For conceiving of God more under the attribute of knowledge than we do, he was more under the necessity of {159} separating the divine from the human, as two spheres which had no communication with one another.
He located the faculty of apprehension more specifically in the blood, conceiving that in it the combination of the elements was most complete.
What Democritus hoped to get by this double or correlative system was a means of accounting for or conceiving of change in nature.
His original idea, on first conceiving the plan of robbery, had been to enter into Darrell's presence disguised and masked.
But had he lived in the Theological or the Metaphysical era he would have been equally without experience of the Positive, and have had the same difficulty in conceiving its existence.
She sank on the floor of the room, conceiving with much strangeness of sentiment under these hard stripes of misfortune, that reality had come.
They promised to visit her very early in the morning, neither of them conceiving that they left her to a night of storm and tears.
She listened gravely, conceiving the infinity as a narrow dwelling where a voice droned and ceased not.
Without conceiving in him anything of the strange old monster of earth which had struck the awakened girl's mind of Miss Middleton, Laetitia classed him with other men; he was "one of them".
Forthwith Mr. Huxter, conceiving he was witness of some petty larceny, leapt round his counter and ran out into the road to intercept the thief.
The second labourer came round in a circle, stared, and conceiving that Hall had tumbled over of his own accord, turned to resume the pursuit, only to be tripped by the ankle just as Huxter had been.
The conceiving of a good purpose is not confirmed by the deliberation of the mind, unless the deliberation lead to a promise.
By no means so destitute of imagination as numerous detractors have declared him, Mr. Timothy Shelley resembled his son in an aptitude for conceiving whatever tended for the moment to put him on good terms with himself.
Anyhow it is certain that Harriett left York without thinking Hogg guilty of harbouring infamous designs on her honour, and also without conceiving her sister and Shelley suspected him of such wickedness.
This was the principal cause of the Corinthians conceiving such a deadly hatred against Athens.
The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.
In this sense he receives the doctrine of transmigration, conceiving of it very much as we conceive of the accumulation of heat successively in different things.
Harvey, that the matrix has the faculty of conceiving ideas, and realizing them on the foetus?
This male contagion not only acts upon the matrix but over all the female body, which is wholly fecundated, although the matrix only has the faculty of conception, as the brain has the sole faculty of conceiving ideas.
He had no vein for poetry; yet fancying himself a bard, he fabricated pretty verses: he certainly was no musician; but conceiving himself to be one, played pleasantly on the fiddle.
Mr. Lyons conceiving my brother to be intoxicated, drew back, and refused the invitation in a most peremptory manner.
His mother, conceiving that the vital spark was not extinct, had put him into bed, dressed his wounded limbs, and rubbed his neck with hot vinegar.
Not conceiving the existence of natural law, primitive man cannot conceive a breach of it.
Regarding it as such, I venture to devote a small space to its description, conceiving that a hint may be advantageously taken therefrom in the future construction of piers, wharfs, &c.
In my mind I dishonoured you by deeming you his like, by conceiving your fight with Levasseur a combat between jackals.
Brother and sister sat there in agonized bewilderment, conceivingthat their escape was but from frying-pan to fire.
At first there had been a desperately hurried attempt to get up the anchor; but this was abandoned as being already too late; and conceiving themselves on the point of being boarded, the Spaniards stood to arms to ward off the onslaught.
I regret to chronicle it of one for whom--if I have done him any sort of justice--you should have been conceiving some esteem.
Conceiving these sounds to portend a more than normal activity, she sat up, pervaded by a vague alarm, and roused her still slumbering woman.
Conceiving that he had to do with some urgent obstetrical case, he reached for bedgown and slippers, to go below.
And she, when came the wondrous hour assigned, Conceiving her Conceiver, girt him round, And held in her Immaculate womb confined That Essence whom the heavens cannot bound!
Derision" is pleasure arising from our conceiving the presence of a quality, which we despise, in an object which we hate.
Proof--From the mere fact of our conceiving that another person takes delight in a thing (III.
Again, from the mere fact of conceiving that anyone shrinks from anything, we shall ourselves shrink from that thing (III.
Thus, from the fact of conceiving a thing like ourselves to be affected with any emotion, we are ourselves affected with a like emotion.
Proof--From the mere fact of conceiving that anyone loves anything we shall ourselves love that thing (III.
In order to prepare the mind of the reader for the easier conceiving what follows, it is proper to premise somewhat, by way of Introduction, concerning the nature and abuse of Language.
It is certain that not a few divines, as well as philosophers of great note, have, from the difficulty they found in conceiving either limits or annihilation of space, concluded it must be divine.
But my conceiving or imagining power does not extend beyond the possibility of real existence or perception.
But this denies to man the power of conceiving of God, and so leads directly to Atheism.
It is right in making it a personal coming, and not merely the coming of his truth apart from him, but wrong in conceiving of this personal coming, as material to the senses, instead of spiritual to the soul.
Say as much as can be said of the difficulty of conceiving such a thing, it really amounts to no more than the difficulty of conceiving what will happen, and how we shall be dealt with, when this familiar world passes away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conceiving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: conception; daydream; fantasy
