It has been objected, that the respondent admits the charge of cruelty, by producing no evidence to confute it.
Both of these confessions were drawn up to confute the teaching of a remarkable man who had been patriarch of Constantinople, Cyril Lucar.
The Athanasian Creed is an instruction designed to confute heresies which were current in the 5th century.
All those who doubt it or will dispute it can neither confute me scientifically, nor prove what they say.
As I am able to judge from experience, nobody can confute me.
Hosius have judged the same to be wicked, why hath not Hosius spoken so much as one word to confute them?
But confute the man's sums; You may then snap your thumbs And make faces at Bishop Colenso.
They deplored the hard condition of Athanasius, who, after enjoying so many years his seat, his reputation, and the seeming confidence of his sovereign, was again called upon to confute the most groundless and extravagant accusations.
It will require a little Dissertation upon Optics, in order to explain the Cause of Light and Colours, before we can confute the Possibility of seeing an Apparition.
Remembering the humiliation I had experienced in my previous attempts to confute him, I determined to select such subjects as would appear the most difficult to explain, and to attack the old man with vehemence.
Biographers could afford to scout it as "monstrous" without troubling to confute it.
Every one of us must love truth and make it his purpose to confute those who speak falsehood; to keep his hands from stealing and his soul from unjust gain.
That were too easy, play so presses play, Trooping tumultuous, each with instance apt, Each eager to confute the idle boast!
He does not attempt to confute the utilitarian theory of jurisprudence, which regards laws as regulations made by the majority in the supposed interests of society.
That is just what serves toconfute those who make of the world a God, or who think of God as the Soul of the world; for the world or the universe cannot be regarded as an animal or as a substance.
Bot to this hour I have thocht, and yit thinkis my self allone to be more able to sustene the thingis affirmed in that my wark, than any ten in Europe salbe able to confute it.
I am talking about what my ears have heard and my eyes have seen, so you must not try to confute me by quoting the opinions of some student or man of the pen, who has written a book of history or memoirs.
I had not thought that three honourable gentlemen would have needed such corroboration, but I can only confute your unworthy suspicions by placing it in your hands.
Plato announces his intention, in this portion of the Sophistes, to confute all these different schools of thinkers, to whom he has made allusion.
They are also in presence of antagonists, ready to entrap and confute them.
Having enunciated this definition, as one learnt from another person not named, Sokrates proceeds to examine and confute it.
Confute them then, Rachel--dolts that can't believe in self-devotion!
If any find fault with the novelty of the notion; the learned St. Austin stands ready to confute the charge: and they who revere Antiquity, will derive satisfaction from so venerable a suffrage.
But its basis was expediency, and the baronet had a better aphorism of his own to confute him with.
Experiences and reasons of the Sphere to prooue all parts of the worlde habitable, and thereby to confute the position of the fiue Zones XVI.
Experiences and reasons of the Sphere, to prooue all partes of the worlde habitable, and thereby to confute the position of the fiue Zones.
I am almost fearful of illustrating any thing by similitude, lest he should confute it for an argument; yet I think the comparison of a glass will discover very aptly the fallacy of his argument, both concerning time and place.
If you do, you adopt a notion which the Scriptures confute in every line.
They feel that the whole beautiful narrative is not an argumentative assertion of a divine mission which can confute disputants, but the practical manifestation of a divine kinghood to meet the cravings and necessities of human beings.
The Indians who traded to Alexandria, entreated him to pay their country a visit, in order to confute their Brachmans.
He employs the Church’s authority, scriptures, and reasons to confute them.
He then proceeds to confute idolatry; asks, if Bacchus was made a god for planting vines, why did not Lucullus attain to the same honor, because he first brought cherry-trees from Pontus to Rome?
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