Sir, if a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it.
I doubt whether Dodsley's brother would thank a man who should write his life: yet Dodsley himself was not unwilling that his original low condition should be recollected.
Mr. Somers, when he received that letter, was much inclined to doubt whetheror no it might not be well to take Owen at his word.
But he was what we in England call an old family friend; and I doubt whether we in England have any more valuable English characteristic than that of having old family friends.
But I doubt whether you'll find him much assistance the way he talks of.
I doubt whether he did, people followed so closely, though Sandy MacQuhot was of the general opinion when he said that it would do nobody any harm if Mr Finlay would lift his head oftener from the book.
I doubt whether it will ever come to an issue over there.
I doubt whether he would be restrained from going north, should danger threaten this city.
But permit me, at least, to doubt whether such an investigator would be better employed in reference to his own happiness, though I grant that he would be so in reference to your intellectual amusement and social interests.
To this note, after a day or two, the Baroness replied by a letter so beautifully worded, I doubt whether Madame de Sevigne could have written in purer French, or Madame de Steel with a finer felicity of phrase.
But on thinking it all over, I begin to doubt whether that be the true reason for his running away in this wild sort of manner.
Nor have you or I, my venerated readers, any right whatsoever to doubt whether Mr. Rugge could be so stolidly obtuse.
I began todoubt whether I might not have been unreasonably hard on him.
I saw it with a sense of misgiving, with a doubt whether I had not delayed my visit until too late, which turned me cold from head to foot.
When the jury are in doubt whether to condemn or acquit the prisoner brought before them, they are permitted, in Scotland, to express that doubt by a form of compromise.
I doubt whether sculptors do not err in point of taste, by making all their statues models of physical perfection, instead of expressing by them the individual character and habits of the man.
It is a home,--an institution which we Americans have not; but then I doubt whether anybody is entitled to a home in this world, in so full a sense.
This is certainly a magnificent edifice, and yet I doubt whether it is so impressive as it might and ought to have been made, considering its immensity.
Till sunset I was in doubt whether I should not be obliged to leave Albany for want of quarters.
I am in doubt whether it will be best to have it in the common room or one of the back rooms.
During the whole time he never permitted corporal punishment to be inflicted in a single instance; yet no regiment in the army was under better discipline, and I doubt whether it was equalled by any one.
I am told that there are some Indian Brahmins so very compassionate, that they hire beggars to let fleas feed upon them: I doubt whether it might not be better to let the fleas starve.
I doubt whether it is true that experience involves knowledge and vice versa.
After all," I said, "I doubt whether it's much use my making the attempt.
So far from regarding her as a dull, good, country girl with a narrow horizon of little feminine and commonplace interests, he began to doubt whether he should be able to cope with her in the tilt of thought.
I doubt whether she is as good, fresh, and original as she seems.
Secretary, in doubt whether he was man, boy, or what.
I doubt whether we could find him in New York to-night," he answered, slowly.
For one thing the dirt on the windows both of the garage and the tavern was so thick that I doubt whether so much caution was really necessary.
I accepted his invitation without demur, for I knew that he meant it, but I doubt whether he slept much during the night.
Gradually during the preceding year he had learned that Clodius was preparing to attack him, and to doubt whether he could expect protection from the Triumvirate.
We have a fragment of Cornelius Nepos, the biographer of the Augustan age, declaring that at Cicero's death men had to doubt whether literature or the Republic had lost the most.
Still there may be doubt whether, with all the intricacies of his character, his career was such as to justify a further biography at this distance of time.
If poor Anthony Forster happens to have met Sir Walter in the other world, I doubt whether he has ever thought it worth while to complain of the latter's misrepresentations.
Yet again I doubt whether I may not have been uttering folly in the last two sentences, when I reflect how rude and rough these specimens of feminine character generally were.
I doubt whether there is ever any winter within that precinct,--any clouds, except the fleecy ones of summer.
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