Leslie Stephen avers with truth that the enormous majority of the race has been plunged in superstitions of various kinds.
Tradition avers that but forty days were needed for the completion of the work, six thousand men being employed night and day; guns and troops were hurriedly put in, and all navigation of the Bosporus was stopped.
He avers that this " metaphysic of experience " is not idealism, or the tenet that consciousness is the only reality.
The Scottish centre fought like Paladin's, and James, breaking out in their front, hewed his way to within a lance's length of Surrey, as that leader himself avers.
While Buchanan represents the pair as indulging in a guilty passion, the French ambassador, du Croc, avers that Mary was never in better repute with her subjects.