20 Verbs to Use for the Word sophistries

He was, in fact, the very perfection of a common-sense talker, a man fit to deal with men by fair, straightforward argument, to expose complicated sophistries, and to make clear the most perplexed parts of an intricate question.

It is true she despised their sophistries, ridiculed their pretensions, and detested their government; but her hostility was excited, not because they aspired like her, like the philosophers, like the popes, like the press in our times, to a participation in the government of the world, but because they disputed her claims as one of the powers of the age.

We can only gainfor I defy the sophistry of despotism to invent anything of public or private oppression which is not already inflicted upon us.

In 1690, having performed the exercises of the university with uncommon reputation, he took his degree in philosophy; and, on that occasion, discussed the important and arduous subject of the distinct natures of the soul and body, with such-accuracy, perspicuity, and subtilty, that he entirely confuted all the sophistry of Epicurus, Hobbes, and Spinosa, and equally raised the characters of his piety and erudition.

Of what use to continue the sophistries which justified her treachery to herself!

" Very quick at inventing an argument, or detecting a sophistry, he is incapable of attending you in any chain of arguing.

Nor was it by dry dialectics that he refuted these heresies, although the most logical and acute of men, but by his profound insight into the cardinal principles of Christianity, which he discoursed upon with the most extraordinary affluence of thought and language, disdaining all sophistries and speculations.

He was a man who lived in the pursuit of truth, and in the realm of great ideas; who hated sophistries and lies, and sought to base government on experience and wisdom.

" "Have I lived to hear such sophistry from a pupil of the wise Aboniel!" exclaimed the first speaker, in generous indignation.

They did not invent this sophistry,it is as old as our humanity.

I said to meself, some time I'll pay it backthat ancient sophistry o' the devil.

" It was not in me just then to criticize the evasion, or pick out the sophistry from the truth.

The Jesuits returned to promulgate their sophistries and to impose their despotic yoke; the halls of justice were presided over by the tools of arbitrary power; great offices were given to the most obsequious slaves of royalty, without regard to abilities or fitness.

He was raised up to demolish, with the very reason he professed to disdain, the sophistries and dogmas of one of the most dangerous enemies which the Church had ever known,to leave to posterity his logic and his conclusions when similar enemies of his faith should rise up in future ages.

I shall not repeat all the sophistry whereby these positions were strengthened.

I am a poor casuist, Sir; nor do I think the loyal commander of the Coquette would wish to uphold all that sophistry can invent on such a subject.

Indeed, as we were all half-infected with the same delusions, it was not easy to answer his sophistries.

To enforce this charge has wearied sophistry, and exhausted the invention of a party.

Douglass brushed aside all sophistries about Constitutional guarantees, and vested rights, and inferior races, and, having postulated the right of men to be free, maintained that negroes were men, and offered himself as a proof of his assertion,an argument that few had the temerity to deny.

Cicero at once condemns the sophistry of Epicurus.

20 Verbs to Use for the Word  sophistries