Justin Martyr, whose Apologies in behalf of the Christians are the earliest extant, speaks for the best of the class he represents when he says: "It is in our power, when we are examined, to deny that we are Christians; but we would not live by telling a lie."

Neither say that you do not want it yourself, or that you should throw it away if it were not accepted, &c., &c. Such apologies would be insults if true, and mean nothing if false.

Men have come and men have gone (apologies to Tennyson)it is the law of living.

The Apology for Negroe Slavery is almost too despicable a composition to merit a reply.

My apology for adding a postscript, to a discussion already perhaps too protracted, is the fact that the preceding sheets were in the hands of the printer, and all but the concluding pages had gone through the press, before the passage of Mr. Calhoun's late resolutions in the Senate of the United States.

His apology was, that he had taken it for some purpose of his own; some great exhibition of paintings; what, I could not fully comprehend.

The only apology the pitcher made was the rueful look with which he watched Sawed-Off going down to first base.

The only apology we can conceive for the spirit of some of Lord Byron's writings, is the spirit of some of those opposed to him.

But my apology for not buying him a ticket was the real fear of his unhappiness.

To this decision was subscribed the letter B. On hearing it, a certain spirit observed with a smile, "How fair an apology is predestination for weakness or impotence!" 106.

"Why, madam," said he, with one of his most agreeable smiles, "apologies are different things, at different times.

In one skilled at reading human nature, an apology becomes a weapon.