Such an assertion is merely an attempt on the part of men, who do not know the Weald, to explain the facts of which I have spoken, namely, that the Weald appears as an obstacle in our early history, though not insurmountable, and that it continually offered a secure hiding-place and refuge to the fugitive.

The assertion that it is otherwise, is mockery and insult.

And the assertion of the unity of life is at the same time an assertion of the progress of life.

It is generally found that sweeping assertions are not very safe ones.

It must be remembered that these assertions were for him not matters of belief, but of passionate knowledgehe was as sure of them as of his own existence.

But this very confident assertion is only the result of the hasty and superficial examination that the author has given to the facts.

' It is remarkable that this postscript is so expressed, as not to point out the person who said that Mrs. Thrale could not get through Mrs. Montague's book; and therefore I think it necessary to remind Mrs. Piozzi, that the assertion concerning her was Dr. Johnson's, and not mine.

The boy's assertions may be worth recording, at any rate.

It does not occur to us that the mere assertion that this raging and confounding universe is governed by justice and mercy is a piece of staggering optimism fit to set all men capering.

This assertion was an excellent cue for Dr. Johnson, who laughed enormously, calling to me to hear it.

This assertion was a fair counterpoise to that of the sail, being about as true.

But Dr. Johnson's assertion has been misunderstood.

But since it may be possibly suggested that Paxton expended these sums contrary to his master's direction, or without his knowledge, it may be demanded, whether such an assertion would not be an apparent proof of a very criminal degree of negligence in a man intrusted with the care of the publick treasure?

Under ordinary conditions it is so easy to carry a point with a little bounce; self-assertion is a mask which covers many a weakness.

And even though the assertions of Brown-Séquard were only the exaggerations of a semi-charlatan, it is certain that some day in the near future the particular substance, that he claimed he had discovered, will be handed about in bottles for the inspection of the curious.

Mr. Ranelagh's assertion that he found Miss Cumberland dead when he approached her, may not be, as so many now believe, the reckless denial of a criminal, disturbed in his act.

HOW THE HOTTENTOT WOMAN "RULES AT HOME" Jakobowski's assertion that a man's oldest sister may have him chained and punished is obviously a cock-and-bull story.

Nature's strongest force is self-assertion, and excessive self-assertion is vanity, and vanity is sinful, and

That the assertion that the M.E. Church is constitutionally pro-slavery, whether that assertion be made by our professed friends or by our enemies, is a base slander.

It is not altruism or social activity which is the opponent of self-assertion or egoism, but self-sacrifice; and both self-assertion and self-sacrifice are kinds of self-realisation: in the former the self seeks its realisation by perfecting its harmony; in the latter, by increasing its extent.

STATEMENT, ASSERTION.A statement is a formal setting forth of fact or opinion; an assertion is simply an affirmation of fact or opinion.

These louts cannot be informed or argued with; they are interested in no one but themselves, and naked self-assertion is their only idea of political argument.

his own preliminary assertions are his conclusive answer.

The assertion of self is thus the root of all evil; for as soon as the will of man "turns to itself, and would, as it were, have a Sound of its own, it breaks off from the divine harmony, and falls into the misery of its own discord."

And he contended, as Pitt had done in the Commons, that its assertion was a strong argument in favor of the appointment of a committee, that it might be at once seen whether it were warranted by any precedent whatever.