| 单词 | confute |
| 例句 | In his foreword, he paraphrases Bacon in urging the public to read the book – “not to contradict and confute… but to weigh and consider”. Mark Rylance takes on Shakespeare establishment in authorship row 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z But science is taught, and science confutes the Hindoo cosmogony. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Well, I do compose then—so you are confuted! Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z No. The story of stones being thrown at him is destitute of all proof but the guard's own assertion, and is confuted by a hundred eye witnesses. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z It was to confute this school that St. Bernard had taught in his sermons on the Canticles that union with God is not by confusion of natures, but conformity of will. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z So he hastened to confute or convince all such persons by pointing out that in this very fact consisted the special claim of "The Caxtons" to absolute originality. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z As these two last-named schools have either successfully confuted or incorporated the theories of all their predecessors, a brief outline of their respective beliefs will not be out of place. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z I have seen enough to confute all the boldÐfaced atheists of this age. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The triflers and the dogmatists of the day used Plato's myths to confute the Christian doctrine of the resurrection. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z St. Thomas had, however, to confute the errors of Aristotle, and of Abelard and others who had followed them, while he set forth the great truths of reason which he taught. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The comparison between our species and animals confutes these vain theories. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The value, that is, of helping to confute feigned connexions and to suggest truer. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z If you mean that the run is impossible," the banker answered quietly, "I much fear that events will confute you. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Seeing him dumbfoundered, the other concluded him confuted, and withdrew calmed. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z The evidence against her was too strong to be confuted, and she pleaded guilty. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z There must be hundreds of instances to confute him, only for the moment she could not remember any of them. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Nick, however, preserved a majestic silence, which daunted the Parson, who desired arguments to confute. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z When the authenticity of the Parian Chronicle was doubted by the Rev. Joseph Robertson, in a work which he published, it was reviewed and confuted by the Rev. John Hewlett. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z With great power he now confuted the error that man could merit forgiveness of sins by his own good works, and be justified before God by his own piety and civil righteousness. Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history 2012-01-12T03:00:13.267Z This Memorial was confuted by another, and to the latter there was a Reply. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-08T03:00:19.933Z And I must confess that I have not been able to confute this statement. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute; The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute; This quatrain is translated from O. 77. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z He was on intimate terms with them, and fond of using them to confute the pretensions of modern learning. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z And his cousin being thus confuted, Manasseh had not much further difficulty in wheedling two pounds ten out of him. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z He was not to be confuted by argument, but crushed and overwhelmed by penalties. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z Lupus, Bishop of Troyes, 40; sent to Britain to confute the Pelagians, xxiii, 32, 33, 34; churches dedicated to, 33; casts out evil spirits, 34. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England 2011-12-19T03:00:41.437Z I was very much astonished, therefore, to hear Sumner challenge any one in the audience to confute his arguments. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z It was as if they had questioned his capacity to build a ship, and he had confuted them with a man-of-war. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z And when he has found these principles, we hope he will either confute or embrace them.” Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z But lest some feature of the case may be left untouched, and that the justice of the decree may be more clearly asserted, I have taken the pains to confute these briefly. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z One student in a discussion with his tutor quoted a novel opinion of Schwegler's, and was confuted with the remark, "Yes, but that is the German view." An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z "False ideas can be confuted by argument, but it is only by true ideas they can be expelled." English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z Precision of Colenso—his words falsified so as to be confuted: this is not honesty. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen— To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) 2011-11-21T03:00:13.443Z In that, I have confuted singly his proofs, or rather suspicions, resulting from the prosecution, to which his Honour attaches himself. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z I should consider it an unpardonable waste of time to devote any considerable space to this rubbish, either in order merely to quote opinions or to investigate and confute them. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z The Evangelical Alliance inferred that the "relevancy" was on their side, altogether, whereas I meant relevant to the argument and to those supposed to be confuted by it. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z His conclusions have been disputed, if not confuted, by Jomard and others, and are probably erroneous. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Every thing confutes the vulgar theory of his greatness. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z Adeline only laughed at these prejudices, without attempting to confute them; for she knew that Mrs Pemberton's appearance and manners would soon annihilate them. Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter 2011-11-04T02:00:17.120Z The author of such a Key and romance would be confuted at once by the exclamation, “If these horrors are general, people would flee marriage as they do the plague.” The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z This was exactly the case of Secularism which he undertook to confute. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z I became a newspaper controversialist myself, for once, in order to confute that gratuitous liar, who, I am quite sure, was not a decent person. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z Remembering the humiliation I had experienced in my previous attempts to confute him, I determined to select such subjects as would appear the most difficult to explain, and to attack the old man with vehemence. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z He says it is compounded of look and glass; but, if the reader happens to think it is derived from looking and glass, the Doctor cannot confute him. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z The foregoing is the substance of the argument that must now take the place of that made by Webster and the unionists after him, which was convincingly confuted by the south. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z If the Congo authorities contest the accuracy of those accounts, then let them confute them forever and put their accusers to confusion by producing the actual minutes which they hold. The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z In my turn I opposed the doctrine of original sin with philosophical reasonings, and as I thought had confuted the doctrine. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z And they have been often alleged to Flavian* himself, and never have been confuted, no not yet. Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix 2011-10-12T02:00:42.117Z He confuted the most learned Jews in their arguments, and applied such wholesome truths to the test of their consciences, that being sorely galled, and unable to answer, their rage was unbounded. Bible Stories 2011-10-10T02:00:19.803Z It completely confutes the charge often made that the patrol law was a cruel one. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z I absolutely confute everything that I have been made to say in the Matin. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z In it, besides confuting the conclusions of the other commissioners on the matters affecting his administration of the post office, Stayner discussed a number of questions, in which he differed in opinion from his colleagues. The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z These things therefore we have adduced to you from your own writings, than which we have employed no other testimony, for you yourselves are by them confuted. Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix 2011-10-12T02:00:42.117Z He did not see how his sister would confute this argument. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z But by whatever motive their pious undertakings may have been prompted, their religious enthusiasm and their dauntless courage do not confute the charge of dishonesty. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z And I am the more confident to assert it, that what I say cannot be condemned, till first what our reformers have proven be confuted. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z The opponents of Government ownership and management have been ruthlessly confuted. The Express Companies of the United States A Study of a Public Utility 2011-08-11T02:00:14.563Z I would further insist, that they ought to permit me to deliver my discourse quietly and without interruption; and then, afterwards, they may do their best to confute us by what they have to say. Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix 2011-10-12T02:00:42.117Z Of bankruptcy I need say no more; it confutes itself. The Proper Limits of the Government's Interference with the Affairs of the East-India Company, Attempted to be Assigned With some few Reflections Extorted by, and on, the Distracted State of the Times 2011-08-09T02:00:28.053Z To confute heresy was his chief delight; and his vanity was indulged to its utmost when the heretical Lambert was tried. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z Many scripture examples confute this; shewing that the possession may be in one, and the power with right in another. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z There they stand for ever to confute injustice, to rectify error, to defy malice; to silence, and long outlive the sneer, the lie, the jest, the reproach. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z With respect, however, to the three books which Cyril has endeavoured to confute, it appears to me, that he has only selected such parts of these books as he thought he could most easily answer. Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix 2011-10-12T02:00:42.117Z The test, to me, of the truth of any view I hold, is that, I can state it and dare the judgment of others to confute it. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z This was a favourite argument, for a heterodox principle was held to be for ever confuted, if he who held it hanged himself. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z We only ask that the reader may adopt the precept of Bacon: “Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; but to weigh and consider.” The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It 2011-07-21T02:00:23.213Z Evidently Mr. Arnold cannot have reached his opinion through observation, for the commonest facts of experience confute him. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Play after play of his troops tumultuously to confute your boast. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z But she needs only present herself, and it will effectually confute that pretence. A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal The Next Day after Her Death, to one Mrs. Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September, 1705; which Apparition Recommends the Perusal of Drelincourt's Book of Consolations against the Fears of Death 2011-07-05T02:00:29.927Z It may be that the term suits that heretic's system better than it does the Catholic doctrine: it certainly does not confute it. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z But, knowing of four, I may have become a little confused in my attempts to confute Farmer Jeremy. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z These had so much of the true and ancient Church mixed up with their corruptions, that he could not readily confute them. The City of the Mormons or, Three Days at Nauvoo, in 1842 2011-06-23T02:00:26.503Z In the four last chapters of the second book the author confutes some current errors of the day, apparently the teachings of Bloemardinne and almost certainly of Eckart. A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 2011-06-14T02:00:22.820Z He had hitherto believed this assertion, but now regarded it as having been fully confuted. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z He challenged her to confute his principles, and promised a candid audience and profound consideration to her arguments. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z Is it necessary to mention Raphael's "Vision of Ezekiel," "Madonna della Seggiola," or a thousand other pictures, by him and others, which utterly confute any such notion? The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z As I am able to judge from experience, nobody can confute me. George Gem?nder's Progress in Violin Making With Interesting Facts Concerning the Art and Its Critics in General 2011-05-20T02:00:32.993Z However, it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confuting way that he seriously proposed my being his colleague in a project he had of setting up a new sect. Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) 2011-05-20T02:00:26.573Z Carlton was under no temptation to confute these arguments; his only difficulty was to suppress a smile. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z These maxims were confuted in the present case. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z I often confuted his notions: often in our disputations I pushed a good argument so home, that all his subtilty was not able to elude its force. Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes 2011-04-28T02:00:15.367Z All those who doubt it or will dispute it can neither confute me scientifically, nor prove what they say. George Gem?nder's Progress in Violin Making With Interesting Facts Concerning the Art and Its Critics in General 2011-05-20T02:00:32.993Z But I think the practice was not wise; for in the course of my observation, these disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) 2011-05-20T02:00:26.573Z Designed, as it was, to expose the miseries of freethinking in women, its reasoning tends rather to stagger the unlettered moralist than to confute intellectual scepticism. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady 2011-04-19T02:00:19.607Z A second maxim had never been confuted till now. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z He instantly sent for his recalcitrant subaltern, to be rated and confuted and silenced. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z In 1530, while at the Diet of Augsburg, he made the remarkable admission that he could confute the Augsburg Confession by the fathers but not by the Scriptures. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Dog of a Mussulman! for whom I retain a profound veneration; before I finish my coffee I will confute all thy arguments. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z To confute these errors Leo bids us engage voice and pen. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z Not a single allegation but may be easily confuted; and yet I allow that your position is incontrovertibly proved by them. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z The original letter was in existence to confute him. The Condition of Catholics Under James I. 2011-03-09T03:00:42.087Z We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of Argument, and very desirous of confuting one another. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z It was right to confute Brigston with Greek texts; they produced a good deal of fog and little illumination. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z She was very bright and convincing as she told of this prominent man met and subdued, that leading antagonist confuted, and how the Bishops were coming in. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z The Duke of Burgundy who here doth come, Who, either by his wisdom will confute you, Or else inform and satisfie the King. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb 2011-02-19T03:01:07.890Z I will give him law enough to confute, and he shall furnish the insolence to confront this Attorney-General. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z “So it was; but you can't believe how sorry I felt not to know all the story, that I might have confuted her.” The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z Repton, with an ingenuity all his own, had contrived to draw the discussion beyond its original limits, that he might entangle and embarrass the ambitious junior who had dared to confute him. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z He wanted to get at that at once; it fretted him to have to hang in the air, day by day, for want of books to quote and opponents to lance and confute. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z The colossal sleeping figure in its supreme repose confuted every doubt, resting where it had rested for a million years, and would still rest for a million more. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z And the individual, knowing that single-handed he hasn’t a chance against the immortal, allies himself with this and that, with sham immortalities, and partially effaced and partially confuted general things. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Another apology for its length may also be offered:—its importance as confuting Schlegel's opinion, that the frequent mention of Genii is more consistent with Indian than with Arab notions. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments It was in this way that he avoided and confuted his own argument in the pamphlet “Liberty and Necessity.” The True Benjamin Franklin Her happy assurance, her absolute confidence that his desires would march with hers, reproached and confuted every adverse thought in him as though it was a treachery to love. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z It is true that in a scarce work we find it is recorded that the expression originated with Richard III., but this is easily confuted by the examples we have given. A Cursory History of Swearing Ar�gument, a term sometimes used as synonymous with the subject of a discourse, but more frequently appropriated to any kind of method employed for the purpose of confuting or at least silencing an opponent. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli But the dry stick which the Pope had then thrust into the ground, brought forth green foliage during the night; God himself confuted the Pope. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. As a matter of fact Franco had several times started to write with the intention of confuting his wife's opinions. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico Incidentally, this plain statement of the case utterly confutes the only seemingly valid argument, that is the two-bag argument, with which the goldites have been able to support their theory of “sound” money. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 Moreover, every lecture delivered in the city will send some investigators to the library, that they may confute, or confirm, or amplify its teachings. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses If any cynical remembrance of her first vehement repudiation of the suggestion that she should gamble, rose now to confute her newer denial, no shadow of it was visible in his face. The Gambler A Novel I have so anointed my high priest with sack, that he would have confuted Baal's priest; and now he does so slumber in his ale, and calls to bed already—swears the sun is set. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 Men of the world this doctrine ill digest; They smile at piety; yet boast aloud 695 Good will to men; nor know they strive to part What Nature joins; and thus confute themselves. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes He cast the king’s nativity, and indulged in a number of predictions which were effectually confuted by the royal youth’s death in the following year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Baron Lahontan, on the other hand, makes them have such refined notions, as seem almost to confute his own belief of Christianity. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts He does not attempt to confute the utilitarian theory of jurisprudence, which regards laws as regulations made by the majority in the supposed interests of society. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists In proof of this and other matters, our agents produced copies of letters we had written to his majesty, besides other important documents; so that Velasquez's party were unable to confute them on any point. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. Both of these confessions were drawn up to confute the teaching of a remarkable man who had been patriarch of Constantinople, Cyril Lucar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" This may be easily confuted, if strict orders are enforced, that none but commission or warrant officers shall be out of their quarters after ten at night. Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe Thus those celestial fires, Though seeming mute, The fallacy of our desires And all the pride of life, confute. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes Is it not just the thing to confound the deceivers, And confute all the slanders of vile unbelievers? Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) There was a truthful force about this Beecher felt could not be gainsaid, and he stood silent and confuted. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day The Athanasian Creed is an instruction designed to confute heresies which were current in the 5th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Thus all your negations are confuted, and now let us hear your affirmations. Pretty Michal Cowden Clarke confirms Hunt in stating that Keats’s hair was brown, and he assigns the same colour, or dark hazel, to his eyes: confuting the “auburn” and “blue” of which Mrs. Procter had spoken. Life of John Keats It all comes to this: they were written to confute disbelievers. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Belief is in the heart, not in the senses; the visible contradicts, but faith is not to be confuted. Mary Magdalen Thus interpreted, are we prepared to confute the statement? Concerning Justice This hanging evidence is not to be confuted. Rossmoyne There was also Ralph Brooke, York Herald in the same reign, a malicious and ignorant man, who attempted to confute some of Camden's genealogies in the "Britannia." Old and New London Volume I Being useful to others besides Physicians, in that it confutes Atheistical, Sadducistical, and Sceptical Principles and Imaginations ..., A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 The heathen notion of a god born of a mortal mother is directly confuted by St. Paul, who declares the Lord to be without father and without mother. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The Protestantism for which he wrote was a complete system, antagonistic to the whole of Catholic theology, and he confuted the one by comparing it with the other, dogma for dogma. The History of Freedom "That little shoe in the corner, So worn and wrinkled and brown, With its emptiness confutes you, And argues your wisdom down." Home Life of Great Authors He was exceedingly angry with Dr. Johnson for striking the stone with his foot, in allusion to this author’s Theory of Matter and Spirit, and saying, “Thus I confute him, Sir.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Following upon this, Senator McCumber then tried to confute the President's theory, by applying it practically to the most recent events in the world's history. My Three Years in America Cartwright was now to be confuted by other means. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The doubts thus awakened must not be stifled, but pressed systematically on to the point, if such a point there be, where doubt confutes itself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" I might have replied, if my intent had been hostile, that little fault could be justly found with a critic of the existing evidence if new evidence were required to confute him. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen— To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men. The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President The adviser would, perhaps, have been vexed, but would not have been confuted, by Crabbe's good fortune. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The troublesome Transalpine wits might then employ themselves in confuting the Turks, rather than in vexing the Catholics; so closely did sagacity and extravagance associate in the mind of this wild genius. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors As Bacon said, "Read not to contradict and to confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." How to Study But I may say, that, when slander was busiest with her reputation, we had the best means to confute it,—and did. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 There are many who have been led into the error, already confuted in this book, that the baptism with the Holy Spirit always manifests itself in the gift of tongues. The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit The Whigs, whose policy had been opposed to the war, naturally prophesied its ill-success, and, until this period, facts had certainly not confuted their auguries. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Mr. Pope suggests the last choice of a subject for writing a book, by making the Nonsense of others his argument; while his own puts it out of any writer’s power to confute him.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors I will now give you the old Translation, which shall effectually confute Mr. Pope: for our Author hath done little more than throw the very words of North into blank verse. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Addiction to the most degrading of vices, is a charge difficult to confute until we know specifically what vice is meant. Arrows of Freethought This is admitted by Dr. Benson in his volume on Christ and his Times; admitted, and even emphasised; so that he may, as it were, be confuted out of his own mouth. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) To confute this sentiment, to upset 'Candide,'288 This dull product of a scoffer's pen, is the purpose of the lofty poetry and versified prose of the long dialogues which ensue. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The result therefore is, that Sir Robert had the trouble to confute the very thing he afterwards had to establish! Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The Bishop of London published a "Second Pastoral Letter" against it; Dr. Thomas Burnet "confuted" it; Mr. Law "fully" answered it; Dr. Stebbing "obviated the principal objections" in it. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." She in no wise affected his Highness till she had heard his Highness confute the errors of Dr Barnes in the small closet. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court The Government sought to overwhelm them with a mass of evidence which they lacked the means to sift and confute. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle She had not at all known where she would find the strength to confront and confute a grandmotherly old ruffian. The Paliser case Repeatedly confuted, he was perpetually resisting old reasonings and producing new ones. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The Abbe Lodivicat says, "His library was curious and valuable; always open to the learned, even to his opponents, whom he furnished with pleasure, both with books and arguments, which were employed in confuting him." Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." I had infinite satisfaction in hearing solid truth confuting vain subtilty. James Boswell Famous Scots Series With regard to this latter proviso people often say, "But why should he not? it would be so easy to confute and convince your sceptic, and it would do him good!" Clairvoyance He confutes the argument that because base things have to be expressed in the Romantic style therefore that style degrades Art, for "base things handled artistically excite pure emotions of anger or indignation." War Letters of a Public-School Boy They threatened to confute his letters till eternity—which seems to have put him in despair. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors I should be glad to be confuted; for what am I endeavouring at, but to clear up truth in every question? The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero I met a Celt who had bought a copy of Josephus in most irritating type, in the hope that it would help him to confute a Roman Catholic on the Power of the Keys. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Mitred once Such gibes no more assailed him: one short month Sufficed the petty cavil to confute; One month well chronicled in book which verse Late born, alas, in vain would emulate. Legends of the Saxon Saints In the discussion of any other question, I should have treated the gentlemen whose arguments I have endeavoured to confute, with that ceremonious respect to which Literature is entitled from all her sons. Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) But, on my return to Mortimer Castle, I found this conception amply confuted. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 Many Arguments I know are brought against it, both from apparent Reason and Interest; but all these might easily be confuted by this following Remark. The Present State of Virginia It is not enough that it should be quietly laid aside: it is due to the truth that it should be distinctly and fully confuted. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors The idea is preposterous, foolish, untenable—excellent word, untenable—and as for forging, the thing is so ridiculous that it isn’t worth confuting. The Tale of Timber Town To refute and to confute are to answer so as to admit of no reply. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions This charge is, to my thinking, so absolutely contrary to the fact, that it needs only to be named to be confuted by the opinion of all who have read the work. The Life of Cicero Volume II. At the close of the journal of the Liman campaign Jones's bitterness is pathetically expressed in inflated self-praise, called out by the desire to confute the calumnies of his enemies. Paul Jones To admit that your antagonist may have seen some truth not visible to yourself, and to read his work in this sense,—in order to learn, and not merely to confute,—is not yet common. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors The King actually appeared in person to take part in confuting the misbelievers. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) To refute a statement is to demonstrate its falsity by argument or countervailing proof; confute is substantially the same in meaning, tho differing in usage. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions As for those who acknowledge that Satan may personate a pious Person, but not to do mischief, their Opinion has been confuted by more than a few unhappy Instances. The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches At this public contest Bernard not only confuted, but converted, the cardinal, and reconciled him to Innocent. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Orthodoxy, confuted, as we suppose, over and over again, by the most logical arguments, stands firm, and goes forward. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors We can confute him, not only by pointing to the books he did not use, but by pointing to those he did. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Refute applies either to arguments and opinions or to accusations; confute is not applied to accusations and charges, but to arguments or opinions. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Nor is it at all so easy to counteract as to confute them. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland The first being already confuted, and as for the other, it is well known how far he travelled both in Scotland and England to meet with ministers for a coalescence, who superciliously refused. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies Bliss Carman, who with genius absolute, My poor satiric Logic can confute; The only Poet who, in modern Days, His Poems can to clinking Gold transmute! The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne No attempt having been made to confute this argument, Richard dismissed the council, and ruled once more in person. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Refute is not now applied to persons, but confute is in good use in this application; a person is confuted when his arguments are refuted. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Can you say to yourself, or to the world, that this first objection of Mr. Grosvenor has been yet confuted? Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject He groped for something in self-justification with which to confute Lois Montgomery's daughter. Otherwise Phyllis Letty, however, holding other views, confuted this opinion strongly: "When one thinks of a saint, it is aunt Leonora one thinks of," said this profane young woman. The Perpetual Curate The act was passed so close to election day that its real influence could not then be seen and its opponents could not be confuted when they told of the evils it would do. The New Nation This tendency of the country is shown even in Parliament, where the deputies often confute their opponents with biblical quotations read in Hebrew, or translated and commentated, the discussion degenerating into very disquisitions on theology. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) The divines of the eighteenth century had, as they boasted, confuted the deists; but it was mainly by showing that they could be deists in all but the name. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. That passage would appear to confute a quite common notion to the effect that Mr. Belloc, who can and does write nearly everything else, does not write a play because he cannot. Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work This was plain language, at least; this was the case for the prosecution, stripped of all pedantic juggling; and Raleigh now drew himself together to confute these charges as best he might. Raleigh Those tragical eyes would confute her in the midst of her excuses. Love of Brothers It has lately, by these and other discoveries in the East, confirmed in many interesting points, and confuted in none, the truth of the Biblical records. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 To confute Hume, therefore, which was Reid's primary object, it was necessary to go back to Descartes, and to show where he deviated from the right track. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Its statements of matters of fact, not disputed nor specifically denied by the parties affected, living at the time, nor attempted to be confuted, then, and by them, never can be. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Notwithstanding the reverence in which he was held, this saying could not be allowed to pass, and a dozen voices were instantly raised, and a dozen authentic stories told to confute him. Tom Brown at Oxford I confuted the whole argument drawn from his own heart to the hearts of others, and gave several answers: but neither before, nor now, hath he offered to make good his argument. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) I know, indeed, few more useful exercises for the learner than to examine a few paradoxes, when leisure serves, and to consider how, if left to his own guidance, he would confute them. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy To confute intuitionists and get rid of intuitions was one main purpose of all Mill's speculations. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. But to have an illustration, and a very base illustration, drawn from his own daughters in his own presence, made with the object of confuting himself,—this was more than the Marquis could endure. The Vicar of Bullhampton Though this conjecture is probable, it is confuted by observation. New observations on the natural history of bees I know not how men shall trust one another's declarations, or how we can practically, as well as doctrinally, confute the Jesuitical equivocations and mental reservations. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Incidentally it attempts to confute two errors which are rather prevalent:— 1. Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' One of those glaring inconsistencies which confute every theory and overturn all psychology was manifested before her. Virginia His strictures were confuted before the highest authority. Shakespeare's Family Its power, Added to beauty as its dower, Has oftentimes—there's no disputing— Added a charm, was passed confuting. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) This I confuted in my Nihil Respondes: and told him both of the order of the church and practice of conscientious ministers to the contrary. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) She had imbibed a sovereign contempt for Miss Charlecote’s capacity, and considered her as embodying the passive individual who is to be instructed or confuted in a scientific dialogue. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster She therefore found no difficulty in obeying her father in that particular, and rather chose to submit to the imputation than to undergo the shame which she must have suffered in endeavouring to confute it. A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue Their only claim upon our notice lies in the fact that Irving thought it worth while to confute them at length. Washington Irving All wills pass muster, undisputed; Dispute, and they are soon confuted: And you, by instinct, flaws discover, As dogs find coveys in the clover. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) I will yet descend more particularly to confute our opposites' several answers and defences, which they have used against our argument of scandal. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) For this purpose a blind horse, by name "Bertho," was taken in hand, proof being thus provided to confute the mythical "code of signals" supposed to exist between master and pupil. Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Stonor didn’t believe a word of this, but had no means of confuting the man on the spot. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] No doubt can darken such a truth; no sophism can confute this clear principle. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 I can neither confirm nor confute this assertion; and my only motive for repeating it here is, that vessels passing near that point may be put upon their guard. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 The popular answers involved innumerable inconsistencies, and were supported by arguments which only required to be confronted in order to be confuted. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The dogmatism and pedantry upon which it is based are easily confuted. American Sketches 1908 Here is something to confute the old backbiter,' and he clapped with his thick short hand a heavy leather pocket-book. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Some persons, while eager to avoid and to confute the opinions of Arius, fell into opinions equally dangerous. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Clement of Alexandria, and Irenaeus, and Tertullian, all in the second century, use it as "the sword of the Spirit" to assert truth and confute error. Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians To confute the doctrine in this form, it was only necessary to have a more intelligent conception of the true nature of exchange. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Hence it has been found easier to receive error for truth, than to make the exertion necessary to confute it; the more so, because there is no guide to direct the investigation. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained "Nevertheless," rejoined Pécuchet, "I have in myself something superior to my body, which sometimes confutes it." Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life I believe the Barometer at no time countenanced this augury, which a brief experience sufficed most signally to confute. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. The System that with logic absolute Both Standard Oil and Copper can confute; The Sovereign Alchemist that in a trice National Lead can into Gold transmute. The Re-echo Club It was partly to their success in confuting absurd doctrines that their confidence was due; though the confidence was excessive when it was transferred to the axioms from which they professed to start. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill It is a good rule to endeavour to understand your opponent's position before you try to confute him; an excellent rule seldom complied with by anti-Catholic controversialists. Science and Morals and Other Essays There is one consideration of some weight, though we have never seen it adverted to, which tends directly to confute the nebular hypothesis. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' You have lived to confute my judgment, and shame my sneers, and I am now making generous acknowledgment of my error. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization The reasoning by which Socrates, in Xenophon's hearing, confuted the little atheist, Aristodemus, is exactly the reasoning of Paley's Natural Theology. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin You may not be able to confute them in debate, not having their skill in wordy warfare; but your experience, your common sense, convince you that they are wrong. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg In some of his works Ghazzali gives special attention to confuting these. Mystics and Saints of Islam Let the rolls of several shires be looked to, and it shall confute that testimony. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning The play was acted at the other theatre; and the brutal petulance of Cibber was confuted, though, perhaps, not shamed, by general applause. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II When people preached a theory to him he was apt to confute them simply by applying it to practice. Dr. Johnson and His Circle THE Game that can with Logic absolute The Dronings of the Soberheads confute, Silence the scoffing ones, and in a trice Life’s leaden metal into Gold transmute. The Golfer's Rubaiyat He tells us that his object in studying philosophy was to confute the philosophers. Mystics and Saints of Islam Most of his windy idealism is no more than a reaction against it—an evidence of an effort to confute it and live it down. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind The rumor never took sufficient definiteness of shape to reach the girl so that she could confute it and explain its origin. Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life It is not merely a close study of the text that confutes the theory, for which recent writers have fought hard, of a logical continuity in Thorpe’s arrangement of the poems in 1609. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles I hate to hear sweeping assertions of an indefinite nature, which no one can either corroborate or confute.” The Eagle Cliff In the second book of his de Divinatione, following the Academic or agnostic school, he himself confutes his brother Quintus' argument for divination contained in Bk. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus Nevertheless, it was truth; and he felt that it must be his part thereafter to confute the common belief that there is no truth in horse-trades. Buying a Horse The Rector, in Joliffe’s pauses, seemed trying to confute him by some reference to “those thirteen upon whom the tower of Siloam fell and slew them.” The Nebuly Coat But such a conclusion is nowhere corroborated, and seems to be confuted by the eulogies of Virgil in the ‘Poetaster’ and by the general handling of the theme in ‘Hamlet.’ A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Now how can you believe a matter so plainly confuted by your very senses?” Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada I endeavoured to confute it in the Classical Review, 1902, p. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus His position, and the boldness of his arguments, excited extraordinary attention and animosity, and 'vast numbers' of Lutheran divines arose to confute his atheistical heresy. The Superstitions of Witchcraft Beza next reminded the cardinal of his promise to confute the Protestants by the testimony of the Fathers of the first five centuries. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 Sometimes the original manuscript turns up—unfortunately not in Shakespeare's case—to confute some or all of the ingenious editors. The Booklover and His Books Saying all this, he, however, admits with you the effect of such a charge on his character, until it is fully confuted and exposed. Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents The proud Sadducees were confuted and silenced; "and after that they durst not ask him any question at all." Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice Life’s leaden Metal into Gold transmute. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson He kept a public school, taught many who afterward became great men, and wrote a treatise to confute heresies of all kinds. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs So that many of a less decided way of thinking every day embraced whatever had been last confuted. Frida, or, The Lover's Leap, A Legend Of The West Country From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore The window of our dressing-room happens—just happens, by God's providence to confute a fool—to command a view of Dr. Laurent's door. Despair's Last Journey But I never heard that any man, not Goldsmith himself, attempted to confute the argument. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield She held it precisely between her slender, pale hands as she stood still to confute this heresy. Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge She put me aside, and found a host of reasons; but though I am not strong in argument, I managed to combat and confute them all, and she said "Yes" at last. In Direst Peril If you reason, they will seize upon any sophistry to confute you—to persuade themselves. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Christianity in later years did not triumph by confuting the objections raised against it on the part of culture. Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn But he seemed not grieved at it; glad to be confuted in a way tending towards his wish. The Confidence-Man Still I determined to watch and note events with a view to confuting the superstition which foresaw good luck in the presence of this cat and her offspring. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice Who finds not that Irenæus, Epiphanius, Jerome, and others discover more heresies than they well confute, and that oft for heresy which is the truer opinion? The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I You must meet them, and confute them, if you can. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography It confutes, according to the knight's own ideas: it alleges a few scattered facts in favour of astrological predictions, which may be picked up in that immensity of fabling which disgraces history. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Yes, I do deny it," again, in his impulsiveness, snapping at the controversial bait, "and I will confute you there in a trice. The Confidence-Man The youngest was indifferent just then to anything but to confute the other two, and prove the plague infectious. Rattlin the Reefer I think that I have made out a very strong case, and my arguments are not to be confuted.” Mr. Midshipman Easy Subsequent travellers, who went the same track as the former, with a view to confute, were obliged to corroborate his assertions; and all who have followed the latter have acknowledged the correctness of his statements.” The King's Own Several instances are adduced by the latter, in his Critique of Knight and Collier's Shakspeare; any one of which, besides the passage in The Merchant of Venice, should have confuted that origin of the phrase. Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. A philanthropist undertakes to convert a misanthrope, but does not get beyond confuting him. The Confidence-Man “But you did not shoot Jarette this morning, sir,” I said, and I believe that my eyes twinkled mischievously at being able to confute him. Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen:— To make me own this man of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings They are careful not to confute the King’s defence of the legality of his action. The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis A History with Documents He knew that a reform of the Western Church was urgently needed, and was willing to use his subtle brains to confute the arguments of ignorant opponents. Heroes of Modern Europe And he furthermore seems to imply that Fleischmann merits the reproach of men of science, for wasting his time in confuting "the antiquated and generally exaggerated views of writers like Haeckel." At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Two objections remain to be considered and confuted. The New Society David Blondel, a Calvinist divine, has written a book to confute the tale. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 I can hear him saying ‘which I couldn’t confute’ with a break on his tone of voice at the end of ‘couldn’t.’ Two Suffolk Friends It is a logic which confutes itself, and needs no sillygism to prove its lying. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy What bothered me in London was—all the Clever People going wrong with such clever Reasons for so doing which I couldn’t confute. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II He did, indeed, go so far as to deny the existence of the Folio Manuscript, and Percy was forced to confute him by producing it. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series He discerned and confuted his errors, and set in a clear and new light the great truths of reason which that philosopher had often wrapt up in obscurity. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March I must send off this bird first by the post to confute Stanhope and make him eat dirt, and then see what’s to be done.’ That Stick Malone, in a note on the Historical Account of the English Stage, has the following extract from Gosson’s Plays confuted in five Actions, printed about the year 1580. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 But these examples, so far from confirming, serve rather to confute, the theory in whose support they are adduced. Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws She would confute the malice spoken by Koúmé, by parent and child. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) In his third letter he confutes the Novatian error: that the church could not forgive mortal sin after baptism. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Young persons of superior intelligence are frequently dazzled by their own brilliance at first, and consider that they were sent into the world specially to confute the law and the prophets. The Farringdons For just a second Ledyard lost his head and called on Billings as a man of honor to confute the charge. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward He had almost persuaded himself that his imagination—quickened by the atmosphere of mystery and horror wherein he had recently moved—was responsible for the hiss, when a new sound came to confute his reasoning. Brood of the Witch-Queen He refused gifts from his rich friends, and confuted the rather similar calumny that he had received 500l. from the Duke of Chandos. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series This produced his book, On the Incarnation and Grace, in the first part of which he confutes the Nestorians and Eutychians, and in the second the Semipelagians. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Once, in Derbyshire, in an argument with some ministers, he got so much the best of it that the crowd was delighted and cried out, 'A Nailer, a Nailer hath confuted them all.' A Book of Quaker Saints They are as ideal as those of Sesac, and sufficiently confute themselves. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) If he takes the pains to write a book to confute it, it is self-evident that it is in circulation, and possessed of influence. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity She hardly knew what she should say or do to confute the old man's statements, or quiet his dangerous suspicions. A Husband by Proxy The saint wrote him an answer full of apostolic spirit; in which, besides solidly confuting the Eutychian error, he added, that he was ready to lay down his life for the faith of the church. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Lady Monk did not believe him; but she could not confute him, and therefore she let the lie pass. Can You Forgive Her? They therefore argue with them upon their own principles; and confute them from their own testimony. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) With all the vivid hope of youthful inexperience, she continued to believe that he would return and confute his accusers. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Matter and evil obtruded themselves too constantly and convincingly to be confuted or cancelled by subtleties of Logic. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry He employed his pen to confute the same, in four treatises, published in the miscellanies of Clausius. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Her one idea was to contradict and confute the disgraceful announcement at its fountain-head. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Our methods are different, we do not attack, neither calumniate; we do not wish to dispute with them; we bring forth proofs and arguments; we invite them to confute our statements. Paris Talks For what is referred to a distance is difficult to be confuted. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. You may commonly see it confuted by many other arguments. The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet This fanaticism and impiety St. Chrysostom confutes in these five homilies, demonstrating, from the infinitude of the divine attributes, and from holy scriptures, that God is essentially incomprehensible to the highest angels. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March And I have the rather inserted this to confute that scorn which, I hear, some have since put upon that conscientious desire. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation The Jew thus unexpectedly confuted, was soon oblig’d to acknowledge the Debt. Zadig Or, The Book of Fate One would imagine that so improbable a story, as that of an umbilical Deity with his silver basons, though patched up with gold and emeralds, would have confuted itself. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. How should love not seem by love's own speech confuted, Song before the sovereign singer not be mute? Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. His close manner of confuting the Arians in some of his letters, makes us regret the loss of many other works, which he wrote against them. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March There is no need to confute the theory, which confutes itself. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays On the other hand, it is praiseworthy to dispute about the faith in order to confute errors, or for practice. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province He had now rushed into a correspondence as to which he would have to own by his silence that he had been confuted. Phineas Redux A calumny supported by no testimony, nor by a single circumstance wearing even the semblance of probability, and confuted by the whole tenour of their lives. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States Also, in his works Against Nestorius, whom he confutes from the blessed eucharist, proving Christ's humanity to be the humanity of the divine Person. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March The only shadow of an argument that has been advanced for a different and earlier date is so thin that it is difficult to state without confuting it. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator There was just enough truth in his words to make them hard to confute, and, anyway, I was not in the mood for that sort of argument. Raw Gold A Novel Poorly they change, who in their change stand mute: Converts to Truth ought Falsehood to confute. Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden This belief was, at the same instant, confuted, by the survey of his form and garb. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 He then solidly confutes the Docætæ, heretics who imagined that Christ was not incarnate, and died only in appearance; whom he calls demoniacs. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March I care not to confute thee nor delay. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Shall we say this, the very words whereof confute themselves and shock alike our reason and our conscience? Westminster Sermons with a Preface Nature confutes the sceptics, and reason confutes the dogmatists. Pascal's Pensées The time might come which should confute the tale without my efforts. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 A wonder to me he should so argue, who in many things hath very well confuted the incredulity of others, though in some things too credulous himself. Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster The word "controlled" is used in the now obsolete sense of "confuted." The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Those who in the Scriptures find a key to all things, can find nothing in them to confute this argument. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter If however, he has commenced and finished this work also, seek it and send it in order that we may answer it also, and confute the false teaching in it etc.' Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" The lover should be present, to confute, to extenuate, or to verify the charges. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 I owned myself unwilling to consider the Gladiator a Gaul, but the reasoning struck me, and I am too unlearned to weigh the arguments he used, much less confute them. The Diary of an Ennuyée But she needs only present herself, and it will effectually confute that pretense. The Best Ghost Stories And when Christ did confute the error of the Pharisees, “Ye must,” saith He, “return to the first beginning; for from the beginning it was not thus.” The Apology of the Church of England If they do, they deliver up their religion to Rome; if they do not, their practice will confute their own doctrines. Dialogues of the Dead My belief of his sickness was now confuted. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Petrarch had himself formed the design of confuting the doctrines of Averroes; but he engaged Ludovico Marsili, an Augustine monk of Florence, to perform the task. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch It properly belongs to imitation; and, under that head, it can be most effectively and perfectly confuted. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art Nowadays the Holy Scripture is abroad, the writings of the Apostles and Prophets are in print, whereby all truth and Catholic doctrine may be proved, and all heresy may be disproved and confuted. The Apology of the Church of England The urgency of confuting heretics made it necessary to find new words to express the ancient faith about God. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition My belief that those within were dead was presently confuted by sound, which I first supposed to be that of steps moving quickly and timorously across the floor. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 It will give me a chance to confute the historians who have quarreled among themselves about how the poor boy met his death. Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old As the outburst of feminine approval subsided— "Out of his own mouth," said I, "you stand confuted." Berry And Co. I will state the account, examine it, and produce evidence to confute it, and then the reader will form his own judgment on the matter of fact. Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third Whitelocke said he hoped the Chancellor would have 139 been here before her Majesty; but this was an argument to confute the report that the Queen would stay at Stockholm and hold the Ricksdag there. A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. It was possible, however, to find evidence supporting or confuting his story. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 One and all avow themselves confuted, and convicted of folly or worse. Rome in 1860 Divers of them held the opinion that the Cartesians, in confuting the anonymous philosopher, had conceded too much to philosophy. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil "Act upon that resolution, Harrington," said I, "and you will at least be consistent: but, depend upon it, nature will confute you." The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic And he writes at large the news of the Archduke, as also that of Scotland and Ireland, and confutes the rumour of a discontent in the army of the Protector. A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. It was needless to confute the charge by elaborate and circumstantial details. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 It is so easy to confute your opponent when you are a hundred strong and he is one weak unit. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science And a learned man who confuted this proselyte Jew appears to be of the same opinion. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Speaking, reasoning, acting, like the rest of the world, on the implied truthfulness of the faculties whose falsity he affirms, he will save you the trouble of confuting him, by confuting himself. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic I wish your poor dear wife could rise from her grave and confute you. Elster's Folly But Milton was born to confute established opinions. Life of John Milton In the first sense, the charge is too trifling to be confuted, and deserves only to be mentioned that it may be despised. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Moreover this view, held too absolutely, is confuted by the secondary position taken by the claim during the negotiations which preceded hostilities. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) The Buddha discusses with Ânanda the location of the soul and after confuting his theories expounds the doctrine of the Dharma-kâya. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 And as a sign of this unwonted miracle, so long as they lived there remained a blood-marked circle round their necks, that thereby the Faithful should be strengthened in the Faith and the infidels confuted. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints The best man, who can not confute it, only says mournfully that it will not do for an ethical system; nothing good can come out of it in practice. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College The allusions, however, in the letters of Paul alone to definite historical associations connected with Jesus are sufficient to confute this view. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking The aim of the book is to confute skeptics and atheists from the standpoint of idealism. An Introduction to Philosophy I know he thinks that, but I had the honour of confuting him the other day with regard to the flagon and gloves. The King's Achievement They had yet to learn, that burning was not confuting, and that these public fires were an advertisement by proclamation. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 And that we ought not to be imposed upon here in England, with an Adversary, | whose Arguments have been not only confuted and Scorned by Others, but also retracted by Himself, at home. Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) The accounts which are given by their ancient chronicles of their first settlements are generally tales confuted by their own absurdity. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) The orders also confirmed the documents, especially the observantine Augustinians, in which they confuted the preceding adverse testimonies. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. To overthrow their traditions: to confute their beliefs and superstitions, and to subvert their gods! The Gun-Brand His voice was rough, and his tongue had a keen Shropshire tang, which indeed it never lost, giving thereby evidence to confute those who afterwards claimed for him kinship with a noble family. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Alas! the world did not consider, that nothing was more easy than to confute people whose tongues were frozen by the terror of the Inquisition!! The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old "All is said," exclaims the lively La Bruyère; but at the same moment, by his own admirable Reflections, confutes the dreary system he would establish. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions It was apparently the purpose of the writer to convey the impression that his period of waiting had been passed without pleasure; but yet we may easily confute him with another quotation from The Lantern-Bearers. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 Read not to contradict and confute, or to believe and take for granted, or to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader Lentulus went out into the atrium and walked up and down, biting his nails, and trying to think out the arguments by which he would confute the political heresies of Drusus. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. To attempt to meet it with confuting arguments would have been simply folly, and both gentlemen knew that it would. Verner's Pride On this head, at least, Mr. Malthus has amply confuted his stubborn and tasteless brothers. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Bogerman wrote some notes on it, serving to confute it; which were suppressed. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works Neither anticipation was unreasonable, but the one was justified whilst the other was confuted by events. A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 Here is a pompous note to support a conjecture apparently erroneous, and confuted by the next scene, in which the account is given for the first time to Albany of Glo'ster's sufferings. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Each of us will probably get out a lot of truth and a considerable amount of error; the truth will be the same and the errors will confute and disperse each other. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 He thought, with pardonable exultation, of how he had confuted them, one after another. Success A Novel He speaks, in the same letter, of Socinus as a man very little versed in the sentiments of antiquity, and whose errors he had confuted in many of his works. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works Nevertheless, in this and the similar controversies on Biblical subjects, his chief aim was not simply to confute his adversary. Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch For at a very early age he had confuted many of the professors of religion in public disputations. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 “What made you come up here, now?” he asked with that glowering legal air of his; thrusting the question at me as if I must, now, be finally confuted. The Jervaise Comedy He has the authority of the greatest poets with which to defend himself, and confute the critics. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal The subject which he liked best at that time was Christ's love to mankind: he no doubt intended to confute the extravagant opinions of the Gomarists. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works I shall not try further to confute the honest pessimist. The Framework of Home Rule Bear him hither, that seeing him before my eyes that denied he had defiled my bed, I may confute him with words, and with what has happened from the Gods. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. After this they advanced such extravagant and mad propositions, that they cost the Father no trouble to confute, for they destroyed themselves. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 He was able to boast in his preface that "if books and writings would not, God be thanked the Parliament would confute" his adversaries. Daniel Defoe Consult the Synod of Orange, by which the Priests of Marseilles were confuted. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works Arguments he would have resisted or confuted; appeals to his own consciousness would have failed for want of experience; he could not affect to disbelieve the verdict of his own countenance. Father Stafford Scuithne maintains he is walking on a field, and plucks a flower to prove it, while Barri confutes him by pulling a salmon out of the sea. The Religion of the Ancient Celts "I have neither knowledge nor presumption enough," says he, "to relate those subtile and solid reasons, with which he confuted the mad imaginations of the Bonza." The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 Or he calls up Bernard Mandeville to confute the formidable pessimism of his old friend Carlyle—"whose groan I hear, with guffaw at the end disposing of mock—melancholy." Robert Browning I have defended the sentiments of the ancient Church concerning the Trinity, Christ's satisfaction, and future punishments, by Scripture and the consent of antiquity; and have confuted the contrary opinions. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works It may be fairly considered, as one great advantage accruing to the world from our late surveys of the globe, that they have confuted fanciful theories, too likely to give birth to impracticable undertakings. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time The Pagans repeated so persistently the charge that Christ borrowed from Plato what was true in His teaching, that Ambrose wrote a treatise to confute them. Christian Mysticism —He was confuted by a much more alive and less estimable man: Ambrose, bishop of Milan,—with whom, also, both he and Ausonius were on friendly terms. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 He takes pleasure in confuting the statistics or judgments quoted in class, by others of opposite trend, encountered in his reading. The Teaching of History They may be easily confuted before equitable judges by the writings which I have already published, and by those I shall yet publish. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works This renovation of hope only produced fresh disappointment For it is well known, that the voyage of the Dobbs and California, instead of confuting, strongly confirmed all that Middleton had asserted. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time You cannot confute a prophet before the event; you can only disbelieve him. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Then follows a tirade on the variety of his subjects; their depth, their significance, and the mawkishness and pedantry which they are intended to confute. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) “Pooh!” she replied to her conscience, for she could always confute it with a sharp word—for a time. The Lion's Share To name such figments is enough to confute them in the mind of such as have spiritual discernment. Notes on the Apocalypse This in fact is the secret of that writer's vile sophistry on the subject, and at once confutes it, by proving the inapplicability of his argument. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 But Papists and other adversaries cannot be confuted without Fathers and Councils, immense volumes and of vast charges! The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 But once you fix him in a tomb, His virtues fade, his vices bloom; And each perfection, wrong imputed, Is fully at his death confuted. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 But it is easier to make such charges than to confute them. Plutarch's Lives Volume III. But it would be tedious and unprofitable to confute the various chimeras which on this question have been entertained in the minds equally of the learned and the illiterate. Notes on the Apocalypse I confute that idea by telling you it is not five minutes old, when God, by His blessed Spirit, retranslates it into the heart. New Tabernacle Sermons Roman play seems written to confute those enemies of Ben in his own days and ours, who have said that he made a pedantical use of his learning. The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 The government stick to their case, but Ashe mentions everybody but Cliffe, and confutes all arguments but his. The Marriage of William Ashe Now I can confute them from their own state of the question. Hieroglyphic Tales We have mentioned that Arminius was converted to the opinions, which he defended afterwards so strenuously, by the perusal of a work in support of the opposite doctrine, which he had been desired to confute. The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands In speaking to archæologists it is hardly necessary even to touch on this preposterous fallacy, sufficiently confuted by the monument itself. In the Wrong Paradise With Nereid green, green Nereid disputes, Replies, rejoins, confutes, and still confutes. The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 After I had written and argued a hundred times that the sonata form was 'played out,' he went to work and wrote four sonatas to confute me. Edward MacDowell These things, O Athenians! are both true, and easily confuted if not true. Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates Did you ever hear of a Theory being confuted? Mince Pie He has lost all the money he ever played for, and been confuted in every argument he has entered upon since the moment he first saw her. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 The chief object of his work was to confute the opinions that the earth was a globe, and that there was a temperate zone on the south of the torrid zone. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson He knew that, to justify God, he had to justify all His ways to man; that if the good rules at all, it rules absolutely; and that a single exception would confute his optimism. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Well then, out of his own mouth shall he be confuted. Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 This simple soul thought according to her understanding—thought and proceeded to form a certain conclusion which she expressed aloud, and which I could not confute for fear of contradicting myself. Best Russian Short Stories If you think they were too easily confuted, you may conclude them not of the first sense, by their talking against marriage. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 He can preach, Can confute a boat of infidels and crush them with a text. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891 In these two lines there are combined the truth I 324 would acknowledge, and the error I would confute. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher That little shoe in the corner, So worn and wrinkled and brown, With its emptiness confutes you, And argues your wisdom down. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell With his ardent faith he could have confuted the Gnostic or the Manichean heresies in colourful allegory, but instead he sang fervid hosannahs on his canvases to the greater glory of Christ and His saints. Promenades of an Impressionist Dr. Isaac Barrow says that "his practical writings were never mended, and his controversial seldom confuted," and Dean Stanley calls him "the chief English Protestant schoolman." A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Again, the practice of nations, in owning those for their lawful sovereigns, who, by providence, were put from the actual exercise of their rule and authority, contributes to confute this absurd notion. Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive For by these Oracles they are most manifestly confuted whenever they argue about the patronage of Angels, about free will, about the faithful departed, about the intercession of Saints. Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities But why do I talk?—a child might confute him by defining the term human being. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I She considers in order the various claims to predominance which men have put forward, and confutes them one by one. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 Domitian desiring to confute such uncanny powers of prediction ordered him to be killed and securely buried. Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 While this Simon was leading many astray by his magic rites in Samaria, he was confuted by the apostles. Simon Magus And this opinion is confuted by the Philosopher in that book of his on Sense and Sensation. The Banquet (Il Convito) We are now, in reasoning from principles, come to a point decisive of the question, and which will either confirm the theory, if it be just, or confute our reasoning, if we have erred. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) Every one of us must love truth and make it his purpose to confute those who speak falsehood; to keep his hands from stealing and his soul from unjust gain. The Brook Kerith A Syrian story Thus were the dreary predictions of the midsummer so handsomely confuted that men refused to believe that they had ever been deceived by them. Abraham Lincoln, Volume II But one of the Greeks, correctly surmising the contrivance of the supposed god, not only confuted him by means of the self-same parrots, but also caused the total destruction of this boastful and vulgar fellow. Simon Magus I say, then, every King shall rejoice that the most false and most injurious opinion of the wicked and deceitful men who have up to this time spoken iniquitously of Nobility is confuted. The Banquet (Il Convito) And, is any appearance, which is not explained by it, to be considered as sufficient to discredit or confute a theory which corresponded with every other appearance? Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) If it was difficult, it was also undesirable to confute the President's logic. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I She had never met a German whose example confuted the stereotype. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America And how unaware is again the vagabond that he confutes himself by his own babbling, not knowing what he gives out? Simon Magus All the splendid images of the past faded and were confuted and invalidated and destroyed by this intense reality so present and so near to him. The Roll-Call Washington, however, had learned something, if not a great deal, and he demonstrated the folly of such an attempt in a manner too clear to be confuted. George Washington, Volume I Here, then, is something reasonably certain, certainly reasonable, and may serve as an hypothesis to be confirmed or confuted by subsequent research. Architecture and Democracy And, Sir, let it now be added, in further answer to this class of objections, that experience has abundantly confuted them all. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style Hundreds of us wrote to teach the people, while we all abused and confuted one another. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters Common sense showed she was right, but Cecil still felt discontented, for she knew she had been resisted and confuted, and she believed it was all Mrs. Poynsett’s doing instead of Raymond’s. The Three Brides This contradiction, and the charge consequently brought against speculation, shall be explained and confuted. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes But Cobham can these tales confute, As all the curious know; For he hath proved beyond dispute, That Paradise is STOWE. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden But we may easily confute our sensual opponents. Confessions of a Young Man It need not be wrangling or disputing, or finding fault with other people, or maintaining and confuting. Father Payne But if the scandal arise solely from Mr. Belford's visits, a very little time will confute it. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 He might be confuted, he might be accused, or, if so be, convicted of error, perhaps of heresy. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 But there are scores of arguments that would confute and overwhelm this somewhat gloomy view. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) His friends maintained that his existence as a minister depended on his preventing a war, and he certainly confuted the Comptroller-General's plan of raising supplies for it. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II This argument, which appeals to experience, may from experience be confuted. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler The body was found, and the theologian confuted, but no trouble was taken to solder on again the lid of the coffin. Bred in the Bone The Greeks, instead of confuting my theory that romantic love is the last product of civilization, afford the most striking confirmation of it. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted; not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. The Illustrated London Reading Book This is a paradox which all the principles of commerce and all the experience of policy concur to confute. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Would he attempt it again if I contradicted him in conversation, or confuted him in argument, or capped his best story with a better? Collections and Recollections The Romans moved, as upon a stage, before her, unlit battling faces, clashing voices and armor; and the bearded Jews heavily collecting and confuting. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel How you confute one with argument, lovely lady! The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel "I have seen enough to confute all the boldfaced atheists of this age."—BRAMHALL: ib. The Grammar of English Grammars If you have aught to urge against me or any evidence to give, I shall be prepared to confute it. Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War Scholars like Petrarch were eager to confute his sect, and artists used him as a symbol of materialistic disbelief. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts The best way for them to confute me is, as I before advised the Papists, to disclaim their principles and renounce their practices. The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes She laughed bitterly, and yet glanced eagerly at her companions, as one who wished to be confuted. The Refugees But what is any opinion worth, if further knowledge of facts can confute it? The Grammar of English Grammars His name is, indeed, reverenced; but his works are neglected; we are contented to know, that he conquered his opponents, without inquiring what cavils were produced against him, or by what proofs they were confuted. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II I had not thought that three honourable gentlemen would have needed such corroboration, but I can only confute your unworthy suspicions by placing it in your hands.' The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard But the elder contestant is no more confuted by the younger than the drama of Sophocles by the drama of Shakespeare, than youth by age or spring by autumn. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time It derived directly from Locke, and many aspects of the world and thought since Darwin's time confute it. Essays in Rebellion Both of them represent the poor doctor as hopelessly confuted by the mild dignity and calm reason of Mrs. Knowles, though the triumph is painted in far the brightest colours by Mrs. Knowles herself. Samuel Johnson All the force of reason, and all the charms of language, are indeed necessary to support positions which every man hears with a wish to confute them. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II When they were not able to confute their Antagonist, they knock'd him down. The Spectator, Volume 2. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect experiment, which demonstrates, that the liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 To suppress the idolaters, reunite the schismatics, and confute the unbelievers, by the infallible decision of a general council, the pious Artaxerxes summoned the Magi from all parts of his dominions. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 He enumerated the objections which had been made, and the industry with which he had endeavoured to confute them. Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale Again, shall taste Accuse this touch or shall the nose confute Or eyes defeat it? On the Nature of Things They would quote Burns at them and Mill and Darwin and confute them in arguments. The War in the Air To the next division of his argument he confuted the position taken by Gridley with respect to the alleged legal precedents for the Writs of Assistance. James Otis, the pre-revolutionist They confuted me by texts from Scripture which I now perceive was an illegitimate method of reply. Tono Bungay Wrapt up in the consciousness of innocence, and confiding in the influence of time and reflection to confute so groundless a charge, it was my province to be passive and silent. Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale But, by bad luck, what he had said was heard by a person able to confute him. Paul the Peddler, or the Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant Here he walked long and slowly, thinking on his case with a troubled air, and trying in vain to confute the archdeacon's argument. The Warden |
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