Crossword-Solution: AVERMENTS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Tradition,—which sometimes brings down truth that history has let slip, but is oftener the wild babble of the time, such as was formerly spoken at the fireside and now congeals in newspapers,—tradition is responsible for all contrary averments.

Will his averments of disinterested motives be believed? Why should they be believed? How easily are assertions made, and how silly to credit declarations contradicted by the tenor of a man's whole conduct! But I can truly aver that my motives are disinterested.

The whole battle-ground, as to the truth of this series of averments, is on the first affirmation, "_that all men are created equal_." Or, to keep up my first figure, the strength of the chain of asserted truths depend on _that_ first link.

Averments, bars, and profestandoes.’”_ O! Cecilia, what pains did I endure to win your applause! Yet, that I may state the whole truth, let me acknowledge, that even these, my dullest, hardest tasks, were light, compared with the burden I formerly bore of ennui.

The libels of the day have made some scandalous averments to the contrary, but without adequate foundation.