But there was no one to disprove his assertion, and therefore the king could no longer refuse to surrender to him his youngest daughter.

Thanks to his good invention, he can collect much out of a very little; no matter though more experienced judgments disprove him, he is anonymous, and that will secure him.

"He'll be restless," Graham said, "until the coroner comes, and proves or disproves his theory of murder.

The manner in which thou interposedst to save his life, when we were in that fearful jeopardy of the tempest, disproves thy words.

But this event, honourable as it is to the Duke M. de Montmorency, completely disproves the charge of dupery brought against us.

He replied: "In spite of all that is written, said, and done, this great, big, incontrovertible fact stands outthe Negro is progressing, and that disproves all the arguments in the world that he is incapable of progress.

Do I not disprove the theory that one drop of Negro blood renders a man unfit?"

Instead of sustaining the assumption of the British functionaries, that correspondence disproves the existence of any such agreement.

William Pinkney, the antislavery leader of Maryland, believed also that Negroes are no worse than white people under similar conditions, and that all the colored people needed to disprove their so-called inferiority was an equal chance with the more favored race.

We still indulge the hope that he may have found and followed down some branch of the Madison river and reached Virginia City, or down Snake river and reached some settlement in that valley; and but for our anxiety to reach home and prove or disprove our expectations, we might have devoted much more time to visiting the objects of interest we have seen, and which we have been obliged to pass by.

The professors still maintained the integrity of their long-established ordinances, and, to disprove the assertions of the young pretender, even sent a commission to examine the temples in question.

"Witchcraft! ohimé, one never disproves that.

" As if to disprove his assertion, all the firing stopped suddenly, and for a long time the forest was silent.

But sound opinion and instincts in that field depend upon nothing of the sort, but upon the emergence of a few quite simple facts, which are indisputable and self-evident, which stare us in the face, and which absolutely disprove all the elaborate theories of the Bellicist statesmen.

In the single county of Galway the records of the times showas may easily be verifiedan extraordinary number of deaths of this type, a fact which alone goes far to disprove those accusations of heartlessness and indifference which have in some instances been too lightly flung.

A sense of humor is not given to every man: Dr. Löbel remarks seriously that this disproves the slanderous assertion so often made that the Turks are incapable of true love!

As these regions have been known a few years only, the universality of this depravity disproves most emphatically the ridiculous notion that savages are naturally pure in their conduct and owe their degradation to intercourse with corrupt white men.

Of course, therefore, we were sincerely anxious to disprove in these experiments the presence of those discreditable elements, not only for the credit of human nature, but for the sake of the great scientific interest involved.

From each of those explanations we deduce consequences; and if those consequences agree with new facts, they confirm the explanation, whereas if they disagree they tend to disprove it.

It conclusively disproves what it was intended to prove; that Jeffrey died by his own hand.

Your own experience disproves it.

He disproves, out of their own mouths, the allegations of several writers who have made this exploded assertion about 'godless tribes.'

according as they are specified in the forsaid Catechism; and so, by an infallible consequence, they excommunicate the Queen and Parliament, who are grossly guilty of the most of them, only they have not the courage ingenuously and freely to own and express the consequence, but that it follows natively and necessarily from the premises, even according to their own principles, they will never be able to disprove.

" "The document itself disproves your assertion," cried Aveline, with exultation.

" "How perfectly the last assertion disproves the first!"