While he notes that some of the most learned men who have taken the oath had previously affirmed the contrary, he will not impugn their motives or condemn any other man's conscience; but for his own part, he is content "to lose goods, land, and life too, rather than swear against my conscience".
And when Jean-Baptiste Louis Crévier wrote his L'Histoire des empereurs des Romains, jusqu'à Constantin in 1749, he affirmed the contrary, that Philip was not a Christian at all: "...it is easy to judge what degree of credit ought to be given to this story of his penance; which, besides, is not fully and exactly related by any ancient author.
And just as the mentally-organised contents of the allusive are no less consistent than the perceptive contents put into the field by the phenomenologies of what is apparent, in the same way, to affirm via the contrary (think of the paradoxes of antiphrastic sayings) is no less consistent than the incontrovertible truth of any 2 + 2 = 4.
Other authors, on the contrary, affirm that these layers have been formed through the transformation (by microorganisms or by abiotic agents) of organic substances applied on the stone for protective and/or aesthetic purposes [24].
Kepler, on the contrary, affirms the reality of changes in the velocities of the planetary motions and provides a physical account for them.
However, for Schlegel, this did not make comedy dependent on tragedy; on the contrary, he affirms it to be "a species of poetry as independent and original as tragedy itself" (LDA, 108).
Quite the contrary, we explicitly affirm this, but we add: 'the mere realization that racism is false is not enough to wash away all xenophobic reactions in our nature' (2008: 168).
To the contrary, the decision affirmed that marriages are generally a matter to be left to the individual states.
"On the contrary, our decision affirms a proposition essential to the integrity of the capital markets: borrowers and lenders may, under New York law, negotiate mutually agreeable terms for their transactions, but they will be held to those terms.
It was reassuring and affirming to hear a voice to the contrary.
On the contrary, it is affirmed by the principle of 'one person one job' that is the basis of Plato's ideal city.
