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Example sentences for "may suppose"

  • The business of the augur was, we may suppose, to see that the details were carried out correctly, and to interpret the signs; but those signs were not sent to him, for he was not the actual representative of the State in this ritual.

  • They were, we may suppose, exactly what our modern historical conscience demands.

  • Now seeing he saith the city is gold, yet not distinguishing what gold, or which, we may suppose in this place he means gold of all these sorts; and indeed it is most agreeable to this text thus to judges.

  • This club we may suppose to mean human power, under which many godly ministers, in the seventeenth century, suffered greatly.

  • As in the former case, also, each of these eggs becomes (as we may suppose) surrounded with the sap of the rose, enclosed in a pellicle of gluten.

  • It has a boiler, which we may suppose fed by the action of the engine.

  • Such, we may suppose, was Isis in the olden time, a rustic Corn-Mother adored with uncouth rites by Egyptian swains.

  • Rather we may suppose that it refers to some ancient restoration or reconstruction of the sanctuary, which was actually carried out by the confederate states.

  • As the oak crown was sacred to Jupiter and Juno on the Capitol, so we may suppose it was on the Alban Mount, from which the Capitoline worship was derived.

  • We may suppose, therefore, that during the preceding age, that in which the Scriptures were written, there were also many great comets seen, but we do not know.

  • It was a far more difficult task which lay before him at Gibeon, but we may suppose that he still acted on the same general principles.

  • We may suppose that, like other new stars, it gradually faded, so that by the time the wise men had reached Jerusalem they had lost sight of it altogether.

  • We may suppose that he was moderate for the time in which he lived, and when he makes an offensive allusion, he usually adds some excuse for it.

  • We may suppose, however, that he was an improvident man, for during his life he held several offices, and was at one time steward of Ludlow Castle.

  • For, in that case, we may suppose an universal equality of desire, without which one wishes one thing and another its opposite.

  • Balaam is among them plotting against Israel; and his restless energy, we may suppose, precipitates the conflict.

  • They had not heard the summons, we may suppose.

  • Obstacles to his journey which do not appear in the narrative may have at first stood in his way, certain political complications, we may suppose.

  • Presumably a husband and wife--the donors, we may suppose, of an altar-piece.

  • A man and his wife--usurers, we may suppose--counting their money.

  • Its starting-point was doubtless the theory of reincarnation, which, we may suppose, the Iranian Aryans shared with their Indian brethren.

  • The testimonies to its existence are so numerous that we may suppose it to have been universal among men.

  • This sort of conception we may suppose to be connected with early psychological theory, according to which anything that affects man is credited with manlike form and power.

  • And at the same time, it favours repeated new experiments in the combination of variations, occasionally, we may suppose, with happy results.

  • Primitively, we may suppose that it was developed in connection with that sense of taste with which, as we have seen, it is so closely associated.

  • Matter and physical science is relative, so far that we may suppose in other percipients than men, an indefinite number of additional senses, affording corresponding varieties of qualities in things, of course inconceivable by man.

  • Or, we may suppose an intelligence destitute of all our senses, and so in a material world wholly different in its appearances from ours.

  • Is it quite certain, that any thinker, whatever genius we may attribute to him, whatever power we may suppose him to possess, could imagine and introduce an organization superior to that of which I have just sketched some of the results?

  • We may suppose a /round-about barter/, including three contracting parties.

  • His portraits are full of an immense splendour; they sum up often rhetorically enough all that was superficial in the subject, representing him as we may suppose he hardly hoped to see himself.

  • In sculpture he appears to have studied under Donatello, though his work shows little of his influence; and working, as we may suppose, with his master in S.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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