But Clarence, instead of securing his own life against the present danger by silence and reserve, was open and loud in justifying the innocence of his friends, and in exclaiming against the iniquity of their prosecutors.
This was an electioneering manoeuvre, and Lord John had some difficulty in justifying his conduct in the House when later taken to task for having set this madman free.
Among the excursions which I think ought to be made if one is in Florence for a justifying length of time is a visit to Prato.
This law of originality I have never seen better stated than by Coleridge, in a passage justifying the form of Shakespeare's dramas against a mode of criticism which has now, happily, gone out of use.
The one by justifying every man's taking the law into his own hands; and the other by destroying the authority of God, which is the only foundation on which human government can rest.
The right of self-defense is appealed to as justifying resistance even to death, against all attempts to deprive us of our liberty.
Their meeting occurs under felicitous conditions, justifying sincere congratulation and calling for our grateful acknowledgment to a beneficent Providence which has so signally blessed and prospered us as a nation.
In the past year, there has been progress justifying hope, both for continuing peace and for the ultimate rule of freedom and justice in the world.
The habits of justifying the popular mythology against the invectives of an implacable enemy, produced in their minds some sentiments of faith and reverence for a system which they had been accustomed to consider with the most careless levity.
If the dictator perceived among the troops the same unanimity in justifyingtheir victory that they had displayed in the battle, and that all interested themselves in the safety of one, it would bend his temper to milder counsels.
A Mormon preacher never hesitated to go to any lengths in justifying the doctrine of plural marriages.
She accounted for his previous absence by supposing that he had gone to seek some friend to act as his second upon the occasion, and, in short, imagination found many a way of justifying the apprehensions that love was prompt to force.
Standish, for justifying the measure, was attacked by the Bishops in Convocation.
Political exigencies had only recently been accepted by Pope Alexander as justifying a dispensation for the divorce of Lewis XII.
If we have an extensive experience and retain its impressions strongly, we may acquire in this manner a very considerable power of accurate judgment, which we may be utterly incapable of justifying or of communicating to others.
Thus by a sublime depending on his wise, and powerful, and pitiful Creator, he did cheerfully submit to what God had appointed, justifying the truth of that doctrine which he had preached.
Some twenty years later in the so-called Muratorian Canon, a fragment found by Muratori in the 18th century with a catalogue in corrupt Latin justifying the reception of the New Testament writings received in the Roman church.
The government issued a state paper justifying its procedure, and the courts of law sentenced certain refractory priests to several years’ confinement in fortresses or prisons.
It represents the life of the Christian, rooted in justifying faith, as complete oneness with Christ.
His decision ran "that the term faith should be applied to justifying faith which consoles us in these terrors [produced by the threats of the Law] but that the word repentance correctly includes a general faith," viz.
The world that never dines, and fancies it has a grievance justifying anarchy on that account, does not know how much misery it escapes.
The most uncompromising conservatives of the fief issued a manifesto justifying their refusal, and, as evidence of their sincerity, committed suicide.
The conditions originally necessitating extraterritorial jurisdiction had not, by 1871 undergone any change justifying its abolition.
What you need is to study other people's morals, not to be eternally justifying and analyzing your own.
He had to think, that this act of the justifying of the act reproached him with a lack of due emotion, in sympathy with agonized friends truly dear.
But with all his arguments he did not succeed in justifying to himself his own conduct, and he hated himself.
This description serves to blast the Catholic charge that Luther's easy way of justifying the sinner leads to increased sinning.
He must prepare and dispose himself for receiving justifying grace, and this grace is infused into him, and manifests itself in holy movements of the heart and by good works, in acts of love.
Catholic writers charge Luther with having perverted the meaning of justifying faith.
I thought I was working honestly and in a way usefully, yet I could never quite feel that the Settlement was doing the work it set out to do, or that it was quite justifying its subscription list.
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