As if all the saints of the almanac could help you if you do not help yourself--as if the sins of a generation could be atoned for in a single night--as if a diseased state could be cured in a day!
Again his doctrine of fasting is a spiritualizing of a current opus operatum conception on Jewish lines as though "keeping a watch" (statio) in that way atoned for sins (Sim.
Henry atoned for this by a reign marked by unceasing struggle against the great barons.
And yet might Brand and others take revenge for the wrongs they have suffered at the hands of Thorolf, even though Kalf Guttormsson's death be atoned for.
If so, is it not possible that his deed be atoned for?
The property of the church it was that tempted you, and not the laws of the land; and how have you atoned for your robbery?
I decree a fine of eighteen marks silver, and also that those men who may have fallen as part of the vengeance for Thorolf shall not be atoned for.
The blood of our brother who was slain must be atoned by the blood of one of the race that slew him--the white man for the redman.
This perseverance proceeds from a religious feeling, for they believe that the spirit of their dead relation can never enter the happy hunting grounds till his blood has been atoned for by that of the slayer.
And when the son made answer not, the father took unto himself the flocks and herds, the fields and flowing wells, 17 And sent his farmer son to live out on the desert sands, until he had atoned for all the wrongs that he had done.
And then, when he had atoned both for his own sin and for that of others, when he came out of prison, he was looked upon as in a worse state than if he had never atoned at all.
The boy was proud of having atoned in full, very full, measure for his sin; the master looked upon the punishment as inconceivably worse than the crime.
He snatched her hand to his lips and dropped it quickly, nerving himself to speak steadily, lest he should betray irresolution--so covering the tenderness which would have atoned for the positive refusal.
The intense anguish and remorse I endured at that moment, might have atoned for a darker crime than mine.
Germaine has gone to answer for what he has done; if he has sinned while living, so also he has deeply suffered and sorrow-atoned for all.
The sin offering, the kid of the goats, points to the building of the Temple by the wicked king Herod, who atoned for his execution of the learned men by the erection of the santuary.
Murder was punished in all the nations by death, but in Yucatan and Nicaragua if there were extenuating circumstances, such as great provocation or absence of malice, the crime was atoned by the payment of a fine.
Fornication was atoned by a fine, or if the affronted relatives insisted, by death.
Theft was atoned by a return of the stolen property and the payment of a fine to the public treasury.
The artist was not permitted to eat any food but his own unsuccessful dish until he had atoned for his failure by a success.
Men cried that it was a crime against the law and the gods, too great to be atoned for by the victor's services.
The terrible defeat of Athenry was more thanatoned for by both other victories.
Her manner was more reserved than usual, though she shook hands with Mrs. Bolland with a quiet friendliness that more than atoned for the perceptible change in her demeanor.
The joyous energy of his declamation, the no less eager volume of sound that arose from the congregation, atoned for any deficiencies of meter or rhyme.
The folly of last night must be atoned in some way, and he punished himself deliberately now by going straight home.
The punishments amongst the English seem to have been exceedingly mild for some offences, since even murder might be atoned for by the payment of a fine.
Waltheof, being an Englishman, was not treated with so much humanity; though his guilt, always much inferior to that of the other conspirators, was atoned for by an early repentance.
But all wrong doing has been atoned for, as we have seen.
In my view, there is nothing that will so effectually break down sin, as a belief that all sin has been atoned for.
An important section of the church believes that whoever is atoned for will infallibly be saved; and no others.
The inevitable presumption is, that He atoned for them every one, and so could identify Himself with them every one.
And the uninvited guest, the little suckling who had no right to be born, also atoned for its fault; they said that it was dead.
But all this shall beatoned for by a death, my death.
If, however, there were then few musical representatives of the English Press, the disadvantage appears to have been atoned for by the character of the criticisms.
Whatever was confused and improbable in the book was amply atoned for by the music, for Verdi set it to some of his most passionate-human melody and harmony.
Week after week passed agreeably away, and the close of the winter atoned for the disquiet which had marked its commencement.
And in this manner I atoned for all I had done, for, far from deceiving the worthy man, I became his benefactor by guarding against the deceit of some cheat who would have cared for his money more than for his daughter.
The sins of the believer have all been atoned for on the cross.
Every trace of sin and guilt was atoned for by that peerless, priceless sacrifice.
And yet there have been a few famous artists whose extraordinary vocal talent atoned for other very pronounced defects.
He had only one interjection in his vocabulary, but this he used in such abundance that quantity atoned for quality.
But if, perhaps [pause], the lack of cleverness can be atoned for by faith and enthusiasm, it will certainly be so.
The blunder of Lewis in choosing Germany instead of Holland for his point of attack had been all but atoned for by the brilliant successes with which he opened the war.
I could have gouged an office out of Bill Stewart for him, and that would have atoned for the loss of my home visit.
He came first with "A True Story," one of those noble pieces of humanity with which the South has atoned chiefly, if not solely, through him for all its despite to the negro.
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