As long as our view was restricted to Greece, it was perhaps excusable that Achilleus and Paris should be taken for exaggerated copies of actual persons.
His naturally open disposition was warmed besides, owing to a slight misconception he had fallen into, perfectly excusable however in a foreigner.
If it even had been so, my dear, you were not excusable to be wanting in your part, and to set yourself to oppose your father's will in a point which he had entered too far, to recede with honour.
Shakespeare is a name so interesting, that it is excusable to stop a moment, nay it would be indecent to pass him without the tribute of some admiration.
The violent attempts made during the rule of the Convention to prevent the observance of Sunday constituted a new species of tyranny, which, although more excusable than the tyranny it superseded, was no less barbarous and unreasonable.
In the latter case, the murder becomes premeditated, and is not justifiable on the ground of excusable heat of passion at an insult.
These matters being held as proved, the opinion of certain authorities who assert that a husband is not excusable from the ordinary penalty, who kills his adulterous wife after an interval, does not stand in our way.
These are matters one cannot know by mere hearing; they are matters to render one excusable to any one else who does not believe it.
How much more excusable and how worthy of pity should Francesca be considered, since she had such an urgent and such a well-verified cause for fleeing?
Such are a few of the surprising questions opened by recent historical research; and in the face of them the public is quite excusableif it declares itself at a loss what to believe.
Some compassionate guard, who before would have scrupled to assist her while under the ban of the Church, might have deemed himself excusable for lending her his aid after she had been absolved.
It is excusable in towns, where land is dear; but in the country the site of an old hall is of such trifling value that it might surely be permitted to fall peaceably to ruin.
In 1857, I and many others looked upon sketching as defective work, excusable only on the plea of want of time to do better.
Far less excusable than the "Anti-German Union's" super-patriotic eccentricities was the smug intolerance of enormous numbers of British toward elementary questions of the war.
Vesta said; "she is, however, more excusable than these grown men, whose prejudices against an article of dress are as heathen in character as her fetish superstition.
The old Scotch and Irish merchants there had made it the law that enterprise was onlyexcusable by success, and that success only branded an innovator.
The great Thuanus has not escaped this fault, the less excusable as it is connected with a formal and elaborate description of Africa (Historiar.
The prejudice of a philosopher is less excusable than that of a Jesuit.
Think not that you are excusable for receiving or venting an ill report, because you can say, He was an honest man that spoke it; for many that are otherwise honest, do make it a part of their honesty to be dishonest in this.
It may make many things intelligible and excusable which now are not to be understood.
But the most glaring and least excusable misstatements are made as to the battle of Lake Champlain, where he gives the American as greatly exceeding the British force.
These errors were the more excusable as they occurred also in higher quarters.
At least it was well worth trying, and though Decatur could not be said to be disgraced, yet it is excusable to wish that Porter or Perry had been in his place.
You are not excusableexcept they are your relatives.
Perhaps he was more excusablethan another would have been in doubting whether any reverse could come in him.
