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That being the case, it would follow of necessity that some people would impute to her a willingness to recant. No innocence could escape that. Now, had she really testified this willingness on the scaffold, it would have argued nothing at all but the weakness of a genial nature shrinking from the instant approach of torment.
Why should you trouble yourself with these? What have you to do with the controversies of the priests? Recant, then, poor enthusiastic child, recant!" While Catharine, in a low tone and with fluttering breath, thus spoke, Anne Askew had slowly arisen from her couch, and now stood, like a lily, so slender and delicate, confronting the queen. Her noble countenance expressed deep indignation.
I was determined never to visit Madame Orio's house, and on that very day I held an argument in metaphysics, in which I contended that any being of whom we had only an abstract idea, could only exist abstractedly, and I was right; but it was a very easy task to give to my thesis an irreligious turn, and I was obliged to recant.
Furthermore, under the stress of intolerable circumstances, a few of the Bábís were constrained to recant their faith, while others went so far as to apostatize and join the ranks of the enemy.
As the shouts of laughter and yells of derision came down to his ears he raised his head and uttered a few words. "Who is he?" asked Marcellus. "Alexander, a teacher of the abominable Christian sect. He is so obstinate that he will not recant " "Hush, he is speaking." "Romans!" said the old man, "I am a Christian. My God died for me, and I gladly lay down my life for him "
And so they put this on, and generally the man would recant and say, "Well, I'll take it back." Well I think I should. Such men are not worth dying for.
Believ'd the heavens were made of stone, Because the sun had voided one: And, rather than he would recant Th' opinion, suffered banishment." A difficulty surrounds the subject, however we view it.
In sermons and public disputations, before the common people of Wittenberg and the learned doctors and the students of the University, he defended the holy Law of God as the norm of right conduct and the mirror showing up the sinfulness of man also for Christians, and he insisted that those who had fallen into this error must publicly recant.
If there is an infinite God, and there may be I don't know there may be a million for all I know I hope there is more than one one seems so lonesome. They kept turning this down, and when this was done, most men would say: "I will recant." I think, I would. There is not much of the martyr about me. I would have told them: "Now you write it down, and I will sign it.
Let them say what they like of me; I will try to bear with them patiently; but if any man or boy utters one word of reproach against my dear mother " The boy ceased to speak, but his face grew lived. "Now, now, what would you do?" exclaimed Hannah, in alarm. "Make him recant his words, or silence him forever!" "Oh, Ishmael! Ishmael! you frighten me nearly to death!
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