Out of their affection for the man, they palliated the weakness with more or less sincere excuses, that relieved the infirmity of the odium of deceitfulness.
Of course the leaders of Old Ireland denounced all breakers of the laws; but when outrages were committed, especially on Young Irelanders or Protestants, they palliated them, or denied them in the face of evidence which was conclusive.
Mr. Mahon, an Irish member, was chairman of that meeting, and the mode in which he palliated the atrocious speech of the archdeacon caused murmurs of disapprobation in the house.
The falsehood of Ladislaus to his word and oath was palliated by the religion of the times: the most perfect, or at least the most popular, excuse would have been the success of his arms and the deliverance of the Eastern church.
Their hasty and unconditional submission was palliated by a promise of future revisal; but the best, or the worst, of their excuses was the confession of their own perjury.
Saul, perceiving that he had sinned, confessed his transgression, but palliated it by saying that he feared the people.
At one time, in the same character, vices were so palliated by virtues, and at another virtues came in such quick succession upon vices that it is difficult to determine how to characterize the changing Proteus.
In these desperate cases it often procured a plentiful flow of urine, and palliated a disease which medicine could not remove.
In this reply the minister palliated the charges made against the Assembly by the emperor, and seemed rather to excuse France than justify.
He palliated the infamous vices of the great Frederic, and brought philosophy on its knees before the mistresses of Louis XV.
It is not improbable that this prejudice against gownsmen on the press was palliated by circumstances that no longer exist.
These desertions, if they might be oftenpalliated by the straits to which the men were reduced through arrears of pay and want of supplies, arose in other cases, as after the retreat from New York, from sheer loss of heart in the cause.
This disaster of the British arms in that quarter seems not to have been palliatedby those precautions and that presence of mind which, even in defeat, reflects lustre on a commander.
But they may be palliated if they cannot be cured, and they must be palliated by the agents to whom we may ultimately look for their cure, education and fearless criticism.
The punishment of the two præfects might, perhaps, be excused by the exceptionable parts of their own conduct; the enmity of Rufinus might be palliated by the jealous and unsociable nature of ambition.
The horrid deed, palliated by the specious names of justice and necessity, was immediately communicated by the emperor to his soldiers, his subjects, and his allies.
If I except the fight, which was greatly palliated by the circumstances, and the sleeping on guard when we were in camp, your conduct has been entirely unexceptionable since you came to the Institute.
The Bank of England rose under the auspices of the whig party, and materially relieved the immediate exigencies of the government, while it palliated the general distress, by discounting bills and lending money at an easier rate of interest.
He palliated his conduct in a sophistical and Jesuitical manner.
Bassan was so infatuated with his pupil that he would havepalliated his most scandalous faults, and encouraged rather than checked his extravagances.
The Liberals defended or palliated the revolutionists.
In 1886 no Gladstonian had palliated crime or oppression, no Gladstonian statesman had discovered that boycotting was nothing but exclusive dealing, no Gladstonian Chancellor had made light of conspiracy.
Sheridan retrieved the day and magnanimously palliated the misfortune of Wright.
I palliatedpatriotically the over-breezy nonchalance of my countryman and thought I had got at the bottom of the joke, but that evening at a little tea I was undeceived.
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