I cannot myself help thinking that all this has arisen very much from the idea of Peele's vagabondism given by the untrustworthy "Jests.
The locus classicus of depreciation both in regard to him and to Herrick is to be found, as might be expected, in one of the greatest, and one of the most wilfully capricious and untrustworthy of English critics, in Hazlitt.
The latter untrustworthy book Arrian wished to supplant by his own narrative, principally based on the works of Megasthenes and Nearchus.
Aristotle says that he was false anduntrustworthy (Hist.
And so both the criterion and the proof are thrown into the 117 circulus in probando, by which it is found that they are both of them untrustworthy, for as each looks for proof from the other, each is as untrustworthy as the other.
But we have every reason to see in these assumptions a very untrustworthy picture of reality.
The Talmud mentions a quite untrustworthy tradition that she married Joshua, and became the ancestress of eight persons who were both priests and prophets, and also of Huldah the prophetess.
Tichelaer was well known to be a bad and untrustworthy character.
England under Charles II was untrustworthy and vacillating, almost a negligible quantity.
His method is imperfect, his results are untrustworthy in points of detail; but his object is grand.
Arctic night on which no sun will rise for many weeks, exposed to the caprice of winds, currents, and the ever untrustworthy ice-raft on which they are cast?
This untrustworthy trait of the Esquimo character goes far to show that nothing but Dr.
The traditions, in any case of quite anuntrustworthy nature, are contradictory.
All that one has time to say now of such an attitude is that it makes all religion impossible, and sets aside as untrustworthy all the deepest experiences of the human soul.
And he went on to say to him--"Friend, you would not do what I advised you, so you have now had personal experience of the untrustworthy dispositions of hetaerae.
When Marubhuti had thus illustrated the untrustworthy character of hetaerae, the wise Gomukha told this tale of Kumudika, the lesson of which was the same.
The other charge, that he was a bad or rather a very untrustworthy critic of books, cannot be met quite so directly.
The one objection (I should say that I do not fully espouse either of them) is that he is an untrustworthy critic of books; the other is that he is a very spiteful commentator on men.
The untrustworthyaccount of the return in the time of Cyrus (Ezra i.
Careful examination shows that no a priori distinction can be drawn between "trustworthy" books of Kings and "untrustworthy books" of Chronicles.
A mode of concluding from experience must be pronounced untrustworthy when subsequent experience refuses to confirm it.
One is: “Were an argument formed by repeating the same proposition over and over again, it would be true that any intrinsic fallibility of the postulate would not make the conclusion more untrustworthy than the first step.
He is not a nice man to travel with, as he always keeps a longing eye on his master's possessions, even though he is fully as well-equipped himself, and is untrustworthy if you leave anything in his charge.
It was the immediate task before him, and to the best of his ability he used the untrustworthy and meagre instruments at hand.
We cannot but wish that our town-historians, instead of giving so much space to idle and often untrustworthy genealogies, and to descriptions of the "elegant mansions" of Messrs.
Her fault had ever been, no doubt, to estimate slow and accurate methods too highly, and to believe that all was insecure and untrustworthy that was not painfully accumulated.
Taxation will do something towards that end; but taxation would be a long, irritating, anduntrustworthy way of trying to secure the whole annual value of the land for the community.
It is worth while mentioning as an instance of how utterly untrustworthy James is in dealing with American affairs, that he says (p.
But it must always be remembered that untrustworthy as James is in any thing referring purely to the Americans, he is no worse than his compeers of both nationalities.
