The lesson from the Nemesis of doubt is the conclusion of Augustine Thierry: "I have need of an infallible authority, I have need of rest for my soul.
Almost all hold the immutable conviction that Saxon words are an infallible recipe for the indispensable brevity.
The inevitable consequence of the second is: that whatever the church teaches as revealed truth, is so revealed, is therefore ultimately true, and must be rested on implicitly as the infallible utterance of God.
In Llansantffraid, Montgomeryshire, a crumb from the communion table, taken therefrom at midnight following the administration of the Holy Communion, was an infallible charm.
Welsh sheep become infallible prognosticators of a change of weather; for, by a never failing instinct, they leave the high and bare mountain ridges for sheltered nooks, and crowd together when they detect the approach of a storm.
It was the sure, the infallible means of bringing him to expiation; and you all know whether, when that day of expiation came, he quailed before it.
And will you not grant that motherhood as it appears in that lady--pushed to a degree of fervor which I might almost call fanaticism--would be to her an infallible preservative?
Vouchsafe to give us your infallible judgment on it!
Also her voice did sink exceeding low in discoursing of thee, and murmured sweetly; another infallible sign.
Undoubtedly she would have abandoned the expedition then and there had it not been for the jeers of Miranda who assured her she was developing symptoms that called for a generous dose of his infallible pills.
They were sold at six thousand ducats, and were thought infallible tests of poison, just as Venitian glass and some sorts of jewels were.
To drink three nights successively of this at midnight is an infallible cure for intermittent fever.
In later times midwives sold the caul at enormous prices to advocates, "as an especial means of making them eloquent," and to seamen as "an infallible preservative against drowning.
However, the old and venerable science, so deeply rooted in man's infallible instinct, is not abandoned.
I know its infallible wheelwork, its delicate points; I have studied its infantile maladies, and learned what diseases are fatal.
It was clear as mud how to win; the bookmaker was right; no fellow could fail to pull off five strokes out of nine with this infallible martingale!
Expanding by degrees, he waxed warm in praise of his infallible System.
But the great Book does not give an infallible table of wages; neither does it offer any sure rules whereby we can determine the working value of any particular individual.
The Book is not a series of infallible abstractions; it is rather a vital Guide Book won from the experience of life's ways.
It is not to be asserted, however, that the study of military history is an infallible means of becoming a great or even a good general.
History, moreover, not always an infallible guide, supplied many plausible arguments to those who sought to forecast the immediate future.
But Hooker was to find that mere mechanical precautions are not an infallible remedy for a dangerous situation.
The superstitious thus set up a spiritual discerning, independent of, and in opposition to reason, and their mere imaginations pass with each other, and with themselves, for infallible truth.
My quarrel is not with the word instinct, but with what seemed to be your assumption that whatever it is in us that judges about Good judges in a single, uniform, infallible way.
Thus it is argued: (1) That the criterion of Good is a simple infallible instinct.
I should be glad of any simple and infallible criterion; only I have never yet been able to find one.
Blaize was soon drawn away by one of the quacks, and, in spite of his master's angry looks, he could not help purchasing one of the infallible antidotes offered for sale by the charlatan.
In spite of his infallible antidote, he was carried off by the scourge.
The Sacred Scriptures, therefore, are the only infallible normative authority for Christian ethics, as they are for Christian theology.
This is the infallible test of their character and applied to the Republican, Democratic and Progressive parties, these parties stand forth as the several political expressions of the several divisions of the capitalist class.
There is one infallible test that fixes the status of a political party and its candidates.
Allegory was the instrument of Rabbinical and Alexandrine Scripturists, an infallible device for extracting the predetermined sense from the letter of the sacred text.
For the "receiving of the Spirit" was an infallible sign of true Christian faith.
