Neither anticipation was unreasonable, but the one was justified whilst the other was confuted by events.
She considers in order the various claims to predominance which men have put forward, and confutes them one by one.
The face which he puts upon it shall either confirm your suspicions or entirely confute them.
There is no need to confute the theory, which confutes itself.
Parliamentary right was sustained by an argument which, a generation earlier, might have been used to confute it.
And the principles which he himself proceedeth on, do seem to border on, if not to be borrowed from his, and those which are here confuted.
You can confute them by better ideas and by better action and by showing in practice the superiority of the democratic way of life.
