In making affirmations and promises you surpass all mankind in audacity, but in the contests themselves beyond uttering some words of abuse and defamation you are most weak and cowardly.

His affirmations have the sanctity of an oath.

As truth bound upon the conscience by an oath can be but truth, so in the common affirmations of the shop and the market-place a latitude is expected, and conceded upon questions wanting this solemn covenant.

The affirmations or negations we make concerning the ideas we have, may, as I have before intimated in general, be reduced to these four sorts, viz.

So that all such affirmations and negations are made without any possibility of doubt, uncertainty, or hesitation, and must necessarily be assented to as soon as understood; that is, as soon as we have in our minds [determined ideas,] which the terms in the proposition stand for.

" The grocer stopped his running accompaniment of affirmations and looked steadfastly at Peter.

Indeed, that moment, Beth Truba seemed to hear the whispered affirmations of tragedy from evolved women everywhere....

In new temples, strangely enough, they see only atheism, instead of the vitality of spiritual evolution; in new affirmations they scent only dangerous denials.

He felt complete gratification in all these affirmations made in a caressing and submissive voice, all possible pride in such spontaneous, affectionate address, equivalent to the first surrender.

Ulysses felt tempted to laugh, as he had always done, at Toni's political affirmations.

In substance, therefore, they embodied the same medley of affirmations and denials, of charges and countercharges, of evasions and subterfuges which party discussion had worn threadbare.

G. W. I Am adorations and affirmations.

and the queen-mother produced nothing but a confused mass of orders and counter-orders, affirmations and denials, words and actions incoherent and contradictory, all caused by a habit of lying and the desire of escaping from the peril or embarrassment of the moment.

For example, the belief in matter in the opinion of these thinkers is, or at least may be, thus produced: '"The proof that any of the alleged Universal Beliefs, or Principles of Common Sense, are affirmations of Consciousnesssupposes two things: that the beliefs exist, and that they cannot possibly have been acquired.

Bob is the most formidable disputant of the whole company; for, without troubling himself to search for reasons, he tires his antagonist with repeated affirmations.

"'Do you think it is only beautiful at night?' one of the other girls asked indignantly, and all joined in enthusiastic affirmations of its attractions even at high noon,which all goes to show how relative the matter is.

There are, then, nine affirmations, which are explained by a mere view of the cube and its faces.

The Socratic and dogmatic dialoguesthe Phaedo, the Gorgias, the Symposium, Protagoras, Ion, Phaedrusabound in allegories, aphorisms, and in aspirations toward an ideal, more or less clearly defined, which end, however, not by any means in a discussion of art, but in such affirmations as that which closes the first Hippias:"Beautiful things are difficult.

But it is the play of wit and the joy of song that he loves; and if you mistake him for a low rioter, he turns short on you with verses which express the poverty of sensual joys, and to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world.

The effect of the "affirmations" of the healers.

In this connection you must remember that the combined thought of the thousands of persons composing this cult or organization undoubtedly gives additional psychic force to the mental affirmations and denials of the individual member thereof.

The many cults of metaphysical healing, in America and Europe, lay great stress upon what they call "affirmations," which are but statements of the patient of his or her faith in the healing power of God, or of Mind, or Spirit, or Principle (different names are used).

There is of course this also: certain forms of affirmations or mental statements are better suited than others to the particular wants of certain persons.

You may aid yourself and others by affirmations or auto-suggestions (words creating desired ideas and mental pictures) if you wishyou may get better results in this way.

Pour in the suggestions, or affirmations, or whatever you may wish to call them.