There is much, however, in this history which discredits the assumption that he gave the subject any consideration whatever.
By the declaration that what he had been doing was repulsive to him, John Brown discredits every altruistic theory which has been put forth in extenuation of his crimes, or in justification of his actions.
Be this as it may, the Poet's own riper style quite discredits it; though I have to confess that, but for his teachings, we might not so well have known of any thing better.
It cannot strengthen the foundations of supernatural Religion, but, on the contrary, by its profuse and indiscriminate use of the miraculous it discredits miracles, and affords a clearer insight into their origin and fictitious character.
The cosmological correction of this type of religion is due to the same enlightenment that discredits superstition, a knowledge, namely, of the systematic unity of the cosmos.
But, as Nietsche prefers not to comprehend, insurrection demonstrates beyond question the bankruptcy of aristocratic morality; discredits it as effectually, and in the same way, as new evidence discredits old theories.
Major (Select Letters of Columbus, 1847) discredits the American theory, and in his Prince Henry agrees with D’Avezac that they reached Madeira.
It will be seen later that Holden discredits the belief in any phonetic value of the Maya system.
Henshaw here discredits the idea of its being intended for an elephant.
Bandelier discredits wholly the common view, that wars were undertaken to secure victims for the sacrificial stone (Archæol.
Who discreditsthe fact, that the civil authorities in Massachusetts, less than a hundred and fifty years ago, confined in the public jail a little girl of four years old, and publicly hung the Rev.
Who discredits the atrocities perpetrated by Ovando in Hispaniola, Pizarro in Peru, and Cortez in Mexico,--because they filled the ears of the Spanish Court with protestations of their benignant rule?
Any other theory cheapens and in a measurediscredits a process which more than any other is a manifestation of sovereign authority.
It is silent concerning the events themselves, and, therefore, neither confirms nor discredits them.
This discredits her, but a man who cheats at cards may hold a good hand by accident.
It is curious that while Jon Espolin in his Annals entirely discredits the sheriff's letter, he yet gives a very similar account of the spirit's proceedings.
Recent research discredits the theory that metempsychosis was an important feature in the earlier religion of Egypt or among the Druids[38].
Everything indicates and nothing discredits the conclusion that this canon of the Vibhajjavâdins was substantially fixed in the time of Asoka, so far as the Vinaya and Sutta Pitakas are concerned.
Markham, in Christopher Columbus, totally discredits the theory, and Justin Winsor, in his Christopher Columbus, has considered the proposition not proven.
Major, giving the story an examination, fully discredits it.
And that much touching the discredits drawn from the fortunes of learned men.
Recently a re-examination of creative thought has begun as a result of new knowledge which discredits many of the notions formerly held about "reason".
He spent years in devising eloquent and ingenious ways of delivering learning from the "discredits and disgraces" of the past, and in exhorting man to explore the realms of nature for his delight and profit.
Every book that discredits scientific theology adds to the evidences of Christianity.
It does not enter into Comte's scheme, and indeed what is called scientific religiondiscredits the Book generally.
Experience endorses the proverbs and discredits the necessity and respectability of fearthought.
Of the earlier history of those Gospels there is not a distinct trace, except of a nature which altogether discredits them as witnesses for miracles.
His principal work is the Critica Sacra, published at Paris in 1650, wherein he still farther discredits the existing manuscripts of the Hebrew scriptures, as well as the Masoretic punctuation.
Whatever demonstrates the futility, vanity, or self-deception of this living, discredits the religion.
When however he passes from the decision on the general possibility of revelation to particular historic forms, the Mosaic and Christian, he discredits both.
He regards Christianity as a Jewish gospel, until it was altered by the apostles, whose authority he discredits by arguments not unlike the ancient ones of Celsus.
It discredits the competency of our cognitive faculties to reach knowledge of things as they really are.
The theory thoroughly discredits the trustworthiness of our faculties, both of sense-perception and of reason.
An hypothesis that fails to solve any of the involved phenomena discredits itself, not the facts.
So far, therefore, the Old Testament discredits the accounts in Matthew, Mark, and Luke of the devils and their influences.
Who discredits Saint Leofric discredits God and Our Lady and Her Son!
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