So far as their ignorance was involuntary it was an alleviation of guilt, though not an excuse for all sin.
If there be solace in such an occasional result, let it be made the most of by those who need it; for it is the only possible alleviation to their remorse.
For such, alleviation or compensation is in store, in the rising up of objects new, and the creation of fresh hopes.
He had placed her under the roof of one of his favourite cottagers, where she received all the assistance and alleviation that careful nursing and medical advice could give her.
But such an alleviationof my anguish is forbidden to my reason.
If these banks are to be in touch with all American business and industry and be powerful agents for the prevention and alleviation of panic, why should they be thus restricted in their operations?
When this is done a more satisfactory theory can be formulated and methods of prevention and alleviation employed to better advantage.
The absence of the Emperor was always a relief: if people did not speak more freely, they seemed better able to breathe, and this sense of alleviation was especially to be observed in persons connected with his Government.
This pension was a great resource to Theresa and considerable alleviation to me, although I was far from receiving from it a direct advantage, any more than from the presents that were made her.
I received no answer to my letter: this was too reasonable to be efficacious, and I do not flatter myself that it contributed to the alleviation which, some time afterwards, was granted to the severities of the confinement of poor Diderot.
It is certain I have since suffered less from my disorder than I had done before, and every time I recollect that I owe this alleviation to M.
By them many of its intricacies were explained, its strictness qualified; and hence some present alleviation was yielded.
Even in banishment, the remembrance that its virtues were as well known as its name, affords some alleviation to the conviction that when my country fell, all my property and all my kindred were involved in the ruin.
I hastened to my chamber, where, throwing myself on my bed, I tried, by all the delusions of hope, to obtain some alleviation from the pangs of my suspense.
Write to me often, my loved Sobieski; your letters will be some alleviation to my lot during the fulfilment of my hard duty.
I am going to impart alleviation to the sufferings of the noblest creature that ever walked the earth!
Father Ignatius Grant called my attention to the use of "simples" in England, as elsewhere, for the alleviation of the suffering.
I am now broken with disease, without thealleviation of familiar friendship or domestic society.
Of this grateful alleviation I know not the cause, nor dare depend upon its continuance, but while it lasts I endeavour to enjoy it, and am desirous of communicating, while it lasts, my pleasure to my friends.
How devoutly to be wished is thealleviation of his danger and distress!
They assured those relations who were with him in London, that "they would devote their whole care and attention to the alleviation of his malady;" and hoped to make the best arrangements for his comfort if he could be induced to visit them.
They assured those relations that were with him in London that "they would devote their whole care and attention to thealleviation of his malady.
There were a good many books on the shelves; that was always something: and Mrs Rolls had given him an excellent dinner, which he ought to have considered also as a very great alleviation of the situation.
So, in her luxurious apartments, surrounded by every alleviation that wealth could bestow, this lady passed many lonely hours and days--hours of intense weariness of both body and mind.
Her great delight during the short period of her court life was the care of the sick in the hospital of Athies, which she had founded, and the alleviation of the miseries of the poor.
The branch of medical science concerned with the application of remedies for the alleviation of pain and the treatment of disease.
To a man of letters in my situation, paper and ink would take away nine-tenths of the torture, but the wretches who persecuted me did not dream of granting me such an alleviation of my misery.
The knowledge which we both have that the girls are in a satisfactory condition is a great alleviation to my distress, but you must confess that you have been very imprudent.
They are equally committed to the alleviation of misfortune and distress among their fellow citizens.
I shall later submit recommendations designed to assure the steady alleviation of their most pressing concerns.
As a natural consequence of the alleviation of our thirst, the pangs of hunger returned more violently than ever.
If it was alleviated, to what was the alleviation due?
Hannah was permitted to attend her mistress constantly; and it was also felt as a great alleviationof the horrors belonging to this prison, that candles were now allowed throughout the nights.
The second morning, however, brought an alleviation to the distress.
Not all the good-will nor all the experiments tried by physicians, managers, and almoners for the alleviation of bitter suffering, will ever be superfluous.
Her death was a calamity which took from him all hope, and he found some slight alleviation only in the mode of life which best enabled him to feel her still near him.
