He was influenced largely by Attia's explicit affirmation that the youth had been engendered by Apollo.

He is pure affirmation; all without him is composed, as it were, of being and nothing, and can neither be nor be known independently: negatio non nihil est, alias nec esset nec intelligeretur, sed limitatio est affirmationis.

"On their part, they would sit in deep attention, shielding their faces from the fire, and responding to enunciations directly contrary to their convictions with an occasional 'yes-seh,' or 'ceddenly,' or 'of coze,' or,prettier affirmation still,a solemn drooping of the eyelids".

This is the cool affirmation of inferiority, as in the case of the sabre and the tradesman.

I, the undersigned, Charles Bradlaugh, beg respectfully to claim to be allowed to affirm, as a person for the time being by law permitted to make a solemn affirmation or declaration, instead of taking an oath.

Now, if we disbelieve this direct and impressive affirmation made by Moses,that Jehovah directed him what to say to the people he was called to govern,why should we believe his other statements, which involve supernatural agency or influence pertaining to the early history of the race?

The twelve edges of the cube give a double affirmation; the angles, a triple affirmation.

It was simply the earnest affirmation and belief that money could not buy the higher joys of earth, and might jeopardize the hopes of heaven.

Man is able to free himself from egoistic self-affirmation only when he perceives the two truths, that all striving is vain and the longed-for pleasure unattainable, and that all individuals are at bottom one, viz.

"'Do you think it is only beautiful at night?' one of the other girls asked indignantly, and all joined in enthusiastic affirmations of its attractions even at high noon,which all goes to show how relative the matter is.

Judgment or assent is a matter of the will; so that when it makes erroneous affirmations or negations, when it prefers the false judgment to the true, it alone is guilty.

You will furthermore perceive that the exaggerated affirmations people are always indulging in have led to the weakening of many a word.

" He smiled gently at this tranquil and extraordinary affirmation.

But the motive of these complaisant assents and false affirmations, taken at their very best, is still comparatively a poor motive.

My only wish is to verify this gallant affirmation in the case of my companion.

"Sa grande affirmation de femme, 'il est ressuscité,' a été la base de la foi de l'humanité": Paul ne parle pas de la vision de Marie et reporte tout l'honneur de la première apparition sur Pierre.

Amplification, then, is a kind of graver affirmation, which by exciting feelings in the mind conciliates belief to one's assertion.

Then, after lighting the cigar which Fullaway had offered him, he shook his headin grim affirmation.

This negative is now to give birth to a positive,this mass of contradictions to assert its hidden truth in a perfect harmonious affirmation of the realities of Nature.

" This haughty affirmation of absolute power, a faithful echo of Cardinal Richelieu's grand doctrines, succeeded for a while in silencing the representations of the Parliaments; but it could not modify the course of opinion, passionately excited in favor of M. de la Chalotais.

The disciples, he says, had no choice between hopelessness and "an heroic affirmation"; and he makes the bold surmise that "un homme pénétrant aurait pu annoncer dès le samedi que Jésus revivrait."

Such people are so clearly out of court as not to be worth controverting, except for the opportunity they give one of confidently making the joyous affirmation that, far from romance being dead in our day, there never was a more romantic age than ours, and that never since the world began has it offered so many opportunities, so many facilities for romance as at the present time.

In this connection you must remember that the combined thought of the thousands of persons composing this cult or organization undoubtedly gives additional psychic force to the mental affirmations and denials of the individual member thereof.

Conversation moved sluggishly for a time, halting upon trite topics or swinging easily from polite inquiry to mild affirmation, and back again.

This is not mere "goodie, goodie," but an important lesson in Mental Science, for our subjective mind takes its colour from our settled mental habits, and an occasional affirmation or denial will not be sufficient to change it; and we must therefore cultivate that tone which we wish to see reproduced in our conditions whether of body, mind, or circumstance.