 | 1841 - 508 Seiten
...cannot amount to more than a moderate probability, — and for the unlearned has no existence whatever. The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link. The weakest link in the documentary proof must measure the confidence which such minds can repose in the... | |
 | 1841 - 500 Seiten
...cannot amount to more than a moderate probability, — and for the unlearned has no existence whatever. The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link. The weakest link in the documentary proof must measure the confidence which such minds can repose in the... | |
 | 1918 - 758 Seiten
...American citizenship then let us all remember and with unvarying constancy, that here as elsewhere the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link. As a product myself of the helpful co-operation of the AMA in the educational mark in my native state... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1904 - 750 Seiten
...because tenacity must depend upon the weakest cohesive attraction existing in a substance, just as the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link. As a matter of fact, gray tin seems to possess far less tenacity than white tin, for the former is... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - 1854 - 308 Seiten
...purses of the flatterers. I shall say no more upon this disagreeable topic, but merely remark, that " the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link," and that consequently no pedigree is a sound one unless every link of descent is proved by evidence... | |
 | 1862 - 400 Seiten
...united, but it was made the very foundation of the union between the two countries. And let me say this, the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, and the strength of a beam is the strength of its weakest part, and every part of the United Church,... | |
 | Church congress - 1862 - 320 Seiten
...united, but it was made the very foundation of the union between the two countries. And let me say this, the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, and the strength of a beam is the strength of its weakest part, and every part of the United Church,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 Seiten
...exists now and here; past Intuitions can be now known to us only by an act of remembrance ; and as the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, that which we did know Intuitively, can be now accepted only on the strength of our belief that we... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 472 Seiten
...exists now and here; past Intuitions can be now known to us only by an act of remembrance ; and as the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, that which we did know Intuitively, can be now accepted only on the strength of our belief that we... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 Seiten
...exists now and here; past Intuitions can be now known to us only by an act of remembrance ; and as the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, that which we did know Intuitively, can be now accepted only on the strength of our belief that we... | |
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The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, the engineers tell us," said Longworth, •' and it is the same with evidence. 
