None of my speculationshave brought me as much as 5 per cent.
The Proposition now becomes "None of | myspeculations | are | transactions that have brought me as much as 5 per cent.
While the means held out his speculations had been magnificent, but were chiefly confined of late years to such small business as adventures in the lottery.
Almost immediately the various topics of conversation gave place tospeculations in an undertone on this unwonted occurrence.
The 'Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' embrace not only moral reflections; they include, as before remarked, speculations upon the origin and evolution of the universe and of man.
I shall obey the impulse, without worrying myself with speculations as to its cause.
I sat down upon a hillock at Forty Hill yesternight--a fine contemplative evening,--with a thousand good speculations about mankind.
And side by side we leaned over the parapet, and continued to indulge our cheerless speculations in silence.
Little dost thou dream, while busied in airy speculations among the stars, what a treason against thy happiness is going on under thine eyes; as it were, in thy very bosom!
Their speculations on the nature of angels are curious and fanciful, though much resembling the doctrines of the ancient philosophers.
If so, it is probable that the proportion of transmitted speculations to true traditions is immeasurably large.
All the speculations concerning crystals persist in regarding the particles of which they consist as fixed and immovable: the theories are all statical.
No speculationsconcerning ultimate political forms can, however, be regarded as anything but tentative.
The boldest and the grandestspeculations came first.
Among the complaints were some against 'speculations that lead inevitably to disorganization, anarchy, unsettling the domestic economy, removing the landmarks of society, and unhinging the machinery of government.
The great learning of Augustine and the Fathers brought into the Church pagan speculations of God and morality, as well as pagan knowledge in art, science, and literature.
Tacitus, in his speculations on the inhabitants of Britain ('Agricola', cap.
His fortune, increased by lucky speculations with Brezac, enabled him to buy one of the finest places in the chief city of Haute-Vienne.
He finally sold his business at a great profit; but being injured by one of Nucingen's failures, he lost in some speculations on the Bourse some of the profits that he had realized.
The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization.
His pathologicalspeculations respecting the principles of action and the principles of sympathy, 450 et seq.
Hall, Sir James, his verification of the geologicalspeculations of Hutton, iii.
As long as the speculations of Locke and of Berkeley were not pushed to their logical conclusions, Reid acquiesced in them, and they were good in his eyes.
Hutton, in his speculations concerning the geological effects of heat, naturally availed himself of the laws which Black had unfolded.
Hunter's pathological speculations respecting the principles of, 450 Taille, the, in France, ii.
Another curious illustration of the skill with which the Scotch mind, when once possessed of a principle, worked from it deductively, appears in the geological speculations of Hutton, late in the eighteenth century.
In every department, the speculations of the greatest thinkers are constantly tending to cooerdinate all phenomena, and to regard them as different, indeed, in degree, but by no means as different in kind.
The ill success of his brother in his American speculations shall serve, he is determined, as a spur to his own exertions, and now that real troubles are upon them, he will show that he can bear them better than those of imagination.
Yet in some respects his ideas opened the way for the later speculations of Schelling and Hegel.
Speculations about the Perso-Hellenistic Mithras appear to have been transferred to the Gnostic Abraxas.
He nodded appreciation of the device, his mind now busy with speculations as to what he should do with the girl, now that he had caught her.
For the time being he was absorbed in vain speculations about an unknown woman whose sole claim upon his consideration lay in a certain but immaterial glamour of mystery.
And all these speculations failed to throw the faintest light on the main question: "Who was this woman?
It is the work of a profound thinker, the suggestive speculations and theories of one who could "Forerun his age and race, and let His feet millenniums hence be set In midst of knowledge dreamed not yet.
The speculations of the political theorists whom we have noticed have not all proved to be of "such stuff As dreams are made of, and their little life Rounded with sleep.
Immediately there began to appear a series of speculations based on what you would have said was an unimportant error of mine.
This Mr. Nolan, as Wilkinson generally calls him, had been engaged with Wilkinson in some speculations mostly relating to horses.
There is not the least reason to doubt the sincerity of these explanations; but at the same time they showed the unfitness of a man who had so to explain away his own speculations to be the official guide and teacher of the clergy.
But we may be assured, that this is of all speculations the meanest, the most detestable, and ultimately the most ruinous.
Where are those happy individuals to be found, who, renouncing the speculations of philosophy, and the suggestions of a depraved and perverted mind, are led by the star of divine revelation to Jesus?
I should certainly venture to publish myspeculations if there were more people like you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speculations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
