| 单词 | inexpugnable |
| 例句 | But there is no mistaking the real heartbreak and waste that are Hage’s material, or his outrage at the most costly, terrible and seemingly inexpugnable qualities of humanity. A Bawdy Novel Considers the Tragic Absurdities of Lebanon’s Civil War 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Its lofty embattled walls, its bold, projecting, rounded towers that pierce the sky, strike the imagination and promise inexpugnable strength. David Brooks, still wrong, still spinning: Line by line, the real history his New York Times column pretends away about the right-wing 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z "Pleasure somewhere, at some time, to some being or beings, is an inexpugnable element of the conception" of moral aim. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z They present a body of doctrine at once complete, homogeneous, logical and inexpugnable, in which the three supreme questions, Whence come we? The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z On the other hand, we may find literature of inexpugnable quality, not only in the magazines, but also now and again in the newspapers. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z This, then, is the inexpugnable objection to the ethical instruction of children: the end which should be sought is performance, not knowledge, and we cannot by supplying the latter induce the former. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Now I am driuen to make ready the fire, which resteth in the kindled match of your conceiptes, to batter the fort hitherto inexpugnable, for any assault that I can make.” The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 2011-01-05T03:00:50.050Z This is an ancient, shrewd, and inexpugnable position. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z For even as "appearance" it has a definite and inexpugnable character of its own which cannot be destroyed by subsumption under the "standpoint of the whole," "the absolute good," the "over-individual values." Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude These things exist and yet are hidden; they are inexpugnable, beyond reach, beyond approach. Toilers of the Sea It will be seen in the crevice of what quibble that gentleman sought refuge and sits inexpugnable. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Perhaps you have blood in your veins, perhaps celestial ichor, or perhaps you circulate nothing more gross than respirable air; but of one thing I am inexpugnably assured:—that you are no human being. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) Ah, but such and such Beliefs of yore seemed inexpugnable. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning So now, when the men arrived, she was facing them, frowning as an indignant, inexpugnable black executioner. Sunlight Patch We have here, in short, the sphere of what Matthew Arnold likes to call Aberglaube, legitimate, inexpugnable, yet doomed to eternal variations and disputes. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy And Peacock's advocacy is here not merely sound; it is, in so far as it goes, inexpugnable. Gryll Grange So, dear friends, if we would have a home for our hearts, let us pass into that sweet, calm, inexpugnable fortress provided for us in the love of God and the patience of Christ. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. A fourth inexpugnable and influential stratum will in all probability be formed by the middle-class landowners and the substantial peasants. The New Society A principle for which so much is claimed demands clear definition and inexpugnable foundation in the "solid ground of Nature." Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Amidst all the changeable in us which passes and is forgotten, there is something which stays and is inexpugnable. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life I feared, rather, that it was an inexpugnable remnant of my religious training. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties O solid will Fix’d, inexpugnable By crowns or censures! only bent to do The day’s work in the day;— Fame with her idiot yelp might come, or go! The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History Robbed of the inexpugnable shelter of the Casa Riego, she, too, was made to look into the depths; upon the animalism, the lusts, and the reveries of that sordid, vermin-haunted crowd. Romance Wherever the facts to be formulated contain such a contribution, we may logically, legitimately, and inexpugnably believe what we desire. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Less boldly drawn but not the less truthful is Helmer, that inexpugnable prig, with his shallow selfishness, his complacent conceit, and his morality for external use only. Inquiries and Opinions They felt that there is an inexpugnable truth of religion. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Its lofty, embattled walls, its bold, projecting, rounded towers, that pierce the sky, strike the imagination and promise inexpugnable strength. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) As a rule,"—he glanced around at his fellow-topers—"I pride myself that in head and legs I am inexpugnable. Lady Good-for-Nothing The hour has struck, the deed is done; irrevocable, it takes its place upon the inexpugnable record. Lewis Rand For some months Durtal had been trying to reassemble the fragments of a shattered literary theory which had once seemed inexpugnable, and Des Hermies's opinions troubled him, in spite of their exaggerated vehemence. Là-bas Nicky knew what he had been sent for, and to all his aunt's assaults and manoeuvres he presented an inexpugnable front. The Tree of Heaven He was slight and young, and not very clever; but a certain inexpugnable dignity surrounded him, which, real as it was, sometimes irritated Marcella. Marcella To the women who envied her, to the gossips and backbiters, he opposed a nescience inexpugnable, unscalable as a wall of polished stone: but the mischief was, he equally ignored her sensitiveness. Lady Good-for-Nothing Let us now but make them inexpugnable, and they will make themselves universal. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Then, there are some gratuitous and unredeemed vulgarities; some images whose barbarity makes us shudder, of creeping ascarides and inexpugnable tapeworms. Burke It stoutly believed in an inexpugnable right to Illusions, and held clarity and earnestness to be foes of human happiness. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Yugas, time cycles, are an integral and inexpugnable part of Oriental metaphysics. Four-Dimensional Vistas I felt the inexpugnable strength of common sense being insidiously menaced by this gruesome, by this insane, delusion. The Shadow Line; a confession Perhaps you have blood in your veins, perhaps celestial ichor, or perhaps you circulate nothing more gross than respirable air; but of one thing I am inexpugnably assured:—that you are no human being. Merry Men Whether Schiller was humanly in love with his landlady, Frau Luise Vischer, is a rather futile question which German erudition has argued pro and con these many years without coming to an inexpugnable conclusion. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller This thesis was inexpugnable, when sensation had already been reduced confusedly and implicitly to economic volition. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic As the security of the community depended on the security of the seigneur, it behoved that his residence should be made inexpugnable. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe I tell you that our positions are not only very strong, they are inexpugnable.' Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 That is our place of safety, a sure defence and inexpugnable fortress. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI They who shelter behind that wall, feel that between them and sin, and them and sorrow, there rises the inexpugnable defense of an Almighty purpose and power to save, lie safe whatever betides. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah The fiercer the blast, the firmer our confidence in the inexpugnable solidity of that tower of strength that stands four square to every wind that blows. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The one is like Gibraltar, inexpugnable on its rock, and the other is like a painted castle on the stage; flimsy canvas that you could put your foot through—solidity by the side of nothingness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Andalusia not being Gothic had never been Aryan, and it was one of her kings who carried his orthodoxy to Castile and established it inexpugnably at Toledo after he succeeded his heretical father there. Familiar Spanish Travels She should have made for herself a shelter of inexpugnable peace out of that honest affection. Lord Jim You look off into narrow side-channels where unconscious degradation has made its inexpugnable home, and sits veiled with refuse. Thyrza We have a city which cannot be moved; and the removal of the things which can be shaken but makes more manifest its impregnable security, its inexpugnable peace. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms This is a domestic country, and the country expects that no nobleman should take household office whose private character is not inexpugnable. Sybil, or the Two Nations Again and again he had seen those tactics proved of no avail in the face of an invisible enemy and an almost inexpugnable country. On the Firing Line Its lofty, embattled walls, its bold, projecting, rounded towers, that pierce the sky, strike the imagination, and promise inexpugnable strength. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke She had a serene superiority to observation and opportunity which constituted an inexpugnable strength and would enable her to go on indefinitely. Greville Fane Daun himself is encamped at Reichenberg, within two miles of him, inexpugnably intrenched as usual; and the danger surely is not great: nevertheless both these Generals, wise by experience, keep their eyes open. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 Fouquet is about rooting himself rather firmly into that important Post; fortifying various select Hills round Landshut, with redoubts, curtains, communications; so as to keep ward there, inexpugnable to a much stronger force. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 THIRD, the Passes of Savoy; wild Alpine chasms, stone-labyrinths; inexpugnable, with a Sardinian Majesty defending; which are the one remaining road, for Armies and Supplies, out of Spain or France. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 Things, therefore, are got to a dead-lock at Berlin: rebellious Womankind peremptorily refuse Weissenfels, and take to a bed of sickness; inexpugnable there, for the moment. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 His position still remains inexpugnable that it is not permissible to invoke geographical change to explain difficulties in distribution without valid geological and physical support. Darwin and Modern Science One of the strongest positions imaginable; which, under Prince Henri, proved inexpugnable enough to some of us. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 The very deepest thing, and the most absolutely inexpugnable thing, in every human heart is its theism; its original and inextinguishable convictions about itself and about God. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) For here again our inexpugnable hypocrisy comes in and leads us down to perdition even in our prayers. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) Democracy stands inexpugnable, immeasurable, in her New World; has even a foot lifted towards the Old;—and our French Finances, little strengthened by such work, are in no healthy way. The French Revolution Here it was, however, that they shamelessly broke down; as there's a flaw in every perfection this was the inexpugnable refuge of their egotism. The Coxon Fund One other flight for shelter; and then it is ended, and he has found an inexpugnable refuge. 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