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All those who, at their first arrest, had denied their faith, were themselves cast into prison and given over to the same sufferings as the other martyrs, for their denial did not serve them at all. Those who had made profession of being what they really were that is, Christians were imprisoned without being accused of other crimes.
The little clock on the mantel struck the hour. Softly, slowly, the sweet-toned notes rang out: One! Two! Three! Four! With face white and drawn Dan went to the window. All that afternoon, knowing that she was there, he had denied himself even the sight of her. Now he would see her. He watched as, without a glance toward his window, the young woman left her friends and went slowly into the house.
The investigation took some time. Inger was called up and examined privately; she denied nothing. The grave in the wood was opened, and its contents removed, the body being sent for examination. The little body it was dressed in Eleseus' christening robe, and a cap sewn over with beads. Isak seemed to find speech again. "Ay," said he, "it's as bad as well can be with us now.
Joyce's wife alone home talking of Will's folly, and having set her down, home myself, where I find my wife dressed as if she had been abroad, but I think she was not, but she answering me some way that I did not like I pulled her by the nose, indeed to offend her, though afterwards to appease her I denied it, but only it was done in haste.
He made two efforts to get here this morning, but the gout 'would not be denied, and so he deputed a most inferior 'diplomate; and now will you let me return with some character from my first mission, and inform my friends that you will dine with us to-day at seven a mere family party; but make your arrangements to stop all night and to-morrow: we shall find some work for my friend there on the hearth; what do you call him, Mr.
They justly distinguished, and as became honest men, betwixt usefulness and virtue, what is good in itself, and what is profitable to particular parties, judging thanks and reward due to him who does a benefit, from him who receives it, and honor never to be denied by the good to the good. And so much concerning Philopoemen.
When he became coherent he told his story, or rather Blount got it out of him piecemeal, of how he had been employed by the "organization" to falsify the registration lists in certain districts; of how, when the work was done, he had been denied the price and driven out with cursings.
Wallace has asserted that, 'whenever the scientific men of any age have denied, on a priori grounds, the facts of investigation, they have always been wrong'. He adds that Galileo, Harvey, Jenner, Franklin, Young, and Arago, when he 'wanted even to discuss the subject of the electric telegraph, were 'vehemently opposed by their scientific contemporaries, 'laughed at as dreamers, 'ridiculed, and so on, like the early observers of palaeolithic axes, and similar prehistoric remains.
I whispered to my friend: "Shall I ask him?" but she did not hear, so even this small encouragement was denied me. I was actually turning to leave the shop, when resolution at length took the reins, and I found myself asking: "Is it true, Mr Pound, that you lived many years ago at No. Trumpington Street?" "Quite true," was the ready answer. "I went there in the year fifty-five."
And it was hardly denied that the measure did involve some sacrifice of the extreme legal rights of the clergy; but it was urged and generally felt by the most judicious friends of the Church that the peace and harmony which might be expected to be the fruit of the measure was worth some sacrifice, and the bill was passed with very general approval; a bill on similar principles, with such variations as were required by the differences between the two countries, being also passed for Ireland.
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