Which preposition to use with truth
I began to explain that I really had some interest in life outside of politics, but she was so convinced of the truth of her observation that it was quite useless to pursue the conversation, and I naturally didn't care.
The Brahmin did not, as I expected, join me in laughing at the scene we had just witnessed; but, after some musing, observed: "There is much truth in what each of these parties say.
There are gusty, windy, capricious days in autumn, which nobody cares to praise, when the northwest wind goes sweeping over the forest, roaring among the trees, and whirling the sere leaves along the ground, and which, to tell the truth about them, are anything but pleasant.
I can see that my sister is much puzzled as to what is the matter with the animal; yet it would be madness, even to hint the truth to her.
"After all," he added, "it is often difficult in science to distinguish Truth from the plausibility which personates her.
Much of what Fâ-hien tells his readers of Buddhist miracles and legends is indeed unreliable and grotesque; but we have from him the truth as to what he saw and heard.
Do let the astrologers tell the truth for once; since he became emperor, they have never let a year pass, never a month, without laying him out for his burial.
He stops at Zara's palace gatewhy sit ye stilloh, why?" "At Zara's gate stops Zara's mate; in him shall I discover The dark-eyed youth pledged me his truth with tears, and was my lover? I will not rise, with dreary eyes, nor lay my cushion down, To gaze on false Andalla with all the gazing town!" ZARA'S EAR-RINGS "My ear-rings!
In Germany there has been no such eagerness to learn the truth by careful, critical study of the official sources of information, and leading Germans have regretfully admitted that too many of the German people were content to accept their Government's statements as the truth, without attempting to use their own intelligence in the matter.
Is there such a thing as a place for Truth at wholesale, even in an academy or college?
But as a matter of fact the truth on this subject, as on most others, is always known in time.
Hunt's view is, in this as in other subtle respects, nearer the truth than Moore's; for with all Byron's insight into Italian vice, he hated more the master vice of Englandhypocrisy; and much of his greatest, and in a sense latest, because unfinished work, is the severest, as it might be the wholesomest, satire ever directed against a great nation since the days of Juvenal and Tacitus.
He had a way of his own of shooting facts and truths into the uncultivated understandings of these laborers,facts and truths that never otherwise could have penetrated so far; he feathered his philosophical or moral arrows with a jest, and they stuck fast.
I think it is R.H. Hutton who remarks that it is not "easy to give us a firm grasp of any great class of truths without loosening our grasp on some other class of truths perhaps nobler and more vital;" and undoubtedly Patmore and his school in emphasizing the fallacies of neo-platonic asceticism are in danger of precipitating us into fallacies every whit as uncatholic.
I'll frighten the truth out of her and then tackle Hill.
There really was no way whatever of getting him to see the truth under these circumstances.
When they do this, when they come to truth through their investigations, when doubt leads them to discovery, the truth which they get will be theirs, and their minds will work on and on unfettered.
"It is with difficulty that I force myself to speak, but I am bound to lay the ungrateful truth before your Holiness.
"Look you, Mr. Smith," said Spalding, "you are drawing a distinction not warranted by the authority of the booksas if a lawyer could not tell the truth like a gentleman.
In truth, metaphysical, moral, and religious arguments, however much they may avail with individuals who are subjectively disposed to receive them, cannot in these days influence the crowd of men who need some sort of violence offered to their intellect if they are to accept truths against which they are biassed.
What makes you so quiet?" "Well, I'm thinkin' I'd be better satisfied to stay here a little longer if" "If what?" "If there was truth between us two.
"You" "We have," Morriston said quietly, "only discovered the terrible truth within the last hour or so.
Did he strike you as a man who would stand by the truth above all things, or a man who would lie persistently in order to save his own skin?
It affirms the atonement; it recognizes Jesus as the teacher and guide to salvation; the forgiveness of sin by God, and affirms the power of truth over error, and the need of living faith at the moment to realize the possibilities of the divine life.
whose every part Is beauty to the eyes, and truth unto the heart!