I cannot conceive a more extravagant instance of oppression than this system of taxation, which throws enormous powers of extortion into the hands of the official valuer.
There can be little doubt that the prime object in selecting a central position for the capital of Cyprus was a regard for safety from any sudden attack; but upon any other grounds I cannot conceive a greater absurdity.
Why amiable people should so frequently be stupid I cannot conceive: perhaps a few are sharp; but Georgi, poor fellow, had all in bone and muscle, and not in brain.
I cannot conceive of more deliberate cruelty inflicted upon all grades than an unnecessary exposure to the burning summer sun of Cyprus in bell-tents, when shady trees existed in so convenient a locality as Limasol.
About the 20th July the swallows disappeared, and I have no idea to what portion of the world they would migrate at this season.
There was no friend to bestow such care upon our Roger, he therefore lay helplessly upon the bare stone until refreshing sleep restored his eyesight and his perpendicular.
We cannot conceive of any time when it was not, for, if there was a time when no such Primary Energizing Life existed, what was there to energize it?
We cannot conceive of It except as always BEING; but the distribution of world-systems both in time and space shows that it is not always cosmically active.
We cannot conceive of any being having the power of voluntary action, and exerting that power without any reason whatever why he did it.
But I cannot conceive of a feeling that is neither agreeable or disagreeable, but positively indifferent.
We cannot conceive of the mind as acting or thinking, and not exercising any of its faculties, for what is a faculty of the mind but its capacity of acting in this or that way or mode, and on this or that class of subjects.
Clarke, we shall say: First, we can conceive that matter has existed from all eternity, seeing that we cannot conceive it to have been capable of beginning.
He pretends that we cannot conceive it but "as a power which applies itself successively to the parts of the universe.
I cannot conceive a more detestable position than his, except, perhaps indeed, that of the country itself just now.
He cannot conceive that a love of the merits of Frank can be distinct from all love of his person.
But I cannot conceive, sir, how any man's thinking proper to kill himself can be an affront to another.
But why a man should be less fit to exercise those powers because he wears a beard, because he does not eat ham, because he goes to the synagogue on Saturdays instead of going to the church on Sundays, we cannot conceive.
If he can believe this, we cannot conceive why he may not believe that the whole universe is designless and self-created.
Still, for what reason, I cannot conceive, a higher value was generally set on the devoted attachment of General Bertrand.
I cannot conceive," said he to me, "how men liable to fall into my hands can be incessantly urging my assassination, and setting a price upon my head.
She was well-made, lively, witty, and fairer than is usual with Italian women, but to this day I cannot conceive how I fell in love with her.
We cannot conceive of thought, except as produced within a brain.
He cannot conceive of anything utterly unlike what he has seen or felt.
I cannot conceive a man's writing that 104th Psalm who had not the most deep, the most earnest sense of the permanence of natural law.
What we cannot conceive of as existing in virtue of something else, we must conceive through and in itself.
But I cannot conceive,' added I, 'that to overturn systems which are founded in vice and folly would be to overturn all order.
How he could be guilty of the crimes of which he has been accused I cannot conceive.
On recollection, I cannot conceivehow I could for a moment suppose it was your own act.
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