It enables us to refute a calumnious assertion made by John Knox with reference to the marriage of the Queen's maid of honour.
Sheriff AEneas Mackay admits with regard to it that "it must be deemed a calumnious work.
Sir Walter appears to have collected his information for the Life of Napoleon only from those libels and vulgar stories which gratified the calumnious spirit and national hatred.
Still Bonaparte's satisfaction plainly showed that his wife's eagerness for the marriage had removed all doubt in his mind of the falsity of the calumnious reports which had prevailed respecting her intimacy with Murat.
Experience proved that Bonaparte was not deceived; but I ought on this occasion to contradict a calumnious report circulated at that time, and since maliciously repeated.
She had long been aware of the calumnious reports circulated respecting the supposed connection between Hortense and the First Consul, and that base accusation cost her many tears.
The latter charge, but for his revival of it, might have been waived aside as equallycalumnious and incredible.
It is a disgusting and calumnious compilation, designed, apparently, to show that Byron's descendants accept the worst charges preferred against him by his enemies during his lifetime.
Many reports were circulated as to his habits and history, and many calumnious statements were made, both as to his mode of life and the system which he had adopted to carry on his business.
Referring to a calumnious invention, falsely attributed to Darnley, (vol.
The volume we are noticing will, for every candid and sensible reader, completely scatter to the winds any false and calumnious attempts to class Dr.
Vertue it selfe scapes not calumnious thoughts, Belieu't Ofelia, therefore keepe a loofe 10 Lest that he trip thy honor and thy fame.
A week or two previously a certain statesman had written to the same effect in reply to calumnious statements, and Richard consciously made that letter his model.
Even to look into her face did not silence the calumnious whispering.
Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouth'd and calumnious knave?
I humbly thank your Highness And am right glad to catch this good occasion Most throughly to be winnowed where my chaff And corn shall fly asunder; for I know There's none stands under more calumnioustongues Than I myself, poor man.
Catharine had no need, however, of crediting these calumnious tales in order to be moved to hostile action.
It is certain, at least, that the calumniousperversion of the speeches and resolutions of the Huguenot conference was employed to inflame the passions of the mob, as well as to justify the atrocities of the morrow in the eyes of the world.
In compliance with his wish, Woodfall lost not a moment in transcribing the calumnious article into his columns--not doubting, of course, that the refutation of it would be furnished with still greater eagerness.
A statement of his conduct in the duels having appeared in one of the Bath papers, so false andcalumnious as to require an immediate answer, he called upon Woodfall to request that his paper might be the medium of it.
Accepting the calumnious insinuations of Dion Cassius, these gladiators of the new faith found a terrible rhetorical weapon ready to their hands in the canonisation of a court favourite.
To perpetuate these calumnious reports was the real interest of the Christian apologists, who not unnaturally thought it scandalous that a handsome page should be deified.
Thus do calumnious tongues pervert the judgments of men to think ill of the most innocent, and meanly of the worthiest actions.
No balsam can heal the biting of a sycophant;" no thread can stitch up a good name torn by calumnious defamation; no soap is able to cleanse from the stains aspersed by a foul mouth.
We need not believe this perhapscalumnious little tale.
The offences included in this charge have been sufficiently refuted, as calumnious and false, by the magistrates and citizens of Grottkau; and I shall claim the protection of the State and of the public against such accusations.
But these are unfounded and calumnious charges: it was a love of justice which induced the captain to applaud her: not that I positively say, that he might not also be swayed by the lady's beauty.
He knew himself the mark of incessant andcalumnious misrepresentation both at Brussels and Madrid.
