I didn't have much faith that it would work, expecting that I might possibly hear a word or so that would give hope of a future for the idea.
They were prejudiced and lacking in foresight, and had no faith in electric railroading.
Month after month of constant work by day and night had not broken down Edison's faith in success, and the failure of an experiment simply meant that he had found something else that would not do, thus bringing him nearer the possible goal.
The faith of wives would unrewarded prove, Without those just observers of our love.
And such in Almanzor are a frank and noble openness of nature, an easiness to forgive his conquered enemies, and to protect them in distress; and, above all, an inviolable faith in his affection.
There's no such thing as constancy you call; Faith ties not hearts; 'tis inclination all.
Save you, sweet signior Benito; by my faith I am glad to see you look so bonnily to-day.
That hour, when I my faith to you did plight, I banished him for ever from my sight.
I'll hear no more; your breach of faith is plain: You would with wit your want of love maintain.
Now, by experience, you my faith may find, And are to thank me that I seemed unkind.
This blessed change we all with joy receive; And beg to learn that faith which you believe.
Trust then in Him; and from his grace imploreFaith to believe, what rightly we adore.
And bear with me above all--because this shows no want of faith in you .
I do not understand how you can seem at the same moment to have faith in my integrity and to have doubt whether all this time I may not have felt a preference for another .
I won't say to my knowledge of you and faith in you .
And I said to myself, I wonder if they don't lose all faith in the missionarys, and what they tell them.
And he scorfed agin and sez, "Don't you believe faith could cure em?
You know how thatfaith comforts our two souls, how it is to us, like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land, but they say, their belief is the same to them, let us not judge them too hardly.
Anyhow she accepted him right there in full faith and a pink and white cambric dress.
And when you condemn a belief simply on the ground of its bein' miraculous and beyond your comprehension, Josiah Allen, you had better pause and consider on what the Methodist faith is founded.
Now my belief is grounded in the Methodist meetin' house like a rock; my faith has cast its ancher there inside of her beliefs and can't be washed round by any waves of opposin' doctrines.
Le Clercq, First Establishment of theFaith in New France (1881), p.
All places of worship were to be consecrated according to the Church of England, and so the Roman Catholic faith had only a subordinate position in a colony which owed its foundation to a true upholder of that belief.
On the whole I feel less faith in Great Britain's desire for peace.
Sir, you do me honour, and you have a larger faith in me than my own physician," said the little man, brightening up somewhat.
She has died as she lived, in the clear light of faith and self-forgetfulness, and now her name is linked for ever with the great souls who have led the van of womanly service for God and man.
She shared the spirit of the race from which she had sprung, a reaching forward to obtain the prize of life fulfilled with service, and she had inherited the childlike faith and confidence which inspired their belief in the Father of Spirits.
She became a Christian and was baptized in 1877, but long before she made profession of her faith by baptism she lived a consistent Christian life.
She was so convincing, but with all my faith in her, I never thought she would get there!
Wallace Williamson that which gave her the vital faith which inspired her life and work, and carried her at last triumphantly through the swellings of Jordan.
You Jezebel of hell, you painted whore, Talk about faith, I'll give you faith galore.
Tis far too late: Your much were little my thirst to fill, Your little were scorn of Faith so deep-- O give me nothing!
Tilda had regained and kept her old courage, and in the end her faith was justified.
She too conned it, but could read nothing of his faith in the wimpled surface.
Somewhere out yonder it surely lay, and faith is the evidence of things not seen; but it cost him all his fortitude to keep back his tears and play the man.
All her life my friend had been a Christian believer, with an unwavering faith in a life beyond this, and for her sake a bitter grief came upon me because, so far as I could see, there were no grounds for that belief.
It is celebrated for what is called the Confession of Augsburg: that is, the declaration of faith which was published there by Luther and the other reformers.
She had just that touch of idealism in her character that made for faith and hope.
We do not believe that they exert any influence 'ex opere operato,' but only through the faith of the believer.
Such is the imbecility of man, when he undertakes to govern himself by his own strength, without faith and the Holy Spirit.
And since previous faith is required in baptism, and none but the baptised are admitted to the Lord's Supper, it is evident that faith is also required of communicants.
Evidently nothing short of living faith will satisfy the representations of God's Word and the nature of the case.
Because, not every alteration in matters offaith is inadmissible and censurable.
The Catholicism in which he was outwardly brought up never seems to have touched his inner nature; he went through no spiritual wrench in leaving a faiththat was never a reality to him.
The first period of his residence in England was darkened by the deep distress and discouragement into which the recent events had plunged him; but his faith in the future prevailed, and he went on with his work.
That Lesseps acted in good faith has been generally admitted, and was always believed by Mazzini.
Piedmont, by qualifying for the part of Italian advocate in the Councils of Europe, gave a guarantee of good faithwhich patriots like Daniel Manin and Giorgio Pallavicini accepted as a happy promise for the future.
In the miseries of exile and poverty he had never lost faith in his country, but fearlessly maintained that 'the emancipation of Italy was an event of the nineteenth century.
I'll try him to-morrow--I haven't lost faithin that lad.
Tester, never dreaming that he was falling very short of the faith which at that moment, and only at that moment, had been reposed in him.
He did not tell them that his expectations were largely bound up in their credulity and faith in his integrity.
The poet's splendid dreams, Have hallowed each grove and hill, And the beautiful forms of ancient Faith Are lingering round us still.
His career was made possible by the steady faith which neither separation nor any misgiving nor its own troubles could shake.
He appeals to her faith that he is choosing the nobler path in pursuing knowledge, than in turning aside to the temptation of throwing it up for the sake of their speedier union.
The honours of men I value so far as they are evidences of power, but with the cynical mistrust of their judgment and my own worthiness, which always haunts me, I put very little faith in them.
If I had not known you and understood your nature and disposition as I fancy I do, I should not have allowed myself to be put in this position; but I have implicit faith in your doing what is wise and right, and so making it tenable.
We wanted, not to pin our faith to that or any other speculation, but to get hold of clear and definite conceptions which could be brought face to face with facts and have their validity tested.
I tell her I fear she has rested her happiness on a very insecure foundation; but she is full of hope and confidence, and to me her love is the faith that moveth mountains.
The happy Eleonore believed in Canalis's good faith when she had read through the four pages in which love and business, falsehood and truth, jostled each other.
The best proof of friendship that I can give to an unknown lady in exchange for a faith which allays the sting of criticism, is to share with her the harvest of my own experience, even at the risk of dispelling her most vivid illusions.
How love and faith and friendship Had vanished, the world was bare; How dear were tea and coffee, And money had grown so rare!
I before thee stand and listen; To the end I listen stoutly, Like a type of faith in silence, And I fold my hands devoutly.
Unless you immediately react against that apparently innocent word 'tumblings,' yourfaith in the grand style will begin to disintegrate.
Then arises the belief in a deliverer, a faith motif which is one of those heartfelt inventions of the melodic Liszt.
But there is little doubt that Cobbett had some faith left in the honesty of a jury; besides a fallacious belief that the ostensible cause of the prosecution was the real one, and that the matter would be decided upon its merits.
He remembered the vows of faith and attachment that bound all his courtiers to him and he expected that a score would at once offer themselves, willing to sacrifice their lives for their king.
He was perfectly sure that it would skim, without turning, as far as the goal at the opposite end of the field and perhaps farther, for he had great faith in this heavenly youth who had been his companion in so many good times.
Icarus had great faith in his father and entreated him to find some way by which they might elude the guards and begin their life anew on some other island.
For a moment she knelt on the lower step and bent her head because of those remnants of a faith which was all she knew of earthly hope,--and then she started to mount the steps.
