"Imagine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Myth (Vol. vii., pp. 326. 575.).—It gives me much pleasure to have afforded MR. THIRIOLD an opportunity for displaying so much learning and sagacity; but I hope he does not imagine that he has confuted me. As I only spoke of words which, like [Greek: muthos], had a single consonant between two vowels, such words as plinth, labyrinth, &c. have nothing to do with the question. If ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 • Various
... Let no one imagine, however, that the tolerance of Antoninus was the soft acquiescence of weakness. After his death Marcus wrote: "Whatsoever excellent thing he had planned to do, he carried out with a persistency that nothing ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard
... expatriation, let any thoughtful reader imagine the perils of every sort which beseiged one so young, so inexperienced, so sensitive, and so haughty; perils to his life; (but these it was the very expression of his unhappy situation, were the perils least to be mourned for;) perils to his good name, going ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey
... imagine anything that would be more helpful to the world than stability, tranquility and international justice. We may say that we are contributing to these factors independently, but others less fortunately located do not and can not make ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... the directions concerning errors from heedlessness and ignorance. The people were not to imagine that sin was not sinful if it were unconsciously committed. Man's knowledge and consciousness do not make wrong right or right wrong. The will of GOD was revealed and ought to have been known: not to know that will was in itself sinful; and not ...
— A Ribband of Blue - And Other Bible Studies • J. Hudson Taylor
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