fallacious
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Fallacious hope which daily truths deride— For you, alas! have wept and Garrick died.
From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
Fallacious sign of hope! for, close behind, Dark shades of coming woe were seen combined.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
Fallacious hypotheses A scientific mental method is more sanitary than the use of drugs, and such a mental method produces perma- 79:9 nent health.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
Fallacious enough doctrine when wielded against one's prejudices, but in corroboration of cherished suspicions not without likelihood.
From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman
Fallacious proofs of this proposition have been published by many writers, including myself, but up to the present no valid proof has been discovered.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand
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