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"Now you mention it yourself," added Mr. Marchdale, "I must confess it smells to me as if it had really come from the very grave." "It does it does. Say nothing of this relic of last night's work to any one." "Be assured I shall not. I am far from wishing to keep up in any one's mind proofs of that which I would fain, very fain refute." Mr.
But when observations are made upon the winds within the district of such extensive storms as sometimes visit the United States, the directions of the wind are found to be so various, that the advocates of either theory, making due allowance for local disturbances, can triumphantly refute their adversaries.
For unintentional as undoubtedly had been the act through which at the very point of death his existence had been preserved, there was no evidence to refute the hypothesis that the shot which had killed his assailant in the plaza had been fired by one of the insurgents under cover. "Great Scott!" was the exclamation to which he gave utterance.
The very rich, who are apt to be irreligious. 4. The very poor, who are apt to be immoral. The cut nails of machine-divinity may be driven in, but they won't clinch. The arguments which the greatest of our schoolmen could not refute were two: the blood in men's veins, and the milk in women's breasts. Humility is the first of the virtues for other people.
Some of the leaders familiarized themselves with the speculations of the day, not merely for the sake of a wider range of knowledge, but that they might the more successfully refute the assailants of the faith, many of whom were men of great power. They were fully aware that it behooved them to know their ground, for their opponents studied the points of comparison carefully.
In fact, the advocates of this bill refute their own argument. They tell us that the ordinance is unconstitutional; that it infracts the Constitution of South Carolina, although, to me, the objection appears absurd, as it was adopted by the very authority which adopted the Constitution itself.
To this plea the king himself for once condescended, and found those who were most strenuous to dissuade him the least able to refute it; since the more a man abhorred the Jesuits, the more ready he was to allow that the king's life could not be safe from their practices while the edict against them remained in force.
"If you've as much as five hundred dollars at your disposal pin-money savings, perhaps anything you can check on without the knowledge of others, you can do it," Hastings urged, ending a long argument. "I! Take it to her myself?" Lucille still protested, although she could not refute his reasonings. "It's the only way that would be effective and it wouldn't be so difficult.
It is not corroborated by the fact that I do not wish to see anything that would refute it. This last fact may be in the highest degree an act of arbitrariness. To make the impossibility of thinking the opposite, the test of truth, and then to shut one's eyes to those evidences which might compel one to think the opposite, is the essence of irrationality.
Thus Bernard was raised up to refute the rationalism and nominalism of Abélard, whose brilliant and subtile inquiries had a tendency to extinguish faith in the world, and bring all mysteries to the test of reason.
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