"Line of reasoning" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... won't have to; he never need know a word about it!" Alas, that was a line of reasoning that struck ...
— A Venetian June • Anna Fuller
... all the years of his youth and early manhood, and threw him constantly into fits of melancholy and inner brooding. He could neither dismiss the subject from his mind, nor could he bring into the area of his mortal consciousness that serene contemplation and optimistic line of reasoning which marks all ...
— Cosmic Consciousness • Ali Nomad
... that base-ball is descended from rounders is a pure assumption, unsupported even by proof that the latter game antedates the former and unjustified by any line of reasoning based upon the likeness of the games. The other attempt to declare base-ball itself an out-and-out English game is ...
— Base-Ball - How to Become a Player • John M. Ward
... observe more closely how magic operates, we find that it starts out from the same principles and acts along the same line of reasoning {183} as astrology. Born during the same period in the primitive civilizations of the Orient, both were based on a number of common ideas.[59] Magic, like astrology, proceeded from the principle of universal sympathy, ...
— The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism • Franz Cumont
... entire change in my whole line of reasoning. If the rival and not the wife lay before me, then which of the two accompanied him to the scene of tragedy? He had said it was his wife; I had proven to myself that it was the rival; was he right, or was I right, or were neither ...
— That Affair Next Door • Anna Katharine Green
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