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Such facts as the power of saints over the animal world and the power of reading thoughts, e.g., are proved beyond cavil." Here, then, we have a consistent tradition held by many schools, and I think that it is by investigation along the lines suggested by Dom John Chapman that there is the greatest chance of arriving at some proof of immortality that will satisfy the scientific mind.
He had been on a search for me up and down the town. We met on the stoop." The captain accepted this explanation without cavil. I was glad he did. But to me the affair showed inconsistencies which I secretly felt it to be my especial duty to unravel. No further opportunity was afforded me that night for studying the three leading characters in the remarkable drama I saw unfolding before me.
The provision, then, which we have here made is no other than Human Nature. Nor do I fear that my sensible reader, though most luxurious in his taste, will start, cavil, or be offended, because I have named but one article.
I should re'ly like to know what business you have to think you know better than other folks about it;" and, though he would cavil most courageously at all George's explanations, yet you might perceive, through all, that he was inly uplifted to hear how his boy could talk.
Either the wine was budding in my head, or there was little to choose from amongst them, for had any of those ladies sat down in the vacant place beside me, I should certainly have accepted her as a gift from heaven, without question or cavil.
I wish not to cavil; I know I cannot instruct you; I only wish to remind you of that humility which best becometh the Christian character.
As little, nevertheless, would it become my years and station not to admit without cavil certain errors which may justly be pointed out in these concluding "Tales of my Landlord," the last, and, it is manifest, never carefully revised or corrected handiwork, of Mr.
Generous and benevolent she was, timid and sensitive to a degree, gentle, and considerate to all. Do not cavil at her being thus praised admire and love her whilst you may, she is worthy of it now, in her innocent girlhood; the time will come when such praise would be misplaced.
The unsatisfied appetite for preaching which a hundred years ago would have been quieted by writing an evangelical tract, to-day issues in a novel or a play. The moral differs, the form changes, the intention and temper are the same. It is ungrateful to cavil at this moralizing and didactic temper, which animates a large part of the nation and is responsible for much of the British achievement.
'Yes! says Christ, 'not because man was so great, not because man was so valuable in comparison with the rest of creation he was but one amongst ninety-nine unfallen and unsinful but because he was so wretched, because he was so small, because he had gone so far away from God; therefore, the seeking love came after him, and would draw him to itself. That, I think, is answer enough to the cavil.
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