The opinion of the coroner, that Miss Minford's testimony would be a "staggerer," had no more effect on him than it would have had on the most phlegmatic reader of the case in next morning's paper.

"But the best testimony of the truth of the reports as to the actual belief in the facts, is the undesigned coincidence of the evidence from all quarters.

The testimony of Papias remains an enigma that can only be solvedif ever it is solvedby close and detailed investigations.

I state the simple truth when I record that the testimonies, received in this way from the two extremes of highest knowledge and most diverse social and national conditions, remain the most grateful and enduring memorials of a life's work to those who must ever cherish the memory of what this memoir is precluded from touching on, namely, the more sacred domestic endearments of the life-long devotion to family ties of a son and a brother.

The testimony you give in this case will be the truth, the whole truth an' nothin' but the truth, so help you God.

Their testimony is a certain proof that the coming of the Messiah had not imposed a general silence on oracles.

But the noblest testimony he gave of his filial regard to the memory of his poetical father, Mr. John Dryden, was the Panegyric he wrote upon his works, contained in the dedication of Dryden's plays to the duke of Newcastle.

It will serve also to prove that the testimony of Friends against slavery is no novelty, but is coeval with its rise as a distinct religious body.

The question also arose, whether Peter's testimony to the transfiguration (2 Pet. i. 18), was an important support.

On whose testimony do we learn, that the last "fifty years" have been "years of prosperity" to the South?on the testimony of oppressors or on that of the oppressed?on that of her two hundred and fifty thousand slaveholdersfor this is the sum total of the tyrants, who rule the South and rule this nationor on that of her two millions and three quarters of bleeding and crushed slaves?

And they who shall accuse their wives, and have no witnesses but themselves, the testimony of each of them shall be a testimony by God four times repeated, that He is indeed of them that speak the truth.

The bare Testimony of Divine Revelation is the highest Certainty.

Such testimony cannot be doubtedit is the testimony of a man against himself.

Circumstances have no motive to deceive, while human testimony is too often the product of every kind of motive.

A stronger testimony of good-will was his election, by Johnson's influence, into the Club.

And perhaps a still more impressive testimony to the rottenness of these "business men," upon whom certain eccentric voices call so amazingly to come and govern us, is the incurable distrust they have sown in the minds of labour.

'Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow' (Boyle), iv. 281.

An abiding testimony to his tremendous personal influence in the æsthetic world is the vitality and recurrence of the Arts and Crafts Exhibitions, which are steeped in his personality like a chapel in that of a saint.

The testimony of the Senate of the United States in my favor is an high and honorable reward, which receives, as it merits, my grateful acknowledgments.

The orthodox arguments which lay stress on the assertion of witnesses as the supreme evidence of fact, in support of miraculous occurrences, are set aside on the ground that testimony is a blind guide and can avail nothing against reason and the strong grounds we have for believing in permanent order.

If he had remained, backed by the confidence of such a family as the Poynsetts, Gadley would have seen that testimony in his favour would be the safer and more profitable speculation; and Moy himself, as he had said, would have testified to the innocence of a living man on the spot, though he had let the blame rest on one whom he thought in the depths of the sea.

The best testimony to the soundness of our policy in this respect is the fact that our vows, and the rites by which they are sanctioned, are never broken, that our symbols are regarded with an awe which no threats, no penalties, can attach to the highest of civil authorities or the most solemn legal sanctions.

But even higher testimony to the liberality and progressive spirit of this prince is a school for the education of women.

"Often; and on grand juries, too." "Well, did the judge never tell you, when a witness is detected in lying on one point, that his testimony is valueless on all others?" "Very true; but this is a review, and not testimony.

I don't know how you feel about Moody, but I am in full sympathy with him, and last Friday the testimony of four of the cured "gin-pigs" (their own language) was the most instructive, interesting language I ever heard from human lips.