He would have supposed that some must be managed by fraud, others by force, and all by some contrivance; that genius must be hired to impose upon ignorance, and show and parade to fascinate the vulgar.
Why, then, is man thus imposed upon, or why does he impose upon himself?
It certainly was not the Armenian's intention that the sorcerer should trumpet his fame to us in the style of a mountebank, that he should endeavor to impose upon us such fables as are too gross to bear the least reflection.
But in exposing such a finished deception he has acted very much against his own interest, both by quickening the penetration of those whom he meant to impose upon, and by staggering their belief in miracles in general.
To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.
To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
Obliging disposition of relations and friends in private, or onerous nature of position in public--may--impose upon him!
To impose upon an officer, ignorant of the ways of the place, was a favorite entertainment of some of the others.
At first they had been able to impose upon my ignorance, but at this time I had learned just how much two hundred and eighty pounds of meat would divide to about four hundred people.
When Earl Godwin besieged the Confessor in London, he summoned from all parts his huscarles or houseceorles and retainers, and thereby constrained his sovereign to accept of the conditions which he was pleased to impose upon him.
Is it a relation constituted by the concurrence of a mental or subjective, and a material or objective element,--or do we impose upon ourselves in regarding it as such?
We impose upon ourselves, and we also falsify the fact, if we take any other view of it than this.
I did not imagine you would endeavour to impose upon me.
His advices, however, were seldom authentic; for he would swallow almost anything as a truth--a humour which many made use of toimpose upon him.
Defn: To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.
To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.
Defn: To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively.
She attempted to impose upon me as to the price; but I do not consider this at all as a national trait.
Some peasants here attempted to impose upon us as foreigners, in a very disgusting manner, asking a franc for a couple of greengages, and three sous a-piece for pears, which they offered at the windows of our carriage.
Surely, if there be one in the crusading army likely to conduct that foolish youth and his wife behind the scenes of the exhibition by which we hoped to impose upon them, the Count of Tarentum, as he entitles himself, is that person.
Look you now, Sir Knight, you hurt yourself in attempting to impose upon me," said Hereward.
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