The loss was a serious one to mankind, which was poorer by the discrediting of an authoritative body of thought, a possession it seems ill able to dispense with.
And so, by the time when Bacon had laid down his pen after writing the New Logic, the work of discrediting the old system, elaborated with such ingenious industry by Aquinas, was tolerably complete.
This renewal will be greatly facilitated by the inevitable fall in the German birth-rate that the shortage and economies of this war will have done much to promote, and by the correlated discrediting of the expansionist idea.
It is well known that he claims to have shot the Constable of Bourbon dead with his own hand, and to have wounded the Prince of Orange; nor does there seem to be any adequate reason for discrediting his narrative.
Her accusers had a strong case; but they tried to strengthen it by inventing or suborning additional evidence palpably false, with the result of discrediting the whole--and her friends adopted the same tactics.
Portugal had missed a great opportunity in discrediting Columbus, but she had succeeded in finding one in Da Gama.
But our author speaks of the 'ability' of my article, as a reason for discrediting its results.
It is quite possible for critical ingenuity to find a reason for discrediting each instance in turn.
Our author also by way of discrediting the Chronicon Paschale as a witness, rejects (II.
It is vain, in the teeth of these facts, to allege the uncritical character of the father as discrediting the evidence.
In France the Royalists and Jesuits conceived hopes of reviving the Church-State and adopted anti-Semitism as a means of discrediting not alone Jews but also Protestants and other opponents of Catholicism.
But in 1878 he broke with the party and let loose the forces of "Anti-Semitism" as a means of discrediting them.
It is a philosophy of moral dissolution, discrediting every downright judgment of good and evil, removing the grounds upon which is based every single-minded endeavor to purify and consummate life.
It has sometimes been thought that a fair view of life will inhibit action through discrediting party zeal.
But the radical defect of this aesthetic philosophy of religion lies in its absolute discrediting of moral distinctions.
Mr. William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner did effective service indiscrediting the graft prosecution.
Governor Cordova made many enemies by his vigorous persecution of the smugglers who had greatly increased in number and by their clandestine operations were interfering with and discrediting the legitimate trade of the island.
The Central Rada and the Secretariat were gradually seizing the administration, creating a dual power on the spot and discrediting the All-Russian Government.
But I affirm that the good they have done will not compensate for the tremendous mischief done to the Army by the introduction of all these new authorities, by friction, by interference, and by discrediting the commands.
Mansel are also pressed into the service for the purpose of discrediting the evidences of Christianity, and, I own, with considerably greater reason.
Not only has the alleged late date of the publication of the Gospels been urged as a reason for discrediting them as reports of historical facts, but also the uncertainty of their authorship.
Political prejudices and the blind zeal and opportunism of those who have discovered some "sure cure," for the Negro's ills have aided much in the work of discrediting Negro suffrage.
There is a marked distinction between discreditingthe testimony and discrediting the witness.
If you have done nothing more than to expose an attempt to deceive on the part of the witness, you have gone a long way toward discrediting him with your jury.
It was, of course, but a trick, through which the Scottish queen saw, with the object of preventing the Darnley marriage and discrediting Mary in the eyes of foreign princes; but it served its turn for a time.
Elizabeth's first aim was to embroil Mary's prospects by discrediting her in the eyes of foreign powers.
The violent and disorderly conduct was chiefly on the side of the Right, there being a certain number of Bonapartists who provoked disturbances with the object of discrediting Parliamentary Government as much as possible.
In defiance of truth, a communique contradicting it was inserted in the Agence Havas, with no other effect than that of discrediting the communiques which the Government is apt to put into the Havas.
Taking up only one of the listed observations-- Or our impression that the discrediting of Leverrier has nothing to do with the acceptability of these data: In the London Times, Jan.
The plaintiff's counsel interposed, and protested against his learned friend's so discrediting his own witness.
So here, if there were plenty of suspicion attaching to Henry Trevethlan's marriage, there were also good grounds for discrediting the testimony of Everope.
The workman of course may adjust himself to the state of matters, but it will too often be by discrediting what he knows he cannot have and keeping up a critical resentful habit of mind against those who seem to treat him as a machine.
We see the same contrast in our own day; both in politics and the church the incisive critic discrediting subordination altogether fails to secure his age.
It is enough to say here that his license in this direction is confined to this one point, and is by no means to be viewed as discrediting his integrity, fidelity, and accuracy in other parts of his testimony.
