Notwithstanding, Fox placed himself at the head of those few who opposed the address; and ventured to palliate the conduct of Napoleon's haughtiness and insolent language to Lord Whitworth.
Such were the measures recommended by ministers, and adopted by parliament, to palliate the existing distress, and to provide security against some of the causes which had produced it.
While, however, I have no desire to disguise or palliate the extreme atrocity of this aspect of Roman life, there are certain very natural exaggerations, against which it is necessary for us to guard.
The defence often made that no real injury resulted from the experiment, cannot palliate the offence against personal rights.
Their piety, I take it for granted, justifies the fervor of their zeal, and may palliate the excess of it.
Such an example set to the mob by the first magistrate of the city tends greatly to palliate their offence.
The innocence of Crispus was so universally acknowledged, that the modern Greeks, who adore the memory of their founder, are reduced to palliate the guilt of a parricide, which the common feelings of human nature forbade them to justify.
Humboldt seeks to palliate this cupidity by making him the conscious inheritor of the pecuniary chances which every free son of Genoa expected to find within his grasp by commercial enterprise.
To palliate on such grounds is to believe in the irresponsibility of motives, which should transcend times and occasions.
For after their murders, blasphemies and all other sins their whole aim is to seek means whereby to excuse and palliatethe great sins they have committed.
But it is the very nature of hypocrites to excuse and palliate their sin, or to deny it altogether, and under the show of religion to slay the innocent.
But the world, like an untamed beast, still goes on and follows not the Word, but its own lusts, which it strives to palliate under the appearance of what is honest and right.
Cards were superfluous here, with all the tricks That idleness has ever yet contrived To fill the void of an unfurnish'd brain, To palliate dullness, and give time a shove.
I certainly do not wish to palliate them, but we must not be more severe than God himself: he always pardons.
Morny, Billault, Troplong, Rouher, and Ollivier had pliancy of mind enough to say and do anything to palliate and excuse everything.
Each of them therefore now endeavoured, as much as he could, to palliate the offence which his own child had committed, and to aggravate the match of the other.
It is equally sure to set off every female perfection to the highest advantage, and to palliate and conceal every defect.
These apparent errors in the doctrine of Thwackum served greatly to palliate the contrary errors in that of Square, which our good man no less saw and condemned.
The Southerners have long continued habit, apparent interest and dreaded danger, to palliate the wrong they do; but we stand without excuse.
We have no right to palliate a feeling, sinful in itself, and highly injurious to a large number of our fellow-beings.
In many of their publications, I have thought I discovered a lurking tendency to palliate slavery; or, at least to make the best of it.
The unhappy Don Carlos, who was not accustomed to conquer his passions, could never make use of any means to palliate his misfortune.
At the same time it is not desired to palliate their real defects.
Mrs. Marks' letter was not meant unkindly, but she never attempted to lessen Tom's fault or palliatehis conduct; the truth stood out in all its glaring hideousness.
It is like the rest false, and a flimsy attempt topalliate your wickedness.
The unconscious personality commits follies and evil deeds, and the conscious, standing powerless by, and unable to hinder it, seeks to palliate them by all sorts of pretexts.
His disciples do not deny these, but seek to palliate them.
He had made a little resolution to be stiff and stern, to ask for no favour and to receive none, not to palliate his own conduct, or to allow Mrs. Woodward to condemn it.
Professing to describe the people as I found them, I must endeavour to draw a faithful picture, neither attempting to palliate their vices, nor to exaggerate their virtues.
Some have endeavoured to excuse or palliate it, but it remains as one of the indelible stains of the Spanish Conquistadores upon the history they were making.
The syntactical order is this: "I shall neither deny nor attempt to palliate the atrocious crime of being a young man.
And there is no greater subtilty of Satan, nor no stronger self deceit, than this, to palliate and cover vices with the shadow of virtue, and to present corruptions under the similitude of graces.
There are many specious coverings gotten to palliate this wickedness and enmity, and so many invisible and spiritual wickednesses in the heart, that it is no wonder that they lurk and dwell without observation.
The spectacle of strenuous achievement will then not dazzle or mislead; it will not sanctify or palliate iniquity; it will only render it the more hideous and pitiable.
We may palliate them or excuse them for this reason or that, but that is the truth, and I do not see why they should not be dropped from literature, as they were long ago dropped from the talk of decent people.
But though there was some evidence of cruelty, there was none of murder; and the aunt and her husband had sought to palliate cruelty by alleging the exceeding stubbornness and perversity of the child, who was declared to be half-witted.
He did seek to palliate them by inviting visitors to his house.
This law was like an olive branch presented at the point of the sword as a suitable corrective to palliate the violent occupation of Rome.
They have always been resorted to in order to palliate schemes of ambition and hypocrisy.
