This latter view is certainly that which accords best with the testimony of language and of history.
I have quoted, in an earlier chapter, sufficienttestimony to show that the Lenape had traditions similar to these, extending back for centuries, or at least believed by their narrators to reach that far.
That such were the original form and significance of the myth, we have the testimony of Bishop Ettwein,[224] himself a Delaware scholar, and who drew his information from the natives as well as the missionaries.
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple" (Ps.
Prayer, according to thetestimony of St John, is an incense, whose perfume rises to God.
In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals, this twelfth day of October, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and twenty.
But since my testimony will not be received, I am determined that you shall give me a certificate in writing that such is the fact.
One peculiarity in the Earl's character was an extraordinary disposition to disbelieve even the most natural expressions of gratitude, and to doubt any testimony whatever of affection to himself.
A most creditable testimony surely to the worth and amiability of both of them.
He might have dwelt on the unsupported testimony of the only witness, the unscrupulous Procopius, whom Gibbon himself convicts on another subject of flagrant mendacity.
Only after two or three generations can its effects upon the character of a great people be measured: Observations differ, andtestimony is difficult to obtain.
Their testimony coincides with that of careful students of the economic and social conditions.
The writer happens to know of two diaries which record, on the testimony of eye-witnesses, the circumstances of the last hours of Garfield, and they differ utterly in essential particulars.
On this point we have but to read the testimony of English writers themselves.
There is a universal testimony to his alert intelligence, vivacity, manliness, sincerity, and winningness.
This testimony I would bear of them; 'Tis strictly true, whoever may contemn.
The sametestimony I also willingly hear to the late Herald, and the Expositor, still flourishing.
The testimony of Dixon on the Chimariko (1910, pp.
This may mean that some Athabascan territory was included in the Klamath drainage, but if so, it would contradict the testimony of the Yurok (Kroeber, 1925a, fig.
Essene supports Kroeber, but his informant did not come from this region so her testimony perhaps cannot be relied on heavily.
Therefore her testimony may be questioned on the present point also.
He rose to the rank of sergeant major; and, according to the testimony of his superiors, he was "exemplary in his deportment, prompt and faithful in the discharge of his duties.
But there is other and historical evidence: the cumulative testimony of our religious chronicles.
No one should impeach the personal testimony of this conscientious author had he been himself an eye-witness instead of Megasthenes.
But this testimony appears to be equally forgotten when it is maintained, as is sometimes done by Orientalists like Mr. Barth, that Sankara lived in some century after the author of Sakuntala.
This testimony appears to be forgotten when it is maintained, as is sometimes done, that the whole sectarian Vedantism commences with Sankara.
Even on Biblical testimony they are known to have come to the Indies by the Red Sea, while trading on Solomon's account about a millennium before the Western era.
Let them calmly consider and pronounce upon the evidence of the Tibetan pedlar at Darjiling, supported and strengthened by the independenttestimony of the young Brahmachari at Dehradun.
These traditions are evidently opposed to the conclusion arrived at by Mr. Wilson, and it does not appear on what grounds their testimony is discredited by him.
Consequently it is a gratuitous insult to a number of self-sacrificing men and women to reject their testimony without a fair hearing.
No Orientalist has the right to reject the testimonyof other people's Scriptures, while professing belief in the far more contradictory and entangled evidence of his own upon the self-same theory of proof.
Arbuthnot, one of the Queen’s equerries, whose testimony was as follows: “My general position is about five yards in the rear of Her Majesty.
Daguerre’s secret, I was so impressed with that testimony to the possibility of seizing a shadow, that I thought over all the little I knew of light, colours and chymistry.
Concordant testimony was given by the spectroscope.
The testimony from negatives of different lengths of exposure goes to show that the equatorial streamers are made up of numerous interlacing parts inclined at varying angles to the sun's equator.
Difficulties, indeed, were thickening around it; but their discussion was perhaps felt to be premature, and they were permitted to accumulate without debate, until fortified by fresh testimony into unexpected and overwhelming preponderance.
Herschel's theory still holds the field, the testimony of recent discoveries with regard to it having proved strongly confirmatory of its principle, although not of its details.
Scarcely called in question for over twenty years, the identification nevertheless broke down through the testimony of the eclipse-photographs of 1898.
The corroborative testimony of the watchman followed; and then Paul was called upon for his defence.
I know he is," added Emily, with an enthusiasm which was worth the testimony of all the others.
I have no doubt it was, as I fix the time from the testimony of the witnesses.
This testimonyexplains where the defendant obtained his money, and why he declined to tell where he got it.
It was plain enough to me, that without the testimony of Squire Fishley, I could not hope to escape.
I was afraid that Squire Fishley would blame me for the testimony I had given; but he did not, much as he regretted his brother's misfortune.
This partly accounts for the unreliability of any testimony which a white man extracts from them.
Cook, but the seals and polar bears and little foxes will bear testimony of unimpeachable character to substantiate his claims as the discoverer of the North Pole.
It was a testimony that it was my duty to give the world of struggling, striving men, and which, as a father, I hoped with pride to give to my little children.
The legislature appointed a committee that took testimony and reported these stories were groundless and false.
Mitchell securedtestimony and evidence regarding the buying of Barrill, but was unable to put the conspirators in jail.
Tillemont, by the testimony of Professor Bury, was a more thorough worker in his special line than Gibbon.
The old statement, finally, is in some measure corroborated by the testimony of Geijer, p.
Add the memorable testimony of Thucydides concerning the deep demoralisation wrought by the Peloponnesian War--a testimony supported by every page of the history of the time.
Shaftesbury generally, and pointed out that "in private life we have no testimony that he was depraved.
On this we have the testimony of Salvian (De gubernatione Dei, lib.
Puritan prejudice could not exaggerate thetestimony of the daring artist.
The concurrent testimony of historians represents this emperor as the loftiest character that ever wielded a sceptre among the nations of antiquity, although we can not forget that he was a persecutor of the Christians.
The very Book which would most stand in need of overwhelming evidence in its favour is the one which furnishes the most decisive arguments against itself, and has the least external testimony in its support.
Daniel is represented in the other chapters as playing his part and bearing his testimony to the God of Israel; this chapter is separately devoted to the heroism and the testimony of his three friends.
Pusey, and by many of their feebler followers, that "there are few books whose Divine authority is so fully established by the testimony of the New Testament, and in particular by our Lord Himself, as the Book of Daniel.
Such, for instance, are the testimony of the author himself.
It is different with the testimony of Abydenus, quoted by Eusebius.
But I am unwilling to lose this opportunity of bearing a testimony which both justice and affection urge me to give.
You see a most unconscious, but irrefragable testimony concerning the relations which are deemed proper between a man and his wife in the very common use of the phrase, "kind husband.
On the arrival of the vessel at Rio the captain was arraigned before the American consul, and pronounced to be insane by the evidence of six physicians and by the testimony of a large majority of the passengers.
And so now there are witnesses, not a few, who have tested this matter, and tested it under circumstances the most adverse and trying, and they give no uncertain testimony as to the desirableness of religion.
Proctor Knott, readily granted pardon to the only man for whom Mr. Holcombe ever asked it, and the testimony of this now happy man is given in this volume.
The following letter is from one of the converts whose testimony is given elsewhere, but it is interesting as an independent account given soon after his conversion.
It may not be out of place to add as the sequel of this little episode that the testimony of this man across the way, who was such an unbeliever and scoffer, is given elsewhere in this volume, and doubtless will be recognized by the reader.
Some of the people of the state who had followed the testimony as reported in the American newspapers had decided that she ought not to have been convicted.
The fervent hymns and the opportunities for bearing testimony at some of the services appealed to her needs and gave her a sense of oneness with eternal truth, which had hitherto been lacking from her religious experience.
She felt that she was very happy, and she bore testimony to this by walking arm in arm with her husband, leaning against his firm, stalwart shoulder.
The lawyer had been diligent, and the necessary evidence--the testimony of the woman--was secure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "testimony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
