Significats de popular delusion en anglès

A popular delusion is often the basis of a great abuse.

Such are the effects of the exaggerations of popular delusion.

Never was popular delusion so suddenly and so completely dispelled.

This is something like a good solid practical popular delusion.

It is a popular delusion that Speyside men are immortal; this is true only of distillers.

It is, we know, a popular delusion that Ulster is a braggart whose words are empty bluff.

The popular notion that the pound sterling constitutes a fixed standard of value is merely a popular delusion.

When suspicions have been kindled into popular delusion, truth, reason, and justice, speak to the ears of adders.

Such was the state of things when the first victim of this extraordinary popular delusion were brought to trial.

A popular delusion, my friend.

Lilly's opinions, and his pretended science, were such favourites with the age, that the learned Gataker wrote professedly against this popular delusion.

But even if I shared the popular delusion, I do not see that I could have made any essential difference in the play.

At one time it was a popular delusion that the mole was devoid of the power of sight, but this is not the case.

It is a popular delusion that fakirs will not accept alms from anyone for any purpose, for I have considerable personal experience to the contrary.

When this country has been endangered either by arbitrary power or popular delusion, truth has still possessed one irresistible organ, and justice one inviolable tribunal.

The idea, then, that because one lives perpetually among books, he absorbs all the learning that they contain, must be abandoned as a popular delusion.