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1. Customers will be drawn to each conventicle by new industry and address, in practising on the passions and credulity of the populace
2. rallied Bob on his credulity, and Bob had hugged his daughter to his
3. on the twin crutches of fable and human credulity
4. ’ Strains credulity! Shelby Steele9 wrote “There was a summary indictment of America that emerged in the 1960s by a convergence of many social protest movements –
5. credulity and much accident, and also of the
6. He admonished them not to depend on mere intellectual assent, credulity, and established authority
7. Her eternal smile seemed to have been brought on by the credulity of her customers, who accepted as something certain an establishment that did not exist except in the imagination, because even the tangible things there were unreal: the furniture that fell apart when one sat on it, the disemboweled phono-graph with a nesting hen inside, the garden of paper flowers, the calendars going back to the years before the arrival of the banana company, the frames with prints cut out of magazines that had never been published
8. The credulity that there is goodness in al ,
9. and also treating with some amount of credulity a scientific theory,
10. But for the Christians to imagine that there could be no salvation sans the Son of God betrays the credulity of their minds at best, and their ignorance about the sophistication of the Hindu philosophy at worst
11. Thus, it can be said that the Musalmans are the victims of a mind-set conditioned by the proclivities of their prophet, vicissitudes of his life, attitudes of his detractors and the credulity of his followers, which the mechanism of their umma perpetuates
12. While Nehru’s foolhardy in taking the Kashmir issue all the way to the United Nations and his credulity of a plebiscite pledge therein, it was Patel, who had coerced the recalcitrant Nizam and other vacillating Rajas, into the Union of India
13. “Can't game and play co-exist?” he asked with a birth of naïve credulity
14. Are you going to tax the credulity of the honourable members of the jury by claiming that a shrimp could make love to a whale?'
15. An understanding of this law takes the foundation of Christianity out of the realm of superstition and credulity and places it upon the firm rock of scientific understanding
16. The idea that there is a phenomenon called Black Magic is attributable to credulity, superstition, and a lack of understanding of the laws governing in the mental world
17. The credulity of Time itself was stretched
18. Alike in the East and in the West the general order of thought has been from more belief to less; from superstition and credulity to skepticism and rejection of mythologic folk-lore concerning genii and demons; from the old faith in devils to the more recent unbelief of 'science
19. The phenomena of apparitions, and of spiritualism, may be regarded as inferior and secondary evidence indicating some activity in the souls of the 'dead;’ though the mixture of credulity and deception in much of the supposed 'necromancy’ is such as to render a cautious judgment unwilling to rest a primary argument upon such disputable testimony, notwithstanding a personal conviction of the occasional reality of the phenomena
20. “Th e man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who
21. with all the happy credulity of youth, to consider that heart as devoted to virtue, which had only obeyed a virtuous impulse
22. "One trait in my character was extreme credulity; but, when my eyes were
23. I will say nothing of the credulity which accepts any statement which specialists, technicians and office-people are pleased to make, whether for purposes of gain or glory
24. What use were anger and protestations against her silly credulity? We parted that night---
25. Was he playing on my credulity? Time would tell
26. Those acute and long-practised senses, whose powers so often exceed the limits of all ordinary credulity, after having detected the danger, had enabled them to ascertain its magnitude and duration
27. But when David, unconscious of being observed, turned his head, and exposed his simple, mild countenance, in place of the haughty lineaments of their prisoner, it would have exceeded the credulity of even a native to have doubted any longer
28. There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent,
29. ’ As our credulity switched back to her she leaned forward with enthusiasm
30. Rosamond thought that no one could be more in love than she was; and Lydgate thought that after all his wild mistakes and absurd credulity, he had found perfect womanhood—felt as if already breathed upon by exquisite wedded
31. What use were anger and protestations against her silly credulity? We parted that night—hostile; but next day beheld me on the road to Wuthering Heights, by
32. And then with blind credulity
33. He has abused your credulity and involved you all in an attempted fraud, for when all is said and done this claim is nothing else!”
34. However unfounded such theories are, however contrary to all that is known and confessed by humanity, and however obviously immoral they may be, they are accepted with credulity, pass uncriticized, and are preached, perchance for centuries, until the conditions are destroyed which they served to justify, or until their absurdity has become too evident
35. The gentleman from Maryland, in speaking of the means which had been resorted to, to procure the renewal of the charter, says that we have not procured memorials to be presented to Congress praying that the charter might not be renewed—we have not procured pamphlets to be written, published, and laid upon the tables of members, proving the unconstitutionality and inutility of the bank—we have not imposed upon the credulity of honest mechanics and manufacturers, and by that means procured delegations to be sent to pray for the rejection of the bank memorial
36. Erroneous information first propagated such an opinion, and blind credulity has extended it down to us
37. I think that a moderate degree of labour and observation bestowed upon the investigation of the species already described, would prove the unity in nature of some species which have been considered as distinct by all the authors, would detect many errors in observation, expose some deceptions practised on credulity by the designing, and would enable us to fix, with some degree of accuracy, our knowledge of truth and of the species
38. Atwater, after describing the prairies and barrens, says, that according to the common opinion, they "were occasioned entirely by the burning of the woods," but, "erroneous information first propagated such an opinion, and blind credulity has extended it down to us