Claude= and =Jurieu= gained high reputation as controversialists against Catholicism and its persecution of the Huguenots.
Controversialists in the first days of Christianity were as prompt to discredit their opponents by ungenerous, false accusation, as in these later days.
There it made head again, as revealed to us by the controversialists of the third century.
Marvell, though no orator, or even debater, was the stuff of which controversialists are made.
Biographers of controversialists seldom do justice to the other side.
He was one of the most formidable controversialists of a highly controversial age.
Bossuet and other controversialists led to his becoming in 1753 a Romanist.
And this is just the prerogative which controversialists assign to the See of St. Peter; it is not in all cases infallible, it may err beyond its special province, but it has in all cases a claim on our obedience.
Thus, the holy Apostles would without words know all the truths concerning the high doctrines of theology, which controversialists after them have piously and charitably reduced to formulae, and developed through argument.
It is not fair to restrict the words, nor are controversialistsfound desirous of doing so; they take them to include the images of the Saints.
I have even seen somecontroversialists use the metaphor, "We must fight them with their own weapons.
Nothing could be more ludicrous than the distress of those controversialists who had to invent a plea for Elizabeth which should not be also a plea for William.
This is the account which I have to give of some savage and ungrateful words in the British Critic of 1840 against the controversialists of Rome: "By their fruits ye shall know them.
Of course those controversialists had their own mode of answering him, with which I am not concerned in this place; here I am only concerned with the issue itself, between the one party and the other--Antiquity versus Catholicity.
It may suit the purposes of unfair Roman controversialists to brand them as schismatics, and overcome, by calling them a name, their own most formidable opponents: but history cannot be so overcome.
It is just such incidents as these which are made use of by Roman Catholic controversialists in late times to justify the full extent of Papal power now claimed.
No body of political controversialists are so badly served by their own press as the anti-suffragists.
Poetry is the subject at present of much prose criticism, prose exposition, and prose controversy; but the controversialists are largely the poets themselves, or those who aspire to the title.
Nay, grave clergymen pleaded that they could not have their religious sensibilities disturbed or hurt by Unitarian roughness, as if manly controversialists were to shrink from opposition with the fastidious delicacy of timid devotees.
It is handled with great learning and ability, and the sophisms and perversions of those disingenuous or ill-informed controversialists who pretend to establish the original independence of the British Church are scattered to the winds.
Controversialists on both sides, and even some of the first rank, are content to accept this absurd position.
It is true that some of the subjects of controversy were logically vital ultimately; but it is true also that, absorbed in them, the controversialists lost sight of other matters more spiritually vital immediately.
In the decrees against heretics and in the writings ofcontroversialists we meet the names of other sects, but they are of too little importance in numbers and duration to require more than a passing notice.
Nor were they wanting in those more substantial expressions of their satisfaction which Cochlaeus, like most of the controversialists of his time, evidently coveted.
The vague charges of immorality brought against the reformer by those calumniators, ancient and modern, may be dismissed at once as nothing more than the stock-in-trade of hard-pressed controversialists in the sixteenth century.
I can hardly think that the able controversialists who seem to maintain this doctrine really meant to contend for more than the admitted principle that a sovereign cannot while remaining a sovereign limit his sovereign powers.
As the mere plaything of professionalcontroversialists the fate of religion can never be decided.
The professional controversialists themselves do not desire that it should be; their interest is to keep the game up for ever; for if a final issue were reached their occupation would be gone.
Patriotic controversialists were not awanting again in dealing with the problem of varying skull shapes.
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