To those high personages who have advocated my cause with other nations, the present volume will give satisfaction, as affording additional proof that their advocacy rested upon no visionary basis.
It is beautiful to see distinguished talents, high gifts, and persuasive elements directed to the advocacy of neglected claims.
A liberal-minded patriot, he has ever opposed the advocacy of "Little Peddlington" in Imperial politics; and municipal maladministration is a perennial subject for his denunciations.
Why the Times gave such earnest advocacy to the slaveholders may be inferred from what follows.
In the interest of this Association there is published, in Philadelphia, a semi-monthly paper called the Christian Statesman, in advocacy of this movement.
It has hardly been advocated, even by extremists, save for those whose sexual instincts are extremely disordered; but such advocacy is based on ignorance of the results.
To assert the existence of this selection and measure its intensity must be distinguished from an advocacy of high infant mortality as a factor of racial efficiency.
At a period when natural science was taught in the schools of Europe mainly from text-books, we find Gilbert proclaiming by example and advocacy the paramount value of experiment for the advancement of learning.
The world is then indebted to the insistence and advocacy of Prof.
His advocacywas successful, and at the third ballot the Bishop of Wellington, having received a majority of all orders, was declared by the old primate to be duly elected to fill his place.
Horace Greeley's Advocacy of the Right of Secession.
The effect of the 'Disquisitions' was also seriously injured by the warm advocacy they received from Blackburne and others, who were anxious for far greater changes than any which were then proposed.
After them theadvocacy of such schemes was chiefly left to men who suffered more or less under the imputation of heterodoxy.
She also spoke on the subject wherever she went, and induced women's clubs all over the country to join the magazine in its advocacy of the "teacherage.
Personally again he sought the most intelligent of his woman-friends, talked with scores of others, and found himself facing the same trait in feminine nature which he had encountered in his advocacy of American fashions.
His advocacy of strenuous discipline procured him relentless enemies among the Genevese of the "Libertine" party.
Count De Grignan himself barely escaped being put on trial--as responsible for the misdeeds of his lieutenant--by securing the advocacy of the Duke of Guise, which he purchased with the sacrifice of his domains at Grignan.
By hisadvocacy of toleration he incurred liability to the extreme penalties that had been inflicted upon others for utterances much less courageous.
This disinterested and noble advocacy of liberal principles is thought to have stood in the way of his promotion to an archbishopric.
On all occasions he was earnest in his advocacy of civil and religious liberty, and active in his exertions on behalf of all benevolent associations, both of the Church and of Dissenters.
A beautiful “Memorial” of the ministers of Norfolk is still preserved in vindication of their loyalty, and in advocacy of greater liberty of conscience.
But in those years there is nothing of that vehement and unsparing advocacy of Whig principles which we might expect from a band of youthful enthusiasts.
Its able advocacy of political principles was as striking as its judicial air of criticism, unprecedented in periodical literature.
Weld became noted for his advocacy of what was known as the Self-reliance Policy--in other words, that the Colony should dispense with the costly and rather cumbrous Imperial forces, and trust in future to the militia and Maori auxiliaries.
Grant, of University College, who had a word to say for Evolution, and his advocacy was not calculated to advance the cause.
The long advocacy and support of slavery in the political arena had fevered her whole people, and finally, under these promptings to a national life, politics absorbed nearly all of her intellectual powers.
We are not in the land of the real yet, common sense is not half so romantic to the average man as the transcendental, and an atheistical advocacy got the preference with the impetuous.
The reader will now see what the policy of Secularist advocacy is,--mainly to test theology by its ethical import.
The advocacy of slave emancipation was once an outrage in America.
