Those who have read thus far in this discussion have seen, in the prejudiced sophisms which we have been compelled to quote for refutation, sufficient evidence of the perverse, erroneous, and disputatious spirit of abolitionism.
We defy all the sophisms of the whole crew of the perverse and destitute of the truth, to obscure, much less to rebut this answer, without denying the inspiration and even the common truthfulness of Moses.
The principles of scriptural exposition are simply those of common sense; and it will be the writer's aim so to explain them that they shall commend themselves to every honest mind, and to rid them of the sophisms of the Abolitionists.
But it was terrible in its slashing and exposure of the dogmatical sophisms of Jefferson.
HIs clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.
The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture.
At times the conscience of the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths.
A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines.
For there are not only thousands, but millions, of Roman Catholic girls and women whose keen sense of modesty and womanly dignity are above all the sophisms and diabolical machinations of their priests.
I was now in the place where every one catches the contagion of vanity, and soon began to distinguish myself by sophisms and paradoxes.
Such are some of the sophisms of which cannibal’s conscience is prolific.
The respect which Hegel and Nietzsche have for thosesophisms becomes intelligible when we remember what imperturbable egotists they were.
The Stoics, who were neither romantic nor worldly, used these sophismsin an attempt to extirpate the passions, not to justify them.
Where men have not been long accustomed and familiarized to the doctrine of liberty, the sophisms of protection, in one shape or another, are constantly coming back upon them.
To explain the laws under which societies prosper or decay, is to demolish virtually all these sophisms at once.
Thus we are continually arriving at the conclusion that protectionist sophisms are not only not true, but are the very reverse of true.
This little book of Sophisms is found to be too theoretical, scientific, and metaphysical.
All the sophisms which I have hitherto exposed have reference to a single question--the system of restriction.
I should be accused of putting sophismsinto the mouths of the protectionists, I shall allow one of their most vigorous athletes to speak for them.
Moreover, there is not one of their sophisms which, when submitted to the test of rigorous deductions, does not obviously tend to destruction and annihilation.
My mind was so filled with the glittering sophisms of Rome, that many times I refused to yield to the still voice which was almost night and day heard in my soul.
Two of them, Joseph Turcot and Benony Legendre, disgusted by the sophisms and logical absurdities of our superior left the seminary a few days after.
We rejected the bright truth which had so nearly conquered our minds, in order to accept the most ridiculous sophisms as gospel truths!
In this book, the sophisms and errors of Romanism are discussed and refuted with a clearness, simplicity and evidence which my twenty-five years of priesthood only could teach me.
For there are not only thousands, but millions, of Roman Catholic girls and women whose keen sense of modest and womanly dignity are above all thesophisms and diabolical machinations of their priests.
Those tears the hand of Rome has never been able to wipe off; those words of my mother the sophisms of Popery could not make me forget.
I then sincerely took these glittering sophisms for the true religion of Christ, as all the priests and people of Rome are bound to take them to-day, and presented them with all the earnestness of an honest though deluded mind.
If she had been a man, sophisms and excuses might have occurred to her.
But it was not her habit to analyze self much, and evensophisms require some thought.
It only furnishes a very convenient and plausible method of begging the question, or of seeming to prove something by hiding our sophisms in the blaze of the divine attributes.
Surely, if "a reluctant world has bowed in homage" to his logic, it must have been because the world has been too indolent to pry into the sophisms with which it swarms.
Finium: absolute limits; the fallacy of the sorites and other such sophisms lies entirely in the treatment of purely relative terms as though they were absolute.
You demand that these sophisms should be made exceptions to the rules of Dialectic.
In the flood of sophisms which the abolitionists usually pour out in their explosions of passion, none is more common than what is technically termed by logicians the ignoratio elenchi, or a mistaking of the point in dispute.
It was not to be expected that a lad fresh from the university would be able to refute all the sophisms and calumnies which might be breathed in his ear by dexterous and experienced seducers.
Mr. Trumbull brought his flail down upon this pair of sophismswith resounding force.
They had nothing to oppose to his captious sophismsexcept the maxims of a blind and uninquiring faith, which either irritated him or excited his ridicule.
He surrendered the natural and indispensable safeguards of his happiness for sophisms which deserted him at the critical moment, and he was consequently left to the operation of any specious argument which came in his way.
To explain the process by which capital comes into existence, Bastiat has given the well-known illustration of the plane in his “Sophisms of Protection.
We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong; and we are strictly bound not to transform the sophisms of the advocate into flaws in his case.
We have followed out and exposed, perhaps at greater length than was necessary, the stock sophisms and more flagrant exaggerations by which the total abolition of game laws is usually supported.
It is a sign that robbery and plunder are beginning to be filtered even into doctrines and sophisms, so as to lose a little of their ugliness, and give a good deal of it to the sophisms and the doctrine.
Everything that had been hastily suppressed stirred and fermented, and at times the conscience of the honest man held its breath, as there was such an uneasy feeling produced by this atmosphere, in whichsophisms were mixed with truths.
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