Did the fact of that event having been foretold, exculpate the Jews from sin in perpetrating it; Nofor hear what the Apostle Peter says to them on this subject, "Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain."

Under the Brissotins it was fatal to write, and hazardous to read, any work which tended to exculpate the King, or to censure his despotism, and the massacres that accompanied and followed it.

History exculpates these three men; in this disaster of Sedan there was but one sole and fatal general, the Emperor.

By the count's own account, he went rather beyond the truth in his endeavors to exculpate his friend on this point; and he probably deceived himself when he believed that he had convinced the queen of his innocence.

Seriously, however, if there are any new facts which go to exculpate Henry for his attack upon me before the courts at a moment when I was struggling against those who, from whatever motive, wished to deprive me of my rights, and even of my character, I shall be most happy to learn them, and, if I have unwittingly done him injustice, shall also be most happy to make proper amends.

The evidence on the other side seems much stronger, and some of the statements of the Comte de la Marck contained in that volume go to exculpate Mirabeau from all complicity in the attack on Versailles on the 9th of October, which seems established by abundant testimony.

The letter to Secretary Cass states that his time was devoted to examining the public property of the United States which was in the city,the records of the courts, the Territorial library, the maps and minutes of the Surveyor General,and exculpates the Mormons, in great part, from the charge of having injured or embezzled it.

How had the monarch injured Clytemnestra? PYLADES By such a dreadful deed, that if on earth Aught could exculpate murder, it were this.

I do not wish to exculpate Peter from cruelty or hardheartedness; I would neither justify him nor condemn him.

Under these circumstances could any thing be more unwelcome than a piece of intelligence that was privately conveyed to him late on the evening before the trial was to come on, which tended strongly to exculpate the prisoner, without indicating any other person as the criminal?

It completely exculpates Rupert from the charges of obstinacy and rashness in having fought the subsequent battle of Marston Moor.]

The former buried her face in her hands without making any reply; but good Mr. Hardinge, altogether unconscious of anything's being wrong, was eager to exculpate his son.

But as many arguments are usually advanced by those who have any interest in the practice, by which they would either exculpate the treatment, or diminish its severity, we allotted the remaining chapters for their discussion.

And she proceeded further to exculpate all their attendants.

There Sir Lamorack exculpated Sir Tristram, and Sir Launcelot immediately withdrew his rebuke for that battle which Sir Tristram had aforetime done against Sir Lamorack.

" Dunciad, Bk. I. Warburton, by-the-by, exculpates Eusden from any worse fault, as a writer, than being too prolix and too prolific.

Mr. Hay's son (which is very natural) attempts to exculpate his father in an appendix to his "Western Barbary," and some will, perhaps, think he has done so successfully.