Though this view, through the ignorance of European statesmen and diplomatists, may have found acceptance even by some of the great powers, it is nevertheless entirely untrue; unless by "spiritual authority" we are to understand the empty appearance of worldly authority.

German writers state that no letters were forwarded to foreign countries after martial law was proclaimed on July 31st (a statement which is untrue), thus it fell into their hands.

I told him it was untrue.

The resistance opposed by friction to the oscillation of the cylinder is so small, that a man is capable of moving a large cylinder with one hand; whereas in the side lever engine, if the parallel motion be in the least untrue, which is, at some time or other, an almost inevitable condition, the piston is pushed with great force against the side of the cylinder, whereby a large amount of wear and friction is occasioned.

Angry, first of all, with herself and him, to think that she could have set her affections on one who was untrue; unhappy, to feel she still cared for him so much; anxious to gather from the cold-blooded courtesies of the odious Mr. Ryfe that a life so dear to her was in danger, that perhaps she might never see Dick Stanmore again.

The truer the pleasures of a being the happier it is; and a pleasure is untrue whenever more (of pain) is given for it than it is worth.

Women are taxed, it is true; so are minors, without the ballot; it is untrue, to say that either class is not represented.

" "But you said" "Oh, what I said was, of course, untrue.

He is obedient, obliging, and yielding; but the man who accuses him wrongfully, or asserts to be true what he believes to be untrue, need not expect, that, from mere complaisance, or from other considerations, he will submit to injustice or to falsehood; he will always modestly, but firmly, insist upon his right; or perhaps, if the other seems inclined obstinately to maintain his ground against him, he will silently leave him.

Letters following the foregoing assured us that grandma had become fully satisfied that the stories told her by Mrs. Stein were untrue.

A story has got about, as untrue as it is disagreeable, that Dora lost her health from her father's opposition to her marriage, and that Wordsworth's excessive grief after her death was owing to remorse.

*** With regard to the man who was seen struggling in the river last week, the report that his house was immediately taken by a passer-by is untrue.

" "And in what manner did so early and long-continued an engagement cease?" "It came from Rupert, who should have died first, before he was so untrue to himself, to my poor father, to me, to all of us, Miles, as well as to his own manhood.

York's decision to conclude the convention of Tauroggen was indisputably a violation of right, but it was a moral act, for the Franco-Prussian alliance was made under compulsion, and was antagonistic to all the vital interests of the Prussian State; it was essentially untrue and immoral.

The dominion of German thought can only be extended under the aegis of political power, and unless we act in conformity to this idea, we shall be untrue to our great duties towards the human race.

An isolated man is immensurable; he is also unpicturesque, unnatural, untrue.

We could not be so unjust to youso untrue to ourselves.

The comparison of equality between them, is therefore certainly improper: because nothing cannot be equal to something; and, reputation being something, and of course equal to itself, the proposition is evidently untrue.

This latter assertion Russell conceives to be untrue: the former he adopts; and, calling than whom "an exception to the general rule," says of it, (with no great consistency,) "Here the conjunction than has certainly the force of a preposition, and supplies its place by governing the relative.

I should not say a legend, for that implies that the story is untrue, and it is not untrueso beautiful a thought could not be untrue.

I should not say a legend, for that implies that the story is untrue, and it is not untrueso beautiful a thought could not be untrue.

He said to me once, laughing, that the lines: "There's not a joy the world can give Like those it takes away," were, in his experience, quite untrue, and he added that his own old age had been like a pleasant holiday to him.

The reason why such realism is bad art is not because the details are untrue, but because the proportion is wrong.

To say that I was content would be to say what is untrue, but I felt that my condition had much of solace.

She did not like to be untrue to her gallant nephew.