Sentence examples for accepted the authenticity of from inspiring English sources

To cite a concrete example, Patrizi accepted the authenticity of the body of works attributed to the pseudo-Egyptian sage Hermes or Mercurius Trismegistus, as had Marsilio Ficino before him and many of his own contemporaries, such as Giordano Bruno (Yates 1964).

In using a reputable encyclopaedia, the reader is inclined to accept the authenticity of any article he or she happens to read.

The willing suspension of disbelief may be part of the audience's contract with the play, but when we are asked to believe that not one of the three had a clue what was going on, it becomes harder and harder to accept the authenticity of the main characters.

He relied on financial and legal professionals in accepting the authenticity of the company's financials.

Most Muslim commentators accept the authenticity of those traditions.

Some scholars have doubted the authenticity of these verses.

The GTF accepted in a statement that the authenticity of the photos could not be vouched for, but said they showed "blatant disregard to humanity".

To accept him as an authority would be like accepting me as an authority for the authenticity of Ellen G. White's visions, on the basis of allusions drawn from Seventh-day Adventist literature.

"If Christie's had the slightest doubt about the authenticity, they would not have accepted the bottle of 1787 Lafitte," he wrote.

But I'm reminded of a spate of rampant challenges, in the nineteen-eighties, to the authenticity of many paintings accepted as Rembrandts, sometimes with reference to their relative quality, and of one authority's defensive observation: "Even Rembrandt had Monday mornings".

There have been disputes about the authenticity of this document.