John Morley (Oliver Cromwell, p. 2 9 7) has truly observed of the execution of Charles I., that it was "an act of war, and was just as defensible or just as assailable, and on the same grounds, as the war itself."   anvd [Please select]

Britling's heart with any such pitifulness; they were not so thin-skinned as their elder brother, not so assailable by the little animosities of dust and germ.   anvd [Please select]

Hence there would be easy access to both regions; both would be, in a way, commanded; here, too, was a readily defensible position, one assailable only in front.   anvd [Please select]

However assailable this statement may be from the standpoint of traditional legal theory, it is indubitably the principle to which American politics conform in practice.   anvd [Please select]

Here as elsewhere he writes with seriousness and conviction, although some of his logical positions are assailable.   anvd [Please select]

, had his assailable side nevertheless, and he felt extraordinarily good natured, almost as if the third volume were finished, with public and publishers clamoring for its appearance.   anvd [Please select]

Her days are therefore sure to be occupied, and the fact that she has little time for the gaiety of life, and that she is a worker, puts her in a somewhat less assailable position.   anvd [Please select]