Well," said Albert in a determined tone, "you see that your paper his insulted a member of my family, and I insist on a retractation being made.
Such revolt was unexampled and he was forthwith prosecuted, not so much to punish him as to procure his retractation and submission, but he was obstinate and defiant for nearly three years.
Visitors arrived, and Gratarol's letter ofretractation circulated through the city in a score of copies.
Had he drawn his sword upon me, I could have understood that his retractationhad been forced.
The end of the whole matter is Job's retractation of his words and his repentance.
Abject in his fear before Moses, he was ready to promise anything; insolent in his pride, he swallows down his promises as soon as fear is eased, his repentance and his retractation of it combined to add new weights about his neck.
Forced to submit to the new government, it retracted its doctrine as to the lawfulness of "tyrannicide," supported in this not very startling retractationby the authority of the court of Rome.
In his as in so many cases, accordingly, intellectual rectitude gave way to lower interests; and he made unblushing offers of retractation to cardinals and pope.
This prelate made before the Pope a full and sincere retractation of all his errors.
After I have made a public retractation all my comrades who have hitherto been my friends will fall away from me and despise me.
He was pressed to make a formal retractation of the passages to which objection was made, but this he stiffly refused to do.
The retractation and apology which Hearne afterwards actually submitted to the Vice-Chancellor in court in 1718, when in trouble again for his preface to Camden's Elizabeth, was very similar in style to this.
Witness the remarkable example of a solemn retractation imposed by the tribunal of the Inquisition upon a preacher who had exceeded his bounds.
Much as he had rejoiced at Blaurer’s apparent retractation in the matter of the Sacrament, he was very mistrustful of his bewildering “Apology.
In this volume Bindseil has not reprinted the writing owing to Melanchthon’s retractation of it (see next page).
And Brahman has been defined as that from which there proceed the origination, sustentation, and retractation of this world.
After three months' deliberation I published my retractation of the violent charges which I had made against Rome: I could not be wrong in doing so much as this; but I did no more: I did not retract my Anglican teaching.
And now in concluding my remarks on the second point on which my confidence rested, I observe that here again I have no retractation to announce as to its main outline.
In February, I made a formal retractation of all the hard things which I had said against the Church of Rome.
For he knew that, according to a law recently enacted by the Holy Office, and sanctioned by the Pope, no subsequent retractation could save a prisoner who had once confessed--he must die.
But Valer had been only sent to a monastery to die, while, by a disgraceful artifice, retractation had been obtained from Egidius.
His retractationwas drawn up in as mild a form as possible by the Inquisitors, and duly signed by him.
What they demanded of him was a retractation of all the articles brought against him, with an unconditional submission to the council.
Some of the articles, he replied, charged him with teaching things which he had never taught, and he could not by this formal act of retractation admit that he had taught them.
In reality, it was not to the interest of the English that she should resume her man's dress, and so make null and void a retractation obtained with such difficulty.
The only sentence which looks like a real retractation is that in which he grants ‘the power of the keys’ to all the clergy.
However, the document had a sufficient air of retractation about it to allow Bernard to withdraw.
In spite of a useless retractation of his "errors," he was never released, and died in prison in 1758.
The author was twice banished, and finally was compelled to make a public retractation in the Church of Notre Dame, for having spoken against the king and the truth, and to be exiled to Mont- Saint-Michel.
The door was closed behind him, daggers were drawn by the assembled guests, and they demanded from him an immediate retractation of all the opinions he had advanced in his work.
But answers were not what the Diet required, and retractation was far from Luther's mind.
But as pope, old and weak, he maintained an honourable life, and in a bull of retractation addressed to the University of Cologne exhorted Christendom Æneam rejicite, Pium recipite!
There he solemnly and formally retracted his previous retractationwith a believer’s confidence and a martyr’s joy.
He could not have anticipated Cobham's retractation of his retractation.
Prepared as he was for his companion's 'fashion of uttering things easily,' he could scarcely have anticipated the layers of retractation still latent in that voluminous repository.
