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As the embodiment of a wild superstition, and the representation of supernatural powers, their appeal to the imagination sets at utter defiance all judgment based on ordinary canons of law; and the magnificence of their treatment atones, in nearly every case, for the extravagance of their conception.
"Don't you know that when one has to die, one good deed atones for a thousand crimes?" "I will not die!" "Yes, sire, you will die soon." "After you!" "No, before me." "That is also a lie of yours." "All have lied to you, liar. And your four thousand victims whom you have had executed...." "They were not victims; they were criminals."
Do not ask me to live I can not live. I was thinking, just now, as I sat and played the air we loved so well, that I must, this very night, seek rest in death for I suspected the truth only a little while ago. But, love, this hour atones for much. You know now how I loved you how I remembered you.
And for this thei had ordeined horses of wood, upon the which thei practised, to leape by armed, and unarmed, without any helpe, and on every hande: the whiche made, that atones, and at a beck of a capitain, the horsmen were on foote, and likewise at a token, thei mounted on horsebacke.
He loves to linger about the orchard; and, sitting upright on the topmost stone in the wall, or on the tallest stake in the fence, chipping up an apple for the seeds, his tail conforming to the curve of his back, his paws shifting and turning the apple, he is a pretty sight, and his bright, pert appearance atones for all the mischief he does.
Neither is restitution a penance imposed upon us in order to atone for our faults; it is no more penitential in its nature than are the efforts we make to avoid the faults we have fallen into in the past. It atones for nothing; it is simply a desisting from evil.
"He's the kind of person that you might suppose gave the Catholics a hint for the cloistral life; he's a cloistered nature the nature that atones and suffers for. But he's awfully dull company, don't you think? I never can get anything out of him." "He's very much in earnest." "Remorselessly.
Not one of these noble, well-qualified youths has remained a stranger to that restless, tiring, perplexing, and debilitating need of culture: during his university term, when he is apparently the only free man in a crowd of servants and officials, he atones for this huge illusion of freedom by ever-growing inner doubts and convictions.
"He's the kind of person that you might suppose gave the Catholics a hint for the cloistral life; he's a cloistered nature the nature that atones and suffers for. But he's awfully dull company, don't you think? I never can get anything out of him." "He's very much in earnest." "Remorselessly.
"Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep: Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. "So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones! Ay, though he's buried in a cave, And trodden down with stones, And years have rotted off his flesh The world shall see his bones!"
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