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It is almost forgotten now, and we never believed it at all; but it certainly is an odd coincidence that she should have told it of a man who never came back to contradict her, and who really did die, it appears, about that time." Valentine accordingly went in the course of a few days to find old Becky Maddison. The cottage was not far from the village.
"There are those who know more about the state of the heathen than did the Apostle Paul, who wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, 'They that sin without law, perish without law, nay, there are those who are not afraid to contradict the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him to shew unto His servants, in which He solemnly affirms that 'idolators and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone. Such being the state of the unsaved of China, do not their urgent needs claim from us that with agonising eagerness we should hasten to proclaim everywhere the message through which alone deliverance can be found?"
I believe that migration, friendship, commerce, even war, between the inhabitants of different planets of our solar system was intended by Almighty God and, in good time, will come to pass. "This is not science; and yet science does not contradict it, in my opinion. Human life on Mercury, Venus or Mars may need bodies taller, shorter, heavier, lighter, more fragile or more solid than ours.
She is a very devil for pride and obstinacy she has no affection she has proved it. I have no inclination to get myself wounded by trying to control her." "Then you prefer to let her ruin herself?" "I should prefer not to give the world a chance to talk, by coming to an open rupture with her, which would certainly be the case if I tried to contradict her.
"But you must never contradict me on Tuesdays, I can't support it!" she said on one of these occasions, as he seated himself beside her, and watched her raising the grapes to her lips with her little finger cocked well in the air. "Especially when I am in the right, as you must admit " "I admit nothing; but I pray and beseech you not to begin the discussion over again.
My uncle's skill in announcing oracles which no one can contradict is well known." "Your words are very bold, Sinister." "Thus he once predicted to Probus that, after a thousand years, his family would restore the ancient glory of Rome." "After a thousand years!" "At the end of a long mummery we learned from my uncle's muttering lips that God would fight in the next battle."
This made me feel very uncomfortable, for I could not decide on the spur of the moment whether it would be more charitable to my friends to tell the truth, or to remain silent and let their affairs be garbled. "I want to put in something," she urged, noticing my hesitation. "I shall either contradict or confirm the report of the engagement in our next issue.
Her beauty was so remarkable that, for her, to appear in a room was to be its queen; but, like sovereigns, she had no friends, though she was everywhere the object of attentions to which a finer nature than hers might perhaps have succumbed. Not a man, not even an old man, had it in him to contradict the opinions of a young girl whose lightest look could rekindle love in the coldest heart.
Huxter that Bows had learned Pen's parentage, no doubt, and if he took Pen's part against the young surgeon, and Fanny's against Mr. Pendennis, it was because the old gentleman was in so savage a mood, that his humour was to contradict everybody. Warrington was curious, and not ill pleased at the musician's taunts and irascibility.
The indirect method of history is always inferior to the direct methods of the sciences of observation. If its results do not harmonise with theirs, it is history which must give way; historical science, with its imperfect means of information, cannot claim to check, contradict, or correct the results of other sciences, but must rather use their results to correct its own.
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