To controvert the reasons which made me postpone my flight to the 27th of August, a special revelation would have been requisite; and though I had read "Mary of Agrada" I was not mad enough for that.
If I wanted to controvert that assertion one glance into Leonilda's eyes would be enough.
She admired Locke; and maintained that the faculty of thought was not a proof of the existence of spirit in us, as it was in the power of God to endow matter with the capacity for thought; I was unable to controvert this position.
However, Hiram could not see how that would help Mrs. Atterson, for even testimony of witnesses who heard the discussion between the dead man and the real estate agent, could not controvert a written instrument.
I am sorry, that I am obliged to controvert this learned man's opinion, and to encounter him upon his own ground, about a point of oriental etymology.
This latter point I shall not controvert at present.
Es," answered Denny, seeing no reason to controvert this reasoning.
It is impossible to controvert this truth, which surrounds us and presses us on all sides.
This truth seems, at first sight, to controvert the doctrine of the antiquity of the globe as it now is, or to suppose terrible revolutions in it.
Then if the preachers could controvert it, they might fairly do so.
At any rate, an isolated phenomenon, such as this, cannot be held to controvert the view that regards phallicism as in this normal line.
He had tried in these remarks to controvertthe old ideas, and to present the cause of the disease and its treatment as he sees it.
Hanamann, some time since made a series of analyses of beers brewed partly from raw grain, and his results completely controvert the theory that raw grain beers essentially differ in composition from malt beers.
In the Preface to the second and enlarged edition, which appeared in the same year, Farmer says that “the few who have been pleased to controvert any part of his doctrine have favoured him with better manners than arguments.
In striving to establish a dual tyranny over the souls and bodies of its inhabitants, he concerned himself not at all with the human aspect of the question nor did he even pretend to controvert the facts with which his opponent met him.
It was thought that Diego Velasquez paid Quevedo to controvert the representations of Las Casas and to plead the cause of the colonists at Court.
The latter said nothing, leaving it to the comrades of the men who had benefited by her hair-brained bravery and dashing equestrianism to controvert the hyperbole.
No architects have ever attempted seriously to controvert this proposition.
It is scarcely worth while to controvert such absurdities; the fable of perpetual lamps having faded before the dawning light of reason.
Jugglers were the first to controvert this error, by publicly swallowing it with impunity, a feat which Dr.
And I must say frankly, although I try to put it mildly, that they appear to contradict and controvert the doctrines of the Church.
The facts here advanced are sufficient to give an idea of the learned manner in which Hipparchus attempts to controvert the reasoning of Eratosthenes by mere petitiones principii.
It is unnecessary for me to controvert Düsing in detail, as I have already taken this course in the case of Herbert Spencer[170], who had also formed the hypothesis that diminished nutrition causes sexual reproduction.
Fritz Müller’s observation is also interesting in another respect: it appears to controvert my views upon heredity as expressed in the theory of the continuity of the germ-plasm.
The nation in general seemed but little inclined tocontrovert so useful a regulation with so potent a prince.
They have had chances tocontrovert them heretofore.
If the statements that you are to make now are not true, gentlemen can controvert them.
He could not, after that, controvert gallant Lannes' maxim: "It is only a coward who says that he never was afraid.
