31 Metaphors for declaration

The Declaration of London, recently published, is an agreement between the principal Powers to accept a series of rules concerning maritime war, to be administered by an International Prize Court.

Thus "God is love" is a sublime doctrine which philosophy revealed to the Greeks, and the emphatic and continuous and assured declaration of which was the central theme of the revelation made by Jesus, the Christ, who resolved all the Law and the Gospel into the element of Love,fatherly on the part of God, filial and fraternal on the part of men.

And, first, the declaration of the Confederate States themselves is proof enough, that, whatever may be declared on the other side, the maintenance of slavery is regarded by them as the vital object of their movement.

At present it has had Declarations in it's favor from among the most distinguish'd of it's Opposers.

Also in Cromwell's counter-declaration is a pregnant challenge.

In truth a declaration was empty air, a protest was noise, a decree was action.

It is not necessary to remind any gentleman of the importance of our trade, of the power of the enemy against whom we have declared war in defence of it, or of the necessity of showing the world that our declarations of war are not empty noises, or farces of resentment.

This clear direct declaration of intention by General Greene is the actual transaction referred to by Blount as "Jockeying the Insurgents out of their trenches."

I know that it ran along in the mouth of some Southern men for a period of years, ending at last in that shameful though rather forcible declaration of Pettit, of Indiana, upon the floor of the United States Senate, that the Declaration of Independence was in that respect "a self-evident lie" rather than a self-evident truth.

The great struggle had begun, and that declaration was a new starting-point in the political history of England.

He answered haughtily, that this declaration was only a tissue of calumnies; and Mohamed, on his side, trusting, doubtless, in a pretended inviolability, yielding, perhaps, to fallacious promises, retracted his declaration, completely disowned it, and even went so far as to deny his own hand-writing.

The declarations of such men as Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, that slavery is a question not to be discussed, are a license to mobs to burn up halls and break up abolition meetings, and destroy abolition presses, and murder abolition editors.

Fenno, in his paper, said the Declaration was "a placard of rebellion, a feeble production, in which the spirit of rebellion prevailed over the love of order."

The declaration of that war was the seizure of Savoy, by an invading army; and on what ground?

We are agreed that as some discovery of consent on both parts (the pastors and people) is necessary to the being of the members of a political particular Church: so that the most express declaration of that consent is the most plain and satisfactory dealing, and most obliging, and likest to attain the ends.

Entirely ignorant of what had taken place between the nephew and the uncle, by means of which she might have been able to analyze his conduct, she had only the closeting of Mr. Ainslie and Walter to suggest to her that the young man's sudden declaration was the result of his knowledge that she was to be sole heiress.

" "This declaration of principles was the cause of much abusive criticism, as well as failure to obtain aid and sympathy.

The declaration I made before the altar is the declaration to which I adhereI am not bound to state my reasons.

The declaration of Lord Chief Justice Holt, that "by the common law, no man can have property in another," is an acknowledged axiom, and based upon the well known common law definition of property.

It was strange, he thought, that his final declaration of war against his position should have been a little lacking in dignity.

" Both the verbal and written declarations addressed to Louis on this occasion were, as will at once be evident, a mere matter of form, and observance of the necessary etiquette.

" We must not suppose that the declaration would be a pure fib, or anything like it.

In 1172, however, an Irish chief, or subordinate king, had trouble with his kingdom,doubtless because some rival monarch stepped in it and tracked it around over the other kingdoms,and so he called upon the Anglo-Normans under Strongbow (Richard de Clare), whose deClaration of Independence was the first thing of the kind known to civilization, for help.

" If the slaveholders would but let us draw on them for the six or eight thousand dollars, which we expend monthly to sustain our presses and lecturers, they would then know, from an experience too painful to be forgotten, how truthless is your declaration, that we "have ceased to employ the instruments of reason and persuasion.

This refusal to believe without evidence, and the declaration that anything "behind phenomena" is unknowable to man as at present constitutedthese are the two chief planks of the Atheistic platform, as Atheism was held by Charles Bradlaugh and myself.

31 Metaphors for  declaration