In opposition to the unsatisfactory attempts of modern scholars, it is the traditional interpretation of Mitra and Varuna that Mitra was god of day (i.
East of the middle district the Kosalas and Videhas form, in opposition to the Kurus and Pa[.
This at least is how it was received by the public; and, however violent the opposition it met with, I cannot find that its author was blamed for not having made adequate mention of Lamarck.
Toland spent most of the remainder of his life abroad, and showed in his subsequent works a character growing gradually worse, lashed into bitterer opposition by the censure which he had received.
The Literary Opposition of Heathens Against Christianity in the Early Ages.
The political opposition also was henceforth founded on a more subtle policy, and on an appreciation of the nature of Christianity.
This lay at the bottom of the opposition which Buxtorf and Owen offered to the view, now universally adopted, of Capellus and Morinus, that the vowel points were a late introduction in Hebrew, perhaps of the sixth to the tenth centuries A.
The literary opposition of Heathens against Christianity in the early ages.
The oppositionof the old Lutheran party of other parts of Germany produced controversies which continued till about 1720; for an account of which, see Weismann, Mem.
The two rival philosophies which now arose are generally placed in opposition to each other, as physical and mental respectively, that of Bacon being conversant with nature, that of Descartes with man.
His opposition to Christianity was not however based wholly on a prejudice of feeling.
The chief opposition arose from Göze, a pastor of Hamburg, who attacked Lessing even before the last and most obnoxious fragment was published; but both Semler and Jerusalem also wrote against him.
Christianity offers occasion for oppositionby its inherent claims, independently of accidental causes.
It gives the people a larger representation in the business of conducting a draft, tends to secure justice to all, and thus relieves the popular prejudice and feeling of opposition to the law itself.
Butler had also to contend with the opposition of the news writers or news correspondents, who doubtless found his undertaking interfere with their trade.
And therefore there must come, sooner or later, and more or less intensely in all Christian lives, opposition and tribulation.
Nonconformists are quite willing to assert our priesthood in opposition to the claims of a class, and are as willing to forget it, should the question of the duties of the priest come into view.
In the measure in which you and I are Christians we are in direct opposition to all the maxims which rule the world and make it a world.
Love will soften the tones, will instinctively teach what we ought to be and do; will take the bitterness out of opposition and diversity, will make even rebuke, when needful, only a form of expressing itself.
You cannot irritate people, or provoke them into a controversial opposition when you say, 'Brother, let me tell you my experience.
This radical and absolute opposition between the two doctrines necessarily extends to their consequences.
Her mother’s oppositionhad hitherto been doubtful.
But the oppositionwas not confined to Catholics alone.
Mark’s who had been sent to Rome were dispirited by the formidable aspect of the opposition they there encountered, and wrote to their prior that success was impossible, and he must give up all hope of carrying his point.
The new German Emperor-pope will be able, without opposition from the liberals, to introduce the Russian catechism.
I fear, governor,” said Beck “that even the new knout or the pleti would meet with invincible opposition in Germany.
All this was far from satisfactory or pleasing to the Magnificent Lorenzo, and naturally begat among his adherents a feeling of strong opposition to Savonarola.
At page 10 we read: “Every year we expect that the opposition of a very bigoted and ignorant class will materially lessen this the most effective of our charitable efforts.
In fact, the opposition which meets her heroine at every step in her desire to do good and to be perfect, not only to herself but to others, is puny compared with that which S.
The feelings that have fed this opposition have evidently been long in existence, but only now have they betrayed themselves openly.
General dissatisfaction spread rapidly, and swept into a threatening opposition even many of the strongest partisans of the Medicean dynasty.
At one time, Mark Woolston regretted that he had not established an opposition paper, in order to supply an antidote for the bane; but reflection satisfied him it would have been useless.
At the crater this last trouble was spared them, the opposition performing that office in the following ingenious manner.
Mr. Carlile now began overtly his campaign of obstruction and opposition to the admission of the State into the Union.
It is the glory of our country to have originated a system of opposition to the commerce in that part of our fellow-creatures, who compose the nations of Africa.
Alexander Dumas had written a play entitled "Anthony," which is composed especially "to castigate morals by exposing vice in opposition to virtue.
In the end, however, organized labor abandoned its opposition or neutral position and gave its support to save the Union.
It should be the opposition of brothers not of enemies, it may be shewn by acts of kindness and forbearance, but it must be opposition and it must be shown.
When manifesting opposition to the extension of slavery into new territory however, the labor leaders were generally opposed to the aggressive policy of the anti-slavery groups.
Even the passage of the bill did not cause Mr. Carlile's opposition to cease.
But there were great obstacles in the way,--the lukewarmmess of the home government, the bitter opposition of the Jesuits, and the intrigues of his colleagues.
He could not brook the opposition of men less competent than he was, and when he was provoked his arrogance became intolerable.
United in their opposition to him, they were together a fair match for Frontenac in ability and astuteness.
In the early days of the Hawaiian mission our elders met with much opposition and with several severe mobbings.
Opposition strengthened my faith, and added members to the Church.
Bishop Bryant Jolly, and his strong, numerous family and relations, formed a wall of opposition against cooperative labor that made life in the community unpleasant.
Such influence as they have got is exerted almost entirely outside the constitution of industry, and very often in opposition to it.
It served as a party war-cry in Opposition for ten years, and nearly every pre-war Conservative statesman was committed to it--Earl Balfour and Lord Lansdowne included.
The ministry, supported in principle by the country, although not from any personal respect or liking, stands in opposition to an Assembly, elected by that country, but no longer representing it.
From the very commencement, the Prince of Wales appears to have espoused the cause of legitimacy in opposition to his personal predilections.
In the first place, let us set ourselves right with these same Financial Reform Associations, so that no charge may be brought against us of factious opposition to salutary improvement.
Now, it offers an active and seemingly spiteful opposition to the government; and now, again, it accepts the first outlet to enable it to turn back upon its course.
But it is said that we shall throw away our votes, and that our opposition will fail.
By such a union we shall consolidate an opposition which must prevail.
Their clamorous boldness is easily seen through, and the least opposition or firmness reduces them to the meanest degree of submission and fawning.
On his return to Italy, after the battle of Pharsalia, he had the mortification of learning that his brother and nephew were making their peace with Cæsar, by throwing on himself the blame of their opposition to the conqueror.
Chrysostom used it in the vigils at Constantinople, in opposition to the same heretical party; and similar vigils had been established by Basil in the monasteries of Cappadocia.
In the opposition which Ambrose made to the Arians, as already related, there is no appearance of his appealing to any law of the Empire in justification of his refusal to surrender the Basilica to them.
The first cause of importance he undertook was his defence of Sextus Roscius; in which he distinguished himself by his spirited opposition to Sylla, whose favourite Chrysogonus was prosecutor in the action.
Its undying opposition to the Turks is not the least striking instance of this divinely imparted gift.
In opposition to both these classes were men whose type may be found in all ages, who were uncompromising in their conservatism and who could see nothing but a presage of national disaster in every change from the old methods of life.
Alexander had favored the enemies of the ancient gods, and even decided to the advantage of the Christians when there occurred a dispute in regard to some land in Rome which they claimed in opposition to certain innkeepers.
No wonder, then, that henceforth she stood in hostileopposition to the Claudian Livia and her two children.
Ministry composed wholly of laymen which was constantly in opposition to him.
A dozen members of the Opposition were also there, including M.
Dufaure has again produced a change in these views, as people fear that the real strength of the opposition may lie in that quarter.
Affre's writings of a few years ago, in opposition to the July monarchy, the original signed documents being in his possession.
In the Chambers of 1848 he joined the Opposition and headed a conspiracy, which ended in his arrest and imprisonment.
Madame de Flahaut wrote to Lord Beauvale, the English ambassador, to try and disarm thisopposition and said that people need not be afraid of her husband's appointment as she would not be able to follow him for a long time.
They are now forming the nucleus of a small opposition party.
I hear from Vienna that Madame de Flahaut is patronising the young Hungarians who are causing trouble at the Diet of Pressburg; that she praises their opposition speeches and encourages them to come to her house.
The proposal was vigorously attacked by the Comte d'Alton Shée who spoke for the dynastic party and had suddenly joined the opposition from the outset of the agitation for reform which preceded the revolution of February 1848.
Schneider's amendment has been proposed with their support in opposition to M.
He was one of the leaders of the opposition to the Government of Louis Philippe.
Mornay who spoke on the opposition side of the Chamber of Deputies, that he had spoken as a marquis and not as a patriot.
The words were simple and the accents harsh, yet they pierced the heart of the man who was preparing to follow his own path in opposition to his father's will.
Yet it may be that I cannot agree with the opinion of the man whose strength and wisdom are so far superior to mine, yet you have just shown that you cannot tolerate the opposition of a woman, not even mine.
His mere hints had been commands to the wife of his youth whom he had borne to the grave a few years before, and as yet he had encountered no opposition from Miriam.
If you do not desire to be weaker than the woman whose opposition roused your wrath, sacrifice your own wishes for the welfare of yonder thousands, who are of the same blood!
Opposition or complaint was rare among the warriors, but the murmurs, curses, and threats grew all the louder among those who bore no weapons.
Too many have not the steady courage to hold on to the end in mild, but firm opposition to all erroneous, but well meant interference.
Ignorance on their part was much better than the studied opposition on the part of the rebels.
There was opposition enough to this in some quarters; of course, it never was once intended to ask such men as Jefferson Davis and Robert E.
But the South were up on their feet again, and offered the most determined opposition to the right and proper use of the national army.
Indeed, the exodus of these poor pilgrims and refugees to their consecrated soil was at first met with the most determined and violent oppositionby many.
To say that if it is the opposition of private interests which made the establishment of societies necessary, it is the accord of those interests which makes them possible,[266] is to utter a truth which feeds no practical curiosity.
The opposition of private interests remains, in spite of the yoke which their accord has imposed upon it, but which only controls and does not suppress such an opposition.
What can a girl do in opposition to the will of all her family, when she has to choose between the alternative that she loathes, or a life-long seclusion in a convent?
Had this event happened but a week before, her marriage to Norbert would have met with no oppositionfrom his father, and she would never have plunged into this abyss of crime.
The detective handed this over to her, and, in her gratitude, she promised to give up all further opposition to the match.
She believed that the only opposition would come from his father.
True, the opponents of the measure constituted a very small minority of the Reform party generally; but there was another party from whom the strongest opposition was to be expected--the Family Compact.
The Governor accordingly summoned the leaders of the opposition to his councils, and the Baldwin-Lafontaine ministry was formed.
Unnecessary to say that there is no more fighting, for the senior boy has forbidden it, and he is not one who tolerates any opposition to his authority.
The opposition of Lord Dorchester, we think, affords a sufficient explanation, without searching any farther.
The Oppositioncontrived to kindle a flame all over the country.
I was then spoken of throughout the State as a probable candidate for the bench, and he announced his opposition to my nomination.
But I was not to have the office without a struggle; an opposition candidate appeared, and an exciting election ensued.
He never conceded the right to any man to hold an opinion in opposition to his prejudices, or cross the path of his passion with impunity.
