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"Then I may make bold to assert that for persevering sharpness she beats all that I ever met, even in Yorkshire;" and Mr. Kantwise looked at his new friend over his shoulder, and shook his head as though lost in wonder and admiration. "What do you think she's done now?" "She didn't give you much to eat, I take it." "Much to eat! I'll tell you what it is, Mr.
He can, however, assert, in either place, that a certain mass of rock was formed before a certain other mass in that same place, even though the two may seem to lie side by side; for he knows that they were so placed only by upheaval, and that once upon a time the one lay beneath the other. The geologist can go further.
The coat of arms which you have fastened to that post cannot defend us against Onontio. We tell you that we shall bind a covenant chain to our arm and to his. Thus well and manfully did Big Mouth assert the independence of his tribe, and proclaim it the arbiter of peace. While these things were passing at Onondaga, La Barre had finished his preparations, and was now in full campaign.
Drunkenness is alone responsible for from twenty to twenty-five per cent. of all our insane. "We assert, and believe it can be proved, that reclaiming the drunkard is a greater gain to the State, practical and immediate, than any other charity.
The passage contains in the main a solid truth a truth which was very little accepted in England in the year 1840 a truth of vast import and very needful to assert. And this truth is clothed in such pomp of illustration, and is hammered into the mind with such accumulated blows; it is so clear, so hard, so coruscating with images, that it is impossible to escape its effect.
It isn't all Babble Machine with me." "No," said Graham, wondering what Babble Machine might be. "And you are certain this Ostrog you are certain Ostrog organised this rebellion and arranged for the waking of the Sleeper? Just to assert himself because he was not elected to the Council? "Everyone knows that, I should think," said the old man. "Except just fools. He meant to be master somehow.
He also brought back with him, his biographers assert, an infant daughter, the offspring of an amour, as some of them with great circumstantiality inform us, with a Lisbon lady of noble birth, whose name, however, as well as that of the street she lived in, they omit to mention.
I assert therefore that I am important in a scheme, that we are all important in that scheme, that the wheel-smashed frog in the road and the fly drowning in the milk are important and correlated with me. What the scheme as a whole is I do not know; with my limited mind I cannot know. There I become a Mystic. I use the word scheme because it is the best word available, but I strain it in using it.
But we, who, having no coherent philosophy, must not let ourselves philosophise, only see that the English and Scotch Nonconformists have a great horror of establishments and endowments for religion, which, they assert, were forbidden by Christ when he said: "My kingdom is not of this world;"+ and that the Nonconformists will be delighted to aid statesmen in disestablishing any church, but will suffer none to be established or endowed if they can help it.
"You lie, monsieur," said Raoul, coolly. "You give me the lie, monsieur?" exclaimed De Wardes. "Why not, if what you assert is untrue?" "You give me the lie, and will not draw your sword?" "I have resolved, monsieur, not to kill you until Madame shall have been delivered safely into her husband's hands." "Kill me! Believe me, monsieur, your schoolmaster's rod does not kill so easily."
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