It was confidently believed that the German revolution would begin in Zweibrücken, and everything was there ripe for an outbreak.
We may confidently assume that even the author of the “Night Thoughts” came into the world without a wig; but, apart from Dr.
The claims of the new saint to the credit of achieving the cure were confidently asserted by the Castilian chroniclers of that and succeeding ages; nor have I met with any one hardy enough to contest them, unless it be Dr.
Yet his judgments, though confidently given, were not always sound.
What would be thought, by the same scholars who quote Firmicus Maternus so confidently as a witness to first-century paganism, of a historian who should quote a fourth-century Christian writer as a witness to first-century Christianity?
If Peter and Paul were really in fundamental disharmony, how did the Church come to bring them together so confidently and at such an early time?
I believe in the megatherium which I have never seen as confidently as I believe in the hippopotamus that has engulfed buns from my hand.
I affirmed this confidently many years ago, and an occasional examination of dense pine woods confirmed me in my opinion.
It was “confidently reported” that the Vicar (the Rev.
The “Yarmouth Bridge Bill” had passed the Committee stage, and it was confidentlyexpected that Breydon would now be deepened.
It was believed confidently that Ticonderoga and Mount Independence were recovered; and the militia were exhorted, by joining their brethren in the army, to insure that event if it had not already happened.
It is at the peril of all religion that its illimitable truths are embalmed in definite formulas, and the abyss of God confidently measured by thrusting out the foot-rule of ecclesiastical wisdom.
We deny that the diameters of a circle are unequal, without experience, without measurement, and just as confidently respecting a circle in the remotest space, as respecting one before our eyes.
With a clear, calm faith, I see him in that state of glory; and I confidently expect, at no distant period, to see him face to face.
Paul cautiously, but with power, argues most convincingly that in this relation only can men confidently approach him, but in this relation there is free access for all.
Our evidence is not sufficient to establish that fact, and some writers very confidently reject it.
I confidently state that the thing is not credible nor possible.
It is this workmanship of Councils which is so confidently referred to the inspiration of Apostles.
A general emigration may therefore be confidently expected at an early day.
It is certain, at any rate, that the Druze sheiks confidently expected this.
At first he was almost disheartened when he saw how confidently the people rested their hopes of heaven on saint-worship, and the rigor of their fasts; but he soon saw reason to expect a better state of things.
It stood half open, and with as careless a boldness as he could assume, in he went and walked confidently up the straight farmyard lane, girt with high thorn hedges.
I had expected confidently to find your uncle, the Honourable Kiffyn Fulke Verney, here, where I had certainly no hope of having the honour of finding you.
Well, the abolition of caste, with an incredible number of people, is, in like manner, confidently pronounced to be a universal remedy for all the political and social complaints of India.
The Government may confidently look to the development of other sources of revenue from the increased prosperity of the people.
That Sackett's Harbour could at that time, or at any other period of the winter, have been attacked with the smallest prospect of success, may be confidently denied.
It has been often and confidently asserted, that both the enemy's squadron and our own were within reach, of the guns of the works.
The advantages arising from thus embodying the militia prior to the war, were incalculable, and it may beconfidently asserted, materially contributed to the preservation of the Canadas.
Many confidently believe and earnestly contend that he was; others as confidently believe and as earnestly contend that he was not.
Repeated perpendicular concussions had, I confidently believed, telescoped my spinal vertebrae into each other, so that nothing short of a surgical operation would ever restore them to their original positions.
He and all the Kamchadals, confidently expecting to meet the whale-boat at the Samanka River, had taken only three days' food.
My ear is always close to the ground, and I can confidently predict what the man in the street will be thinking about the day after tomorrow.
It does not do to betray one's age by expressing too confidently the idea that much of all the goings-on of Deborah and her friends Gillian and Antonia seems impossible.
It may be confidently declared that all were sincerely meant by their author; and the world will testify that seldom if ever was a war begun with nobler ideals than those thus set forth by Jose Marti.
Railroads were destroyed to break Spanish lines of communication, valuable supplies were captured, and Martinez Campos was made to realize the formidable character of the insurrection which he had so confidently promised to suppress.
It was not, as President Menocal confidently assured it, necessary for it to do so.
He had made himself unspeakably odious in the Ten Years' War as the chief aid of Valmaseda in his savage outrages, and he was confidently expected to renew in Cuba the horrors of that campaign; as he did.
Dismissing the external testimony, therefore, proceed we now to review those internal evidences, which are confidently appealed to as proving that the concluding Verses of S.
May it not also be confidently declared that, in the face of all MS.
Where then and what are those “Sections of Ammonius” to which Tischendorf and Tregelles so confidently appeal?
It then confidently relies upon its essential elements for the necessary illusion; it knows little, and cares less, about sustaining it by elaborate attention to minor emblems and incidents.
But while we cannot confidently rely upon these three lines, there appears to be no reason why we should not use the evidence supplied by the rest of the passage as most probably good historic matter.
When asserting generally the historic aims and authority of the poet, I do not presume to pronounce confidently upon the difficult question of the period at which he lived.
This is a great sign of progress; and it may confidently be hoped that, under these circumstances, Homer will henceforward hold a much more forward position in the studies of Oxford.
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