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In the present case we by no means reprehend the avoidance of issues that we have described; we merely record it.
From The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind by George Jean Nathan
If the public taste in any direction, in politics, in letters, or any of the other Arts grows debased, and current critical opinion follows the debasement, Literature can only stand apart, or loftily reprehend them.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin
To reprehend well is the most necessary and the hardest part of friendship.
From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston
Let none rebuke me then, none reprehend, If love so great to madness driveth me!
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
So much for the legend: and I must reprehend you for one tiny bit of Cockney about Memory’s rosary at the end of your article, which, but for that, I liked so much.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright
In which words Cælestinus reprehends this apparel, as a novelty which tended to superstition, and made way to the mocking and deceiving of the faithful.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
He had a fine artistic sense, and Milton reprehends him for having made Shakespeare “the closest companion of his solitudes.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
This we learn from an epistle of that father, in which he very severely reprehends them.
From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Robert Samber
Hence Pope Julius I reprehends some who "keep throughout the year a linen cloth steeped in must, and at the time of sacrifice wash a part of it with water, and so make the offering."
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
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
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
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Parson Thatcher was accused and reprehended in 1675 for making visits with a coach and four.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
Lie to me, and welcome; but beware lest your own heart take you to task for it, reminding you that both anger and falsehood are reprehended by all religions, yours included.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
It was demanded, what could be reprehended in it?
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing
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
He shook a reprehending head, hoary with the snows of years, and containing therefore, presumably, wisdom.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
A relative of mine who is a monk," he said, "is always reprehending me, and saying: 'Lucas, you are a Free-Thinker.'...
From Cæsar or Nothing by Louis How
The excellent Jonas Hanway wrote a pamphlet reprehending this objectionable custom.
From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Austin Dobson
Gladstone, gravely reprehending that Jesuit doctrine misleadingly termed Probabilism—which permits of a choice of the less probable course in morals and belief—supposed himself to be upholding a true Probabilism in Butler.
From Rationalism by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson