The Test Act was hardly passed when in February 1563 the Duke of Guise was assassinated by a Protestant zealot, and with his murder the whole face of affairs was changed.
But the Test Act placed the magistracy in Protestant hands; and as Elizabeth passed from indifference to suspicion and from suspicion to terror she put less restraint on the bigotry around her.
Allen, a scholar who had been driven from Oxford by the test prescribed in the Act of Uniformity, had foreseen the results of the dying out of the Marian priests, and had set up a seminary at Douay to supply their place.
Nor did the successive Archbishops care greatly if the test was a varying or a conflicting one.
Extreme caution indeed was used in applying this test to the laity, but pressure was more roughly put on the clergy.
The tone of the Universities, no unfair test of the tone of the nation at large, changed wholly as the Queen's reign went on.
With the Test Act and the establishment of the High Commission the system which the Queen had till now pursued in great measure ceased.
I only ask you, for both our sakes, not to testit too far!
If I wanted totest a conjuror's ability, I should give him this trick to perform.
To test this, pour out the contents of the bottle, which, being pure water, will cause the audience to be of your opinion, ludicrous though it may appear.
This paper is cut into strips, and is called test paper; when dipped into acid it immediately turns red.
This test is usually made by dipping a glass rod into hydrochloric acid, and holding it over the vessel from which the ammonia is evolved.
This is a very sensitive reagent (test) for peroxide of hydrogen, like the test with chromic acid and ether (see Note 8).
With small amounts of ammonia this test is, however, untrustworthy, as the white vapour is scarcely observable.
It is therefore impossible totest its reaction on litmus.
Calvert and Davies obtained chloric peroxide without the least danger by heating a mixture of oxalic acid and potassium chlorate in a test tube in a water-bath.
It is necessary in any case to test it before use, as otherwise a large error may be introduced into the results, owing to the presence of free alkali (lime).
The characteristic test for lithium compounds is the red coloration which they impart to a colourless flame.
In order to test this, the eudiometer is filled with mercury, and its open end inverted into mercury.
Come up to-night and test the truth of what I say," said Bradley.
The race was to a stake, set far enough from the shore to test the strength and wind of the swimmers, thence back to the point of starting.
But we have to remember that we have got to deal with hand-spun yarn which is not likely to have a good test for some time to come.
There is no better testthan the spinning-wheel, if we wish to ascertain whether our children are educated in the real and the proper sense of that term.
The spinners should be visited at their work from time to time, and proper instructions as to the required twist and test to be given to the yarn should be imparted to them.
I said in an early part of this book that the best test to know whether or no one likes a picture is to ask oneself whether one would like to look at it if one was quite sure one was alone.
These formulae are printed on common paper at a moderate cost for the poor; but the rich have them written on parchment and handsomely bound, so that the getting up of a person's birth formula is a test of his social position.
The best test for a painter as to whether he likes painting his picture is to ask himself whether he should like to paint it if he was quite sure that no one except himself, and the few of whom he was very fond, would ever see it.
The accuracy of Professor Huxley's statements about the history and literature of evolution is like the direct interference of the Deity--it vanishes whenever and wherever I have occasion to test it.
When I had danced until four o'clock in the morning (the test of the ball was how late it lasted) it was rather an effort to be at church at 10.
However, it has stood the test pretty well through all these years.
Well, then, I only wish that all these people who are criticising us, could have Jane Forest in their houses a single week just to test their own authority.
Atkins, as usual, shone through his sarcastic humor, which to-night was more brilliant than ordinarily, since the test was imposed upon it of atoning for the silence of his companion.
Never before was honesty put to such a test as when Andrew Jackson gave up this home to pay an unjust debt.
I shall venture to say that there are few which have stood the test of time, that may not be read with some profit by the judicious.
After having reached this point in the present relation, I saw the men who made the test of the earth brought from the Ygolotes.
To this our friend judiciously avoided making any reply, the fact being that several individuals in high trust among these Whiteboys were occasionally employed to sound suspected persons, in order to test their sincerity.
Therefore, test a rug spread out flat before you in broad daylight.
One expert Armenian has a suretest for mineral dyes in his tongue.
But thetest is a delicate one, and the fruit of knowledge is, presumably, bitter.
A solution is to develop the ZMs and ZAMs (by simulation on suitable test models) up to the moment when we have enough guarantees that an action on the external reality will evolve as predicted.
In "classical" psychiatry, they make a test to understand if the person was or not responsible for his/her acts.
This phase of the flight, by far the most dangerous, would have been impossible to test before the actual flight.
As a consequence, the test tries to see if the person suspected of paranoia will modify the supposed OMPSM.
This game can be used as a test of the intrinsic capacity of the brain to make and operate long-range symbolic models.
The test is usually passed well, if the person maintains his/her flexibility, even after there is apparently enough information to get stable in a model.
The test wants to verify is we can compensate this design deficiency.
To be applicable, the test as described above, needs to take into account a design deficiency of the brain, as given in the general theory.
Never in the history of Durbars was seen such a multitude gathered together as was seen on that day when all the men, both young and old, appeared before the Siem to pass through the test laid down by him.
So, to test the constancy of the young suitor, they postponed the marriage till the winter, and with that the lovers had to be content.
Thus the Durbar was divided, but the ministers, unwilling to pass over even the most hapless, decided to send for him and to put him through the test like the other men.
There can be no better test of a man's sterling qualities than the opinions held of him by the friends of his youth.
That was the statement on the test taken and conducted by a Louis L.
Of the skull--let me phrase the question this way: What does the test which is depicted on the document before you relate to?
Now--including the paraffintest which I made reference to.
I assumed that he had taken it and passed it what part of the test he was taking.
The test proved, according to Mr. Curry, and the statement that he made on Saturday, November 23, to the press that Oswald had fired the murder weapon.
Did you know that he was taken by your wife to apply for a driver's license and take a driver's license test on that morning?
He came by the office, about 11 o'clock that morning, and I gave him a short test by simply opening a book at random and asking him to read a paragraph or two and then translate it.
I have never had any reason to test it to see how much I could travel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "test" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
