" Arthur did not contradict this statement, although he was positive he could not hit a barn at twenty yards.

She had met this celebrity at a ball and that one at a reception, and she described them minutely, realizing that Aunt Jane would never be in a position to contradict any assertion she might choose to make.

'Speak your opinions of to-day,' says Carlyle, 'in words hard as rocks, and your opinions of to-morrow in words just as hard, even though your opinions of to-morrow may contradict your opinions of to-day.'

Since a man can never have so certain a knowledge, that a proposition which contradicts the clear principles and evidence of his own knowledge was divinely revealed, or that he understands the words rightly wherein it is delivered, as he has that the contrary is true, and so is bound to consider and judge of it as a matter of reason, and not swallow it, without examination, as a matter of faith. 9.

"I will not repeat what has been already said," and at once he began at interminable length to contradict his words.

To the scientific man, on the other hand, as often as anything is discovered unpleasing to them, they will say, imperiously and e cathedraYour new theory contradicts the established facts of science.

For it could not have been a Christian of Palestine, from the overflowing Alexandrine Platonism;nor a Christian at all; for it contradicts the doctrine of the resurrection of the body, and in no wise connects any redemptory or sacrificial virtue with the death of his 'just man';denies original sin in the Christian sense, and explains the vice and virtue of mankind by the actions of the souls of men in a state of pre-existence.

The proof of this comes to this one point, that we may have sufficient evidence of the being of a thing whose nature we cannot conceive and comprehend: he who will not own this, contradicts the sense and experience of mankind; and he who confesses this, and yet rejects the belief of that which he has good evidence for, merely because he cannot conceive it, is a very absurd and senseless infidel.

" The committee then recommended the abolition of the mischievous credit system, called upon the Negroes to contradict false reports as to crimes of the whites against them and, after considering the Negroes' right to emigrate, urged that they proceed about it with reason.

I looked about for him, to see if he had contradicted his own theory.

He that contradicts acknowledged truth will always have an audience; he that vilifies established authority will always find abettors.

A telling circumstance against you, Ranelagh, not only contradicting your own story but showing that her after condition sprang from some sudden and extreme apprehension in connection with her sister.

We use the two propositions as the premisses of a syllogism giving a conclusion which is manifestly false, as contradicting either the nature of things, or other statements of our opponent himself; that is to say, the conclusion is false either ad rem or ad hominem.

The character and whole career of the man contradict the idea.

It obviously contradicts the law of the gradual elimination of use less activities.

The facts entirely contradict the view.

To which he replied, "I did not know I contradicted anybody in calling your mother ill-bred."

But among their accented syllables, they all include words of one syllable, though most of them thereby pointedly contradict their own definitions of accent.

This much can be said: there was nothing in her that positively contradicted any assumption of beauty on her part, or credit of it on the part of others.

The more a principle of faith contradicts the reason, the greater the obedience and the honor to God in accepting it.

She contradicted many details of Hill's evidence as to what took place when the prisoner returned from breaking into Riversbrook.

"For once I must be guilty of contradicting a lady," he said.

But a close watch on their meeting, a little later in the evening, seemed to contradict this engaging hypothesis.

This contradicts observations made on the heights of the same men at different periods, whose stature after middle age is invariably reduced by the shrinking of the cartilages.

His Lordship's manner was not impressive, and I learnt afterwards that Johnson did not find out that the person who talked to him was a Prelate; if he had, I doubt not that he would have treated him with more respect; for once talking of George Psalmanazar, whom he reverenced for his piety, he said, 'I should as soon think of contradicting a BISHOP.'