Hume talks of Russell's seconding this "barbarous scruple," as he calls it, and imputesit to faction.
Compare the curious oration of Demosthenes against Lakritus, where the speaker imputes to Lakritus this abuse of argumentative power, as having been purchased by him at a large price from the teaching of Isokrates the Sophist, pp.
The blessing he imputes to pride is that it takes possession of the "vacuities of sense," and prevents self-knowledge.
He imputesthe fault to the impossibility of completing the argument without spoiling the poetry, and to the superficial nature of Pope's studies, "if study we can call a style of reading so desultory as his.
He imputes it all to the King and Queen, who know nothing of it, who are even much grieved at it; and so descends, to his Chaos again.
On two occasions, Johnson incidentally imputes a want of liberality to Mrs. Thrale, which the general tenor of her conduct belies: "August 2.
For the good gentleman always imputes to his offspring a volubility and a plethora of language far in excess of any meaning it conveys.
It was mixed with the ready compliance one imputes to the fortunate owner of a Guardian Angel, who is deserving of his luck.
Irene imputes this view to him, inferring it from his restless appeals to Gwen, as he leans against her skirts, throwing back a pathetic gaze of remonstrance for something too complex for his powers of language.
Payen imputes to a particular motion of libration of the Suns Globe, which entertain'd that Luminary in the same Phasis for the space of 8.
The same divine, in another elaborate treatise, distinctly imputes to the Deity a sensation of pleasure in injuring even the innocent.
Sir John Scot imputesto them 'insolence, pride, and avarice.
Origen confidently challenges any proof of it; imputes the mutilations of Scripture, exclusively, to Marcion and Valentinus; but denies their claim to the title of Christians.
He imputes to him that he was privately educated, and went to earn his livelihood in Egypt.
The opinion whichimputes to the prince all the calamities of his times may be countenanced by the historian as a serious truth or a salutary prejudice.
Garcilasso imputes this to the malignant influence of the stars.
The more primitive form (or the more archaic phase) is an incipient animistic belief, or an animistic sense of relations and things, that imputes a quasi-personal character to facts.
To the class of things apprehended as animate, the barbarian fancy imputes an unfolding of activity directed to some end.
For him, as for so many other theologians, God becomes forgiving and gracious on account of Christ's merit and righteousness and thus no longer imputes sin to us.
Libanius, who imputes his death to the soldiers, attempts to criminate the court of the largesses.
The ecclesiastical historian imputes the refusal of peace to the advice of Maximus.
Footnote 177: A few days before his death, he published a very ample edict of toleration, in which he imputes all the severities which the Christians suffered to the judges and governors, who had misunderstood his intentions.
Scaliger, who disliked Lipsius very much, imputes to him plagiarism from the Italian antiquary.
Grotius, who is not very favourable to Bodin, though of necessity he often quotes the Republic, imputes to him incorrectness as to facts, which in some cases raises a suspicion of ill-faith.
Origen imputes this evasion to Celsus; Jerome to Porphyry; and Lactantius to the heathen in general.
Footnote 51: The reproach of Porphyry; but he likewise imputes to the Roman the same barbarous custom, which, A.
The continuator of Fredegarius imputes to them no more than the intention.
So in hand-to-hand fighting: the intention and passion which each imputes to the other is what he himself feels; but the imputation is probably just, since pugnacity is a remarkably contagious and monotonous passion.
God imputes it to them, but it is truly and properly theirs, and on that ground God imputes it to them.
It holds that God imputes the sin of Adam immediately to all his posterity, in virtue of that organic unity of mankind by which the whole race at the time of Adam's transgression existed, not individually, but seminally, in him as its head.
God imputes to each man his inborn tendencies to evil, only when he consciously and voluntarily appropriates and ratifies these in spite of the power to the contrary, which, in justice to man, God has specially communicated.
The first three of the theories which we discuss may be said to be evasions of the problem of original sin; all, in one form or another, deny that God imputes to all men Adam's sin, in such a sense that all are guilty for it.
Dryden confesses that its indecency was objected to; but Langbaine, who yet seldom favours him, imputes its expulsion to resentment, because it "so much exposed the keeping part of the town.
Addison has, in the Spectator, mentioned the neglect of Smith's tragedy as disgraceful to the nation, and imputesit to the fondness for operas, then prevailing.
Of these hostile compositions, Dryden apparentlyimputes Absalom senior to Settle, by quoting in his verses against him the second line.
To this opposition the Biographia imputes the violence and acrimony with which Waller joined Buckingham's faction in the prosecution of Clarendon.
Such variations discover a writer who consults his passions more than his virtue; and it may be reasonably supposed that Dryden imputes his enmity to its true cause.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imputes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
