Recanted on Monday.

He was wont at a later date to disparage this production, and frequently recanted many of his verdicts in marginal notes.

" After a moment's silence, the lady asked in a softer tone, "Now do tell me, Morani, is it true that poor Hans recanted before he died?" "My dear, if Padre Michele had been in time, we should have been sure of the fact.

He had written books and poems, preached Unitarian sermons, recanted, and preached philosophy and Church-of-Englandism.

Horace Walpole (Letters, vii. 291), in 1779, thus mentions this 'younger brother':'Macdonald abused Lord North in very gross, yet too applicable, terms; and next day pleaded he had been drunk, recanted, and was all admiration and esteem for his Lordship's talents and virtues.' See ante, iii. 85, and post, Oct. 28.

Even the religious movement which overran one half of France under the Albigenses, or that which counted its followers and martyrs by multitudes in Flanders never crossed the Channel, in spite of the constant intercourse between the peoples; and missionaries from Germany during the reign of Henry only succeeded in converting one poor woman in England who immediately recanted.

He had not denied his master, like Peter; he had not recanted the faith like Cranmer; he had simply yielded for fear of bodily torments, and therefore was not sincere in the abjuration which he made to save his life.

Notwithstanding Sir Walter's proof that he was innocent of any such plot, and that lord Cobham, who had once accused him had recanted, and signed his recantation, nor was produced against him face to face, a pack'd jury brought him in guilty of high treason.

Approaching old age, however, he recanted, so he says, being willing to permit nature to gently guide him, and teach him how to die.

The companion of his travels is some foul sun-burnt quean, that, since the terrible statute, recanted gipseyism and is turned pedlaress.

Talking on art, he said he preferred John of Bologna to Michelangelo, a statement he repeated to Emerson, but afterwards, I believe, recanted.

And if the Roman Stoic can gain nothing from a comparison with the yet more egregious moral failure of the greatest of Christian thinkers-Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban'slet us not forget that a Savonarola and a Cranmer recanted under torment, and that the anguish of exile drew even from the starry and imperial spirit of Dante Alighieri words and sentiments for which in his noblest moments he might have blushed.

"No, I don't believe I like that," he recanted hastily.

He took his thirty-nine lashes, recanted, and lay across the threshold of the synagogue for all his brethren to walk over him.

Martial Mazurier has recanted.

He had recanted, done evil, in short, that good might come; and was not content with having done this thing: how should he be?

A week after, Le Roy was brought to trial,and recanted; and so recanting, was acquitted and set at liberty.

CHRISTOPHER NORTH I care not one single curse for all the criticism that ever was canted or decanted, or recanted.

Mr. Asquith has handsomely recanted his hostility to women's suffrage, admitting that by their splendid services in the war women have worked out their own electoral salvation.

Supported by the friendship of Rochester, and most of the Tory nobles who were active in the Revolution, of Leicester, and many Whigs, and especially of the Lord-Chamberlain Dorset, there would probably have been little difficulty in his remaining poet-laureate, if he had recanted the errors of Popery.

A young man who once lived with us here, having been apprehended in the town of Tournay, was condemned to have his head cut off if he recanted, and to be burned alive if he continued steadfast to his purpose.

He took his thirty-nine lashes, recanted, and lay across the threshold of the synagogue for all his brethren to walk over him.

and here is another bon-mot of my Lady Townshend: we were talking of Methodists; somebody said, "Pray, Madam, is it true that Whitfield has recanted?"

CHEVALIER, MICHEL, a celebrated French economist, born at Limoges; originally a Socialist of the St. Simonian school; for defending Socialism was imprisoned, but recanted, and wrote ably against Socialism; was a free-trader and coadjutor of Cobden (1806-1879).

SCORY, JOHN, a Cambridge Dominican friar in 1530, who became bishop of Rochester in 1551, and later of Chichester; was deprived of his living on Queen Mary's accession; recanted, but fled abroad, whence he issued his "Epistle to the Faytheful in Pryson in England"; returned in Elizabeth's reign, and became bishop of Hereford; d. 1585.