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Particular analogies may be deceptive, such as the coincidence noticed by the ancients that in Corinth also widows and orphans were charged with the provision of horses for the cavalry; but the adoption of the armour and arrangements of the Greek hoplite system was certainly no accidental coincidence.
He mounted the artillery in the best position for use, and kept his men ready for any emergency. A false and deceptive answer was returned, making excuses for the excesses that had been committed, and for not complying just then with what had been asked of them, and making loud promises to do so later.
My happiness in the retirement which shortly awaits me is the ardent hope which I experience that this state of prosperity is neither deceptive nor destined to be short lived, and that measures which have not yet received its sanction, but which I can not but regard as closely connected with the honor, the glory, and still more enlarged prosperity of the country, are destined at an early day to receive the approval of Congress.
He opposes, among other things, the criterion of truth based on evidence, since there is an evidence of the false not to be distinguished from that of the true, as well as the position that God becomes a deceiver in the bestowal of a weak and blind reason for he gives us, at the same time, the power to know its deceptive character.
Placed as were these little citadels upon a slender, and at brief distance invisible thread of land, with the dark waters rolling around them far and near, they presented an insubstantial dream-like aspect, seeming rather like castles floating between air and ocean than actual fortifications a deceptive mirage rather than reality.
The tympanum is stirred, the eye moves the mere irregularity of the breath is an aid. Another reason will be given later. Miss Campbell, whose case one of experimental thought transference has been twice referred to, was an intimate friend of Miss Despard, who effected the transfers. Perhaps this last feeling was a deceptive transfer; they did not like the stout priest bluffing them.
And I venture out upon the glassy floor which is no floor at all, but which a brief frost threw as a deceptive mirror across the deep. It bears me up for five paces, for six, for ten. Then suddenly the cry of harps is in my ear and something like an earthquake quivers through my limbs.
Just then Bonafede came down, followed by the false Matthieu. The lower part of his face was concealed in a muffler, and the illusion was really very deceptive. "I am going now for the cab," said the Italian. As soon as I return Yoski must hurry out, jump in rapidly, and drive off.
In other words, perception perfected its grammar before perceiving any of its objects, and having imputed that grammar to the materials of sense, it was able to perceive objects for the first time and to legislate further about their relations. The most obvious artifices of language are often the most deceptive and bring on epidemic prejudices.
Oh! those floggings, how deceptive they were, and how much I regretted them when I came to understand the thing fundamentally. Old Isaacs could not have performed the operation more delicately, if he were only brushing a fly off the down of a lady's cheek. He never made me cry.
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