As little, I should think, can it matter whether the writer so designated is a man, or a woman, as one or two of my critics profess to have discovered.
I might be burning to know; because I had not the hypocrisy to profess any anxiety for his recovery, and I had not the face to express any desire for a contrary result.
If you torment me in this way any more, I must conclude that your protestations are entirely false, and that you hate me in your heart as fervently as you profess to love me!
And yet she had loved this man, she had allowed him to passionately profess love for her.
They don't even profess to have felt an unselfish desire to see one enjoying oneself at their expense (though, as a matter of fact, what enjoyment one has generally is at their expense).
Kant does not profess or attempt to keep exclusively to any one line of statement.
Inductive inference, when so employed, necessarily involves a petitio principii; we assume the very point we professto have proved.
Though the thesis and the antithesis will, if antinomy be assumed to represent an actual conflict, contradict one another, no such conflict is allowable in the grounds which profess to establish them.
This difference is paralleled by the nature of the idealisms to which the two proofs are opposed and which they profess to refute.
We may lead up to these proofs by first formulating (a) the fundamental assumption upon which they proceed, and (b) the thesis which they profess to establish.
His thesis is not, therefore, as by its face value it would seem to profess to be, an inference from the points established in the preceding expositions.
The proofs offered by Malebranche and by Leibniz are themselves speculative, and consequently presuppose the conclusion which theyprofess to establish.
From this naturalistic position Hume makes a no less vigorous attack upon the empirical philosophies which profess to establish general principles by inductive inference from the facts of experience.
These general principles are now well understood by almost all who profess to have studied the subject, and are disputed by few except those who ostentatiously proclaim their contempt for such studies.
We are aware that this last expression is sometimes used to characterize a supposed mode of philosophizing, which does not profess to be founded upon experience at all.
The Church is the congregation of all those who profess the faith of Christ, partake of the same Sacraments, and are governed by their lawful pastors under one visible Head.
We make the sign of the cross to show that we are Christians and to profess our belief in the chief mysteries of our religion.
Ah, you profess to love Scotland very much," said Bertha archly, "but your brother evidently loves it more than you do.
True; but this religion is said to change those who profess it--what if they are not changed?
They would have to profess a false system of morality, and to repudiate literary and scientific sincerity.
No earthly reward or peril would have induced him to say what he did not think, or to profess what he did not believe.
I do not profess to judge of the merits of the case, but one feature distinguishes Fourier from critics, reformers, and prophets, who are gathered to their fathers.
For ourselves we are content with the Bible as it is, and cannot help a feeling of regret that any who profess to be governed by its wisdom are disposed to treat it with so little reverence.
They are well written, as we have said--and in some respects possess great merit; but truth compels us to add, that they are very unworthy of the author and of the great questions they profess to elucidate and discuss.
There is no such Italy, least of all Tuscany, as you profess to have read of in Donna Aurelia's simple soul.
About a fourth of the population profess Mahommedanism; the remainder are spirit worshippers.
It is vain to profess to one's own heart a complaisant dandyism of misanthropy.
I don't profess to understand why you all do that kind of thing, but I'm willing to suppose that there's some good reason for it.
I don't profess to know exactly what you said to Miss King--" "I never said anything to her.
I treat her as if she were grown up, and profess to feel that she has really cast a charm--a state of affairs which, if true, would greatly amuse her.
It is one of the maladies of our age, a sign of sheer nervousness, to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
To be sure, they profess to entertain an unreasoning dislike for rich people, and, I believe, think that their lives are entirely spent over oranges and skittles.
With what consistency can any one avow fidelity to the Union and yet profess views according in the main with the platform of Messrs.
Now I profess honesty, as an abstract principle--being, perhaps the conscientious reader will think, more of a professor than a practicer herein.
While holding firmly to our own views as set forth under the 'Editorial' heading, we by no means profess to endorse those of our contributors, leaving the reader to make his own comments on these.
Some such wondrous interval is hinted at by people who profess to have seen the Channel sea smooth and calm.
Such as remained of them had been compelled by the pressure of circumstances to adopt the Turkish language, and to profess Mohammedanism.
Of that bright band fueling the bale-fires of political consistency I can not profess myself a member in good standing.
What kind of defense could be made by any one who did not profess belief in the innocence of his client?
They either think or profess to think that if they can show that women's votes will purify politics they will have proved their case.
And it is but natural that we should ask where, during that struggle, were those who now profess such loathing for slave grown sugar?
To this extent, at least, we all, with scarcely an exception, now profess ourselves Reformers.
There are subject to the British rule in Asia a hundred millions of people who do not profess the Christian faith.
Even if there were no suspicion of corruption on the part of the interpreters of the law, the science which they profess is in such a state of confusion that no reliance can be placed on their answers.
I shall in the clearest manner profess my opinion on that great question of principle which he has studiously evaded; and for my opinion I shall give what seem to me to be unanswerable reasons.
Indeed we doubt whether the originator of it, (and we are happy to profess ignorance of his name), proceeded on any principle whatever, except the gratification of a wild and degraded fancy.
She asks no judicial action for herself, and does not profess to have any right to solicit action on behalf of another.
Why, your worship," said one, "these peopleprofess to be better than anybody else.
A question has been propounded here eliciting much controversy, namely, "Did Mr. Wesley ever profess to have experienced the blessing of entire sanctification?
Did he encourage his people to seek such a blessing, and, when obtained, profess it in a humble spirit?
THE Church of Rome and the other Partialist Christian Churches profess to believe that, at the end of the world, a general judgment of all the then living, and of all the dead, shall take place.
He thus set forth the measure in the light of injustice to the negro: "The gentlemen who report it profess to be, and doubtless are, the peculiar advocates of the African race.
