Rohan hastened to Court in order to justify himself, but the mind of Marie had been poisoned against him, and she treated his remonstrances with chilling indifference.
Among these the Duc d'Epernon, as already stated, stood out so prominently that he had been compelled to justify himself, while the favour which he had so suddenly acquired turned the public attention towards the Queen herself.
Bassompierre was permitted to justify himself, and Marie frankly admitted her conviction that she had been misled by his enemies.
The more a man stands upon his points[14] to justify himself and to condemn his holy brethren, the more danger he is in of being overcome of diverse evils.
Theodosius the younger first forbade him to stir out of his diocese, and when he desired to go to Rome to justify himself, in 450, banished him to his monastery near Apamea.
When he had done, the saint, without speaking one word tojustify himself or his Order, continued his sermon with the greatest tranquillity and unconcern of mind.
But he, desiring to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
He therefore attempted to justify himself by limiting the sphere to which the law of love applies.
The lawyer suggested that it is impossible to love everyone, even though it be required to love our neighbors, and to justify himself he asked the question, “And who is my neighbor?
He began to justify himself in a heated, stumbling, angry manner, which made nothing of it.
But, as this might have been a reason for coming to the opposite conclusion, he followed out the theme again a little way in his mind; to justify himself, perhaps.
He took no pains to hide it; and caused me to feel among the rich people as if he had bought me for my looks, and made a show of his purchase to justify himself.
Pétion strove miserably to justify himself in a letter in which his weakness and connivance revealed themselves beneath the multiplicity of excuses.
In vain did he justify himself by alleging the impossibility of obtaining such an amnesty from Switzerland, at a moment when this country, who had suffered from civil commotions, sought to restore order by the laws of Draco.
Mirabeau himself, accused by Lameth on the subject of the law of emigration, came a few days before his death to listen face to face to the invectives of his denouncer, and had not disdained to justify himself.
Being in an honest position for once, he felt called upon to justify himself a little.
Heine ingeniously labored to discover faults in the Jews and Judaism, and thus to justify himself.
As was to be anticipated, Eibeschuetz declined to justify himself in any way, and the confederates took council as to what further steps to take against him.
He recoiled before the fear of violence and then had to justify himself.
Finally, under the increasing pressure to justify himself in this hostility, we find Erasmus laying down in more formal shape his philosophical and theological position as against that of the Lutheran party.
I love her," he repeated, seeking to justify himself.
So seeking to justify himself by force of circumstances, he threw prudence to the winds and determined to speak that very night.
Louvet descended from the tribune amidst applause, Robespierre mounted it to justify himself; he was pale, and was received with murmurs.
When he ascended the tribune to justify himself, the assembly shuddered.
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