The great abilities and unblemished morals of men like Bossuet, Fenelon, Bourdaloue, Flechier, and Mascaron, diminished in some degree the ignominy which is always connected with blind obedience.
Savage, Kippis, and Rees; and from thence he proceeded to the station which for so many years he has occupied with an unblemished character.
He bears an unblemished reputation as a man of honor and fairness, in all ways commanding universal respect and esteem,--a gentleman in the true significance of the term.
Such is the sanctity that heaven has bestowed on unblemished truth.
He had a plentiful stock of learning; an easy, winning elegance, not only in his manners and disposition, but in his very language; and an unblemished purity and correctness of style.
We insist upon tact, conformity, and an unblemished record.
It is not now that, having revealed so much as I have done of my secret history, I dare make any pretensions to superior honesty, or affect to be one of the "unblemished few.
But God, in His great mercy, found anunblemished substitute for Israel, on which the sentence of death was executed.
Circumstantial evidence was accepted as conclusive proof in spite of the unblemished character and the high social position of the accused.
Gisquet, who was prefect of police, broke up Coco-Latour's band of ex-brigands and ordered that in future the work should be done by persons of unblemished character.
Both were agreeable in person, and unblemished in character, and connected together by the ties of mutual friendship and esteem.
The other vacant Sees were given to divines of unblemished character; and the public in general seemed very well satisfied with this exertion of the king's supremacy.
Blackall, who though otherwise of unblemished characters, had openly condemned the revolution.
The characters of all these personages were unblemished and respectable, until this machination was detected.
Their mother must have an unblemished name, my Lord, worthy of your own.
To a Divine of unblemished life it is, I confess, inexpressibly painful to be confused with forgers and highwaymen.
I am happy to say that you leave this court with an unblemished character: and that you have the most heartfelt commiseration of the court for your wholly undeserved sufferings and anxiety.
Monsieur d'Arnaye, you know me to be a gentleman of unblemished descent, and as such entitled to a hearing.
Not a detail of this escaped her--his worn clothes and baggy trousers touched her deeply; but at least he bore an unblemished and honourable name.
He was a man of unblemished character, and the writer of greatest learning and of the greatest note at that time in Alexandria; being also of a great age, he well deserved the honour of being sent on the embassy to Caligula.
To die in the midst of his commercial troubles--to die, leaving behind him an unblemished reputation, and to die the seeming thief of a paltry two thousand pounds, were widely different things.
And still he could not think of bidding adieu for ever to the scene of his life-long labours without one more look at the books which had been so honestly kept, and which he had hoped to hand down unblemished to his son Eugene.
Mr. William Vernon had the reputation ofunblemished honour.
She threw herself on the forgiveness of her husband, and prayed him to remove her where her name was never breathed; that she might begin life anew, and establish for their children an unblemished reputation.
She looked upon him as the last representative of a family, honoured among the most honourable, and destined to transmit to posterity his ancestral name, with unblemished and still more exalted lustre.
That it should have been brought on it too by one of such unblemished patriotism and purity of motive, as Isabella!
On the other hand; the power of anunblemished heart and a brave spirit is shewn, in the events of war, not only among unpractised citizens and peasants; but among troops in the most perfect discipline.
For she brings to her husband a fresh untainted spirit, the charm of her beauty, the unblemished glory of her prime.