'Inertia' does not mean want of vigour, but may be metaphorically described as the inexpugnable resolve of everything to have its own way. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)
Instinct never yet surrendered to arguments; it is their race-instinct, deep and strong and "inexpugnable," as Carlyle would say. ❋ Atticus Greene (1881)
I mean the inexpugnable belief that every detailed occurence can be correlated with its antecedents in a perfectly definite manner, exemplifying general principles. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Therefore the mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for, refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This Castle hath on the one side a drie ditch, on the other side the riuer Moscua, whereby it is made almost inexpugnable. ❋ Unknown (2003)
More saliently, however, this positioning of himself in such a way was, in part, because of a deep melancholy over all those who were gone from his life and regret for all the experiences that they had given him -- experiences that had accumulated and embedded carvings onto the walls of his brain until there were reliefs of inexpugnable, defunct memories, aggravating the past so that it was alive in him still. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Let us now but make them inexpugnable, and they will make themselves universal. ❋ Various (N/A)
Poictou subdued the strong fortresse of Tailbourg, which was iudged before that time, inexpugnable: but earle Richard oppressed them that kept it so sore with streight siege, that first in a desperate mood they issued foorth, and assailed his people verie valiantlie, but yet neuerthelesse they were beaten backe, and forced to retire into their fortresse, which finallie they surrendred into the hands of earle ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
He even considered the possibility of converting his uncle, and spent the Sunday evening before term began in framing inexpugnable arguments to be preceded by unanswerable questions; but always when he was on the point of speaking he was deterred by the lifelessness of his uncle. ❋ Compton MacKenzie (1927)
| Page 71: inexpugnable replaced with inexpungable | ❋ Bertrand Russell (1921)
Perhaps her face was rigidly set -- but that marmoreal impassiveness, that magnificent stolidity, as of a wonderful statue by some great sculptor working under the curse of the gods; that imposing, unthinking stillness of her features, had till then mirrored for him the tranquil dignity of a soul of which he had thought himself -- as a matter of course -- the inexpugnable possessor. ❋ Unknown (1920)
The sound of his words excited his thoughts, and in the play of darting thoughts he had glimpses now and then of the inexpugnable rock of his convictions, towering in solitary grandeur above the unprofitable waste of errors and passions. ❋ Unknown (1920)
The fabric of our life is formed of necessity and chance; the reason of man takes its station between them, and may rule them both: it treats the necessary as the groundwork of its being; the accidental it can direct and guide and employ for its own purposes; and only while this principle of reason stands firm and inexpugnable, does man deserve to be named the god of this lower world. ❋ Unknown (1917)
I felt the inexpugnable strength of common sense being insidiously menaced by this gruesome, by this insane, delusion. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Therefore the mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. ❋ Unknown (1909)
A principle for which so much is claimed demands clear definition and inexpugnable foundation in the "solid ground of Nature." ❋ Unknown (1909)
This thesis was inexpugnable, when sensation had already been reduced confusedly and implicitly to economic volition. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)
This doctrine appeared inexpugnable; but it now seemed to me, on retrospect, that my teachers had occupied themselves but superficially with the means of forming and keeping up these salutary associations. ❋ Unknown (1909)
In the glaring night-hours, when his brain seemed ablaze, he was visited by a sense of his fixed identity, of his irreducible, inexpugnable selfness, keener, more insidious, more unescapable, than any sensation he had ever known. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Then, there are some gratuitous and unredeemed vulgarities; some images whose barbarity makes us shudder, of creeping ascarides and inexpugnable tapeworms. ❋ Morley, John (1907)
