Among the lesser criticisms which have been exercised on the Constitution, it has been remarked that the
validity of engagements ought to have been asserted in favor of the United States, as well as against them; and in the spirit which usually characterizes little critics, the omission has been transformed and magnified into a plot against the national rights.
The assembled clergy admitted the
validity of the plea, and the notoriety of the circumstances upon which it was founded; giving thus an indubitable and most remarkable testimony to the existence of that disgraceful license by which that age was stained.
the queen-mother wrote to the court of Rome, and received as answer, that a marriage between us would have no
validity, and would be dissolved by the holy father.
Neither a religious sense of a certain moral
validity in the previous union nor a conscientious wish for candour could hold out against it much longer.
Any one who cares to do so might test the
validity of those rules in the nearest possible way, by applying them to the varied examples in this wide [6] survey of what has been actually well done in English prose, here exhibited on the side of their strictly prosaic merit--their conformity, before all other aims, to laws of a structure primarily reasonable.
His health having been perfect during all that time, he had been unable to discern any
validity in whatever may or might have been urged to lure him astray from his counter and it is related that once when he was summoned to the county seat as a witness in an important law case and did not attend, the lawyer who had the hardihood to move that he be "admonished" was solemnly informed that the Court regarded the proposal with "surprise." Judicial surprise being an emotion that attorneys are not commonly ambitious to arouse, the motion was hastily withdrawn and an agreement with the other side effected as to what Mr.
We are apt to think it inevitable that a man in Marner's position should have begun to question the
validity of an appeal to the divine judgment by drawing lots; but to him this would have been an effort of independent thought such as he had never known; and he must have made the effort at a moment when all his energies were turned into the anguish of disappointed faith.
Though they know the words which Jesus Christ appointed to be used in the administration of baptism, they have without scruple substituted others in their place, which makes the
validity of their baptism, and the reality of their Christianity, very doubtful.
Resting on no better foundation than the consent of the several legislatures, it has been exposed to frequent and intricate questions concerning the
validity of its powers, and has, in some instances, given birth to the enormous doctrine of a right of legislative repeal.
I have heard, young man, that thou claimest descent from the native owners of the soil; but surely thy education has been given thee to no effect, if it has not taught thee the
validity of the claims that have transferred the title to the whites.
He scarce knew whether he dare chance offending Komal or not, for so strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the
validity of our new-found convictions.
So it was, reasoning thus, that Martin questioned the
validity of his popularity.