The importance of the inquiry, he vindicatesin the following modest terms:--"Physical Science goes on unconcernedly pursuing its own paths.
Now, there is a family resemblance in the method of all ancient expositions of Holy Scripture which vindicates for them, however remotely, a common origin.
The writer proceeds to set an example of that freedom of inquiry which he vindicates as the privilege of his Order; and without which he is apprehensive of being left isolated between "the fanatical religionist," (p.
Others will say that the Bible distinctly vindicates that dogma.
A Government which vindicates the sale of human beings need not hesitate to purchase votes, whether at the polls or in Congress.
Puffendorf, of more enlarged views than Grotius, vindicates usury which the other had given up; and mentions the evasions usually practised such as the grant of an annuity for a limited term.
The biographer of Harvey in the Biographie Universelle strongly vindicates his claim.
Le Clerc (or La Croze) vindicates Salmasius against some censures of Harduin in Bibl.
If, from the fundamental Christian sentiment, we descend to the scheme of Applied Morals which it organized and inspired, the principle still vindicates itself in its results.
We know somewhat on both sides; but the chasm between vindicates its perpetuity against all invasion.
On the one hand, it vindicates the right of those who preach the gospel to live of the gospel, and sets any payments to them on the right footing, as not being charity or generosity, but the discharge of a debt.
And so He vindicates Himself to the ninety-and-nine: 'You do not need Me, you are found.
Minutest of constructed residences for living humanity, save perhaps the half-credible tub of tough Diogenes, it won a way into our reluctant liking that vindicates its title to consideration among the factors of ultimate victory.
The mute who cannot speak at a dinner or on the hustings, is eloquent in a pamphlet; and he who speaks only to excite the murmurs of his auditors, amplyvindicates himself by a pamphlet.
This is the emotion from whose natural and inevitable outflow the apostle vindicates impassioned zeal.
It energetically vindicates Luther’s distinctive doctrines, and above all declares, again quite falsely, that the doctrine of justificatory faith was the old, traditional Catholic doctrine.
The new Christian freedom Luther vindicates in his book “Widder die hymelischen Propheten,” more particularly in respect of the Old Testament Commandments.
These errors he vindicates with the utmost cruelty .
Mr. Patching, in which he vindicates the ordinances of the Gospel against the denials of Mr. P.
A discourse on the Atonement, written the early part of 1821, vindicates the paternity of God, in the equal generosity of his provisions for the salvation of all men who will obey the truth.
Vindicates the conduct of most part of the militia under his command, ii.
But in Toompane, and in the valley of Doombera, its loveliness vindicates all the praises bestowed on it by the poets of the East.
Mr. Rye was unjustly supposed to have aided in propagating this misconception; but Cowper fully vindicates him from such a charge.
Cowper, it will be remembered, questions the correctness of Johnson's taste on this subject, and vindicates the force and majesty of blank verse with much weight of argument.
Chancellor Harper, with a master hand, draws a parallel between the social condition of communities where slave labor exists and where it does not, and vindicates the South from the aspersions cast upon her.
In the second place, the above argument overlooks the fact that the Southern statesman vindicates the institution of slavery on the ground that it finds the Negro race already so degraded as to unfit it for a state of freedom.
Plutarch shows how the grossest features of the Isis legend have subtle and spiritual meanings and were never meant to be taken literally--that the myths are logoi in fact; and Philo vindicates the Old Testament in the same way.
He vindicateshimself by the example of Æsop and Spenser.
Footnote 19: The learned and judicious Richard Hooker, one of the most eminent divines of the church of England, wrote a treatise upon Ecclesiastical Policy, in which he vindicates that communion, both against the Puritans and Papists.
It vindicates the honor of our baited and abused country.
The French champion of neutral rights vindicates the immunity of despatches against English construction in pointed language.
A recent English writer vindicates this act as follows.
In vain the leech would interpose delay; Fate fastens first, and vindicates the prey.
Let them first reject and refute the error which vindicates all errors.
Where man with all his boasted nerve turns sick and pale, and shows himself worse than useless, woman vindicates the courage of her sex, that unselfish heroism, that passive devotion, which is ever ready to bear and be still.
In works like these she vindicates her angel-nature, in scenes like these she perfects that humble piety of which it appears to us she has a greater share than the stronger sex.
The preface to Miss Marie Corelli's Mighty Atom may serve to convey to the many readers who cannot peruse the works of that lady an idea of the temper in which she vindicates her faith.
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