But concerning this, I shall referr you to what you may elsewhere find in the Discourse written touching the passive Deceptions of Chymists, and more about the Production of Colours by Digestion you will meet with presently.
Yet he has not the boldness to attribute to all the demons all the deceptions and malicious and foolish practices which justly move his indignation.
Constant deceptions were practised by him to gain his ends; and, so long as he lived, difficulties existed between him and the English.
Ces deceptions de la teleologie sont perpetuelles dans l'histoire de la science; a chaque instant, on s'est extasie devant des structures que l'imagination seule appropriait a certaines fonctions.
But the best that wealth does for me is, that it enables me to make compensation for deceptions and injustice, practised on other men in my younger days--and to fulfil all vows made to the Gods.
An example of what deceptions were sometimes practised in such worship came to the notice of the Elector John Frederick, the friend of Luther, and probably originated in a convent at Eisenach.
For deceptions alleged to have been practised against himself, he had Schönitz arrested, and confined, in September 1534, in the Castle of Giebichenstein.
The dramatist was thoroughly conversant with the technicalities of the pretended science, and also with the deceptions of its professors.
A collection of Curious Puzzles and Paradoxes, Deceptionsin Numbers, Amusing Tricks in Geometry; illustrated with a great variety of engravings.
A book which explains all the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards ever known, and gives, besides, a great many new ones.
Containing explanations of all the Tricks and Deceptions with playing Cards ever invented.
Dinah's affection was to be seen in every trifle, Lousteau could not possibly cease the entrancing deceptions of his unreal passion.
These false caresses and deceptions had degrading consequences for Dinah, who believed in a revival of his love.
The good dispositions which a vision, or voice, or other apparent heavenly favor leave behind them are the only marks by which we {22} may be sure they are not possible deceptions of the tempter.
And we can still less imagine that God will concur in the deceptions and illusions of the demon.
Dame Chat is brought before "Master Bayly" for the assault, and the proceedings in the trial bring to light the deceptions which have been played upon them all, and Diccon stands convicted as the wicked perpetrator.
These amusing deceptionswere first experimented by Mr. Faraday.
There would be no edification and little amusement in treating of clumsy deceptions of this kind, where the grossness of the imposture detects itself.
It must also be remembered, that to the auricular deceptions practised by the means of ventriloquism or otherwise, may be traced many of the most successful impostures which credulity has received as supernatural communications.
This persecution of spectral deceptions is also found to exist when no excesses of the patient can be alleged as the cause, owing, doubtless, to a deranged state of the blood or nervous system.
Somnambulism and other nocturnal deceptions frequently lend their aid to the formation of such phantasmata as are formed in this middle state, betwixt sleeping and waking.
Other deceptionsfollowed this skilful trick, but the cleverest of all was the handling of red hot iron, which, after covering his hands with a glutinous paste, was touched in the most fearless manner.
Some apparent deceptions of the senses are next mentioned and explained.
These deceptions are shown to be not in the senses, but in our minds not rightly interpreting their intimations.
This language is quite consistent with the idea that the works here spoken of were not supernatural, butdeceptions wrought for the propagation of a system of falsehood.
Its strong denunciations of such practices is no evidence that they were anything else than deceptions which the performers endeavoured to palm off for wicked purposes.
We are always practicing these little deceptions upon ourselves, postponing the consequences of our misdeeds as if they were to culminate some other day about the time of death.
By our retirement we opened the door for that series of curious deceptions and intrigues within the tory party, which undoubtedly accelerated the arrival of household suffrage.
So soon did the illusions and deceptions of the Crimean war creep forth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deceptions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
