I do not think that I ever saw one like it,' said Anne; 'but that is no proof that there is no such flower.
And I believe that having anything on my mind puts me in wilder spirits, apparently, than usual, but I am sure that my merriment to-day was no proof that I was happy.
Their not being able to read the chapter fluently is no proof that they do not enter into it,' said Lady Merton; 'it often happens that the best readers understand less than some awkward blunderers, who read with reverence.
That with his constitution and habits of life he should have lived seventy-five years, is a proof that an inherent vivida vis[1288] is a powerful preservative of the human frame.
Mr. Malone things it is rather a proof that he felt nothing of those cheerful sensations which he has described: that on these topicks it is the poet, and not the man, that writes.
And yet the fact that we can be conscious of such an alienation--an alienation that we cannot accept indifferently --is a proof that more is firmly implanted in us than the modern direction of life is able to develop and satisfy.
The Will is our own; the Ought is not our own; the fact that we possess it as an idea is noproof that it has become a possession of the whole of life.
Proof that he was actually responsible for the damage would still be lacking, and it might later be discovered that the injury had been done accidentally by one of the servants.
A dog's track in the garden is proof that a dog has been there.
If a boy associates with bad company, we may offer the maxim, "Birds of a feather flock together," in proof that he is probably bad too.
A man's own notion that he sees clearly, is no proof that he really sees clearly; and the distinctness of a definition in itself is no evidence that it corresponds adequately with the object of it.
It is no proof that space is merely a subjective category of the human mind.
Proof that knowledge of the mysterious laws governing ordinary natural phenomena still exists even among civilized people, is indubitable.
I believe it was used as a test, as a proof that a man was of, or immediately belonging to, the sacred tribe, and therefore exempt from the jurisdiction of the court in which he had been tried.
Lord John Russell avoids discussing the question whether the marriage involved the forfeiture of the inheritance of the crown, an avoidance which many will interpret as a proof that in his opinion it did.
The silence, therefore, of Christ here, under such circumstances, is a proof that it was not the divine will that all the Apostles should be in such a sense equal that no one of them should hold a superior authority over the rest.
We have just had the most awful proof that, through a long-continued and deliberate education for that purpose, the German people lost its moral sense and set up diabolical standards in place of those common to all civilized races.
His enemies used it as proof that he was not a safe President, but they took means much more malignant than this to discredit and destroy him.
On the other hand, the fact that an animal or plant cannot be naturalized is noproof that it is not acclimatized.
If it is found to be marked already, it is a proof that he has killed his man before and has been marked for it, with the warning, 'Take care not to kill anyone else, for if you do you will be hanged.
Pleasures which give activity to our senses, my dear son, disturb the repose of our soul--a proof that they do not deserve the name of real enjoyments.
Yet I have often been duped by Frenchmen, and never by Spaniards--a proof that we ought to mistrust our tastes.
If I do not talk quite so much on religious subjects as I once did, that is no proof that I feel less; as we become reserved on these high and awful considerations in proportion as we are impressed by them.
I am happy to hear that you are resigned to His will; that is a proof that He is dealing graciously.
In the face of these alterations it is impossible to appeal to history for a proof that it is not lawful to make any desirable change.
A writer in the April number of the Quarterly Review has assailed him very angrily, and has accused him of 'asserting without a shadow of proof that nine-tenths of the Welsh people are Nonconformists.
It is sufficient here to point out that there is noproof that consciousness is dependent upon the soul's connection with a physical organism.
In proof that baptism is a prerequisite to the Lord's Supper, we urge the following considerations: (a) The ordinance of baptism was instituted and administered long before the Supper.
A few botanists have asserted that the sugar-cane flowers more often in Asia than in America or Africa, and even that it produces seed[762] on the banks of the Ganges, which they regard as a proof that it is indigenous.
I find no proof that it is wild in Java, Sumatra, and other islands of the Malay Archipelago.
Martius mentions it in his flora of Moscow; but there is no proof that it was wild in these various localities.
It appears and disappears, a proof thatit is not a native of the country.
Linnaeus,[440] but there is no proof thatany of them are indigenous.
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