblances and coincidences will be more fully noted in a subsequent Lecture (see pp.
Though to be sure I must admit, I added (for I thought I saw that he was going to bring the objection to bear upon me), men of common sense did not allow much for coincidences in making the ordinary calculations of life.
But it was unquestionable that remarkable coincidences did continually occur, and they must be taken into account in dealing with such a subject.
In reviewing the whole facts, and more especially the series of remarkable coincidences of dates, &c.
We have now reached a point in this mysterious story at which I must again direct your attention most particularly to the coincidences of dates, &c.
I have called it one of the most remarkable coincidences in modern fiction.
Here it is: DEAR SIR: I think that I have run across one of the most remarkable coincidences in modern literature.
Its results, whenever the number ofcoincidences is too large for chance to explain, are empirical laws.
To these questions, in the absence of Cresacre More's statement, the accumulation of coincidences would have made it easy to give a very positive answer.
Comparing this treatise of Pico's with Colet's letters, the small verbal coincidences are too striking to leave any doubt of the connection.
This remarkable series of coincidences led me at first to believe that I had discovered the entry of the birth of Sir Thomas More.
These are such remarkable coincidences in a structure admittedly made with mathematical accuracy and design, and truly executed, that we cannot take them to be accidental, but must endeavour to account for them.
The Chaldaeans invented also relations between each of the planets and meteorological phenomena, an opinion partly founded on fortuitous coincidences which they had more or less frequently observed.
Here and there, it has the same language as the Annals group, but these coincidences are so rare that we must assume that they are due only to the use of well known formulae.
Some of those coincidencesare very odd and curious.
The plan which Mr. Cox follows is to collect the coincidences in the legends themselves, and to show how in different myths the same story with slight variations is told again and again of different gods and heroes.
Though I know what extraordinary coincidences are perpetually happening in the experience of all of us, still I cannot accept coincidences as explaining the fulfillment of the Visions which our own eyes have seen.
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