If a person commits a certain crime under the influence of anger, he is not so blamable as if he commits the same crime in cold blood.
They even distinguished between cases in which the death was exclusively due to the carelessness of the agent, and cases in which the deceased contributed to it by some blamable act of his own.
In reality the latter person is blamable not for what he did, but for what he omitted to do, for want of due attention, for not thinking of the probable consequences of his act or for insufficient advertence to them.
He does not reason thus: it is blamable to kill a member of one's own tribe, and it is praiseworthy to kill a member of a foreign tribe--whether the tribe be mine or not.
Of course it may be argued that drunkenness is blamable in proportion as the person who indulges in it might expect it to lead to mischievous results.
Yet I do not see how he could conscientiously deny that he has omitted to do many praiseworthy or heroic deeds without holding himself blamable for such omissions.
Sidenote: Blamable to state the bounds of non-resistance.
But as we have much more reason to fear their feeble lenity than any blamable rigor, we ought, in my opinion, to leave the matter to themselves.
Lord Bute is very blamable for embarking the King so deep in measures that may have so serious a termination.
He has not spared her in the matter of how much she has been blamable all through her trials in not bearing with her husband more patiently and dutifully, and, above all, in tampering with divorce.
Such excesses are blamable anywhere, but they are intolerable in a republic.
If it be a fault that our citizens can receive and enjoy titles, it is a constitutional one; Congress are not blamable for it, but they would be blamable were they to arrogate powers not given them, upon this or any other subject.
He acknowledged that those who had their objections to the bill were certainly blamable for not coming forward with them yesterday.
They are often not blamable in themselves, but there lies in them a hidden danger that they may allure us into luxury or effeminacy.
False reasons are morally blamable in themselves, and they tend only to confuse.
Is not Spenser likewise blamable for confounding the Christian with the Pagan theology in some parts of his poem?
Lord Robert was surprised at so new an objection, and told her, that he did not apprehend himself more blamable in those respects than most young men.
Then, are you of the opinion that a bad man is not blamable for his badness, and, therefore, not to be abominated?
The consequent is not determined by the antecedent; he may be not blamableand still to be abominated.
Blamable in ten thousand other respects, may not I almost say I am perfect with regard to you'?
Without attempting in any way to excuse what was blamable therein, we may very well make use of the abuse itself, by considering that it frequently happens that abuses are only exaggerations of a good principle.
To other citizens he so behaved himself, as to be less blamable in his enmities than in his friendships; for against his enemy he forbore to take any unjust advantage, but his friends he would assist, even in what was unjust.
It may be that it will end in the adoption of some blamable compromise; but whatever may be inscribed in it, the election of Mr. Lincoln has just written in the margin a note that will annul the text.
I remained with them, not from any blamable curiosity, but from a stupefaction which rendered me incapable of determining what I ought to do.
Blamable enough they were for what they had done, though under the greatest possible provocation.
I am by no means blamable in desiring to have other people's good word, good-will, and affection, if I do not mean to abuse them.
This is by no means a criminal or blamable simulation, if not used with an ill intention.
But is not such language, which might have been suitable in the mouth of a magistrate, blamable in a minister of Christ?
