Once he offered, if I would renounce all thought of you and treat him with more cordiality, to committhe theft himself; but I refused, determined at all hazards to remain with you as long as possible.
He can thus commit crime without detection, and defy all efforts to arrest or imprison him, releasing himself with ease from fetters, and passing through stone walls.
The superstitions which encourage ignorant people to commit crime are handed down from generation to generation, and have in most cases a purely local character.
Many terrorist movements have tried to commit war acts and not terror acts.
These believers can commit suicide very easily, if they have a 'serious' reason, without the possibility of intervention of PSM to block it.
The old immorality endures; it is as if the command were reversed by accepting that misprint which so scandalized the Star Chamber, "Thou shalt commit adultery.
If the home authorities would avoid a campaign, let them commit their difficulty to a soldier, not to a civilian.
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they shouldcommit on the inhabitants of these States; 16.
He had always cherished a disposition tocommit suicide, as he had no means of solving the mystery of life, and desired death, either as an explanation or as an eternal sleep.
That very man has murdered the game-keeper of the Earl of Selby; and being called to the spot yesterday, I had to commit him for that crime, upon evidence which left not a doubt of his guilt.
She could not at that moment commit murder; neither could lady Macbeth have done so when she was a girl.
Feeling that such a course would commit him irrevocably, the boy hesitated.
No one made him commit the first or any subsequent evil.
Would Almighty God command, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," and then so create man as to compel him to break his Divine injunction?
Nor were those pupils merely made to commit to memory the farrago of nonsense which every foolish philosopher of every age and country had uttered, as is now the method followed in non-Catholic colleges.
Even Carlyle says this of St. Ignatius--"The Pope had given them full power tocommit every excess.
He was not allowed tocommit any more official murders for the moment; but at least he had thousands who were dying in his underground dungeons.
Among these Hindus there are numbers who when asked whether they commit this or that sin, answer: 'Formerly I did, but that is many years ago.
Grosvenor is very strenuous about having such a resolution as will commit the convention distinctly to revenue reform, and I fear will be a little unreasonable about it.
Journalists have no special license tocommit treason, and Vallandigham's sympathy with the rebels was neither more audacious nor more mischievous than that of the Times.
Besides, a man who has made up his mind to commit suicide must be very careful of himself, lest a toothache, a bad attack of neuralgia, or the 'fluenza might cause him to change his mind.
There is but one thing for me to do now, and that is to commit suicide by ending my life.
If there were as many worlds as there are stars, or grains of sands, then I might be able to understand why a man would want to commit suicide, if he was of a roaming disposition, and wanted to write a book of his travels and adventures.
There are more ways of killing a dog than by making him commit suicide,' ses he.
And I'm afraid of my life that I may die before I will commit suicide.
People who have pluck enough to commit suicide usually have too much pride to boast of it beforehand.
I want to know whether 'twould be better to commit suicide in New York or Boston,' ses Matty.
He could not decide where to commit suicide, and his wives, the cause of all his trouble and entertainment, would never trouble him again.
And sure 'tis a genius you are yourself, and if I were you, I wouldn't commitsuicide in either place.
If he commit iniquity, I will chastise him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; but my mercy shall not depart away from him.
Third, to know Him in order to believe on Him, to commit one's salvation to Him against that day, one must know Him as having been really raised from the dead.
It is to commit one's salvation to Christ "against that day.
When the earthquake came and the doors were opened, the hardened jailor started to commit suicide.
Earthly children commit two kinds of sins against their earthly fathers; they sin under temptation and are penitent, and confess their sins and are forgiven.
Man must know Him in His real character as Saviour or he cannot commit to Him against that day the matter of his eternal destiny, cannot believe on Him.
Second, one must know Him as complete Redeemer in order to believe on Him, in order to commit one's salvation to Him against that day.
But after one knows the bank, he must commit his money to the bank, else the bank is not responsible for it.
After one knows the physician, he must commit his case to the physician, else the physician is not responsible.
Portland, too, at last wrote, warning him not to commit himself on the catholic question.
The heavy punishments attached to light offences tended to multiply serious crimes; for a thief who knew that he might be hanged was tempted to commit murder rather than be caught.
Nothing would have induced him to commit so hideous a crime, and his proclamation only served to enrage the Americans and swell the number of their troops.
Later in the year one Watt was hanged for engaging in a wild plot to seize Edinburgh castle and commit other acts of treason.
But the ability to commit crime cannot be referred to the good; therefore it is not a thing to be desired.
Didst thou commit thy sails to the winds, thou wouldst voyage not whither thy intention was to go, but whither the winds drave thee; didst thou entrust thy seed to the fields, thou wouldst set off the fruitful years against the barren.
For myself individually, I commit my life to Him that made me; and may His blessing alight on my endeavours for serving my country faithfully!
Being then but a boy, and hearing myself commended for these knavish pranks, it encouraged me to commit more.
It was highly desirable to commit to the support of the governments the whole range of influences that were in earnest about emancipation.
He listened; did not commit himself; asked them to call again; and turned into his own thoughts for a mode of saving the day.
But," said Lady Gwynedd, "he is not going to commit himself to any of us, incredible as it may seem.
The new arrival had evidently not thought it worth his while to commit himself to permanency by taking a seat.
When you danced around me before dinner--" Pearson's horror forced him to commit the indiscretion of interrupting.
It was his practice to have him commit to memory any fine passage in prose or verse which inculcated generous and lofty ideas.
He was sufficiently depraved to commit any crime, without being sufficiently resolute to brave its penalty.
There was no crime ambition could instigate her to commit from which, in the slightest degree, she would recoil.
