For these reasons, by all odds, we have a better opportunity for understanding you than you have for understanding us.

Yet there they might have had an easier task; there are good reasons for guessing there were the germs of religious feeling somewhere in that big carcase.

Agitated multitudes were at them in no time, telling them for a thousand reasons to stop, telling them to stop for no reason at allbabbling, confused, and varied multitudes.

She was affianced for reasons of state to a certain Princeand the wedding was to be made an event of international significance.

By this subtile sophistry of desire, I have been persuaded to hope that this book may, without impropriety, be inscribed to your lordship; but am not certain, that my reasons will have the same force upon other understandings.

KING GEORGE THE THIRD; Or, reasons offered against confining the procession to the usual track, and pointing out others more commodious and proper.

Of a minister chosen by a popular contest, all those who do not favour him, have nursed up in their bosoms principles of hatred and reasons of rejection.

Now, inasmuch as laws are abstractions until they are put into execution, through the medium of executive and judicial authority, it is evident that the cogency of the reasons for welding together, so to speak, civil and ecclesiastical authority is much more full with regard to these latter branches of power than with regard to legislation.

But as to the doctrine itself, it is most obvious to notice that it is not more strange, and not necessarily more literally real, than those other legal views of royal prerogative and perfection, which are the received theory of all our great juristsaccepted by them for very good reasons, but not the less astounding when presented as naked and independent truths.

It is obvious that when you have admitted to the full that a position is in itself unimportant, all kinds of reasons may come in on the further question whether it is right, fitting, natural.

There are reasons why the position which has been so largely adopted of late is the natural and suitable one.

Before I state my reasons, let me premise that I am no Ritualist, in the now conventional use of the term.

But though we may have reasons for making the best of it, we may be allowed to say that it is a singularly ill-imagined and ill-constructed court, and one in which the great features of English law and justice are not so conspicuous as they are elsewhere.

"The Church of England," Mr. Gladstone thinks, "has been peculiarly liable, on the one side and on the other, both to attack and to defection, and the probable cause is to be found in the degree in which, whether for worldly or for religious reasons, it was attempted in her case to combine divergent elements within her borders."

Yet even if the Church were likely to thrive better on no bread, there are reasons of public morality why it should not be robbed.

The whole power of a complex argument and the reasons why it tells do not always appear on its face.

The reasons of this change then it is not always easy for the persons themselves to trace, but of the result they are conscious; and in some this result is a change of belief.

"I apprehend," says Mr. Mozley, accepting Hume's view of the nature of probability, "that when we examine the different reasons which may be assigned for this connection, i.e. for the belief that the future will be like the past, they all come at last to be mere statements of the belief itself, and not reasons to account for it.

"I apprehend," says Mr. Mozley, accepting Hume's view of the nature of probability, "that when we examine the different reasons which may be assigned for this connection, i.e. for the belief that the future will be like the past, they all come at last to be mere statements of the belief itself, and not reasons to account for it.

" Not, however, that the existence of a God is so clearly seen by reason as to dispense with faith; not from any want of cogency in the reasons, but from the amazing nature of the conclusionthat it is so unparalleled, transcendent, and inconceivable a truth to believe.

The issue of the argument is so astonishing that if we do not tremble for its safety, it must be on account of a practical principle in our minds which enables us to confide and trust in reasons, when they are really strong and good ones....

We infer, we go upon reasons, we use premisses in either case.

Our faith in the existence of a God and a future state is founded upon reasons as much so as the belief in the commonest kind of facts.

The reasons are in themselves as strong, but, because the conclusions are marvellous and are not seconded and backed by known parallels or by experience, we do not so passively acquiesce in them; there is an exertion of confidence in depending upon them and assuring ourselves of their force.

Thus it appears that the writer found it his duty to investigate those awful questions which every thinking man feels to be full of the "incomprehensible" and unfathomable, but which many thinking men, for various reasons both good and bad, shrink from attempting to investigate, accepting on practical and very sufficient grounds the religious conclusions which are recommended and sanctioned by the agreement of Christendom.