| 单词 | chimerical |
| 例句 | But the AEC’s dream of thermonuclear research blooming via a collegial relationship between Los Alamos and Livermore proved chimerical. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z However many dreams she had navigated, whatever chimerical fancies she had witnessed, she had never interacted. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Uto'pian, ideal, fanciful, chimerical: from "Utopia"—an imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called "Utopia," as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics laws, and society. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z The rather chimerical notion of a nuclear bomb without radioactive side effects had emerged in late 1954 and had been embraced by Livermore, where it fit nicely with the lab’s brief to explore new ideas. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It also got me tantalizingly close to the chimerical skin with crunch. How to roast a chicken? The answers are horrifying 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z At times, Bennett’s narrator seems to serve primarily as a vessel for this chimerical presence. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Among these delightfully imaginative objects is “Seated Baku,” an exquisite carving in ivory representing a chimerical beast that eats dreams and nightmares. Review: ‘Discovering Japanese Art’ Presents Collections at the Met 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Nothing could ever measure up to the chimerical promise of what might have been. Remember the bad and the good times to build your future 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z “The Spy and the Traitor” lives up to its subtitle, not least because Ben Macintyre has no equal in portraying the real-life, chimerical world of double agents. Review | 3 great audiobooks for that long Thanksgiving drive 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The idea that we can construct a complete record of a writer has always been chimerical, but technological advances have rendered it physically impossible, too. Epistles at dawn: the dying art of letter writing 2010-06-23T13:42:00Z That cues a greed spree of locals eager to collect their share of the loot — a miniature, chimerical replay of the actual hundreds of millions at sake in The Descendants’ Hawaiian land deal. Nebraska: Alexander Payne’s America, Plains and Simple 2013-05-23T19:09:59Z As its title suggests, “Sense8” is a slower dip into dreamy conspiracies and chimerical fellowship. Review: ‘Sense8,’ the Wachowskis’ Netflix Series, Connects Young and Cute 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z If fashion is chimerical fantasy, Mr. Happel brings a dose of earthbound reality to the work: Will all that detailed embroidery read from far away? The ‘Mad Professor’ Who Makes Sure the Tutus Swirl 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Looking at these chimerical pictures, another painter inevitably springs to mind: Frida Kahlo, who relentlessly reinvented herself as a proudly indigenous woman. Martine Gutierrez's "Indigenous Woman": A Trans Latinx Artist's High-Fashion Critique of Colonialism 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z There is no chimerical spin to his throws, but he has precision aim and cruises through the first half of the game with a series of nines, a spare and a strike. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Mori’s creations look like chimerical species — hybrids of barnacles and cumulus clouds, a baobab and a weeping willow, a waterlily and fiddlehead ferns, sea urchin spines and a swarm of starlings. Art Rooted in Nature Blooms at TEFAF 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z All evidence against me I dismiss as just chimerical. Style Invitational Week 1444: It’s a whole new all-game — name a sport 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z His look and manner were a correction to what the nameless boy had called the chimerical dream of civilization. In “The Feral Detective,” Jonathan Lethem Returns to Detective Noir for the Trump Era 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Evanescent and chimerical, it shimmers with the exotic colors of a dream — and bares, from time to time, a set of sharp and elegant fangs. An energetic evening with the Musicians From Marlboro at the Freer Gallery The Doors induce chimerical feelings of ominous sunshine, primordial serpents and peculiar creatures communing in Laurel Canyon. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Chris isn’t there to safeguard the Iraqis, only his comrades in their chimerical war to pacify the region. Review: In American Sniper, Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper Are Right on Target 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The song previously existed only in Lenya’s memory and was written off as chimerical. Hear a Newly Found Kurt Weill Song That Surprised Experts 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The set builds patiently: The chimerical string orchestra of “Les Illuminations” adds Christopher Parkes’s splendid horn in the Serenade and then fiercely independent winds, harp and timpani in the Nocturne. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Jimmie’s chimerical dream is foregrounded at the expense of psychology, politics, memory, and the intricacies through which a person’s character is formed. Review: The Disappointing Blandness of “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The chimerical image of his own car’s shadow remains fixed and motionless, while the world beneath it hurries by. Ricardo Valverde at Vincent Price museum: Fresh look at a probing eye 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z There is also Olive Lawrence, a glamorous ethnographer briefly attached to the Darter, and chimerical Arthur McCash, who will say only, “Your mother is away. Doing something important.” Review | ‘Warlight’ is a quiet new masterpiece from Michael Ondaatje 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The deeper, indeed more layered, mystery is, it emerges, the novel’s chimerical narrator. The Patient Is Obsessed With Sex. But How Reliable Is Her Therapist? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Headland’s view of humanity here is tarmac-black; the possibility of happiness is depicted, or at least discussed, as a chimerical delusion. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Free Birds offers only a chimerical fantasy that may give young viewers the glow of triumph for a few moments, and a primal scream on Thanksgiving Day. Free Birds: A Thanksgiving Turkey, Neither Rare Nor Well-Done 2013-10-31T23:00:09Z The subtitle of this slanted memoir signals both its musical preoccupations and its cleaved and chimerical structure. Boundary-Pushing Books for Fans of Narrative Experiments 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z While the film was being shot, those within the new, chimerical, classless culture began to hit the wall. Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 2011-02-10T21:45:01Z She is writing in praise of Warburtons' Half & Half loaf, a chimerical slab of white and wholegrain, with which she feeds these monsters. The new Warburtons ad 2013-01-19T06:00:08Z Beginning with its world premiere at last May’s Cannes Film Festival, where Dujardin also took a Best Actor award, the movie’s success grew and then exploded, and what was once chimerical became inevitable. Formidable! Big Oscar Wins for The Artist and Lady Meryl 2012-02-27T09:50:03Z In “A Brief History of Central America,” Hector Perez-Brignoli called the Isthmus of those years “a scene of chimerical fantasy.” King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z Which is to say, this was a precious, anticipated, frankly anxious affair — the materialization of a beloved and mercurial performer moving from the chimerical to the literal. Jai Paul Emerges, Tentatively, for His First Headlining Concert 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z More important, from the fearful look in her eyes when they meet, and the uncomprehending look in his — even when she says, “You’re not normal” — his desire to settle seems chimerical. Movie Review: ‘The Woman in the Fifth,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2012-06-14T22:16:07Z Claims made for the abilities or perils of AI chatbots have often turned out to be mistaken or chimerical. Column: Artificial intelligence chatbots are spreading fast, but hype about them is spreading faster 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The chimera, as Diel writes, externalizes a certain danger, “in the form of a monster encountered by chance,” that “chimerical enemy” that “every man carries secretly within himself ... the devouring monster.” Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z One mosaic, depicting wide-hipped naked women cavorting with chimerical monsters, was composed of tessera a few millimeters wide, a level of intricacy seldom seen outside of Rome. A revelatory road trip along the Algerian coast 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z In his eyes, though, speed is not where true value lies in a social media world, and particularly in that portion of it devoted to soccer’s chaotic, contradictory and often chimerical transfer market. Behind the Curtain With Soccer’s Prophet of the Deal 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Instead of chasing the chimerical goal of democratizing the domestic political orders of other countries according to a one-size-fits-all democratic shoe, the Biden administration would be well-advised to set its sights lower. Perspective | Biden is right that global democracy is at risk. But the threat isn’t China. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z A film museum had been a seemingly chimerical dream within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences virtually since its founding in 1927. Hollywood finally has its movie museum. Inside the dramatic journey and what’s at risk 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Two instances in recent culture capture the uncertainty of our present moment, forcing us to reconsider the locus of the chimerical enemy. Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z In its own elegant, confounding, chimerical and compassionate way, it’s a lot like life. Review | ‘The Father’ is a meticulously constructed story in which very little is what it seems 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Well beg pardon, but “cancel culture” — like the War on Christmas — is little more than a chimerical boogeyman created to frighten and appall. Sen. Josh Hawley cries ‘victim’ 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z The Washington Post said it had been terrible idea for Wilson “to commit the United States to a course of folly in merging its identity with other nations in a chimerical league of nations.” 100 years ago: An election, a virus and a cry from disillusioned youths 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z A major reason for the faltering response is a chimerical expectation that markets will perform the work of government. Opinion | The America We Need 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The chimerical enemy is firmly within humanity, not as an abstraction of human nature but in real human form. Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z If the dolphins of Venice are chimerical, the cleaner water is not. There are no dolphins in Venice: But the vision of a better world may sustain us 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z The lives she evokes—devoted to that most chimerical, evanescent quality “cool”—play out in a ceaseless round of nebulous achievements and vapid, exclusive parties. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z To this chimerical composite, one might add the trained eye of an Australian archeologist, which seems necessary to ascertain the full effect. Storytelling Across the Ages 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z The company said the tax cut allowed it to pay bonuses of up to $1,000 to its workforce, but these turned out to be largely chimerical. Column: Two billionaires explain why they shouldn't pay more taxes, unlike you poor saps 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z It is only natural, then, that in an age of extreme guilt, when in very tangible ways we feel as if we have failed the Earth itself, the chimerical enemy should be all too human. Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The idea of an alternative to capitalism seemed to many chimerical, more so after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Liberalism is facing a crisis. But it’s not what Vladimir Putin thinks | Kenan Malik 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z As the technology industry faces growing government scrutiny, this may not be the time for a visionary, chimerical CEO. Project Veritas’ YouTube sting was deeply misleading — and successful 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Hopes that a discredited, divided UN security council will take the US to task for breaking international law are similarly chimerical. Trump’s foolish Iran policy only makes war more likely | Simon Tisdall 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z For more than a year, he had pinned his hopes on a chimerical operation that would relieve the pressure on his sciatic nerve and allow him to walk comfortably again. Family Medicine 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z “To hope that the people may be cajoled into giving their sanctions to such institutions is still more chimerical,” Hamilton wrote. Alexander Hamilton was preoccupied with the threat that a presidency like Trump’s posed for Ame... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Perhaps, but these numerical ponds seem to have been more like chimerical ponds. Perspective | An odd number. An odd place. Readers reminisce about Prince George’s Number 9 Pond 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z As soon as Apple removed the 3.5mm headphone jack from its phones, it was inevitable that someone would eventually create this chimerical monster. This is the future Apple wanted 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z That most chimerical of creatures, the bunny, was everywhere. On Easter, Chic in Everything but Black 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Despite the music’s chimerical qualities, the themes of self-discovery and acceptance are, for Burial, unusually explicit. These are the songs that never end: 10 of music's most rewarding long cuts 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z In the case of loans for college students, the chimerical goal of creating a competitive market distracts from the real problems faced by colleges and their students. Free Market for Education? Economists Generally Don’t Buy It 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z The chimerical portraits celebrating Arab culture were critically acclaimed for their finesse and honesty. In Memoriam: Remembering the Photographers We Lost in 2016 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z It was pitched to the “moderate Republican”, a chimerical creature living somewhere in Arlington, Virginia, some respectable bore in a two-storey house, reading the papers but mostly indifferent to the suffering outside its walls. The horrors of 2016 could have been stopped – with better defenses | Sam Kriss 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The Washington Post argued, “Proposals which at first may look odd and chimerical to the mass of our readers will be seen to be matter-of-fact propositions when they become familiar.” ‘Love and Ruin’: long and well-told tales from The Atavist 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z In fact, all of the leading prototypes in the race to bring back the airship are chimerical combinations of the same technologies. A New Generation of Airships Is Born 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the training of Syrian moderates remains as chimerical as the Bashar al-Assad regime’s “barrel bombs” are real, and Congress continues, Corker notes disapprovingly, to fund U.S. wars off budget. George Will: Why Bob Corker is the senator to watch in 2015 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Keystone is a line-in-the-sand issue for many environmentalist extremists who harbor a chimerical dream of keeping Canada’s vast oil sands bottled up. Keep The Shale Boom Rollin' With A Congressional KEEP Energy Act 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z This chimerical appearance was part of the attraction. Wangechi Mutu: under the skin of Africa 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z There is something chimerical about any industrial-scale food process: the delicacy of an individual’s process grated onto the grandeur of our civilization’s technical progress. The Weekender: the week of finger implants and smelly fears 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Faced with such a prospect, we should not be pursuing a chimerical alliance with Iran. The United States should not cooperate with Iran on Iraq The uncanniness of these tales comes from the impression they leave in the reader that our everyday existence is insubstantial and perhaps chimerical. Ghosts in the material world 2013-05-03T16:37:10Z This most portmanteau-like of beasts, a chimerical escapee from a medieval bestiary, or an antediluvian throwback, seemed, like all such monsters, to shift shape with the changing times. Has the internet killed the Loch Ness monster? 2013-05-02T11:05:58Z Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP The objects of our loyalty are increasingly chimerical – no more than "brands" in many cases, will o' the wisps compared to the solid wooden furniture of our material history. The state: We've no more ownership of it than Chelsea fans have of the club 2012-11-30T20:59:02Z The prospect of drilling, digging, and shipping hydrocarbons is not chimerical, but a realistic near-term and big part of both Ireland’s and America’s solution to economic woes. America Take Note: Technology Unleashes Black Gold to Rescue Ireland's Economy 2012-09-18T16:05:12Z Mr. Dooley is credited with phrases that endured well beyond his own chimerical life or Dunne's, like "politics ain't beanbag" and saying that a newspaper's mission is to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." City Room: He Skewered Politics and New York, Without Actually Existing 2012-08-29T15:12:47Z Pitiful is the God, and chimerical the immortality that has no better foundation than the whim of man. Is Life Worth Living Without Immortality? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society, Chicago 2012-04-18T02:00:15.717Z At present it is chimerical, and we hesitate. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an airÐbuilt castle. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z To the rake, the character of the self-controlled and virtuous becomes incomprehensible and chimerical; and his attempts to represent it are likely to be tinged with an atmosphere of unreality. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z This Fear is absolutely chimerical; never yet did a Person in a Fever die merely from Weakness. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z Our mind had been predisposed by fear to receive any terrific impression, and most probably these alarming phantasms will be of a chimerical and an extravagant nature. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z But, perhaps, all this was only chimerical, and those apparitions mere illusions. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z Is it possible for there to be perfect concordance between a finely ordered and pure life, and the worship of Beauty; or, are we to consider such a consummation as utterly impossible and chimerical? The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z Vancouver pronounced this scheme chimerical; but experience has shown that it was founded on just calculations, and the business has ever since been prosecuted with advantage, especially by Americans. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z I thought of it, but the plan seemed to me chimerical and futile. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Laputan, la-pū′tan, adj. pertaining to Laputa, a flying island described in Swift's Gulliver's Travels as inhabited by all sorts of ridiculous projectors: absurd: chimerical. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z For the greater part of the time during which life has existed on earth it would have been thought chimerical to suggest that we could live in anything else. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z Skew hinted something to me concerning Kitty, which he said was not quite chimerical. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z It is therefore absolutely chimerical to expect of science the establishment of any miracle whatever.... Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z The author believed any idea of supplying power from a central source at rates much below these to be chimerical. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z Some enthusiasts still maintain that the Abb� will rank permanently in literature by the side of the equally chimerical Vicar of Wakefield. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z TFA is, at best, another chimerical attempt in a long history of chimerical attempts to sell educational reform as a solution to class inequality. Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda 2011-12-25T21:00:00Z All the following day she was sad and preoccupied, and she inwardly determined to watch her sister to know for certain if her thoughts were chimerical or real. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z But have you noticed that this idea of perfection is contradictory, and therefore chimerical? Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Open to conviction, uncorrupted by the vain and chimerical philosophy of the times, he was desirous of doing justice to all mankind. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z Decadent the idea may be, but how cleverly, how subtly the effects are produced and how well sustained is the atmosphere of chimerical, nightmare horrors. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Not Don Quixote himself ever conceived an enterprise more chimerical than the extermination of the snakes in La Mancha or Andalucia. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z But there was nothing chimerical about the former, and with this invincible lever, the latter too was a distinct probability. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z He never keeps a promise; he constantly feeds on chimerical illusions, and flatters himself that he is going to win a million of money, when he hasn't a sou in his pocket. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z Abstinence from baseball and football and boating and all sorts of contests is the condition under which I sanction your plans, which, pardon me if I say it, I can not but consider chimerical. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z Of course some reader has exclaimed, “Your proposal is absurdly chimerical.” The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z With all right minded men, the world over, I have long ago reached the sound conclusion that universal economical domination is only a chimerical idea absolutely outside of all possible realization. England, Canada and the Great War 2011-10-20T02:00:21.577Z All beyond is chimerical, less than fantastic, believed in only by dupes and weak-minded, credulous tools of knaves, or creatures of blind superstition.' Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Thus ended what was little better than a fiasco, though Frobisher himself cannot be held to blame for the result; the scheme was altogether chimerical, and the “ore” seems to have been not worth smelting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Thus, through the medium of prayer, was I at once enabled and taught how to face danger; and whilst looking it steadfastly in the countenance, to ascertain correctly its magnitude, and banish chimerical fears. The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest 2011-10-13T02:00:39.777Z Is it indeed chimerical to demand of the great republic that it do its very highest duty? The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z But that moral evil can be thus propagated, is altogether chimerical, for we are not born criminals. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z That these hopes are not altogether chimerical, we have also the reluctant and alarming concessions of her opponents. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z As the natural consequence of placing the instruments of freedom in the hands of an ignorant multitude, their minds were filled with visions of that chimerical equality which the world is never to realize. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z The memorials and testimonies of Doctor Parr in her cause were not chimerical opinions, as some have imagined, but the real sentiments of his honest and manly heart. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z The latter, however, had recently been heavily mulcted in other valueless discoveries, and refers Fulton to the savants of the Institute, who report it chimerical and impracticable. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z Happily, only seven of the requisite nine states voted favorably, and the chimerical plot failed. Stories of Old Kentucky 2011-09-23T02:00:21.413Z That the cause of the mystery which envelopes you is substantial, I have not any doubt; but surely the effects which you attribute to it must be chimerical. The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z "Women," he said to himself, "are always full of scruples and to actual difficulties they add chimerical ones." Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z And to most of the country folk, when the townspeople spoke of him, he was a chimerical creature, so that they would come out of curiosity to stare at his house. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The theories and plans of the great body of Socialists are largely chimerical and do not appeal to my idea of bettering the conditions of which they, and myself as well, complain. Why I am opposed to socialism 2011-08-30T02:00:37.547Z In these days of ours the idea of isolating the population is chimerical. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z The third sort, out of a pretended veneration to religion and divinity, may call me superstitious and chimerical. The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; 2011-08-14T02:00:22.973Z If, on the other hand, man only sees in God a kind and indulgent Father, he will run into a chimerical mysticism. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Such objects may be declared chimerical, but surely it is not criminal to hope that they can be carried out, and to feel that they ought. The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z Bossuet had several years before maintained in the schools of Sorbonne, with great warmth, that a love of pure benevolence is chimerical. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Yet, on further consideration, I dismissed all such forebodings as purely chimerical. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z No; any possibility to the contrary must be simply chimerical. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z Contrasted with an exposition of ancient morality addressed to the moderns: a chimerical attempt upon an obsolete subject. The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z Far from me be so chimerical a pretension. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The medical man, satisfied with these facts, will therefore abandon the chimerical hope of finding a specific remedy for such a disease. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z This is not a chimerical idea, it is a sketch of what might be realized with little difficulty. The City of the Mormons or, Three Days at Nauvoo, in 1842 2011-06-23T02:00:26.503Z Diplomatic opinion was inclined to treat the prospect as chimerical, but it was evident that neither Sweden nor Norway liked it. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z The attempt to reduce all to a level, to put all minds in uniform, to give all the same employment, he viewed as chimerical. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Under these circumstances, all schemes of conquest in this direction must be chimerical. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z In the ease of thought, originality is an ideal still more chimerical than certitude. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Such an assumption is to my mind chimerical, and the source of many illusions. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z I had said what I had to say, for the most part, as to the absurdity and improbability of the case supposed, and the inadequacy, the worthlessness, the chimerical nature of the remedy proposed. Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York 2011-06-05T02:00:10.927Z Could the chimerical purity which these are in search of be ever found, never would it lend enchantment to their page, should their taste be cold or their fancy feeble. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Urged by intrigues, or by the chimerical hope of bettering their physical condition, the serfs abandoned their old abodes to settle elsewhere, and chiefly on the lands recently acquired by the Russians. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z It was the business of the wise man to form a just estimate of things, but not to attempt, by individual efforts, so chimerical an enterprise as that of promoting the happiness of mankind. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z The Greeks were fuller in their experience or fainter in their hope; they would have regarded our expectations as chimerical, and our anticipations as contradicted by all the past records of human affairs. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z Finally, this rational spiritualism, which is both the faith of the human race and the doctrine of the greatest minds of antiquity and modern times, we have carefully distinguished from a chimerical and dangerous mysticism. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z But let us not quit this topic of “purity of style” without offering our sympathies for those who have suffered martyrdom in their chimerical devotion. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The fears of the English and the schemes of the Russians appear to us, therefore, alike chimerical. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z But if it were conducive to these ends, how chimerical to suppose that she will ever voluntarily adopt it! Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z The death-like hush of an a�rial region surrounded them; the halcyon peace of a seemingly chimerical cloister; until suddenly broken by an indubitable clangor—harsh, hard!—of a door, opening; shutting. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z To sum up, the pretension of explaining principles by the ideas which they contain, is a chimerical one. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Some have the air of religious legends, descriptive of the Paradise of the Blacks, such as that chimerical Manoa, where they said, “the king had golden images of every object on earth.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The leaden good sense of Louis XIV. pronounced F�nelon the “most chimerical” man in France. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Your silent entry into town, depending upon the merits of your wares to gain an audience or work up a custom, is chimerical and obsolete. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Originality is there without effect; vanity without an object; and the desire of shining is chimerical. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z As it does not aspire to domination, so, and by virtue of the same principle, it does not more aspire to a chimerical equality of mind, of beauty, of fortune, of enjoyments. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z It is the dream of a good citizen, and, like a dream, the scenes scattered and unconnected are broken into by chimerical forms and impracticable achievements. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z But all these volumes are filled with mere chimerical systems, without one single article conducive to real utility.” French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Nor was the danger by any means chimerical. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z The disorder of the War Office rendered all resistance chimerical. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z On the other hand, if you see only the good God and the indulgent father, you incline to a chimerical mysticism. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z A series of facts will illustrate our principle, that the language of every literary people exists in a fluctuating condition, and that its vaunted purity and its continued stability are chimerical notions. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z That this idea of contingency is not chimerical, seems settled by this, that all men naturally have it, and entertain it as a most rational idea. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z They do not ask why, or where, or when, the incidents happened; they are satisfied with the vision and with all its chimerical wonders. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z He was the servant of the highest bidder and in the Burr conspiracy doubtless the instigator; as also the first to recognize that the scheme was chimerical. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z The latter plan possessed important advantages but was a hazardous undertaking and because of the apparently insuperable difficulties involved, seemed almost chimerical. The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry 2011-03-28T02:00:23.133Z In Armorica, as in Wales, his coming was long expected, till “Esp�rance br�tonne” became proverbial for all chimerical hopes. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The conception, therefore, of the possibility of that which is, being different from what it is, must on this system be chimerical. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z It is easy to understand that M. Clemenceau has taken this pathetic and tremulous figure as representative of what is chimerical in the society of the day. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z And the harmony we ask for as condition precedent, is not chimerical, but already exists. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z I am glad you do not think the idea chimerical. The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z Others think they know something, and lose themselves in vain and chimerical hypotheses. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z You are chimerical with gathered lives; Of new Americas you guard the gleams, You sunk in dazzled and vermilion dreams, In you the soul of ancient suns survives! Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z But he would not do so: he replied to Mr. Hyndman—"It is as useless to base any practical policy upon Socialist principles as it is chimerical to repose any confidence in Socialist votes." Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z But we had lost all traces of them, and the hope of recovering them from the chaos of the great city where he died, seemed chimerical. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z Their destructive philosophy is profound, demonstrative, and unanswerable—their constructive theories, wild, visionary and chimerical on paper, and failures in practice. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Even in our own day such a scheme would be considered radical and chimerical. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z Perhaps, too, she thinks if I did not love you, I might return her affection; and the only way to end her chimerical hopes is by our immediate union. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z But they considered any scheme involving a central bank, like the old Bank of the United States, quite chimerical; and they were probably right. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z But he quickly abandoned this chimerical idea, and on receipt of Napoleon's order from Quatre Bras, withdrew to Namur, and thence, by a masterly retreat, conducted his army back into France. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z As for education home to the flagship Tory policy of Swedish "free schools" which will promote over-capacity and duplication in the chimerical pursuit of higher standards. Budget political briefing: Savings of 80% through cuts is optimistic 2010-06-22T19:29:00Z It is hard to grapple with the notion of a chimerical constitution. Memo From London: Constitution Gives Britons Few Guides to New Government 2010-05-25T00:31:00Z Joseph de Maistre believed in comets as messengers of divine justice, and in animated planets, and declared that divination by astrology is not an absolutely chimerical science. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Its most cherished ideals, as shown in its attitudes and methods, are chimerical, or impossible. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker The choicer spirits will be always ready to lavish effort or material wealth on objects which are sacred to their own age, although they may seen chimerical or unworthy to the next. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius To the plodder, I have been chimerical, but I will shame him by becoming a plodder, by out-plodding him. A Yankee from the West A Novel Fergusson's diplomatically mute on The matter, but it scarcely seems chimerical To say these rivalries are mostly spherical. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 26 1890 He was so absorbed in his favourite study, that he saw Phoenician and nothing but Phoenician in everything, even in Celtic words, and hence the number of chimerical etymologies which swarm in his works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" This was a favourite though rather chimerical project. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 No State expects to have to encounter the whole world in arms or makes its provision in view of any such chimerical contingency. Naval Warfare Now, I 39 do not think that there is anything visionary or chimerical in my plan thus far. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The contention of the historical school that all law springs up 'naturally', like language, is chimerical. The Future of International Law In a country such as this, accidents of this description are by no means chimerical. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 This hypothesis, though embraced by Prynne, is, I confess, much opposed to general opinion; and a very respectable living writer treats such an interpretation of the statute 7 H. IV. as chimerical. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 "But the picture to which I allude was that of a chimerical grand duke." A Transient Guest and Other Episodes I am afraid you begin to think me rather chimerical in many of my ideas, and that I am ambitious of becoming a ‘rara avis in terris.’ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This idea seemed so chimerical to Bonaparte that to broach it was at once to lose character with him for acuteness or political foresight. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience So far from being a romantic and chimerical project, it was not only practicable, but easy. The West Indies and the Spanish Main Such a division is altogether chimerical, and without any sound basis. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] We send missionaries into Africa to convert them to a better form of religion; why should the attempt seem chimerical to convert them practically to a higher purpose in our own colonies? The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses I confess that the whole scheme appeared to me wild and chimerical. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 The scheme of compelling the planters to abandon their plantations, and to congregate in towns, built by legislation, was indeed chimerical. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia In considering the case, however, the jury are not to go beyond the evidence to hunt up doubts, nor must they entertain such doubts as are merely chimerical or conjectured. The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin Your ambitious projects, which have been treated as chimerical, are now realized. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty It is this circumstance which, I think, should induce you not to regard as chimerical the perfection of which I purpose to speak by-and-by, under the head of "refinements in breaking." The Dog Richard Amlet, Esq., in the play, is a noticeable instance of the disadvantages, to which this chimerical notion of affinity constituting a claim to an acquaintance, may subject the spirit of a gentleman. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time The fear that France might be diverted from an alliance by an offer of partition from Great Britain, appeared chimerical, and contrary to the settled policy of the court of Louis the Sixteenth. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia The hypothesis, that the writers in a dead tongue can alone secure a worthy audience, is altogether chimerical. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Indeed, their intrigues and manoeuvres were thought at that time—1845—to be "chimerical," even by many who were forced to join in the Jesuit Crusade. Priests, Women, and Families "Perhaps," I persisted, "you, too, think I am stupidly unreasonable because I will not consent to be dishonestly chimerical." Eleven Possible Cases Nothing more strange and chimerical can be imagined than that which occurred to my poor friend, the young student Nathaniel, and which I, gracious reader, have undertaken to tell you. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Let our fancy suppose the most chimerical of Utopias realised in a commonwealth of man. Modern Substitutes for Christianity Do not abandon yourself to the chimerical hope that life will be to you, what it has never yet been to any man—a scene of unmingled delight. Coelebs In Search of a Wife To the general reader, the idea of the classification of the many hundreds of thousands of paupers, and the uniform treatment of each class according to definite rules, may appear chimerical. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 On the adjacent wall was a frieze of curious and chimerical beasts. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal That section must do so in spite of its chimerical fears of Negro domination, in spite of its rooted race prejudices. Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12 It was as much as he could do not to laugh outright at the chimerical idea. Brooke's Daughter A Novel If a prediction be raised on facts which our own prejudices induce us to infer will exist, it must be chimerical. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 In this chimerical idea, however, as in Florida, he was doomed to disappointment. Porto Rico Its History, Products and Possibilities... Elysium and Hades were as chimerical to him as the Epicurean heavens. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal The system of our philosopher was, to lay all the wild spirits which have haunted us in the chimerical shapes of nonconformity. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors They see weakness in man's turning away from reality and seeking his welfare in an unseen world which to them is synonymous with what is chimerical and visionary. An Outline of Occult Science The idea originally entertained of turning part of the Vailima estate into a profitable plantation turned out chimerical. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) It is difficult to understand how so chimerical a notion as a non-party government led by Macdonald could have been entertained by practical politicians. George Brown That chimerical terror of good night-air, which makes men close their windows, list their doors, and seal themselves up with their own poisonous exhalations, had sent all these healthy workmen down below. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) "Your wishes are not so chimerical; you are no visionary." Shirley In this purely economic region there is not, so it seems to me, anything absurd or chimerical in the socialist ideal. A Modern Symposium As a politician his opinions were often chimerical, unstable, and of little moment; but his military knowledge and experience were valuable. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 They went first to Shay's attorney, but he dismissed the idea as chimerical, so they dropped him from their plans. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country With him—for the undertaking of yonder impracticable and chimerical expedition, twenty-five hundred dollars! The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman This chimerical attempt turned out badly for his illustrious Lordship in the end; and he undertook to be revenged when one was least looking for it. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Brant's whole scheme of a confederacy among savage tribes was, of course, wild and chimerical. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 Now is the doing away of this smoke a sort p. 127of chimerical and Quixotic undertaking? The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed If the matters in dispute between theist, deist, and pantheist are trivialities, then and then only can we regard the enterprise of the Christologians as chimerical and their achievements as futile. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Cuba's boasted military or defensive strength is chimerical. Due South or Cuba Past and Present The stranger was indeed handsome, Nelson noticed—and then he received perhaps the greatest shock of the whole chimerical adventure. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Yet, as he waited to hear her come out again, a hope that he knew to be chimerical rose in him. Tante The history and the laws of a phenomenon are its nature, and there is no chimerical something beyond them. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion Or would it be less chimerical to try to form a Teutonic Federation among Germans, Dutch, Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, German-Swiss, Englishmen, North Americans, and the various English colonies? The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 A time when "the twain shall be" virtually, "one flesh" and the "outside as the inside" is not a chimerical dream. Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex Barring the chimerical, that any girl may consider and most girls do, she was straight as a string. The Paliser case There may, indeed, be a fictitious or chimerical taste without Poetry or Religion; but a genuine good taste, in our judgment, without these handmaids, is unattainable. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The incredulity and even derision with which the latter doctrine is received by “practical men,” should not affright the collected thinker, as it certainly is not so chimerical as they pretend. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion Many of my readers, I am aware, will smile at what I am going to advance; but the apprehension of this shall not interrupt my speculations, how chimerical soever they may be thought to be. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air It would be chimerical to formulate a scheme which the materials would not allow us to carry out; it would be like proposing to construct an Eiffel tower with building-stones. Introduction to the Study of History Some persons have denied and rejected them as chimerical, and as an effect of the prepossession and ignorance of the people of those countries, where they are said to come back or return. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. But though all inquiries into the origin of government be chimerical, yet the history of its progress is curious and useful. A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations Reason claims the power of criticizing such ideas, and of distinguishing in them between what is true and therefore obtainable, and what is false and therefore chimerical or even destructive. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion And the altruistic professions of the Entente which claims to be fighting for the rights of little States, whose idyllic existence it would fain perpetuate, is scoffed at by the Teutons as chimerical or hypocritical. England and Germany The idea of restoring Latin to its old position of universal language is chimerical. Introduction to the Study of History Women who suppress their sexual nature by pursuing the chimerical advantages of votes and professions are guilty of race-suicide. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Many persons of influence declared the conditions published by the directors of the railway chimerical in the extreme. Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery An Answer to the Objection, That the Mirth which Wine inspires is chimerical 133 CHAP. Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness To expect a commercial success from a paper which relied only upon being well written was chimerical, unless the author could have afforded to hold out in a financial sense for a much longer period. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice It appears a fruitless and rather chimerical attempt to propose a system of directions by which all Polysyllables whatever may be resolved into component parts, and traced to a root of one syllable. Elements of Gaelic Grammar A considerable amount of space is devoted by Kaemfer to chimerical animals, and he dilates upon the awful sanctity that surrounds the person of the Emperor. The Empire of the East These chimerical legends had once, also, beguiled the long evenings of our Norman ancestors, but, in the progress of civilization, had gradually given way to other and more natural forms of composition. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I But if Dr. Carver was chimerical, he was at least courageous in his persistence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 His labours received due and indispensable aid; but their purpose was regarded as chimerical. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition The personages, in their preference of poverty and obscurity to rank and wealth, may, in the judgment of some, think and conduct themselves like chimerical dreamers, but their actions, however quixotic, concern themselves alone. Famous Women: George Sand A chimerical but not hopeful fanaticism is not a very promising temperament for a conspirator. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 In no point of view could a more utterly chimerical or foolish scheme be well conceived. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject "The action of a First Cause is useless and irrational—it is chimerical!" Public School Education "It was on the 30th of November, 1744, that this minister thus expressed himself with regard to the chimerical systems of credit, which have never been more in vogue than in our time." The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 According to some critics, on her gifts of fertile invention and fluent narration alone, which make her novels attractive in spite of the chimerical theories, social, political and religious, everywhere interwoven. Famous Women: George Sand I have myself remarked what you say, but let us not dwell upon chimerical fears. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora As for the other mode of employing the Method of Difference, namely, by comparing, not the same case at two different periods, but different cases, this in the present instance is quite chimerical. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive And, "to attribute the phenomena of life to an immaterial soul, is to substitute a chimerical being for the hypothesis of machinists." Public School Education She was a woman of strongly fixed principles, however chimerical her ideas in some directions, and now her conscience drove her on, when love would have bade her retreat. Making People Happy That this had always been the chimerical and favorite idea of England; and that so long as it subsisted, there would perhaps be no possibility of treating seriously about the conditions of a peace. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI A prospect which hitherto had appeared to him only as a chimerical vision was now viewed by him in the light of a reality. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora Luxury in vacuo may, no doubt, be perilous to the culprit; but it has, for others, nearly as much of the unreal and chimerical as Gluttony confined to "Second intentions." A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Nothing can be more chimerical, it seems to us, than this distinction between being the author of the substance of an act, and the author of its pravity. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory The man who had said this would have been regarded as the most chimerical mortal on earth.' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 At the back a low sofa, the wood-work of which was ornamented with foliage and chimerical animals, tempted with its broad bed the fatigued or idle guest. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt George Stephenson’s idea was at that time regarded as but the dream of a chimerical projector. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Learned men study rather to acquire a chimerical greatness in the imagination of other men, than to acquire greater breadth and strength of mind themselves. Principles Of Political Economy This reply passes for a defective one, and even for something chimerical in the minds of many men; but here is an example sufficiently analogous, which may undeceive them.” A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory The attempt was obviously chimerical if we are to take it seriously. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Faces of chimerical animals from whose mouths fell, instead of a tongue, a long red tuft, adorned the crossbars of the throne. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt And for a moment even this dream seemed hardly chimerical. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 It does not allow us to go astray in the narrow ways of a peevish and jealous personality, nor to lose ourselves in the vague labyrinth of a chimerical and false communism. Principles Of Political Economy Here the distinction between God's permitting and doing in relation to the sins of men, is declared by Calvin to be utterly without foundation in truth, and purely chimerical. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory The American government was clearly bound to pay its just debts to the friends who had suffered so much in its behalf before it should proceed to entertain a chimerical scheme for satisfying its enemies. The Critical Period of American History Will they stay till the pride and arrogance of Britain shall be so far humbled, as voluntarily to give up her chimerical claims over the United States, and to invite them into this political connexion? The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII Charles IV listened with some curiosity to a man whose career had excited such universal interest, but he was the last man to be carried away by such chimerical suggestions. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 But the chief offenders in defying Napoleon's chimerical policy were the Dutch and Hanseatic cities. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) The one adored grandeur even to the romantic and the chimerical, the other was entirely positive and matter-of-fact, and absorbed with her own interest, especially in those relating to her property. Political Women, Vol. 1 For, fifthly, any such scheme was in the present instance clearly chimerical. The Critical Period of American History With many, and to many, these things are but as dreams; they are chimerical. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 If, on the contrary, you prefer a government without strength, Monarchical or Republican, borrowed I know not from what past, or from what chimerical future, answer in the negative. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Thus were these active and intelligent mine-owners sacrificed, either to a chimerical and unfounded suspicion, or to a feeling of avarice, which, after all, failed in attaining its object. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Grenville had conceived a chimerical project of replacing the existing administration by one which should include all statesmen possessed of real political talent, whatever their differences in the past might have been. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) In such co-operation with his purposes, not in any chimerical speculative conquest of him, not in any theoretic drinking of him up, must lie the real meaning of our destiny. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Their intellectual poverty condemns them to unproductiveness; nevertheless, being nearer than the others to the imaginative type, they bring forth childish or chimerical productions. Essay on the Creative Imagination It was a chimerical project which it was hoped might avert the impending troubles at home by dazzling acquisitions abroad. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) But if misfortune had made the King of France too cautious, prosperity had inspired Charles with a haughty presumption, which gave the semblance of stability to every chimerical vision of pride. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Sir," replied the Duke severely, "the discoveries of modern science tend to the chimerical rather than the practical. Vixen, Volume II. There! it is a lesson that nothing is too chimerical to be worth opposing!’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Yet is it not the mother of phantoms, of numberless superstitions, of altogether irrational and chimerical religious practices? Essay on the Creative Imagination They had to be artists and at the same time commercial men, a chimerical combination. The Tapestry Book She struggles for no kind of chimerical credit, disclaims the appearance of every affectation, and is in all things just what she seems, and others would be thought. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Conquered by a very real love of humanity, which he hoped to serve by the realization of his chimerical views, he even believed it to be his duty to make proselytes. My Recollections of Lord Byron He scouted as utterly chimerical, the idea that war would necessarily follow such postponement, or even a positive rejection; and he treated the menaces of the dissolution of the Union with scorn. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. It is not, then, at all chimerical to assume in psychology an equivalent of chemical combination. Essay on the Creative Imagination The Utilitarians might approve the spirit of the Owenites, but held their schemes to be chimerical. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill In his second voyage he proved the chimerical character of the long-talked-of Antarctic continent, the dream of stay-at-home geographers. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century It is not wise, my child, to keep up any association with people above your station; it only leads to all sorts of chimerical aspirations. Jack 1877 To hope that the people may be cajoled into giving their sanctions to such institutions is still more chimerical. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. The chimerical form of imagination, applied to the social sciences, is the one that, taking account neither of the external determinism nor of practical requirements, spreads out freely. Essay on the Creative Imagination These and other difficulties imply the hopelessness of searching for this chimerical unit of 'utility' when considered as a separate thing. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill He had succeeded in spite of opposition, for hardly an expedition he had proposed, "though most probable and attended with the greatest success, had not beforehand been treated as chimerical and ridiculous". The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration The French emperor has many other titles, too well founded, to warrant a comparison with the Carthaginian hero, to render it necessary to recur to one which is obviously chimerical. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 The tyrannous star chambers, branding irons, chimerical kings and surplices at Allhallowtide, they are gone or with immense velocity going. Historical Essays "For my part I consider him chimerical," Pécuchet ended by declaring. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life While exhorting to patience she was full of hope, and dismissed as chimerical all the darker explanations which the disconsolate lovers invented to account for the silence their communications had met with. Comedies of Courtship Devoted in appearance to all parties, he flattered and deceived them in turn, by pretended confidential communications, and chimerical hopes. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II F�nelon has sometimes been regarded as a forerunner of the Revolutionary movement; but he would rather, by ideas in which, as events proved, there may have been something chimerical, have rendered revolution impossible. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. “But it is not chimerical,” Fernandez impatiently insisted; “on the contrary, it is perfectly feasible and, as we have planned it, absolutely certain of realisation.” A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy The views I have expressed may be chimerical. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 But while as matter of logic it is inconclusive, as matter of fact it is chimerical. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The wiser heads of the party know that these notions are quite chimerical, and are for trusting to the chapter of accidents and letting the present Cabinet remain in. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) At first I considered the getting of anything from an Imperial Austrian Arsenal as chimerical. The Supplies for the Confederate Army, how they were obtained in Europe and how paid for. They first despised and ridiculed the movement as chimerical and utterly futile in America, then feared, and finally hated and fanatically combated what they termed "foreign symbolism." American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) A small one connected Baltimore and Washington, but long distance was considered chimerical. A Little Girl in Old New York Calhoun's idea, though advocated by him with consummate skill, was shown to be wholly chimerical. History of the United States, Volume 3 She is full of all kinds of chimerical expedients. How It All Came Round They considered Owen's plans for educating the workingman chimerical. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen We abandon projects we have formed, and which, viewed through this medium, appear fantastical, chimerical, absurd. Rookwood When it was proposed a year ago to place a steamer upon the line from Halifax to Boston, to carry freight and passengers, the idea was scouted as chimerical, and certain to fail. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Consequently, it is chimerical to attempt to educate girls with boys, whose organization requires no such periodical intermittence. 5th. The Education of American Girls The handsome surplus, before alluded to, accruing annually to the London society shows that this is not chimerical. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 The leaden good sense of Louis XIV. pronounced Fénelon the "most chimerical" man in France. Classic French Course in English The native who has his patch of settled land with unassailable title would be loth to risk his all for the chimerical advantages of insurrection. The Philippine Islands To wish that parents would, themselves, mould the ductile passions is a chimerical wish, as the present generation have their own passions to combat with, and fastidious pleasures to pursue, neglecting those nature points out. Mary Wollstonecraft How many absurd ideas, false suppositions, chimerical notions in those hymns which some rash defenders of final causes have dared to compose in honour of the Creator? Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. "Well," said Wall, "this chimerical captain doesn't even mention coming on board, so I conclude that he never will come." The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras This was before there was a mile of Steam Railroad in the world, and under the then existing circumstances was so chimerical as to hardly warrant mention. The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History We are not a chimerical people, nor dreamers, we do not despise force; only we put it in its place, which is at the service of the right. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 However, he rambles into that chimerical world in which I have too often wandered, and draws the usual conclusion that all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Mary Wollstonecraft If he had possessed the saving grace of humor he could not have dedicated the golden years of youth to anything so hopelessly chimerical and absurd. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Taylor could see the chimerical eyes peering through the surface of the sphere. The Whispering Spheres The murdered Alice Webster, with gory temple, long, damp tresses clinging to her form, in striking pose, advancing and receding, mutely gesticulating such fearful prophetic menace, was too real for chimerical conjecture or mere coincidence. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Some of these ideas were unpractical, and even chimerical, but anyone capable of separating the wheat from the chaff could learn much from him, and could render his suggestions available. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion Speculations toward evil lose their name by adoption; speculations towards good are for ever speculations, and he who hath proposed them is a chimerical and silly creature. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection He asserts that this pretension is as chimerical as that of several persons, who believed they possessed the navel, and other parts less decent, of—the body of Christ! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the monied man generally. Selected Essays Let it not be supposed that this is a chimerical imagination, the vain dream of a few philosophical enthusiasts. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature Guizot was a great man, but '48 had perverted his generalising intellect, and everywhere his jaundiced vision perceived in progress a struggle for life and death with 'the revolutionary spirit, blind, chimerical, insatiate, impracticable.' The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 Some of the remaining years of Lord Mar's life were, nevertheless, devoted to chimerical projects for which he received in return little but disappointment, ingratitude, and humiliation. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. They contrived, by their chimerical speculations, to question the plainest truths; to wrest the simple meaning of the Holy Scriptures, and give some appearance of truth to the most ridiculous and monstrous opinions. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 We see that by a coördinated effort and common understanding which it is no longer chimerical to hope for, the conditions of the industrial life might be very different. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History Return to Table of Contents The idea of substituting a new and superior motive-power for steam will no doubt strike many minds as extravagant, if not chimerical. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 He will bring his most chimerical schemes out and air them with the same assurance with which the real inventor exhibits his. The Story of the Mind I had already descried what a peaceful family life—upright, pure, and devoted—my friend Meurtrier hid under his chimerical gasconades. Ten Tales "Sir," said Johnson, "this book is a pretty essay and deserves to be held in some estimation though much of it is chimerical!" Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica Judging by past experience in California this is no chimerical conception. Walnut Growing in Oregon He may push his secret desires to an absurd and chimerical height, but never can they cease to be humanizing in their tendency. Sophisms of the Protectionists Not only that, but the Panama Canal, now opened to the world, was for years deemed a chimerical dream and an impossibility, by the world as well as by most Americans. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep He was persuaded that the sectional contest would be fatally pursued as long as the chimerical idea of equality in the Senate should stimulate Southern ambition. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 I would beseech you to lay aside all your chimerical projects, which have made you so absurd. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica Their plan was regarded by the public as chimerical, but they persevered in its execution, p. 413trusting in the help of Him in whose cause they were laboring. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City On another side, strange as the architecture of dreamland, stands the chimerical and impossible church of Vassili-Blagennoi, which makes your reason doubt the testimony of your eyes. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers As an example of the chimerical, impossible and altogether undesirable, it commands admiration. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing What is called Magic is not a vain and chimerical act, as the Stoics and Epicureans pretend. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Cromwell had revived the chimerical scheme of a coalition with the United Provinces; a total conjunction of government, privileges, interests, and councils. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell This chimerical partition immediately failed of execution in the article which was most easily performed: Bourbon refused to acknowledge Henry as king of France. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary Still, anything like a "rising in the West" is regarded here as chimerical; and the arming of the people as aimed only at the terrifying of landlords. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. This plan may seem extraordinary, incredible--yes, but not chimerical ... no such calamity has ever yet afflicted the world. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements This is not the chimerical delusion of a transcendental philosophy, this death-knell to the Slavery of Ignorance and Vice. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Had he lived much longer, and maintained his authority in England, so chimerical, or rather so dangerous, a project would certainly have been carried into execution. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell I should be the most contented happy man alive, were the chimerical happiness which springs from the paintings of Fancy less fleeting and transitory. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Still his strong historic sense and solid erudition would be more likely to be repelled than attracted by their vague and inaccurate scholarship, and chimerical theories of the light of Nature. Gibbon Once under this influence, the wildest suspicions and most chimerical fears assumed the appearance of reality to his eyes; and he finally asked himself if this stranger might not be a rival. A Cardinal Sin Those at a distance may speculate differently; but on the spot an opinion to the contrary, judging human nature on the usual scale, would be chimerical. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States The idea however, of a perfect and immortal commonwealth, will always be found as chimerical as that of a perfect and immortal man. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell Amidst these unpromising circumstances, the hopes of taking Quebec appeared to General Thomas to be chimerical, and a longer continuance before the town both useless and dangerous. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States But at a time when the struggle for existence is so severe as now it was chimerical on Wagner's part to hope that such a plan could be permanently realized. Chopin and Other Musical Essays But, as may well be supposed, Elizabeth decisively vetoed this chimerical plan. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality When silence was reestablished, he thus continued: "Gentlemen, I intend with one word to banish from your minds the chimerical apprehensions which the suspicions of Marcel may have engendered in them respecting Carolus." Bohemians of the Latin Quarter But it was reserved for America, the land of daring schemes and audacious plans, to formulate the most chimerical project of all. Catholic Problems in Western Canada Bonaparte's enterprise has been freely condemned in later days as chimerical; but it did not so appear at the time to the gallant seamen who frustrated it. Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy I confess the sermon was wholly unsatisfactory to me, un-catholic in its premises, and many of his arguments and facts chimerical and illusive. Life of Father Hecker Thus it is that thought, trying in vain to maintain itself in this abstract domain, ends by holding as chimerical the world of ideas in which it has met with nothing to which to cling. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Artists will rejoice and sculptors will cease to despair when this happy consummation is reached—let none regard it as chimerical or Utopian.' Normandy Picturesque Many who before regarded legislation on the subject as chimerical, will now fancy that it is only dangerous, or perhaps not more than difficult. Phineas Finn The Irish Member Such a proposition on the part of the Government of Pretoria shows plainly that it wished to evade enquiry into a law so fettered with formalities that its working was chimerical. Boer Politics The idea of systematically regulating an occasional tariff in terms of the day-to-day fluctuations of the exchanges is wholly chimerical. Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 If they were persuaded that all appeal to the Judge in heaven is a chimerical hope, with what ardor would they throw themselves into schemes of revolution! The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism It is not chimerical; if it seem so, it is simply because we are so ill-trained in morals that we are unwilling to act together in practical brotherhood. The Quest of the Simple Life So utterly grotesque and chimerical is this whole positive theory of progress, that, as an outcome of the present age, it seems little short of a miracle. Is Life Worth Living? But there is no knowledge, however infinite it be, which can reconcile the knowledge and providence of God with actions of an indeterminate cause, that is to say, with a chimerical and impossible being. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Your silent entry into town, depending upon the merits of your wares to work up a trade, is chimerical and obsolete. A String of Amber Beads If the search for this relation is chimerical, the two terms, mind, and the world, may be illusions. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism A line by the valleys of the Morava and the Maritsa, with its large towns, Philippopoli and Adrianople, is certainly not more chimerical and absurd than many that are now projected. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. If you take my advice, you will not trouble yourself any more with fancies which seem to me—pardon me—quite chimerical. A Prince of Sinners It is true that certain philosophers have been misled by chimeras, and it would seem that mere indifference is numbered among chimerical notions. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Towards the end of the work, he assumes a more decidedly negative tone, and treats the very conception of studying Logic otherwise than in its applications as chimerical. Auguste Comte and Positivism As a matter of fact, good, practical M. Roudaire, sound engineer that he was, never even dreamt of anything so chimerical. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science The fear that Bonaparte will come over to us and conquer us also, is too chimerical to be genuine. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Yet I find, on returning to my letters of that date, that the Empress refused permission at once, considering the enterprise as entirely chimerical. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 This answer is accounted a quibble, and even something chimerical in the minds of many people. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil All minds were occupied during the winter in forming projects of capturing that town, which were entirely chimerical, void of common sense, and nowise practicable. The Campaign of 1760 in Canada A Narrative Attributed to Chevalier Johnstone But Christianity throws aside all that as merely chimerical. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series It was the chimerical "King of the Jews," not the heterodox dogmatist, who was punished. The Life of Jesus This hold of the home is no chimerical thing. The Business of Being a Woman We must therefore not imagine with some Schoolmen, whose ideas tend towards the chimerical, that free contingent futurities have the privilege of exemption from this general rule of the nature of things. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil They insist on faith in their chimerical doctrines and systems, as 'the basis of all excellence.' An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles President Jackson wrote to him, protesting against "any such chimerical, visionary scheme," page 242which, needless to say, Houston had never entertained. American Men of Action Philo, who lived in a great intellectual centre, and who had received a very complete education, possessed only a chimerical and inferior knowledge of science. The Life of Jesus You may imagine how grateful we are that he is now among us, instead of having fallen a victim to his chimerical enthusiasm. Records of a Girlhood But passions, which come from the confused perception of an apparent good, cannot occur in God; and vague indifference is something chimerical. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Accordingly nothing can be more chimerical or vain than the advice so often given to the artist to be truthful. Musical Memories With regard to this, I am busy with wishes and plans which, at first look, seem chimerical, yet these alone give me the heart to finish Siegfried. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The chimerical associations of the character and qualities of a man with his name anagrammatised may often have instigated to the choice of a vocation, or otherwise affected his imagination. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 But he was careful not to express this hope to the others, who would doubtless have considered it chimerical. The Waif of the "Cynthia" They assume some chimerical notion, whence they think to derive some use, and which they endeavour to maintain by quibblings. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Else the whole idea of propriety, that is, the only distinction between the just and chimerical in the arts, would be utterly lost. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) This is no chimerical illusion; it scarcely rests upon an uncertainty; for, the mineral wealth of New Mexico, we are firmly persuaded, is still in its infancy. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself Thus we have discovered two chimerical husbands of the Lady Arabella. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Truly the scene appeared to him almost chimerical. The Waif of the "Cynthia" Let us see what M. Bayle himself says elsewhere against the chimerical or absolutely undefined indifference. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil A chimerical animal, having the head and breast of a woman, and the body and legs of a bird. The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science As to pretending to rush upon the guns," says Napoleon, "and carry them by the bayonet, or to pick off the gunners by musketry, these are chimerical ideas. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. After a tedious war, some one amused the world by a chimerical "Project of Peace," which was much against the wishes and the designs of our William the Third. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 This plan was by no means so chimerical as at first glance it might seem to be. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power If metaphysical thinking is nonsensical, its empire over the human imagination must still be confessed; if it is as chimerical a science as alchemy, it is no less fertile in by-products of importance. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil When the wings of a bird, or those of chimerical figures which are drawn with wings, are of a different tincture to their bodies, they are said to be winged. The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science To one who knew those soldiers were chimerical acquiescence was maddening. The Palace of Darkened Windows Here there is no chimerical creation, no abstraction, from which the citizens may demand everything. Essays on Political Economy Literature an avenue to glory.—An intellectual nobility not chimerical, but created by public opinion.—Literary honours of various nations.— Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions If Thomas Arnold's moral earnestness and his generous spirit could not save this theory from being chimerical, no better result was to be expected from Coleridge. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant A chimerical animal, the upper part resembling a dragon. The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science At the time when I formed the plan which I have the honor to transmit to you, an abolition of the slave trade would have appeared a very chimerical project. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) But as regards the third system, which partakes of both the others, and which consists in exacting everything from Government, without giving it anything, it is chimerical, absurd, childish, contradictory, and dangerous. Essays on Political Economy Literature an avenue to glory.—An intellectual nobility not chimerical, but created by public opinion.—Literary honours of various nations.—Local associations with the memory of the man of genius. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Extravagant as they seem, the prospect of realising them was, humanly speaking, neither chimerical nor even improbable. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) Now these methods are not chimerical, but practicable. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 While Mr. Easterly still regarded Taylor's larger trust as chimerical, some occurrences of the fall made him take a respectful attitude toward it. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel How gladly would I listen to any one, who should undertake to prove, that what I have been describing is chimerical! A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 The idea that the Church would ever modify her teaching to bring it into harmony with modern science seemed utterly chimerical. Outspoken Essays For be fully assured, that, of all the phantoms that ever deluded the fond hopes of a credulous world, a Parliamentary revenue in the colonies is the most perfectly chimerical. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) If shapeless creatures had never existed, you would not fail to insist that none will ever appear, and that I am throwing myself headlong into chimerical hypotheses. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) It is scarcely necessary to say that the disparity in population, resources, and power between Ireland and Great Britain render a dual Federation, which, of course, involves three Legislatures, chimerical. The Framework of Home Rule At Chartres the Vices and Virtues were not symbolized by more or less chimerical creatures, but by human faces. The Cathedral Mr. Thiers treated the project as chimerical, so the execution of it was delayed up to the time at which we saw it applied in foreign countries. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 The difficulty arising from the fact of St. Patrick's having given abgitorium, or alphabets, to his converts, appears to us purely chimerical. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 The sea-serpent may still be seen at Heybridge, on the Norman church-door, one of the best of its kind, and exhibiting almost all its original ironwork, including the chimerical decorative clamp. Vanishing England Born in France, he had emigrated to this country, with the chimerical hope of speedily making a fortune. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Now for the chimerical fauna introduced from the East, imported into Europe by the Crusaders, and travestied by the illuminators of missals and by image-makers. The Cathedral "He and I," Montcalm wrote to his mother, Madame de Saint-Véran, "have two ideas touching these marriages,—the first, romantic and chimerical; the second, good, practicable." Montcalm and Wolfe I conclude that such a personage is wholly chimerical, framed as a creature of a lively imagination. Notes on the Apocalypse This idea, erroneous as it may seem in its application to the Universal Spirit, was, and is, claimed by too many great philosophers to be put aside as entirely chimerical. Five Years of Theosophy My object in this sermon is to show that common sense, as well as my text, declares that such an expectation is chimerical. New Tabernacle Sermons Enterprises, which appear chimerical, often prove successful from that very circumstance. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 Yet he always threw away the advantages which he gained, in following some chimerical scheme of further conquest, being unable to take proper measures for the present because of his eagerness for the future. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II Of all the chimerical ideas then afloat, this was the most chimerical. The Liberation of Italy The idea, whether cherished by Theosophists or non-Theosophists, by Christians or Spiritualists, by Materialists or Idealists, is a chimerical illusion. Five Years of Theosophy Had any one, on its first appearance, predicted, that the demand for it would call forth twenty-two thousand copies during the past year, the author would have considered the prediction extravagant and chimerical. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures What the Irish are proposing is nothing so enormous or chimerical. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement It is possible, however, with the aid of our knowledge of static electricity, to arrive at hypotheses of a more than chimerical nature. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 He knew the thing to be chimerical, and yet it set his heart a-beating more rapidly to see such a determined will to conquer. The Downfall The purpose was the same as now, but abandoned as chimerical. The Last Shot She felt intensely, as every human heart feels sometimes, that the satisfactions of duty were chimerical, and that the only authentic bliss was to be found in a wild and utter abandonment to instinct. Leonora I think it may not be improper to inquire into the genealogy of this chimerical monster, called a 'duel', which I take to be an illegitimate species of the ancient knight-errantry. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 It was, however, the chimerical "King of the Jews," not the heteradox dogmatist, who was punished, and the execution took the Roman form of crucifixion, carried out by Roman soldiers. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy And thirdly, with regard to those who treat it as chimerical, and turn it into ridicule. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant I, too, saw the plan as chimerical, yet it was a chance—the one out of a thousand. The Last Shot The Cameronians maintained a high position; but it was not chimerical or theoretical; it was practical and Scriptural; here was solid ground, a rock-foundation. Sketches of the Covenanters That monarch overrated Austria; regarded Bismarck's plans, which appear to have been explained with extraordinary frankness, as chimerical; and pronounced Bismarck "not a serious person." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 In all his visionary schemes, these breathed a spirit of lofty, though chimerical philanthropy, that won the admiration of the scholar. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists In the third place, we are to consider those persons, who treat this principle as chimerical, and turn it into ridicule. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Let his grace judge me only upon sure grounds, and not on chimerical accusations of the past, the falsity of which I prove by good deeds in the present. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century But here, they would have people attend to their chimerical distinction between the king's civil and ecclesiastical authority. Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive Utopian, impracticable, chimerical fanciful. quiz, v. puzzle, banter, chaff; question. quiz, n. puzzle, conundrum, poser; examination. quod, n. Putnam's Word Book There is an indescribable charm about the illusions with which chimerical ignorance once clothed every subject. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Perhaps they would have spoken more of this deeply-seated hope had it not been so very chimerical -- so apparently impossible of present fulfilment. In the Days of Chivalry O happiness! of all earthly chimeras thou art the most chimerical! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 All experience has shown that a king, who is a king in fact as well as name, is too strong for law, and the idea of restraining such a power by principles, is purely chimerical. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland Antonyms: invisible, imperceptible. vision, n. sight; apparition, dream, phantasm, specter, phantom, hallucination, illusion. visionary, a. dreamy, imaginative, romantic, fanciful, illusory, chimerical, Utopian. visionary, n. castle-builder, dreamer, illusionist. visitor, n. guest. Putnam's Word Book You heard De La Rivière," said he,--"but don't be alarmed, the conversations that pass at the Doctor's are never repeated; these are honourable men, though rather chimerical. Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and Catherine de Medici Yet it appeared to my conservative mind shockingly socialistic and chimerical. The "Goldfish" Shaftesbury's views were entitled to this advantage; but, observes Mandeville, 'the ideas he had formed of the goodness and excellency of our nature, were as romantic and chimerical, as they are beautiful and amiable.' Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics It would mock him as a chimerical dreamer, despite all his proofs. The Air Trust In this mad rush of ambitious selfishness, such a life aim may seem chimerical, yet it is the only aim that will reach, attain, endure. Quit Your Worrying! He contributed some suggestions which certainly were nothing better than chimerical. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I The idea was too chimerical and grotesque to take seriously. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America At bottom, this chimerical and virginal content, this innocent union of souls, this celibacy taken for marriage, was not displeasing to Ursus. The Man Who Laughs Waldron smiled grimly, as though in derision of what he seemed to think his partner's chimerical hopes, but made no answer. The Air Trust When the nature of the expedition was heard, the boldest seamen shrank from such a chimerical cruise, but at last every difficulty was vanquished, and the vessels were ready for sea. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters The Supply returned from thence the 24th, after an absence of five weeks, and brought from Lieutenant King, the commandant, information of the following chimerical scheme. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. For whatever chimerical ideas she had about isolation in Antarctica she knew that too little society, as too much of it, would be deleterious. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America But even if the Good were chimerical, we cannot deny the passion that pursues it; for it is the same passion that urges us to the pursuit of such Goods as we really can attain. The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue No doubt she herself believed that she was something more than a chimerical Empress. Books and Characters French and English A wilder or more chimerical scheme never disturbed the dreams of a schoolboy; yet no one has ever pressed a reasonable undertaking with more earnestness and confidence than Burr his visionary purpose. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 Old schemes for deportation or colonization in a separate state having proved ineffective or chimerical, it was necessary to find a new platform on which both races could stand. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia We heard this plan talked of at the bungalow, but I fear that, in the present state of Egypt, it is very chimerical. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay Not twenty-four hours had elapsed since his prisoner was placed in hold, so that such sounds of weakness and agony must have been in every sense chimerical; and yet he heard them. Bred in the Bone Nothing can be more chimerical than the fear that the accumulation of capital should produce poverty and not wealth, or that it will ever take place too fast for its own end. Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy He, however, kept writing to the dauphin, sending him plans of government prepared long before; some wise, bold, liberal, worthy of a mind that was broad and without prejudices; others chimerical and impossible of application. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 I am transfixed at the chimerical and insolent pretensions of the English and Dutch regarding the preliminaries of peace; never were seen the like. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 None took the risk of saying, even after so many mighty but vain experiments, that the enterprise was chimerical, and must be given up. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 "Pertaining to or resembling romance, or an ideal state of things; partaking of the heroic, the marvellous, the supernatural, or the imaginative; chimerical, fanciful, extravagantly enthusiastic." Primitive Love and Love-Stories This is truly a charming instance of the force of female friendship; which you and I, and our brother rakes, have constantly ridiculed as a chimerical thing in women of equal age, and perfections. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 It is said that the development of the strength of the colonies may render them more dangerous and bring them to declare their independence," wrote Franklin in 1760; "such fears are chimerical. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 There was yet little progress made upon the southern coast, and Henry's project was treated as chimerical by many of his countrymen. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces What! is Signor Florismarte there?" replied the priest; "in good faith he shall share the same fate, notwithstanding his strange birth and chimerical adventures; for his harsh and dry style will admit of no excuse. Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. Love is ideal, heroic, marvellous, imaginative, chimerical, fanciful, extravagantly enthusiastic; its hyperbolic adoration even gives it a supernatural tinge, for the adored girl seems more like an angel or a fairy than a common mortal. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Philosophers might vainly seek the truth by the light of logic, but the rest of mankind would always prefer the chimerical ideals that become transformed into powerful motives of action. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Ever occupied with the public weal, he turned his mind to every subject, issuing a multiplicity of decrees, sometimes with rather chimerical hopes. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 |
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