Philosophy volunteered its demonstrations of the absolute impossibility of such a thing.

It is also in part due to the impossibility of determining their exact date in the majority of instances.

He wrote to his nephew Lionardo on the 13th of February 1557 about the impossibility of meeting the Grand Duke's wishes and leaving Rome.

These are a few of the most trustworthy items we possess, and they are rendered very worthless by the impossibility of reducing ducats, florins, and crowns to current values.

They who have not learned from experience, the impossibility of such an union, are apt to be captivated by its alluring exterior.

It was a dissertation on immortality, attempting by scientific arguments to prove its impossibility.

Because they declared, even at Athens, the seat of learning and refinement, the self-evident truth, that "they be no gods that are made with men's hands," and exposed to the Grecians the foolishness of worldly wisdom, and the impossibility of salvation but through Christ, whom they despised on account of the ignominious death he died.

Because they declared, even at Athens, the seat of learning and refinement, the self-evident truth, that "they be no gods that are made with men's hands", and exposed to the Grecians the foolishness of worldly wisdom, and the impossibility of salvation but through Christ, whom they despised on account of the ignominious death he died.

He felt pent in the vast pulsations of life about hima feeling of impossibility, of a task greater than he could bear.

We first discard absurdity and impossibility, then exact greater and greater degrees of probability, but at last become cold and insensible to the charms of falsehood, however specious, and, from the imitations of truth, which are never perfect, transfer our affection to truth itself.

The steep walls on the north are no less than sixty feet deep and to storm them would be a sheer impossibility.

There was no use trying; the time was too short; it was a physical impossibility to formulate an intelligent proposition in such a short length of time.

Our experts say that the invasion of Canada is an impossibility unless we use Milwaukee as a baseBut step into my motor," said the Count, interrupting himself, "and come along with me.

The first two days of Mr. Kane's sojourn in camp satisfied him of the cooperation of Governor Cumming in a plan for temporizing, as well as of the impossibility of enlisting General Johnston or Judge Eckels in any such scheme.

At a certain point in rational culture, belief in the supernatural becomes for many an impossibility; do not force such persons to wear a cowl of lead.

There is nothing that Christianity hath been more upbraided for withal, both by the heathens of old and by the infidels of later times, than the impossibility of this article; so that it is a matter of great consideration and consequence to vindicate our religion in this particular.

Leaving to the Church of Rome that foolhardiness of faith, to believe things to be true which at the same time their reason plainly tells them are impossible, I shall at this time endeavor to assert and vindicate this article of the resurrection from the pretended impossibility of it.

and indeed the apostle's putting the question in this manner takes away the main ground of the objection against the resurrection from the impossibility of the thing.

The whole body was passive, motionless, relaxed in every muscle and every nerve; and therein lay the marvelto all save the thousandth human in this restless age, the impossibility.

There are periods in a man's life in which nothing seems impossible to him; in which by the mere force of will he triumphs over impossibility.

With that willingness to believe in a romantic impossibility, rather than in a commonplace improbability so natural to the human mind, she was more ready to conceive the existence of a ghost than that her own sense of hearing might have been less powerful than her fancy.

And here only it is that an element of uncertainty enters into the processan uncertainty inherent in the nature of these complex phenomena, and arising from the impossibility of being quite sure that all the circumstances of the particular case are known to us sufficiently in detail, and that our attention is not unduly diverted from any of them.

The virtual impossibility of amendment.

In a year I had made such an assault as that of the inn at Erdberg an impossibility all along the marches of our provinces.

Yea, further, there is a pleading for this case, by alleging an impossibility to get it helped as matters now stand; or, at least, they will muster up insuperable-like difficulties in their own way of doing duty, as the sluggard will say, that there is a lion in the way; and the spouse alleged she could not put on her coat again.