Citations:speculation


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Knowledge that resteth in the bare speculation of things; and knowledge that is accompanied with the grace of faith and love; which puts a man upon doing even the will of God from the heart: the first of these will serve the talker; but without the other the true Christian is not content.


 * 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
 * "Yet it is hard," she sometimes thought, "that this poor man cannot come to a house which he has legally hired, without raising all this speculation! I will leave him to himself."