Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.
The denial of Mrs. Ferguson enraged Thorburn, and he at once wrote a few falsehoods about her.
Only when he is brought to bay by the falsehoods of man, in the absolute need of his soul, will he boldly anticipate the redemption and fling himself for refuge on a justifying God.
Divine grace is to be seen thrusting back the chaotic falsehoods that darken the world of thought.
And this thought of a Divine purpose to confound the falsehoods of scepticism answers another inquiry which may readily occur.
But their endurance, their vehement resolution, break the falsehoods of the time and enter into the redemption of the race.
You render your behaviour the more unpardonable by the absurd falsehoods you wish me to believe.
Ah, Ella," I cried in disgust, "all these falsehoods only render your conduct the more despicable.
The tales of van Berk were those of a personal enemy, falsehoods scarcely worth contradicting.
Yet these falsehoods are too gross to be called merely foolish.
It puts the devil with his falsehoods in the place of God.
Yet they carry on their insidious, malicious frauds, imposing falsehoodsupon men.
These falsehoods the orders readily sold to the laity on deathbeds and under other circumstances.
She was cruelly wounded by the insults of Vendome to her husband, and by all the atrocities and falsehoodshis emissaries published.
It was the frequency and the hardihood of his falsehoods in this respect that made the King and Madame de Maintenon look upon him as their sole resource; for he never said anything disagreeable, and never found difficulties anywhere.
Westphal also made a second attack on Lasco in his "Just Defense against the Manifest Falsehoods of J.
He then asserted whatever falsehoods he pleased, respecting Philip and Nabis; that "both were ready to recommence hostilities, and would greedily lay hold on the first opportunity of recovering what they had lost in war.
When he wrote his Gospel everything was fresh in his mind, and there could be no object, on his part, in writing the life of Jesus, to state falsehoods or omit important truths in order to deceive his countrymen.
There are many other falsehoods in gospel geography beside these, which, it is needless to mention, plainly show that the writers were not the persons they are generally supposed to be.
We should be spared a large number of very indifferent plays; a great many falsehoods would not be told to our acquaintances; old gentlemen would not, under such circumstances, need to go to Carlsbad to be scrubbed.
It may be that Lord Melbourne was fully alive both to the truths and falsehoods of his position.
Oh, that I had not believed the falsehoods that were told me before that dreadful day when I last met him on earth!
Falsehoods and devices of all sorts had been employed to induce her to make her peace with Rome.
And now (for when men are in great fear even falsehoods please them) a report being spread that we were at no great distance from our own frontier, the army raised an impatient shout, and demanded to be at once led across the Tigris.
Blessed be the God's-voice; for it is true, and Falsehoods have to cease before it!
This man, although a follower of the court, and sunned in the celestial presence, had dared to utter vile falsehoods against the celestial dynasty.
Falsehoods upon the posting winds seemed to have filled the air with the most outrageous calumny.
I have seen him arraigned before the courts of his country, and seen him honorably acquitted, and delivered from the pernicious breath of slander, and the machinations and falsehoods of wicked and corrupt men.
By his falsehoods I was taught to detest one equally brave and generous.
Falsehoods by which Titian attains the appearance of quality in light.
According to their own statement of October 13, Peary and his clique convict themselves of boldly and deliberately perpetrating gross falsehoods against Dr.
XXIII Good Turpin, he who knows that he tells true, And leaves men to believe what they think right, Says of Rogero wondrous things, which you Hearing related, would as falsehoods slight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "falsehoods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
