239 examples of refutations in sentences

In refutation of the idea that proximity to the Courts was the direct reason of their having so many legal gentlemen among their customers the manager declared that they received orders from all parts of the worldIndia, Canada, Australia, and South Africa, to say nothing of American gentlemen who liked their hosiery to have the London hall-mark.

Inventio, so often lazily mistranslated as "invention," is the art of exploring the material to discover all the arguments which may be brought to bear in support of a proposition and in refutation of the opposing arguments.

Consequently most writers of the classical period subdivide the proof proper into probatio, or affirmative proof, and refutatio, or refutation.

Under thought is included every effect which has to be produced by speech, the subdivisions beingproof and refutation; the excitation of the feelings, such as pity, fear, anger and the like; the suggestion of importance or its opposite.

Is not a fact the complete and unanswerable refutation of its impossibility?" "A good many facts to which I could testify," he replied, "are in this world confessed impossibilities, and if my neighbours witnessed them they would pronounce them to be either impostures or illusions.

Those who relied on the refutation of this theory forgot that with poor and suffering men who look to no future, and acknowledge no law but such as is created by their own capricious will and pleasure, envy is even a more powerful passion than greed.

Refutation of the charge of human sacrifices against the Moorish Princes.

Refutation of the charge of human sacrifices against the Moorish Princes.

Mild refutations of this modest doctrine having been attempted without success, posters in the necessary red-letter type were issued at Concord, Bunker Hill, Yorktown, etc., which might be translated somewhat thus:"America has its own independent root in the world's centre, its own independent destiny in the Providential thought."

Indeed, the being in company with him, for a single day, is sufficient to shew that what I have asserted is well founded; and it was only necessary to have appealed to all who know him intimately, for a complete refutation of the heterodox opinion entertained by Dr. Johnson on this subject.

For a refutation of the fallacy imputed to Addison, we are referred to a note in the Biographia Britannica, written by the late judge Blackstone, who, it is said, examined the whole matter with accuracy, and found, that the first regular statement of the accusation against Addison, was published by Ruffhead, in his life of Pope, from the materials which he received from Dr. Warburton.

Darwin's arguments we might resist or adjourn; but some of the refutations of it give us more concern than the book itself did.

So, owning no call to a larger faith than is expected of us, but not prepared to pronounce the whole hypothesis untenable, under such construction as we should put upon it, we naturally sought to attain a settled conviction through a perusal of several proffered refutations of the theory.

But I am saying all this with reference to the future, because it is the part of a friend to point out evils which may be avoided and if they never ensue, that will be the best refutation of my speech.

And also, in the deliberations and panegyrics the same refutations often have place.

The best refutation of the proslavery argument is the "presentation of an industrious, enterprising, thrifty, and intelligent free black population."

enge refutation.

Whence such a documentwhence, in the editorial captions to this document, the exultation over its triumphant refutations of the slanders of the abolitionists against the Southbut, that Governor Butler feelsbut, that the writes of those captions feelthat the abolitionists have put the South upon her good behavior.

They tell us that their generous and kind attentions to their guests, and their well-known sympathy for the suffering, sufficiently prove the charges of cruelty brought against them to be calumnies, of which their uniform character is a triumphant refutation.

Such conclusions from such premises do not call for serious refutation.

Whence such a documentwhence, in the editorial captions to this document, the exultation over its triumphant refutations of the slanders of the abolitionists against the Southbut, that Governor Butler feelsbut, that the writes of those captions feelthat the abolitionists have put the South upon her good behavior.

Copy of a Letter written by a Spanish Gentleman to his Friend in England in refutation of sundry Calumnies there falsely bruited among the People, 1589An Advertisement written to a Secretarie of my Lord Treasurer of Ingland by an Inglish Intelligencer as he passed through Germanie towards Italie; also a Letter written by the Lord Treasurer, 1592. ***

To this accusation the Spanish Princess disdainfully replied that "she should have gained so little by the exchange, that the absurdity of the charge must suffice for its refutation;" but her haughty and indignant retort produced no effect upon her judges.

Absolutist refutations of Pluralism, 54.

The attempt of these German theologians to frame a philosophical refutation of the Sermon on the Mount gives us something of a shock; but, practically, this has been the attitude of the church in all the generations.

239 examples of  refutations  in sentences