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So the intellectual faithlessness and the material servility of the age are flattered together and taught to justify themselves theoretically. They cry joyfully, non peccavi, which is the modern formula for confession. M. Bergson's philosophy itself is a confession of a certain mystical rebellion and atavism in the contemporary mind.
I have just committed another abominable action; and I cry peccavi!" He smote himself upon the breast, and sighed portentously. "I accuse myself of eavesdropping." "What is your meaning?" She had now risen to her feet. "Nay, but I am requited," the Duke reassured her, and laughed with discreetly tempered bitterness.
"Had I the time I would demonstrate to you the arbitrary character of our laws and the inequality with which they are administered. "But in this case the chief witness has already admitted the innocence of the defendant. There is nothing more to be said. The prosecution has cried 'Peccavi! I leave my client in your hands."
A formal and scarcely perceptible greeting passed between him and Sorell. All Falloden's irritable self-consciousness rushed back upon him as he recognised the St. Cyprian tutor. He was not going to stay and cry peccavi any more in the presence of a bloodless prig, for whom Oxford was the world.
And ast for law, why he that has a got the longest head will have a most on't for money: and he that has a got the longest purse will behappen not to be the first to cry peccavi. Whereof if a man do don his hat on his head, an a see good cause, why not? For I do a warrant a will see good cause, an a do doff it under his arm. Whereby every why has a wherefore.
In return for which brutal assault we expected to find that the Doctor and his friends removed the surcingle and baggage-straps from the jaw-breaker's horse, tied him to a tree with the latter, and with the former flogged his black shoulders till he cried peccavi, and promised reform.
Marrapit writhed in anguish. He dropped his voice. "Let us trust, sir," he said, "that none of these things has taken place." "Amen," Mr. Marrapit murmured. "Amen." George's voice took a sterner note. "But, I asked myself, Who is responsible for those horrors that might have been, that may have been?" Mr. Marrapit dropped his head upon his hands. He murmured: "I am. Peccavi."
"Look at him vaunting his beastly fitness over the frail and weak. I say, men, did you ever behold such condition! See that clear eye, that velvety skin, that Oh, I say! pax! pax! peccavi!" "There," said Ranald, putting him down from the billiard-table, "perhaps you will learn when to be seen." "Brute," murmured little Merrill, rubbing the sore place; "but ain't he fit?" he added, delightedly.
As soon as I was once seated her fan flew out, and she whispered behind it: 'Are you mad? 'Madly in love, I replied; 'but in no other sense. 'I have no patience! You cannot understand what I am suffering! she said. 'What are you to say to Ronald, to Major Chevenix, to my aunt? Your aunt? I cried, with a start. 'Peccavi! is she here? 'She is in the card-room at whist, said Flora.
You will readily understand that we made them cry peccavi all the same. "Ah, just tell me now how they came to know about that compact of Napoleon's? Was that natural? "They took it into their heads for certain that he commanded the genii, and that he went from place to place like a bird in the twinkling of an eye; and it is a fact that he was everywhere.
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