Is it not remarkable that Joseph Smith himself does not cite Luther as his authority in defense of plural marriages?
But the best evidence for the defense comes from a mute witness--Luther's industry.
The lawyer listened to him attentively, and said that if the facts were really as told to Nekhludoff, he would undertake their defense without compensation.
That is immaterial; thedefense could have demanded the same thing.
The translated broadcast, as Gus and Al presented it, was calculated to put the high brass of the defense forces into a frenzied tizzy.
What defense could Earth devise against science such as this?
Near Elmira, which is close to the Pennsylvania boundary south of Seneca Lake, their ancient fortifications are still visible, having been located with the skill of a military engineer as a defense against attacks.
For a moment as they drew under shelter the stricken form of the soldier, there was nothing the defensecould do but dodge.
My friends here are desirous that no stigma of massacre shall rest upon the Spanish honor, and they have therefore agreed to allow your men to keep their arms for purposes of defense on their return march.
At last, worn out by fatigue and fighting, the weary army emerged from the hills into the wide valleys, where their cavalry were able to act, and the ground no longer offered favorable positions of defense to the peasantry.
Standing on a commanding height, it was abundantly capable ofdefense even against a regular siege, and its reduction was always regarded as a most formidable enterprise, to be undertaken at leisure after the capture of the town.
In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation The light is pleasant, is it not, my friends?
Its chief defense is its extreme swiftness, for some of the boats have a speed of thirty-eight miles an hour.
I am scarcely objectively aware that I think when I fight, so quickly does my point take advantage of every opening, or spring to my defense if I am threatened that it is almost as though the cold steel had eyes and brains.
Have our swords been not always among the foremost in defense of your safety and your honor?
Better that I die now while my eyes behold a brave friend than later, fighting alone among enemies in defense of my honor.
So ancient is the culture of my people," she said, "that authentic history reveals nodefense for that which we know existed only in the ignorant and superstitious minds of the most primitive peoples of the past.
The greatest nations of Barsoom have trembled to the thunders of war in defense of the person of Dejah Thoris, my mother.
Against such as were streaming up the hill toward them a single mediocre swordsman such as Ghek was worse than no defense at all.
Without a word of defense or explanation, Magnus left the room, and a few minutes afterward Oscar, at the call of the Governor, entered it.
These round towers, as the Dublin antiquarians tell me, were probably built by the early Christian missionaries from Italy, about the seventh century, and were used as places of retreat and defense against the pagans.
I believe in cases of another sort it is only necessary to make a defenseby refuting accusations, but in trials concerning examination, to offer to give an account of one's entire life.
Now hear me; for it is just, gentlemen of the jury, to receive such a defense in regard to such men as say now they are devoted to the people, when once they tried to ruin the people.
I hear that he will allege in defense that he went to Phyle and came back from Phyle with the rest, and this is his strongest plea.
For from this you too will know, and I shall make my defense by proving, that I have no reason to be ill- disposed to the state's interest, either on the ground of what I did under the oligarchy or the democracy.
It is only then I think you will believe what he says about me when in giving my defense I shall be unable to prove his.
I do not know that I ought to weary you longer by accurately making my defense against each thing which has been said.
But it is not fitting for you, gentlemen of the jury, to accept his defense on these grounds.
Bid him make his defense on these points: that he did not give in the names, or that the men were not put to death.
But since the prosecutors attack that, I must make my defense on all sides.
Believe, then, that I make this defense for no other reason than that they have dared lie about me before the whole world.
Armed defense of democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in four continents.
There were only some 400 United States Marines who in the heroic and historic defenseof Wake Island inflicted such great losses on the enemy.
More than a century and a half later we, who are here today, still believe with them that our best defense is the promotion of our general welfare and domestic tranquillity.
In the course of a few days I shall send you a special message making recommendations for those two essentials of defense against danger which we cannot safely assume will not come.
By this support, we express our determination that the democratic cause shall prevail; and we strengthen the defense and the security of our own nation.
In my Budget Message I shall recommend that a greater portion of this great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying today.
Let us say to the democracies: "We Americans are vitally concerned in your defense of freedom.
Whatever stands in the way of speed and efficiency in defense preparations must give way to the national need.
If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia will be dominated by the conquerors.
The defense of religion, of democracy and of good faith among nations is all the same fight.
For if any government bristling with implements of war insists on policies of force, weapons of defense give the only safety.
He quoted Scripture in defense of slavery, or tried to continue slavery -- in spirit, if not in name.
Lanier's defense published in the New York "Tribune" must be taken as a justification, in part at least, of the principles he had in mind.
Referring to thedefense made of his Centennial poem by Southern newspapers, he wrote from Macon: "People here are so enthusiastic in my favor at present that they are quite prepared to accept blindly anything that comes from me.
I could not resist the temptation to unfold to you all my hopes and plans connected with my University work among your young men which I so eagerly anticipate.
His long beard, which was wavy and pointed, had even at an early age begun to show signs of turning gray.
Lanier's ideas strike one as singularly balanced and sane, suggesting a compromise between the warring camps of recent years.
Indeed, as early as 1868, while examining the catalogue of a Southern university, he jotted down in his note-book a suggestion that the most serious defect in the curriculum was the lack of any English training.
It is indeed a consolation that my almost extinguished voice has been on this occasion raised in defense of liberty, of justice, and of our country.
The "purse and the sword" are respectively the resource and defense of government and peoples, and they are interdependent powers.
Violence and cruelty in the defense of the cause of Christ misrepresent him to the world.
Here and there fortified towns still held out against the French, and the town of Gerona, in Catalonia, had only fallen after a six months' regular siege, and a desperate defensewhich fully rivals that of Saragossa.
The French, still resisting obstinately, were driven through the town to the line of defense at the foot of Mount Orgullo, and the town of St. Sebastian was won.
Defense was, in fact, impossible, but Colonel Cox attempted to negotiate, because he hoped that Wellington would at once advance to his rescue.
As for the new defense for tackle-tandem, it's all right.
Paul led the defense this time, and again Robinson was brought up all standing.
In to-morrow's game we are going to use a form of defense that will, I believe, enable us to at least render a good account of ourselves.
On defense Woodby was almost equally strong, and had Erskine not outweighted her in the line some five pounds per man, would have forced her to kick every time.
This time the defense worked better, and Robinson lost the half-yard of gain and another half-yard on top of that.
Smith failed to stop it, and the head of the defense was given to Pearse; but Robinson's new left tackle was a good man, and yard by yard Erskine was borne back toward her goal.
I'm glad they haven't discovered that we are busy with a defense for their tackle-tandem.
Mason went into the van of the defense in place of Gillam, but the Brown's advance continued; one yard, two yards, three yards were left behind.
Erskine's defense was totally unlooked for, both as regarded style and effectiveness, and the problem that confronted them was serious.
But the second team, playing tackle-back after the style of Robinson's warriors, was too much for anydefense that the varsity could put up, and got its distance time after time.
And, as most of you know, this defense was thought out and developed by a fellow who, although unfortunately unable to play the game himself, is nevertheless one of the finest football men in college.
This time the Fordham players were sure they understood---and like a flash massed theirdefense against Gridley's left.
Any cadet who would offer to resign from the Academy in defense of his unit-mate was a true spaceman.
It wasn't often he lost his temper, but something had to be said in defense of his fellow officer, and particularly since that officer was Connel.
I speak indefense of the man, the spaceman, not the uniform, or the trust he betrayed.
I wouldn't have thought much of you if you hadn't come out in defense of Manning.
Loring and Mason had not expected such a strong defense of the cadet, and Loring was quick to make amends.
These Russian volunteers did splendid service in the defense of the Legation street west entrance, in the Mongol market to the northwest, and in the various posts and barricades on the city wall, in conjunction with the American marines.
I purchased, also, from one of the foreign stores within the lines of defense two dozen tins of condensed milk and four tins of baked beans, a very inadequate provision to feed six children and two adults for two months.
Sir Claude replied to the effect that the foreign troops had all along acted entirely in self-defense and would continue to do so.
A large part of the defense of the southern half of the Hanlin Yuan has been performed by the customs volunteers, and there has been no more trying military service in the siege than at that place.
When the siege began he was among the first to go forward in the defense of the legations.
At first this entire new line of defense was very weak, but it was rapidly strengthened by adding bricks and sand-bags.
From the time of that voyage home on the Dolphin, Nelson used to say, dated his passion to win fame in the defense of England.
The boy, however, had turned his musket and raised the butt end in defense when a gun on the ship boomed out the signal for all hands to go aboard.
