Meaning of convinceable | Babel Free

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“It may be thought that able ought to be changed into ible, especially after g and c soft: as convincible, tangible, &c.; but it seems better to preserve uniformity by writing convinceable, tangeable, or touchable.”

“But in truth, reason, in little-thinking and much-acting men, who pass pretty frequently from a youth of utter instability to a maturity of set stiffness, is by no means the ever-living, and therefore ever-open and convinceable thing we seem to think.”

“The convinceable young man stands in the same relationship to the vicar as the convinceable reader of the Emile to Rousseau.”

“I would suspect that those who are not at all convinced by it have distinct prejudices of their own and are not too convinceable!”

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