conceiv'd

They were published last summer and a copy was intended to be sent to you long ago as a mark of esteem which I know my dear Father felt for you, altho 'many causes conceiv'd to render him too inert to cultivate well the friendships which were offer'd him. —

Letter 407 2009

[W] hen we sympathize with the passions and sentiments of others, these movements appear at first in our mind as mere ideas, and are conceiv'd to belong to another person, as we conceive any other matter of fact.

Kant and Hume on Morality Denis, Lara 2008

The Truth is, I flatter'd my self that the Command was the more displeasing to her, in Consideration of those kind Thoughts she had conceiv'd towards me.

Exilius 2008

Then did all those Resentments I had conceiv'd against Exilius vanish, and his Worth appear'd more bright than ever.

Exilius 2008

Russell, and Humeans in general, take it for granted that all perceptions, being distinct “may be conceiv'd as separately existent, and may exist separately, without any contradiction or absurdity.”

Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005

He was content to be known by leisure and by degrees: and so the esteem that was conceiv'd of him, was better grounded and more lasting.

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

That Sunday morning "was fair and bright," and the diarist records how, dropping down to Gravesend, "we had a passage thither I think as pleasant as can be conceiv'd."

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

Motion; but that Part of its Essence which consisted in _Matter_ was very mean, and scarce possible to be conceiv'd; therefore the Existence of the whole World consists in its Disposition to be mov'd by this

The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail

No Man is better acquainted with _Shakespear_'s manner of Expression, and indeed he has study'd him so well, and is so much a Master of him, that whatever Part of his he performs he does it as if it had been written on purpose for him, and that the Author had exactly conceiv'd it as he plays it.

Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) Nicholas Rowe

Gentlemen here stumble at it, and have found it difficult to persuade them to advance farther: -- I have also heard Objections made to the Words _Lustre_ and _Brilliancy_ of Ideas, though they are Terms which have been used by the _Greeks_ and _Romans_, and by elegant Writers of all Ages and Nations; and the Effect which they express, is perfectly conceiv'd and felt by every Person of true Genius and Imagination.

An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris