Even Gautier, while he contends that chivalry did much to refine morality, is compelled to admit the prevailing immorality to which medieval romances testify, and the extraordinary free behaviour of the unmarried ladies.
Moreover, Sir Harris Nicolas contendsthat the order had no loftier immediate origin than a joust or tournament.
So that even if any one contends that every person will rise again in the same bodily form in which he died, we need not spend much labour in disputing with him.
On the other hand Mr. Rimmel contends that perfumes are beneficial and prophylactic in the highest degree.
In opposition to this Paul contends that justification is by faith, and not by the works of the law—not a faith which implies a mere assent to a series of scholastic propositions, but a faith which consists in a trusting and confiding spirit.
De Sade contendsthat "crebris" is less applicable to "perturbationibus" than to "partubus.
But Tiraboschi contends that the paper used in manuscripts of so early an age was made from cotton rags, and, apparently from the inferior durability of that material, not frequently employed.
Elsynge, who strenuously contends against the writ of summons conferring an hereditary nobility, is of opinion that the party summoned was never omitted in subsequent parliaments, and consequently was a peer for life.
The class or genus to which the two tongues equally belong, is represented in Asia by the Indian division only; whereas in Europe it falls into three divisions, each of, at least, equal value with the single Asiatic one.
Take man to the slaughter house to view the butchery, and then if he contends God created helpless, dumb brutes for the slaughter pen, he is positively heartless.
He contends that Mexico began the war by attacking the American army while in that territory and near the Rio Grande.
XVII Mrs. Yellett Contends With A Cloudburst The matriarch had delayed longer in moving camp than was consistent with her habitual watchfulness where the interests of the sheep were involved.
Daille contends that the text of the Fathers is often corrupt, and that even when it is correct their reasoning is often illogical.
His chief contribution to constructive theological thought is his work On The Atonement, in which he contends that the death of Christ is the objective ground on which the sins of man were remitted.
The Jew, however, considering the tenour of the whole, contends that this was no more than what had been already fulfilled at the time when it was delivered, the allusion here being historical and not prophetic.
He contends that Arthur is another phase of Achilleus, or Sigurd, or Perseus.
Cox, in his "Mythology of the Aryan Nations," contends that the beings spoken of as Cyclops in the Iliad and the Odyssey, are personifications of distinct natural forces.
He contends that discovered remains demonstrate that three of the battles won by Arthur, and ascribed by tradition to the neighbourhood of the Douglas, were fought near Wigan and Blackrod.
Max Mueller contends that the earlier Aryan name for the Ribhus, namely Arbhus, is identical with the Greek Orpheus.
Kuhn contends that this human form was given to the mandrake and the wish-rod because both were believed to be of divine or supernatural origin, and represented a species of demi-god, of the lightning tribe.
He contends that all the details referred to, as attendant on the St. John's fires, have been demonstrated by Dr.
Kuhn contends is the Mimosa catechu, or the "imperial mimosa" referred to.
When these specially Indian features have been allowed for, Buhler contends that the symbols borrowed from the Semitic alphabet can be carried back to the forms of The Phoenician and Moabite alphabets.
But he rejects Taylor's derivation of this alphabet from the Sabaean script, and contends that it is borrowed from the North Semitic.
Taylor contends that the alphabet is Iranian in origin, but the circumstances justify Gardthausen and Hubschmann in claiming it for Greek.
He remembers scarcely anything because of fading mental powers, but he is able to take long walks and contends that only in that way can he keep free from rheumatic pains.
Direct collision, therefore, between force and force, is the unavoidable result of that remedy for the revision of unconstitutional laws which the gentleman contends for.
The gentleman contends that each State may judge for itself of any alleged violation of the Constitution, and may finally decide for itself, and may execute its own decisions by its own power.
I believe no gentleman contends it is in this House, because that would be that mingling of the executive and legislative powers gentlemen deprecate.
If men competent to the undertaking are so difficult to be found, you will increase the embarrassment of the President threefold by making the arrangement the gentleman contends for.
But she further contends that her subjects cannot renounce their allegiance to her and contract a new obligation to other Sovereigns.
He contends that individuals cannot divest themselves of their allegiance; that the right of expatriation does not exist; that the practice of naturalization is wrong.
Was it such a repeal as the gentleman contends ought to have taken place of the Berlin and Milan decrees, viz: under the sign manual of the Emperor?
She avowedly contends that it is her interest to engross the commerce of the world; that she has the power to engross it, and, therefore, she will engross it.
The existing bank contends that it is beyond the power of a State to tax it, and if this pretension be well founded, it is in the power of Congress, by chartering companies, to dry up the whole of the sources of State revenue.
But there is a big issue when he contendsthat all the causation is focussed in individual utility schedules, and in a more or less rational comparison of needs made by the individual buyer and seller.
He contends that whatever community wants slaves has a right to have them.
The Popular Church contends that since the reign of Peter the Great every thing has been lawless and provisional.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
