Some of them refuse to concede that a teetotaler is necessarily healthier or happier or more useful to the world than the moderate imbiber is.
We'll concede that you get an abundance of exercise.
I presume the advocates of the Society will attempt to evade this point, by saying that it never meant to concede the moral right of the masters to possess human beings; but the evidence against them is full and explicit.
I am willing to concedethat Robert Finley and Elias B.
Oh, you'll be a wonder," Emeline would concede good-naturedly.
Yes, of course, it's quite too extraordinary," she would concede briskly.
Julia might here gracefully concede the point, and send a message to Caroline to go on without her.
It is impossible--improper even--but you can concedeto us some of that same indulgence which I am so willing to concede to you.
I had discovered, or thought I had discovered, certain qualities in Andrew Drewett which rendered him, in some measure, at least worthy of Lucy; and I experienced how painful it is toconcede such an advantage to a rival.
All in reality concede it; and the pretence is that to be in communion with that see is not necessary in order to be in communion with Christ, or with the universal church.
Krauth himself would despise us or laugh at us if we should concede that such was Luther's reformation.
The third case comprises forms of motion which we cannotconcede to be stable.
Many savage tribes, that we certainly concede to be endowed with intelligence, could learn of the ants, rather than teach them, with regard to the duties of mutual aid.
One can be a determinist and yet concede that the will plays an important part in the world; or one can be an indeterminist and yet assume that free will plays but a small part in the world.
The most that the Prior would concede was that the subject should be treated again on the following Sunday.
I should feel it an indelible disgrace upon me forever to concede one farthing to a scheme so base and contemptible.
There are everywhere, great truthfulness, great fairness; a willingness to concede to others a standard different from their own; a hopeful tone in all things, and extreme gentleness towards women and children.
At the same time, one might concede even this last point, and yet not give any ground for the theory at which Noldeke wishes to arrive.
He was not so successful against the Damascenes, to whom he had to concede certain privileges in his own capital (1Kings xx.
My dear fellow," he said, "the real point is that you concede the principle.
Do you concede the principle, or shall I boot it into you?
You cannot deny the dynamiter what you concede to the vilest criminals and even to the beast of the jungle.
But it is a principle which I do not concede to him.
Astrologicum this would not destroy freedom; and I would concede that to him, if freedom consisted only in an apparent spontaneity.
All those who admit a free will properly so called will not for that reason concedeto M.
I concede therefore that the creature does not co-operate with God to conserve [359] himself (in the sense in which I have just explained conservation).
Of late, however, there have not been wanting signs of a spirit of reconciliation, and of a tendency to concede the value, each in its own sphere, of different but complementary activities.
While we concede the objectification of pleasure in all these cases, we cannot, it would seem, admit a corresponding change from non-aesthetic to aesthetic feelings.
I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on.
But Lord Hay-Paunceforte, representing England, refused to concede the point and for a time it looked like an open breach.
It appears that the most sceptical in Cincinnati, even the editor of The Daily Times, have to concede that toe and knee joints have nothing to do with Spirit rappings.
The experiment was objected to, on the part of the friends of the females, unless we could concede that it should be a conclusive test experiment.
Unsought the war ye longed for meets you now: The fates concede it.
Very well; why not concede the trifle, and so at least give myself a chance?
When a man has learnt that truth is indeterminable, how is it more moral to go about crying that you don't believe a certain dogma than to concede that the dogma may possibly be true?
He had early settled it as a fixed principle never to concede religious toleration to his subjects.
At all events it compels us to trust the matter entirely to his own discretion, a virtue which those familiar with his inaccuracies in other matters will not be disposed to concede to him in a very eminent degree.
If the reader takes the other alternative, that these legends are not fragments of a colossal falsehood, then he must concede that the earth, since man inhabited it, encountered a comet.
There are but two alternatives before him: he must either suppose that all this concatenation of legends is the outgrowth of a prodigious primeval lie, or he must concede that it describes some event which really happened.
We must concede that these legends of a world-embracing conflagration represent a race-remembrance of a great fact, or that they are a colossal falsehood--an invention of man.
There is no difficulty in seeing our way to heat enough, if we concede that a comet really struck the earth or fell into the sun.
