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...Full removal of the poena, or temperal punishment, due the sinner after the culpa, or guilt, has been forgiven...
...fellows the obvious thing to do is to tap the offender over the head with an iron stave instead of becoming involved in pages of metaphysical argument. There is such a breezy directness about these murderers, such an innocuous naivete about their mental processes, that much may be forgiven them. Stories, graphic, succinct, powerful, well-told?quite without sentimentality, sweetness or light...
...people of the Argentine have never forgiven him form even considering taking out naturalization papers and becoming an American citizen," said Mr. Hopkins. "His, defeat reacted against him also. There is little doubt in my mind that he has permanently severed his connection with the ring...
...discomfort of the visiting teams by assigning then members to widely separated fraternity houses; in other, propriety demands that the athletic guests be banished to the hotel, nearest the railroad tracks--where sleep is an infrequent luxury. Departure from the usual routine of entertainment, however, is usually forgiven in a busy land where the overworked candidates find it difficult to keep abreast of the current literature on "men and manners". In the South Pacific it is different. Oversight on the part of the South Australian Cricket Club in falling to provide afternoon tea for the visiting New South Wales players...
...days of indignant editorials in the press about Trashy Literature: ". . . We allude to the productions of Bulwer, Dickens and others in England . . ." (the American Notes had not yet been forgotten nor forgiven) - "and those of Sue and others [presumably Dumas] in France; all of which are abominable trash and hardly worth the paper on which they are printed. . . ." But, by way of contrast, and apparently commended, the vogue for Literary Annuals and Gift Books- the Casket of Love, Deivdrops Gathered and Presented in Their Brightness and Purity, the Cypress Wreath, a Book of Consolation for Those Who Mourn...