The leading authorities on Buddhism state that its founder's doctrine was pure atheism, but one may suggest that the view seems somewhat improbable in the case of a religion promulgated at so early a period.
But it is by no means improbable that the proximate cause of his coming home was the failure of remittances.
That Ben would select me seemed improbable and I regarded this tentative opening as unlikely to introduce me to my first objective.
That seems improbable and one can't easily imagine a sudden row so tremendous that it ends in murder.
It is not improbable that he has seen something--something it would be best you should not hear--had you not better avoid it?
Had not the departure of the southern members to their states cleared the way for action, it is highly improbable that even this session would have produced results of importance.
Westward it surely was, but it is improbable that even Brigham knew just where.
History teaches that it is easy to provoke religious enthusiasm, however improbable or fraudulent the guides or revelations may be; but that the founding of a church upon it is a task for greatest statesmanship.
Indeed, had the South been able thus to harass the enemy it is not improbable that it would have done it.
According to the new chronicle Agum was the son of Bitiliashi, and it would be improbable that he should have ruled in Babylonia before his father.
It is therefore not improbable that, like the god Dumuzi, or Tammuz, he was supposed to descend into the underworld in winter, ascending to the surface of the earth with the earliest green shoots of vegetation in the spring.
It is improbable that anything is now left of the most ancient period at that site, as the conditions in the Delta are so very different from those obtaining in Upper Egypt.
It is not improbable that such rafts were employed on the Tigris and the Euphrates from the earliest periods of Chaldæan history, though boats would have been used on the canals and more sluggish waterways.
It is improbable that the mounds of Nimrûd will yield such rich results as Sherghat, but the site would probably well repay prolonged and systematic excavation.
He had not heard of his daughter for so long a period that he seemed to think it improbable he should ever behold her again.
There is nothing at all improbable in this supposition, though I have been unable to trace it to any definite source.
Her mind was filled with the most grotesque images which it was possible for the imagination to conceive, and with trains of ideas of the most exaggerated and improbable character.
His note-book of that time is full of motifs and plots, most of them of that improbable and extravagant kind which tended to defeat any literary purpose, whether humorous or otherwise.
It was supposed to be true, yet Clemens seemed to think it too improbable for literature and laid it away for a number of years.
These examples at least show that there is nothing improbable or unnatural in the idea that juries should try all civil suits according to their own judgments, independently of all laws of the king.
Nothing seemed more improbable than that there could be any escape for Jerusalem; nevertheless he declared that the holy city should be inviolable.
At this time the chief interest of the siege was centred at this point, where it seemed not improbable that the Romans would have to suffer a very serious check.
It is not improbable that they were, in a way, carried on by the Christmas festivities.
Yet it is not improbable that all these tales were insecurely based upon a single instance wherein one Starling Driggs, believing himself to stand in urgent need of a blessing, had offered to pay Uncle John for the service in vinegar.
After a night like this it was not improbable that he would fall asleep in very sound of the trumpet of truth as blown, by the grace of God, through the seership of Joseph Smith.
That spirits should knock and rap seems to us about asimprobable an idea as could well occur to the fancy.
This is a highly improbable story, and is capped by another from Wodrow's mother-in-law.
This struck Mr. Lesly as improbable on the face of it; however, he was a good deal alarmed.
Such a thing is quite supposable to ignorant persons unacquainted with the matter, but very improbable under the circumstances as already shown.
It is this, that it is highly improbable that Mr. Spaulding would write two entirely distinct and varying romances on the ancient inhabitants of America.
It seems not improbable that it was in this way the greater number of the circular craters lying around Tycho, and dotting so large a space round the margin of the moon, were constructed.
Daubeny considers it not improbable that this island may have had an active volcano even within the historical period, a view which is borne out by the statement of Strabo.
It is not improbable that the older dykes belong to the Carboniferous or Permian age, while the newer are with equal probability of Tertiary age.
It is not improbablethat he would be found to be within the reservation lines.
But is there really anything intrinsically improbable in an agency travelling with a speed many times that of light?
Indeed it is not improbable a priori that the original inference involved in the notion of the other self may be sufficiently simple and obvious to fall within the capacity of animals even less intelligent than uncivilized man.
He said the personages who appeared to him were real men, and there is nothing more improbable in his statement than in the recital in the Bible of the conception and birth of Christ, and of John the Baptist.
They are, perhaps, well exemplified by the fauna of the Carboniferous period, and it is not at all improbable that we are ourselves living in such a quiet, conservative period.
But this seems animprobable solution of the problem.
I think it very improbable that differential fertility alone, without the co-operation of other segregation-factors, would give rise to separate varieties capable of maintaining themselves as distinct species.
It is, therefore, improbable that nastiness or even the power of stinging can have been an eliminating agency.
It is not improbable that some manifestation of feeling would have escaped the circle, had not an interruption to the proceedings occurred, which put a stop to all other emotions but those peculiar to the lives of savages.
Peter did not conceal his apprehension on this point, since he deemed it improbable that any reach near the mouth of the Kalamazoo was without its lookouts, at a moment so interesting.
He felt infinitely relieved, and knew that they were safe, for a time, unless some wanderer should have taken to the swamp--a most improbable thing of itself.
Romanists abound, and spots that half a century since, appeared to be the most improbable place in the world to admit of the rites of the priests of Rome, now hear the chants and prayers of the mass-books.
