It is, certes, the style and fashion which we should observe, did not our adversaries constrain us by their cavils to turn aside from this course.
He smiles at the high-flown praise or pettycavils of little men.
The coxcomb criticises the dress of the clown, as the pedant cavilsat the bad grammar of the illiterate, or the prude is shocked at the backslidings of her frail acquaintance.
Notwithstanding all these cavilsand objections, most of our late writers do much approve of it.
Ejaculations therefore concerning the strangeness of the record, and cavils at the phraseology in which it is propounded, are simply irrelevant.
But is it bycavils like these that a great institution should be defended?
And who ever heard the Established Church of Ireland defended except by cavils like these?
He possessed, in a remarkable degree, a talent for refined sarcasm, and knew how to use most effectively its piercing shafts against the idle objections, or disingenuous cavils of all triflers with the great truths of religion.
Fourth, But now, to take away all cavils and objections, that of this nature will arise in the hearts of these men: forthwith the book of life is brought out for a conclusion, and a final end of eternal judgment.
Yet not by a hasty and angry casting them away, but by a legal and convincing proceeding against them, and overthrowing all their cavils by his manifest and invincible truth.
They transfer the discussion from the jangle of the schools and the cavils of the market-place to the passionate persuasions of the heart and the intimate experiences of love, in which all Browning's mysticism had its root.
The Epilogue returns to the combative apologetics of the title poem; but, unlike that, does attempt some reply to the cavils of the discontented.
Perhaps, in the cavils of La Bruyère, there may be some justice; but the essayist has forgotten that no character can be rendered entirely effective to an audience without a little exaggeration of its attributes.
Nothing could more tend to cut short the verbal cavils of the schoolmen, than this limitation of their favourite exercise, definition.
They ought not to have wandered into inflammatory declamations and unmeaning cavils about the extent of the powers.
Except some cavils about the power of convening either house of the legislature, and that of receiving ambassadors, no objection has been made to this class of authorities; nor could they possibly admit of any.
He passes over difficulties, and replies to cavils which no one worth answering ever urged.
The notice in the Spectator must have been doubly welcome to Pope after the invective and cavils of Dennis.
The readers of the present are offered all those cavils for their consideration, and will judge for themselves of their justice.
Reasoning is here of no avail; it would lead us to cavils which would require an impassible doubt, and would tear from us a security, of which, notwithstanding all our efforts, we cannot despoil ourselves.
Rejected as absolutely inadmissible; cavils are indulged about the inadequacy of Mr. Russell's powers, and the want of an act of Congress is intimated.
And I shall not trouble myself afterwards with any cavils that may be made; neither by whom, nor in what manner.
When, therefore, those who read these chapters hear the criticisms and cavils to which I referred at the beginning, they will know how to reply to them.
It is necessary for the more full and ample vindication of the justice of God against all the cavils of the infernal spirits.
No; not to his friend, be he never so faithful, if he perceives not in him ability to save him, and to preserve what he hath, against all the cavils of an enemy.
I say, while it disputeth the justness of this high act of God against the cavils of implacable sinners.
It is therefore for the conviction of the fallen angels, and for the confounding of all those cavils that can be invented and objected against our salvation by those most subtle and envious ones.
To vindicate the justice of God against the cavils of the devil.
The greater Incidents, however, are not only set off by being shewn in the same Light with several of the same nature in Homer, but by that means may be also guarded against the Cavils of the Tasteless or Ignorant.
We can best illustrate the claim that the three last Gospels were written in the order they appeared, as a necessity to meet the objections and cavils of the philosophers, by taking some leading subject which is mentioned by all.
John now fully silenced the cavils of the enemy and taken the proper steps to preserve the body until the morning of the third day.
Whether He administers comfort to the mourner, or walks upon the waves of the sea, or replies to the cavils of the Pharisees, He is still the same calm, holy, and gracious Saviour.
This great work appears to have been undertaken to meet the cavils of the Jews against the Septuagint--the Greek translation of the Old Testament in current use in the days of the apostles, and still most appreciated by the Christians.
God will be justified in his sayings, and clear when he judgeth; though men's proud ignorance thinks to have and to multjply cavils against him.
When the names of Marlborough and Chatham are still pronounced with awe in France, our little cavils make a puny sound.
This is no partiality; for I think he seems rather disposed, though civilly, to find cavilswith me.
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