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A man makes his conscience dumb by the very sins that require a conscience trumpet-tongued to reprehend them.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
I do not advocate, indeed I reprehend, pretentious entertaining, such as dances, parties, etc.
From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland
And no Man, whether Foe or Friend, Your sorry Match can reprehend.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
From The Rivals A Comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In cases where a man takes the liberty after this manner to reprehend others, it is commonly said, "Let him look at home."
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
He denounces the Mexican war as unjust in its origin, but he reprehends its feeble conduct.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
Our Saviour never in any single instance reprobated the exercise of reason: on the contrary, he reprehends severely those who did not exercise it.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For the first attempt he reprehends Bernini, who, from want of a right conception of the province of sculpture, never fulfilled the promise given in his early work of Apollo and Daphne.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various
Mr. Hope wisely reprehends, for this reason, the arrangement of the main piers of St. Sophia at Constantinople.
From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
Spelman, in replying to this concealed motive of the Catholic, reprehends him with equal humour and bitterness for his desire of roasting a Protestant parson.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Ernesto, 91, was famously reprehended in public by Pope John Paul during a visit to Nicaragua in the 1980s.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2016
Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended.
From Time Magazine Archive
His modern instances are, of course, sheer blunders, and cannot be too severely reprehended; and artists must always remember that such liberties should never be taken, unless by these means some higher object is gained.
It was demanded, what could be reprehended in it?
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing
Denison was informed, and through him, the chief justice, that his conduct to this judge was decidedly reprehended by the crown.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
A similar case, at Newfoundland, was discussed in the House of Commons, and the ministers joined the opposition in severely reprehending the practice.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
Besides justly reprehending the French propensity towards braggadocio, it proves very strongly a point on which I am the only statesman in Europe who has strongly insisted.
From The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray
But yet, me thinks, the endeavour to advance the Civill Power, should not be by the Civill Power condemned; nor private men, by reprehending it, declare they think that Power too great.
From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
This the curious Gul did clatter in the ears of Venus, reprehending her son.
From The Golden Asse by William Adlington
For it is a wonderful licentiousness that, discoursing of the same matters, he should when accusing Plato take away again those very things which himself sets down when reprehending Aristotle.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
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