Word: pardon
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Record has gladdened our soul. It announces that the policy by which it has been governed from its birth is to be renounced. After heaping abuse upon that "scurrilous sheet," the New York Sun, it actually declares: "We beg the pardon of our readers for anything which may seem like Billingsgate in this article." It then adds: "We shall endeavor to keep our columns free from that offence in future. The issue of May 3 is remarkable in many respects, but nothing has startled us more than the editorial which begins: "It is the boast of all Yale men, that...
...argumentative composition; but I feel it my due to call attention to some of the more glaring misrepresentations and inconsistencies of which the writer in the Advocate has made use in garbling the article in question. As he has employed a tone rather sarcastic than courteous, he will pardon me if the reply falls naturally in the same...
...your pardon," was his answer. "I certainly have; and" - suddenly looking toward the door - "here he comes...
...Union Societies. I have tried to prepare a brief resume of those rules, in the hope that it will prove of interest to the readers of the Magenta. I must first, however, premise that almost all my information is derived from the printed regulations, so that my readers must pardon me if I make mistakes in statements about matters which are not found in those documents...
...fatherly visage of my good landlord appeared at the window. I remarked that I had paid my bill. As soon as he could recover his breath, the excellent man assured me that he had stopped me for nothing of the sort; that he begged the Senor's pardon, but the Senor was so young that it was a pity to see him falling into habits of intemperance; and that he trusted that, with the aid of the Holy Saints, he would be able to withstand the temptation of indulging his appetite to such an extent as he had done...