It is not difficult to lay one's finger upon very many obliquities, self-deceptions and sophisms in Tertullian in matters of detail, for he struggled for years to reconcile things that were in themselves irreconcilable; yet in each case the perversities and sophisms were rather the outcome of the peculiarly difficult circumstances in which he stood. [Please select]
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They furnish them with school-books, which are filled with beautiful sophisms--all tending to inculcate principles of endurance of wrong, and reverence for their wrongers. [Please select]
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Will they not be sophisms captivating to the ear, having nothing in them genuine, or worthy of or akin to true wisdom. [Please select]
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What sophisms, indeed, what prejudices (however obstinate) can stand before the simplicity of the following propositions:-- I. [Please select]
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If such miserable sophisms were to prevail, there would never be a good house or a good government in the world. [Please select]
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They are sophisms, not of men, but of pure reason herself, from which the Wisest cannot free himself. [Please select]
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They cannot be altogether cheated out of their rights by sophisms and quibbling. [Please select]
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