Reginald Scot, perhaps the boldest of the early impugners of witchcraft, was yet convinced apparently of the reality of ghostly apparitions. ❋ Howard Williams (N/A)
The impugners of the work were in the same helpless predicament as its author, who had, however, more venturously presumed to unravel unsearchable mysteries, concerning which, in the existing state of science, men can only conjecture, wonder, and adore, utterly unable to affirm or deny aught respecting them. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
He possessed also various works of the wisest and most ingenious disciples of that school among the moderns: those of its impugners he would never read, not to throw away time, as he said; nor buy, not to throw away money. ❋ Unknown (1909)
He drew out ninety-five theses on the doctrine of indulgences, which on October 31st he nailed up on the door of the church at Wittenberg, and which he offered to maintain in the university against all impugners. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Douglas impetuously accepted the decision and, forgetting the precedent of his own hero Jackson, denounced all who challenged it as wicked impugners of lawful authority. ❋ Cecil Chesterton (1898)
It is an argument of the Baconians, and generally of the impugners of good Will's authorship of the plays vulgarly attributed to him, that the advocates of William Shakspere, Gent, as author of the plays, differ like the Kilkenny cats among themselves on many points. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
Hesychius of Jerusalem, by a singular oversight, has been reckoned among the impugners of these verses. ❋ 1813-1888 (1871)
The reader has now heard the utmost that can be said against the historic character of the Resurrection by the ablest of its impugners. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
I have done the best I can for all parties, and feel justified in appealing to the existence of the widely conflicting opinions which I have quoted, as a proof that the balance has been evenly held, and that I was justified in calling the book a defence -- both as against impugners and defenders. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
In the times of the ancients the preponderance of opinion was in favour of teleology, though impugners were not wanting. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
In spite of all modern impugners, it still remains true that the phenomena of 'nature,' their continuity, their co-operation, and their beneficent issues, demand the recognition of a Person with a loving purpose moving them all. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
The Fair Haven: an ironical work, purporting to be "in defence of the miraculous element in our Lord's ministry upon earth, both as against rationalistic impugners and certain orthodox defenders," written under the pseudonym of John Pickard Owen with a memoir of the supposed author by his brother William Bickersteth Owen. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
If the treasures of ancient history which exist in Irish MSS. existed in Sanscrit, or even in Greek or Latin, we should find scholars devoting their lives and best intellectual energies to understand and proclaim their value and importance, and warmly defending them against all impugners of their authenticity. ❋ Mary Frances Cusack (1864)
Sir William Jones and John Richardson, both distinguished English Orientalists, and Meiners in Germany, were the chief impugners of the document in hand. ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)
If all this has a Sabellian or almost a Brahmanical sound, its impugners are bound, even on patristic grounds, to show how it differs from the doctrine of Justin Martyr, ❋ 1821-1902 (1860)
Whether the objections adduced by the impugners of this Epistle are of this character, the reader will see presently. ❋ Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1858)
England was written (and this is too indistinctly seized by many who read it), not because Episcopalianism is essential, but because its impugners maintained that Presbyterianism is essential, and that ❋ Matthew Arnold (1855)
Hooker's great work against the impugners of the order and discipline of the Church of ❋ Matthew Arnold (1855)
But by far the most distinguished of these ancient impugners of the proper deity of the Messiah was the celebrated Paul of Samosata, who flourished shortly after the middle of the third century. ❋ Unknown (1854)
Though I can not speak earnestly from actual knowledge, we must all concede that these were the times when political strife assumed a formidable aspect -- when the press most flagrantly outraged individual rights and domestic peace -- when the impugners of the Washingtonian administration received new weapons, with which to inflict their assaults upon tried patriotism, by every arrival from abroad announcing ❋ Benson John Lossing (1852)
She [feared] that her [dishonest] actions impugned not only her [reputation], but the reputations of her staff. ❋ Joe Aka Codes (2003)
