It is a work of the greatest value from the inside light that this member, and opposer of the Constitution, sheds on this secret history of the Convention, but must be taken as a partizan statement.
S: And this was Ad; they denied the communications of their Lord, and disobeyed His messengers and followed the bidding of every insolent opposer (of truth).
Your Noble Tullus Auffidius will appeare well in these Warres, his great Opposer Coriolanus being now in no request of his countrey Volce.
Holy seemes the quarrell Vpon your Graces part: blacke and fearefull On the opposer Duke.
A follower of the opinions of Molina, a Spanish Jesuit (in respect to grace); an opposer of the Jansenists.
A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary.
In the revival of learning they were violently opposed to classical studies; hence, the name of Dunce was applied with scorn and contempt to an opposer of learning, or to one slow at learning, a dullard.
The dissuader and opposer of the agrarian law now began to be popular.
His chief work was a history of the Jesuits; he was an opposer of that order, and of the pope's bull, unigenitus.
He was the first opposer of the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the defender of Wickliffe.
Stafford, though not a man of much ability, had rendered himself obnoxious as a prominent opposer of all measures intended to check the growth of popery.
Defn: A follower of the opinions of Molina, a Spanish Jesuit (in respect to grace); an opposer of the Jansenists.
Defn: A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary.
So, with this bold opposerrushes on This many-headed monster, multitude.
But its chief opposer was the king, who alleged that the coronation oath precluded his compliance with a scheme which might endanger the ecclesiastical establishment.
Mr. Grey was the chief opposer of the address in the commons; he likewise moved an amendment; but the address was there carried by a majority of one hundred and eighty-two.
Vehement debates followed this proposition, its principal supporter being John Adams, and its chief opposer John Dickenson.
In nine cases out of ten, the opposer of this class, is, or has been, a participant in the works of darkness whose exposition he so much dreads.
Hence, during his congressional career, the Whigs occasionally found him a decided opposerof their policy and measures, on questions where he deemed they had mistaken the true course.
John Adams had now become known as the most intrepid, zealous, and indefatigable opposer of British usurpation.
He greatly leaned to the Puritans in doctrine; and, in discipline was a noted opposer of Archbishop Laud.
He attended the first examination of the Doctor before the Council of State, on the ostensible accusation of assisting the King, and saw, in his behaviour, an enlightened opposer of tyranny, and a conscientious adherent to the old government.
This man therefore, was a stiff opposer of Nimrod; neither had he a hand in the building of Babel; for all that had, had their language confounded by that strange judgment of God.
In Napoleon, we saw the triumphant opposer of all despots, and the restorer of order to his own disorganized and distracted subjects.
A premier ought to be the bold opposer of corruption, the solid friend of his sovereign, and the uncompromising champion of the people's rights.
She was visiting at Brother McKey's, who, by the way, is a strong opposer of entire sanctification.
He was a most active opposer of the truth when the gospel was first preached in Moosh, but one of the first to accept it, being convinced by reading the Scriptures.
Those who do not previously know my principles, might almost suspect me of being an opposer of that prime doctrine, which I really consider as the leading principle of Christianity.