I shall not trouble you with more than two cases, out of a multitude, which prove the power of this popular feeling.
Yet there are facts connected with the beginning of his government which prove that he was not void of those vague wishes of doing good, which, as they spring up, are “choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this world.
Were every individual who has undergone this internal transformation to describe the steps by which it was accomplished, I doubt not but the general outline would prove alike in all.
Even to her, until he was ready to prove his intent by his actual deeds, it seemed impossible to give that story without the seeming of the plunderer of her people.
God grant that you can prove these things, Spurrier, but they will need proof.
His efforts to trace to definite result some filament of fact that might prove the court-martial to have reached a conclusion at variance with the truth, had all ended in failure.
I had wished to prove myself strong, but my knees trembled under me.
Does not his behaviour at all times prove to you how wrong you are?
One could see that she was accustomed to rule and to subdue, and even the smile of constant injured feeling that played about her broad mouth went to prove how inconsiderately she was wont to carry through her plans.
But the City with its strong walls, its great multitude of people, and its resources, might prove so independent as to lock out the King.
Trust that the further natural growth of the old tree--still vigorous--will be safer for us than to cut it down and plant a sapling, which may prove a poison tree.
The account books were all lost--who could claim orprove a debt?
Nothing, except the Royal tombs of Westminster, so much helps to prove the reality of History, as this collection of graves and slabs and tablets in this little church.
Tradition connects the name of Helena, Constantine's mother, with London, but there is nothing to prove that she was ever in the island at all.
The title deeds to houses and estates were burned--who would claim and prove the right to property?
It was the hour which was to test his principles and prove his faith.
Her splendid palace was indeed but a prison, and her lordly consort might prove her executioner.
This plan, as judged by results, is obviously insufficient for such pupils and tends to provefurther that the kind of work is more at fault in the matter of failing than is the amount.
Such conditions may prove very unequal for some individuals, and achievement is not then a real measure of ability.
Therefore it is particularly momentous to the pupil, should the school record ascribed to him prove frequently to be incongruous with his potential powers.
The men in these schools comprised 50 per cent of the teachers in the subjects which prove most difficult by producing the most failures, and they were more frequently found teaching in the advanced years of these subjects.
We thus learn that the most desperate measures are in agitation--weak and preposterous too as they are desperate, and must in the end prove ruinous.
Verily, I can say nothing but that time will disclose it, and the event prove it.
He may provean amusing and interesting subject for your speculation while we are gone.
He may prove victor: it is quite possible: but I draw not back--no word of supplication goes from me.
However, let me try; for I have promised to prove to our Roman friend that the women, of Palmyra know the use of arms not less than the men.
Just as the works of nature prove to the contemplative mind the being of a God, so do the books of the Christians prove the truth of their religion.
Show your dexterity, and prove that you too have seen the wars, by the grace with which you shall do your service.
Prove the truth, and mankind will always prefer it to falsehood.
He is a good soldier and a faithful--may he prove as true to you, my noble girl, as he has to me.
May it proveall you desire; yet methinks it gives small promise, seeing it has already been at work more than two hundred years, and has accomplished no more.
It will open a way for me into those elysian realms in whose reality all men have believed, a very few excepted, though few or none could prove it.
He could not punish the Sikhs, for they were the only Asiatic soldiery who were likely to prove faithful, whilst the Bengal regiments were breaking out in mutiny on all sides.
Such an amalgamation would prove a school for Asiatic magistrates and judges; whilst the evil spirit of race antagonism, which was raised by the unfortunate bill of 1857, and revived a few short years ago, would be allayed for ever.
Moreover Shah Shuja had been living many years in British territory under British protection, and was therefore likely to prove a more faithful ally against Russia, than Dost Mohammed Khan.
These facts prove that there is a circulation of uterine blood in the placenta, which is destroyed upon its being separated from the uterus.
When the circulation has become perfectly calm, and every trace of excitement allayed, opiates will prove of inestimable value: they stop any disposition to uterine contraction, and remove the pain in the back and loins which this will cause.
This was inferred by Valentin, who considered that "the enormous swelling of the ova, and their passage through the Fallopian tubes," tended to prove the circumstance.
The perineum can rarely, if ever, prove a serious hindrance to the labour in primiparae so long as its structure is healthy, even although it may be unusually broad.
Ley, tends greatly toprove the manner in which the disease is produced.
In this manner the last blood-letting may prove suddenly and unexpectedly fatal.
CLARK, they may probably prove acceptable to other less sedulous inquirers after the writings of this truly pious man.
To prove the contrary and show that only here and there were there heavy losses, we may quote some figures compiled by the Economist.
Many writers of another school have attempted to prove that the sufficient reason of war is a beneficent function of which they believe it to be capable.
Natural impossibility can never be pleaded so long as facts exist to prove the contrary.
This latter operation is not so simple as it appears to be, as any one may prove who has not already tried his, or her, hand at it.
I cannot think but your age has forgot me; It could not else be I should prove so base To sue, and be denied such common grace.
No; So it may prove an argument of laughter To th' rest, and I 'mongst lords be thought a fool.
An enemy of the Church is invariably also an enemy of the State; history and experience prove this.
These few examples, to which I could add hundreds of other similar instances, prove the miraculous efficacy of the rosary.
But that does not prove that it alone of all that has been transmuted, excluding all the rest, can be the sole truth, admitting of no doubt.
Every branch in a tree comes from the root in unbroken connection; but the fact that each branch comes from the one root, does not prove at all that each branch was the only one.
The position of our Christian society, and especially the ideals most current in it, prove this in a strikingly convincing way.
It is impossible toprove either of these contentions by abstract reasoning.
I cannotprove the need or the harm of governments in general.
Why do men, who call themselves learned, dedicate whole lifetimes to making theories to prove that violence employed by authority against the people is not violence at all, but a special right?
Still less possible is it to prove them by experiment, since the whole matter turns on the question, ought we to try the experiment?
But I doubt if it can prove history, nature, and God in error also.
Hitherto it had been a safe amusement to ridicule and jeer at civil-service reform, and here was a commissioner who dared to reply vigorously to attacks, and even to prove Senators and Congressmen to be wrong in their facts.
If Bob Pretty ses it's 'is turkey and goose and spirits, tell 'im to prove it.
I will bear any chastisement your grace may choose to inflict upon me, if I prove not the truth of my assertion," replied Sommers.
But I defy the enemies who have poisoned your ears against me, to prove that I have ever abused the trust placed in me.
And Suffolk, knowing his wilfulness, and that all remonstrance would prove fruitless, retraced his steps with him.
I would lay down my head on the scaffold to prove it.
Evidences, however, were not wanting to prove that a feast had recently been held there.
I trust you will be able to prove yourself so, madam," said Suffolk.
If your majesty is determined to prove faithless to me, it shall not be with one of my own dames.
And this to prove whether thou art mortal or rejoined Fenwolf, plucking his hunting-knife from his belt, and striking it with all his force against the other's breast.
I trust this will not prove too strong for your fair hands," he said.
You shall prove it, if you choose," rejoined the Fair Geraldine.
That, perhaps, may prove a difficult item of corroboration to explain away.
But as the roof was slated, and as it was found necessary to pave the hollow with tiles and cut surface drains in it, the result did not clearly prove its use as a dwelling place before the Roman conquest.
That it is the identical treasure I am fortunately in a position to prove by this parchment," and he laid upon the table the writing he had found with the gold.
Still, such things have been known to happen, and it would be very difficult to prove that it had not happened in this case.
Dead Man's Mount is what the people about here call it, and that is what they called it at the time of the Conquest, as I can prove to you from ancient writings.
If it should be attempted murder it was very cleverly managed, because nobody could prove that it was not accidental.
Prove all things; and hold fast that which is good.
But a cerevis given for a future day, or which requires time to prove whether it may not be false, forms an exception.
The origin of almost every duel would prove the truth of what we have here said.
He shall strive after the highest discoveries, and shall be able, unburdened by those of others, to prove and build up his own convictions.
It was intended to prove an instrument for advancing the interests of Pope Urban VI.
If he maintain this happy progress, if he prove himself an able man, the state, in order to retain him, increases by degrees his income, and finally names him Ordinary professor.
Even the means which the Renommist of Zachariae used would prove unavailing here; and what he thus describes, on such Rosinantes as these could not come to pass.
The first enemy in the campaign would prove to be the island itself, an ugly, barren, foul-smelling chunk of volcanic sand and rock, barely 10 square miles in size.
These factors would prove costly in Iwo’s unpredictable surf zone.
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