He was prosecuted by the Inquisition of Madrid on suspicion of Jansenism, but his trial did not proceed further than the preparatory instruction, as nothing but conjectures could be brought against him.
He was denounced at Saragossa and Madrid as an incredulous philosopher; but there were no proofs, and the trial was suspended until fresh charges should be brought against him.
It could not, surely, be brought against her as an actual crime that she had not answered Mr. Camperdown's letters?
Lord Fawn himself was of the same way of thinking;--but then how was he to clear his character of the charge which would be brought against him; and how was he to stand his ground before Frank Greystock?
Circumstances, as they had occurred, had taught her to believe that the police could not insist on breaking open her desk unless some evidence could be brought against her.
Or on the opposite side something credible may be brought against it, in this manner--"Who is there who is not more desirous of doing his duty than of acquiring money?
Your request is a most extraordinary one, my good friend," he replied, "considering the evidence which has been brought against you.
To you I have only to remark, that your examination will of course be taken down, and may hereafter be brought against you.
It was formerly a criticism on her works, that they favored Judaism (the creed of their author) at the expense of Christianity; but no such charge can be brought against Home Influence with any truth.
Well, the Roman Catholic Church, of things they do not know to be true; and I see no harm in inquiring what is true, and what false, in all that is brought against it.
The thought is most injurious; and, could the charge be brought against him, he would repel it with indignation.
On their still pressing him, he said that he was ready to meet any accusation that could be brought against him on this head.
It gives courage such as the innocent who do not know what charge may be brought against them or how to meet it, do not possess.
When a man is guilty he knows all that can be brought against him, in which, in its way, there is a certain advantage.
She knew what indictment was about to be brought against her, and she knew it was true.
He was, Tacitus adds, a knave and a villain, who got himself preferred before honest men by the unscrupulous accusations which he brought against them.
The heaviest charge that can be brought against Tiberius is that he deposed his colleague from the tribuneship, and afterwards sought a second tribuneship for himself.
The doctor solemnly swore that some of these women he had never seen, and that, in respect to others whom he had known, no accusation had ever until then been brought against him.
We did not commit ourselves by any opinion, as we did not know but that some day it would bebrought against us.
I cannot see why such a choice by so excellent a woman should be brought against me as matter for reproach rather than honour.
And even though others say naught of their crimes, they are conscious enough that such charges may at any time deservedly be brought against them.
I left it to Sowerby to get up the old bills when they were renewed, and now one of them that has in truth been already honoured is brought against me.
He thought, too, of the accusations which Lord Lufton had brought against him on that night, when he had come to him in the coffee-room of the hotel, and he felt that it was impossible that he should apply to him for such aid.
That was the accusation which she brought against herself, and it forbade her to feel any triumph as to the result of her interview.
Although eventually Mr Newdegate had to bear the whole of the costs in the suit which he brought against Mr Bradlaugh, yet the latter had to find several hundred pounds--about L725 in all--to pay into court at different times.
Newdegate had been afraid that a friendly action would be brought against Bradlaugh, in which case Bradlaugh would not have to meet the L500 penalty.
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