Whewell dissented in a practical manner for some years, by refusing to allow a copy of the 'Origin of Species' to be placed in the Library of Trinity College.
Two ministers dissented from the majority, left their communion, and proceeded to erect a new organization, styled "The Reformed Dissenting Presbytery.
He would, in the moment of such emotional genuflexions, have dissented with cynical bitterness from the poetic dictum that it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Oh, he dissented with a vigor that was almost bitterness, because the smiling quirk of Sam Carr's lips when he uttered the last sentence gave it something of a personal edge.
Thou heardst me say that I am principled against it," dissented Mrs. Meredith.
Nay, Matilda," dissented the squire, who was now also gazing at the miniature.
Those who dissented and disagreed with the man who questioned the very bases of our morality said many, varying things and not all things were said in Keidansky's presence.
So far as I know, no Republican has dissentedfrom it.
But Judge Thomas dissented from the judgments of his court on several very important occasions.
I don't know about that," dissented Dick; he was rather given to argue from the mere pleasure of opposition.
I don't think he has, though," dissented young Wilberforce.
But there is no must in the case," dissented the lawyer.
Mr. Bulwer concluded with his motion for the address; but Lord Palmerston dissented from his opinions, and was willing to believe that the government alluded to would not be so impolitic as to put down free constitutions.
The speech which Pitt uttered upon this occasion was so convincing to the house, that all but a few members ventured to enter the fairy car with him, and those who dissented from his views were looked upon as little better than madmen.
Those who dissented from the resolutions consisted chiefly of the Irish members, and, singular enough, their opposition was chiefly confined to the last resolution.
The dissented stock was from the tenth of October following to be considered as converted into an equal amount of three and a half per cents.
Among those who dissentedwere Burke, Fox, Sheridan, and Sir Grey Cooper, who endeavoured to show that the premier's hopes were visionary.
On discovering this, Earl Grey, who dissented from such views, immediately wrote to the lord-lieutenant to reconsider the subject, taking nothing into account but what was fitting for Ireland.
Of the dissenters in Virginia he says, that at the first they were not properly dissenters from the original constitution of the Church of England, but rather dissented from those who had forsaken it.
One justice dissented from this opinion and argued that "as soon as war broke out, it became the duty of the master to decline to convey any goods which, from the papers in his possession, appeared to be the property of enemy consignees.
He dissented altogether from the doctrine of the Senator from Illinois, that by non-action, or unfriendly legislation a Territory could annul a decision of the Supreme Court and exclude slavery.
I don't know that that is so very strange," dissented Mary Carimon, after a pause.
Monsieur Podevin especially denied it," dissented Nancy, who possessed about as much insight as a goose, and a little less tact.
Not one of them dissented from his statement; he had voiced the joint conviction of them all.
All who dissentedfrom his teaching were promptly attacked by him, and that, in violent and scurrilous language.
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