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Nevertheless, let us not decry science. Out of much searching after truth comes the finding of truth after long groping in darkness one comes upon a ray of light. An experiment was necessary. To the ingenious mind of Fournier an elaborate one occurred.
Their very religion, in spite of its imperfections, helped forward their education, not in spite of, but by means of that anthropomorphism which we sometimes too hastily decry. As Mr. Gladstone says: "As regarded all other functions of our nature, outside the domain of the life to Godward all those functions which are summed up in what St.
He had very often been moved to pity. to that inward weeping of the heart for others' woes; but none had he ever pitied more than that old lord, whose almost fabulous wealth, drawn from his church preferments, had become the subject of so much opprobrium, of such public scorn; that wretched clerical octogenarian Croesus, whom men would not allow to die in peace, whom all the world united to decry and to abhor.
Alban would not wrangle with him, and for a little while he ate in silence, watching the sparkling throng and listening to such scraps of conversation as floated to him from merry tables. Down in Union Street it had been the fashion to decry idleness and the crimes of the rich the orators having it that leisure was criminal and ease a heinous sin. Alban had never believed in any such fallacy.
"There are some hundreds of little things like this that we might as well bear in mind, we white men, the next time we start out to decry the Negro!" Washington, July 30.
Yet in the matter of the indiscriminate and ignorant employment of alcohol, in defiance of overwhelmingly proved facts which will not be challenged by any of those whom this criticism hits and who will virulently resent it and decry its author, doctors of the present day are assuredly earning the astonished contempt of their successors in times by no means remote.
In spite of her distaste for the painting, however, she would not hear me decry van der Werf in favor of an obscure engineer, lately discovered as the true hero of the siege. Van der Werf should not be snatched from her by a man she chose to detest, so she argued and abused my treachery during the whole time spent among the relics of the siege.
Rees 1 Ch. 345, 402.: "It may be that there are some who would decry the importance which the courts attach to the observance of the rules of natural justice. 'When something is obvious, they may say, 'why force everybody to go through the tiresome waste of time involved in framing charges and giving an opportunity to be heard?
She had no hallucinations on that score and knew that she was a long way yet from the fulfillment of her ambition. When she had reached a point where to decry her success was to proclaim her disparager envious or absurd, she would be satisfied; until then, she considered herself no more successful than the failures about her who yet found room to laugh at her.
They often alternate the psalm singing with the military drill, but I'm not one to decry their observances. Religious fervor is a great thing in battle. It made the Ironsides of Cromwell invincible." Five hundred voices, nearly all untrained, were chanting a hymn.
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