239 adjectives to describe testimony

" "That is not in accordance with your direct testimony.

Aeschylus, Plutarch, Apuleius, and other Greek authors, bear ample testimony of this persuasion, and tell us that by uncommon and irregular motions of the body intoxicating vapours, or certain holy ejaculations, men might be thrown into an enchanted trance; in which, being in a state between sleeping and waking, they were unsusceptible of external impressions and obtaining a glimpse of futurity, were gifted with the power of prophecy.

But if Lancashire has been doing its dutyif it is doing its dutythat is no reason why Lancashire should relax its efforts; and of that I trust the result of this day's proceedings will afford a sufficient testimony.

From these premises he argued, as if they had been established by the unanimous and uncontradicted testimony of the witnesses; and he drew the conclusion, that not only had England done nothing in consequence, but that she never would do anything which should affect the existence of this trade.

The following testimonies of various authors will serve to show the estimation in which this work has been held: "The ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, wherein the author hath piled up variety of much excellent learning.

The mission was performed in much weakness of body, and under frequent spiritual poverty; yet it will be readily acknowledged that theirs was a favored lot, to be able, with the clue of gospel love in their hand, to trace the pathway of Christian truth, and the footsteps of true spiritual worship, and of a faithful testimony for Christ, through the midst of a degenerate and benighted land.

If, then, there be a distinction between the souls of human beings resulting from sex, I claim that, by the report of the minority and the universal testimony of all men, woman is better fitted for the exercise of the suffrage than man.

So many voices of so various countries cannot be simply set aside: unless we wrap ourselves in an insolent insularism, we are bound at least to ask what is the meaning of their concurrent testimony.

This following list of honours is, perhaps, the most eloquent testimony to the airmen's work in Palestine: Victoria Cross . . . . .

This, the reader will recollect, is the voluntary testimony of Thomas Clay, Esq., the Georgia planter, whose testimony is given above.

It was indeed a striking testimony to the power of the modern defensivethis absolute security in which Paris and its neighbourhood has lived and moved all that time, withup to a few weeks agothe German batteries no farther off than the suburbs of Soissons.

We have here a contemporary testimony to the integrity of Dr. Johnson, throughout the whole of that vile transaction.

Both have offered valuable first-hand testimony as to the behaviour of the German nation at war.

The jackal said, "Remember your false testimony.

"' We returned to the inn, where we had been entertained at dinner, and drank tea in company with some of the Professors, of whose civilities I beg leave to add my humble and very grateful acknowledgement to the honourable testimony of Dr. Johnson, in his Journey[200].

But as a matter of fact no English translation of any part of it was made before John Bidle's propagandist activity in the middle of the century, and we have the explicit testimony of Bidle himself and most of the earlier Unitarians that they were not led into their heresy by foreign books.

"That is much more than I shall venture to claim for them; but, according to my imperfect recollection, and, what I esteem of far more importance, according to the united testimony of Mr. John Effingham and my father, I think they must be very beautiful.

The evidence to rebut the receipt must, however, be clear and indubitable, as, after all, written evidence is of a stronger nature than oral testimony. 2731.

These gentlemen expressed their full concurrence in the statements of Mr. C., and gave additional testimony equally valuable.

Here, then, in 1505, is in this island of St. John an independent testimony to the landfall of 1497not off Cape North, which does not yet appear, nor inside the gulf, for it is not even indicatedbut in the Atlantic Ocean, at the cape of Cape

It does not require the conclusive testimony of the esteem of Savage Landor to compel our respect for the author of the Life of Nelson, and the open-handed friend of Coleridge; nor is it any disparagement that, with the last-named and with Wordsworth, he in middle life changed his political and other opinions.

The only great flaw in Adams as Vice-President was his strange jealousy of Washington,a jealousy hardly to be credited were it not for the uniform testimony of historians.

Many of these holy souls were ordered by our Lord to return to the earth, re-enter their own bodies, and thus render a solemn and impressive testimony to the truth.

Indeed, we have the express testimony of Polybius that the statements which we read in Livy of Marcellus, Nero, and others gaining victories over Hannibal in Italy must be all fabrications of Roman vanity.

In September (1817) Byron entered into negotiations, afterwards completed, for renting a country house among the Euganean hills near Este, from Mr. Hoppner, the English Consul at Venice, who bears frequent testimony to his kindness and courtesy.

239 adjectives to describe  testimony