Mr. Jeffreys, a high authority, testifies that in India a large proportion of the men chafe and drink themselves to death, under modes of life so opposed to the habits of out-door labour in which they have been reared.
Varro testifies that even at this day there be some who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle.
This is not quite correct, but the rare exception testifies to the general rule.
But the argument from design, though it testifies to purpose in the Universe, tells us nothing about the nature of that purpose.
The entire mass of existing mythology testifiesto this fact.
The whole history of philosophy, art, morality, and religion testifies to this.
Chrysostom (De Mundi Creatione, vi, 3) testifiesthat Porphyry "led many away from the faith.
In what proportion they really thought out the issues they dealt with we can hardly ascertain; but a chronicler of Wiclif's time, living at Leicester, testifies that you could not meet two men in the street but one was a Lollard.
Junod, in his valuable study of the South African Thonga, testifies both to the commonness of individual variation in the way of religious fancy and the occurrence of sporadic unbelief, usually ended by fear.
The instrument of voluntary association executed on board the Mayflower testifies that the parties to it had anticipated the improvement of their nation.
Miss Honora Fitzpatrick testifies that Weichmann was treated by Mrs. Surratt "more like a son than a friend.
A stanza of a popular song of the day testifies to the joy of the Commons of England on the event:-- Harke!
But the attempt turns out to be so forced, and so obviously bad, that it only testifies in the strongest way against the soundness of his position.
Bill” Sewall testifiesthat Roosevelt shared all gains with Dow and him, who were practically his partners, but that when the cattle died Roosevelt assumed all losses without a word of complaint to his comrades.
Mr. Enright, the present Chief of the New York Police Department and an old member of the force, testifies to the remarkable executive ability shown by Roosevelt.
She blends the praise of Mary with the praise of Mary’s Son, and even the infant John testifies his reverential joy by leaping in his mother’s womb.
Holy Job testifies to it out of his own experience, and the Son of Sirach gives the warning, "My son, if thou come to serve the Lord, prepare thy soul for temptation.
More than this, Matthew testifies sufficiently that He did not ascend to heaven; for he said positively that Jesus Christ assured His apostles that He would be and remain always with them until the end of the world.
In regard to the books of the Old Testament, Esdras, a priest of the law, testifies himself to having corrected and completed wholly the pretended sacred books of his law, which had partly been lost and partly corrupted.
Sidenote: The Prophet Testifies to the Book of Mormon.
Another corporal of the regiment testifies to the spirit of its men at Landrecies, where in company with about fifty others he was cut off from the main body, and engaged in desperate street fighting.
A certain Private Kemp, invalided home to Berwick, testifies to the way in which tobacco and cigarettes have come to be regarded by the men in the firing line.
The same witness testifies that he met him on the street, when he said he was going to visit Payne at the Herndon House, and also accompanied him, along with Herold and John H.
Mudd testifies that he separated from the prisoner, Samuel A.
She testifies that she saw the prisoner at breakfast in her father's house, on the 2d of March, about five o'clock in the morning, and not again until the 3d of March at noon.
Mr. Montgomery testifies that he was instructed by Clay to deliver this letter to Benjamin, the rebel Secretary of State, if he could get through to Richmond, and to tell him what names to put in the blanks.
He so testifies himself, but he gives the reason that he did it only from apprehension of danger to his life.
Chester testifies positively to Booth's presence in New York early in November.
Merritt testifies further that after this meeting in Montreal he had a conversation with Clement C.
Lloyd testifies that some six weeks before the assassination, Herold, Atzerodt, and John H.
He also testifies that as he approached the door a man stood near enough to have thrown it to with his hand, and this man, the witness believes, was the prisoner Spangler.
Colonel Wells also testifies that, in his conversation with Dr.
The witness also testifies to the presence of Booth with Sanders in Montreal last fall, and of Surratt in Toronto in February last.
Psalm 125 testifies to the existence of this problem.
The psalm of thanksgiving testifies to that which has actually been experienced, the hymn of praise voices enthusiasm for the wisdom and power and goodness that are in God.
One who observed him closely testifies how, while making the drawings for The Gospels and The Seven Sacraments, he was penetrated with the life of Christ.
It was some time after the loss of his books, and when he had nearly reached the age of eighty, that Varro composed the work on husbandry, as he himself testifies in the introduction.
Cicero, while blaming their political conduct, admits that both were consummate orators; and this he testifies from the recollection of persons still surviving in his day, and who remembered their mode of speaking.
The system testifies to the country and causes of its birth.
Almost every page testifies to Cobden's soundness of judgment in the sphere of international policy.
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