From the pains which Aristotle takes (in the 'De Interpretatione' and elsewhere) to explain and vindicate his own doctrine about the Potential and the Actual, we may see that it was a theme much debated among the dialecticians of the day.
It should not go on, however; he would seek her and vindicate himself; he would prove to her that he had never wavered in his truth to her in spite of all the evidence against him.
As sure as there is a just God, I am Sir William Heath's lawful wife, and He will vindicate me.
If we do not vindicate our opinions, we seem poor creatures who have no right to them; if we speak out, we are involved in continual brawls and controversy.
The fryer, as some say, did this To vindicate the wrong 370 Which to the clergy he and his Had done by power strong.
Thus Robbin Hood did vindicate His former wrongs receiv'd; 110 For 'twas this covetous prelate That him of land bereav'd.
Evidences of the vehement party war stimulated and personally waged by General Jackson against Mr. Adams might be easily multiplied; but enough has been stated tovindicate the character of his administration and the judgment of Henry Clay.
Instead of which, I have once more to go about presenting my face to vindicate my character.
The simplicity of the acquiescence was vexatious to a champion desirous of hostilities, to vindicate the lady, in addition to his anxiety to cloak her sad plight.
You need no words to vindicate you; you are a man, and can bear out all arrogance with the royal motto Dieu et mon droit.
But it is not sinful for a soldier to defend his country from invasion, nor for man, with a man's heart, to vindicate truth and honour with his life.
It is enough in one essay to have tried to vindicate the spirituality of art in general.
But without that carpenter's work, the melodies of Cherubino are Selbst-ständig, sufficient in themselves to vindicate their place in art.
But Mosheim does not vindicate very strongly his own church.
Calvin, early in 1554, published a dissertation tovindicate the magistrates of Geneva in their dealings with this heretic.
It was easier tovindicate Ariosto from some of Pellegrino’s censures, which are couched in the pedantic tone of insisting with the reader that he ought not to be pleased.
I do not assent to their decision, which is not to the purpose, nor vindicate the intrigues of the papal party.
Melanchthon had doubtless a sweeter temper and a larger measure of human charities than Erasmus, nor would I wish to vindicate one great man at the expense of another.
And therefore it is worth while for the principal to vindicate the fame of the authoress from the asserted crime of adultery, etc.
Passing over, therefore, my own personal apology, I go on to vindicate the decree of this Tribunal from the injustice charged against it.
Then when she had been taken to prison, and afterwards was placed in safe keeping, it was impossible for him to vindicate his honour.
If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself.
As soon as day dawned, and the citizens became aware that they were summoned to vindicate their liberty, their joy and enthusiasm were unbounded.
Pericles now found it necessary to call a public assembly in order to vindicate his conduct, and to encourage the desponding citizens to persevere.
Faith, adhesion, aspiration, and progress, all vindicate their value and reality in the simple, homely way of practical obedience.
The men who had tried to vindicate God's righteousness are charged with not having spoken that which is right; the man who has passionately impugned it is declared to have thus spoken.
Job's confession as to his rash speeches is the best estimate of many elaborate attempts to 'vindicate the ways of God to man.
But the measures that were taken to vindicate Dalton were successful.
It seems to me that if you had wished to vindicate his innocence, it would have been better to do so while he was alive.
In fact, she had regarded all this as a new trick of Wiggins--a transparent one too--the aim of which was to win her confidence by thus pretending to vindicate her father.
The whole story of Dalton was made public through the exertions of Reginald, and society, which had once condemned him, now sought to vindicate him.
The real object of his expedition is not to punish a few refractory tribes for an act of disloyalty, but to vindicate the righteousness of Jehovah in the destruction of the city which had profaned His holiness.
Besides, it is surely a questionable expedient to vindicate a prophet's literalism at the expense of his sanity.
A crisis has been reached at which it becomes necessary for Jehovah to vindicate His divinity by the destruction of those who have exalted themselves against Him.
When the prelates attempted tovindicate themselves, Pius VII.
They enlarged upon the invincible talent, upon the inevitable destinies of Napoleon personally; but they consoled the more impatient patriots, by counselling them to await his death, before making a daring attempt to vindicate their freedom.
Had French troops, or those of the grand duchy of Warsaw, been sent amongst them, the Volhynians would probably have risen in arms to vindicate their liberty.
Napoleon knew what was expected, and endeavoured to vindicate himself beforehand for the disappointment which he foresaw was about to ensue.
We wish to stop for a moment over this faculty and dignity of the mind, in order to vindicate its title, and to explain more fully the meaning of the conception.
But we must vindicate this proposition upon another ground.
It is therefore not necessary that, in order to vindicate the intellectual dignity of military activity, we should resort to untruth and silly pedantry.
In the warmth and fervour of his heart, he had used his little magazine to vindicate his friend.
Mr Burton,' he said, 'what do you mean to do to vindicate Drummond?
We set this Nation up, at any rate we professed to set it up, to vindicate the rights of men.
It is in this spirit and with this thought that we have grown more and more aware, more and more certain that the part we wished to play was the part of those who mean to vindicate and fortify peace.
Everything that America has lived for and loved and grown great to vindicate and bring to a glorious realization will have fallen in utter ruin and the gates of mercy once more pitilessly shut upon mankind!
But the analogy of hypnotism at the present time, when cures are wrought and extraordinary influence exercised without corporeal contact, is quite sufficient to vindicate St. Luke's account from the charge of legend.
But then history reveals to us some other facts which completely explain the difficulty and vindicate the historical accuracy of the sacred narrative.
And then the narrow-minded Grecian Jews, anxious to vindicate their orthodoxy, which was doubted by their Hebrew brethren, distorted Stephen's wider and grander conceptions into a charge of blasphemy against the holy man.
This doctrine of election, while it professes to vindicate free grace and the mercy of God, destroys them altogether.
This cowardice it is that checks him in every aspiration to vindicate his wife's honor and his boy's birth.
If ever Lord Glencore avow his marriage and vindicate his wife's honor, his hardest task will be reconciliation with this boy.
No, Upton, I have not left a scrap in her possession; she has not a line, not a letter to vindicate her.
There is little, indeed, of life left to me, but there is enough, perhaps, to vindicate myself against men of this stamp.
