We see a feather rising in the air, and a quill, from the same bird, sinking to the ground: these contradictory reports of sense lead the mind astray; or perhaps excite a desire to know the reason.
The common man is helpless in an emergency: assailed by contradictory suggestions, or confused by his incapacity, he cannot see his way.
The contradictory creature, stung to the quick by that letter, and indignantly conscious of much of its truth, was floundering towards righteousness, like a walrus after a floe.
Such swift transitions were not unusual in his peculiar and contradictory nature.
Logic has something, perhaps not much, to do with political action, and it is almost inconceivable that a party can go on for long holding these twocontradictory opinions.
Ostracism is, in these instances, still feeling its way, and its action is contradictorybecause it has not made up its mind.
After many vacillations and contradictory cablegrams to the Government in Madrid, General Blanco now definitely asked for large reinforcements.
It may here be interesting to note the verycontradictory opinions that have been expressed upon this subject.
Here, after some delay, I was sent into a room, and some insolent Turkish officers gave contradictory orders.
He had had so many contradictory orders to go that at last he set off without them.
We have to give equal emphasis to the two conceptions of faith as a human act and as a divine bestowal, which have so often been pitted against each other as contradictory when really they are complementary.
And the hands, so full of contradictory suggestion, aroused her interest.
The passage runs as follows: "The most contradictory rumors are circulating through the whole city.
Balsamides Bey is a man who seems to unite in himself as many contradictory qualities and characteristics as are to be found in any one living man.
Then came the difficult task of reconciling those two opposing voices, which are never so contradictory as when the heart and the conscience fall out, and argue their cause before the bewildered court of justice we call our intelligence.
The contradictory nature of the system produces the anomalous position occupied by the Ottoman Empire in Europe.
Accordingly, it is to assertions supposed to be contradictory to these laws, or to some others coming near to them in generality, that the word impossibility (at least total impossibility) seems to be generally confined.
No mathematical law of proportion between an effect and the quantity or relations of its cause, could produce such contradictory results.
He maintained a certain independence of the patristic authority by his "Sic et Non," in which treatise he makes the authorities neutralize each other by placing side by side contradictory assertions.
National oaths, solemnly sworn by all ranks, never to admit of innovations, or submit to usurpations, contradictory to the word of God.
They all were eager to give her this information, but it was all so confused and contradictory that Grain-of-Salt cut the talk short.
Perrine experienced a strange contradictory feeling which surprised her.
In the end she was altogether confused, the accumulation of equivalent proofs and contradictory presumptions.
The ebb and flow of contradictory thoughts caused M.
These points being dismissed, it remains only to reconcile the contradictory parts you have acted on the great political stage.
In other words, it is self-contradictory and absurd, to assert that a thing is foreknown, and yet that it may not come to pass; just as it is to assert that a thing is known to exist and yet at the same time does not exist.
From Heilbronn, soon after his arrival, Schiller wrote to Duke Karl, in the style of a grateful former Pupil, whom contradictorycircumstances had pushed away from his native country.
The old lady listened with the most painful and contradictory sensations.
Between churches in the ecclesiastical sense and Christianity, not only is there nothing in common except the name, but they are two utterly contradictory and hostile elements.
Strange and contradictory as it may seem, modern men hate the very order of things which they themselves support.
In our economical and international relations we are guided by the fundamental principles of bygone ages,--principles quite contradictory to our mental attitude and the conditions of our present life.
He had combined in one formula two principles which often seem contradictory and which at any rate are difficult to reconcile.
This formula was a desperate and none too successful attempt to coalesce two contradictory principles and ideals, and for the last hundred and thirty years America has been striving to achieve this impossible program.
But further, while in the geologic ages there was Succession, here in our age is Simultaneousness of species, two very different and contradictory phenomena.
The two are contradictoryfor the uses of Evolution.
Taking this simple view of sensation, (that objects should be brought into a certain relation with us by something intermediate,) we find nothing in mesmerism contradictory of nature.
Captain Widdrington amusingly enough says, when he meets with some huge piece of inconsistency that astonishes even him, accustomed though he be to the most contradictory vagaries on the part of his Iberian friends.
We have witnessed several mesmeric exhibitions--we have never seen any effect produced which was contradictory to the possible of human experience, in which collusion or delusion was fairly negatived.
And yet his confused, contradictory story is another proof of the incapacity which the most cunning murderers often display when overtaken by suspicion; they seem to lose all power to protect themselves.
