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For the settlement of American litigation this course was adequate; not so for the vindication of international procedure.
A special manifestation of judicial righteousness is the vindication of the oppressed and the punishment of the oppressor.
Deeply solicitous for Oswald's vindication, this loyally sympathetic girl would hesitate at no personal sacrifice in his behalf.
Louis Republic says: "One hundred and twenty-eight years of American history and tradition speak in President Wilson's vindication."
Katherine meekly accepted this implicit rebuke of her presumption, and congratulated him upon the vindication of his judgment.
The book contains a most able and effectual vindication of Theism, and of a rational, as opposed to irrational, Positivism.
Ruth understood his fears; but, scorning vindication of her principles, contented herself with entreating him to be honest.
Clayton, in reply to a complimentary toast, made an extended and eloquent speech, mainly in vindication of the administration of Gen.
Our view, then, of this vindication of abolition, on the ground that it has averted a social convulsion, is briefly this.
To this bold vindication of an opinion which all present deemed to be so audacious, there succeeded a general and loud murmur.
In the crisis through which the nation has just passed, education as a state expediency has received its fullest vindication.
Suspense is far more painful, at such moments, than even vindication, which, in itself, is a humiliating duty to the virtuous.
James's vindication of drunken exaltation as a source of religious insight was not the least symptomatic passage of his great book.
The verdicts of my Juries require no other vindication than a faithful recital of the grounds on which they were founded.
There are no great revenges but only little mean ones; no life-long vindications except the unrelenting vengeance of the law.
The result was a vindication of his former administration and an unmistakable endorsement of the tenets of the Democratic faith.
No man now writes eager vindications of himself and his colleagues from the suspicion of adhering to the principle of toleration.
The royal vindication of his claims was gratifying, and he doubtless felt some secret satisfaction in the humiliation of Diego Columbus.
In vindication of the ways of eternal justice, even upon earth, this polluted pile is participating the fate of its devoted members.
The events which followed his decease are the most complete vindication of those who exerted themselves to uphold his authority.
It would be injustice to the memoirs of these distinguished patriots to attempt their vindication against this atrocious and unfounded calumny.
If after my client's full vindication you insinuate any charge of dishonesty, I shall advise him to sue you for defamation of character.
Lincoln not only fixes his estimate of ordinary biography, but is my vindication in advance if assailed for telling the truth.
He pointed dramatically with his finger as two horsemen rode suddenly into view; their presence was a vindication of his words.
She was more than once on the point of producing the billet, in vindication of herself from her lover's half-hinted suspicions.
It is, therefore, a grave perversion of the sacred text to adduce these words in vindication of private interpretation of the Scriptures.
His ex-secretary has a copious and rambling commentary upon his death, in which there is the usual amount of complaint and vindication.
Shelby had not dreamed of vindication so sweeping, and, with a word of modest disclaimer, led the talk to pacific commonplace.
I slept peaceably on this prospect of a usefulness that seemed to justify my existence at a moment when it most needed vindication.
And he clung with an almost piteous reiteration to the accuracy of his recollections as a vindication of the alertness of his powers.
The criticisms which followed vexed his righteous soul, and he patiently awaited the opportunity for public explanation and personal vindication.
Heaven grant, my dear Sybil, that your full and perfect acquittal and vindication may come afterwards, as I entirely believe they will.
Private enmity alone was gratified whenever public justice was invoked: and the vindication of order was but the execution of revenge.
Burke always accepted the rebuke, and flung himself into vindication of the sense, substance and veracity of what he had written.
I ask for the vindication of the rights of American citizenship in Georgia and everywhere beneath our own flag upon our own soil.
Their criticisms were severe and impassioned, and one of the criticized, believing himself ill-treated, and his writings unjustly abused, sought vindication.
I am relating facts; and if they should appear unreasonable or improbable, I appeal, for their vindication, to the candor of the reader.
Was the lover's thought: he perceived the motive of her flight: and it was a vindication of it that appealed to him irresistibly.
The speech at the time of its delivery was intended as a vindication of that noble-hearted, but then much-abused and misrepresented patriot.
For such a sympathy he was too dazed by the narrowness of his escape from vindication and of the Mission's from destruction.
It passed over his veto, but the defeat of his party in the following November was construed as a vindication of the President.
Better to fall nobly in the forlorn hope in vindication of home and nationality than to live witnesses of the triumph of a sacrilegious cause.
If this point were effectually cleared, I see nothing that could be further desired to a full and complete vindication of English liberty.
I allude to this question of power merely in vindication of the position assumed by me in my vote for the Resolution of March last.
With my countrymen I leave my memory, my sentiments, my acts, proudly feeling that they require no vindication from me this day.
It is resolved a preface shall be prefixed to the farce, in vindication of the nature and dignity of this new way of writing
"It's also something that plays up the valor and superiority of man and therefore offers a vindication for her submission to him."
The mighty vindication of Jehovah in which all the struggle of his life culminated, had been crowned with triumph, and had failed.
She lived to see her hopes, realized in the General's complete vindication; and died in 1826, in less than a year from his decease.
Gill Mace was compelled to retract in public his false charge against Frank, and the vindication of the latter was made complete.
It is impossible for the most zealous and skillful advocacy to frame a plausible vindication of this part of Sir Robert Peel's conduct.
If they had acted in self-defense, they had the right to Spooner forgiveness as well as vindication at the hands of the jury.
He told her by way of consolation, that if she would publish her portrait, it would be more effectual than a dozen vindications!
During this passage through the darkness he never faltered, serene in his faith, having found triumphant vindication thereof in the devotion of Aline.
Bull received the thanks of the French clergy for his vindication of the early fathers against the most learned of the Jesuits.
Her eyes met his, in which it seemed to her that as well as in his voice there was conscious sympathy, entreaty, vindication, tenderness.
They are in the first instance nullified by injustice, and five years hence not a man in your territories will presume their vindication.
Our challenger said he was ready to stake his life in vindication of his conduct, and he turned pale and trembled like an aspen leaf.
As I have not hesitated to speak of Audubon's real or supposed mistakes, I will give another and more striking instance of his tardy vindication.
I mean not to write my own eulogy, though with the candid and sensitive mind I shall, I trust, succeed in my vindication.
He said something to his warriors explanatory of this singular posture of affairs, and in vindication, perhaps, of the pacific temper of his son-in-law.
I heartily rejoice, therefore, both as a friend and as a member of the service, 'at his vindication from most grievous and unjust imputations.'
We shall intrude no argument of our own in support of State sovereignty, upon which rests the vindication of the South and her leaders.
Ricardo by liberating him from a few misrepresentations, and placing his vindication upon a firmer basis even than that which he has chosen.
Here and now was his vindication, here at last the proof that he had not chosen his calling meanly, nor in all selfishness.
As soon, therefore, as the real nature of Kant's vindication of causality has been laid bare, it is difficult to describe it as an argument at all.
You have already expended your blood in the vindication of this system of honor, and wounded as you now are, can hardly do yourself justice.
We see here the vindication of those who for years have been teaching that the first essential in dealing with venereal disease is popular enlightenment.
After a contemptuous reference to the resolutions and a brief vindication of himself against their insinuations, he plunged into the defense of the law.
In our cities the restaurants are introducing the French article to great acceptance, and to the vindication of the fair fame of this queen of vegetables.
This sentiment that obstructs absolute vindication of the law is respectable so long as it can be respected with tolerable safety and public satisfaction.
Their arraignment and vindication brought into the political field the ablest men of the country at a period when she abounded in great men.
To his invincible courage, patriotic pride, and indomitable energy are due the vindication of the national honor and the repulse of the Tartar invasion.
Before we trust them a second time, let us try their efficacy in the chastisement of perjury, and the vindication of their own honor.
Before we trust them a second time, let us try their efficacy in the chastisement of perjury and the vindication of their own honor.
In this vindication, we have been careful throughout to distinguish between the abolitionists, our accusers, and the great body of the people of the North.
Porter, and which, strange to say, amounted to an arraignment and a vindication almost in the same breath, had a decided effect upon the assembly.
In his Vindication, he fully admitted that point, and insisted only upon the weakness of the reasons which she alleged for her conversion.
There are several things which a discontented person is apt to allege in his own vindication, which have a tendency only to enhance his guilt.
To avenge his wrongs, or possibly with a view to his own vindication, he had entangled his enemies in a serious accusation, when Don Henry died.
And he repeats it now, as if, were it true, he would plead the miracle as a vindication of the worship as well as his absolution.
A recent volume has undertaken the superfluous vindication of President Lincoln from being the mere ornamental figurehead of the republic during the Civil War.
Every word which does not proceed from silence and find its vindication in silence, is a spurious word without claim or title to our regard.
Buckle well says, in his fine vindication of Voltaire, that he "used ridicule, not as the test of truth, but as the scourge of folly."
His truest vindication will be found by comprehending him; and to be acquainted with his character, we must seek for him in his own age.
Such is the way in which our fathers have contrived to permit those acts of violence to which men usually resort in vindication of their honor.
And now a school of biologists is arising whose aim is the vindication of the claims of function as against the too exclusive study of structure.
Then there can be no vindication for an unnecessary act which is so injurious to morality, and which induces so frightfully to the commission of sin.
Had old James Bridger been present at that moment, he would have received ample vindication for long-standing injustice at the hands of his incredulous countrymen.
In justice to him, and as being a vindication of several measures of his mentioned in this work, not approvingly, a place is here given to it.
Even that process of deflation did not suffice, and he had recourse to a "Vindication," which was read by few and popularly believed to vindicate nobody.
It is a war of self-defense, forced upon us by our enemy, and prosecuted on our part in vindication of our honor, and the integrity of our territory.
And there and then, as if in vindication of his father's belief in him, the baby began to roar so lustily that further converse was impossible.
In this instance, heredity claimed its vindication; to the daughter descended the loveliness of person and also the lax principles which characterized the mother.
He never wavered; for the first time in his life an opportunity was offered him to step forward boldly and frankly in vindication of a principle.
Will they not be prepared to find the splendid vindication of the preceding evening, but the prelude to the next evening's abandonment and denunciation?
The vindication and glorification of American principles of government, as proclaimed to the world in the Declaration of Independence, is the high purpose of this convocation.
Her exquisitely molded arm, rather veiled than concealed by the muslin sleeve that covered it, was extended in the gentle energy of her vindication.
It was a reply to Stephen's masterly work against West India slavery, and was considered by the Jamaicans a triumphant vindication of their "peculiar institutions."
The trial by the bitter water, or water of conviction, was a species of ordeal, intended for the vindication of innocence, the conviction of guilt.