165 examples of remission in sentences

In vain George implored and entreated, burst into passionate tears and besought a remission of the sentence.

In the days when burglary was punished with death, there was very seldom any remission, I was in court one day at Guildford, when a respectably-dressed man in a velveteen suit of a yellowy green colour and pearl buttons came up to me.

In that place, the friars have the special gift, that, through the power of the name of Jesus Christ, and of his precious blood, which was shed on the cross for the remission of our sins, they speedily expel devils from those who are possessed.

The peasants were pacified by the remission of the hated tax, and by measures for providing them with more land; and Russia sank once more into her normal condition.

[Absence of authority] Laxity N. laxity; laxness, looseness, slackness; toleration &c (lenity) 740; freedom &c 748. anarchy, interregnum; relaxation; loosening &c v.; remission; dead letter, brutum fulmen [Lat.], misrule; license, licentiousness; insubordination &c (disobedience) 742; lynch law &c (illegality) 964; nihilism, reign of violence.

Forgiveness N. forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace, remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion; indulgence; reprieve.

To many women-workers, the duties of maternity and the care of children, which in a civilized human society ought to secure for them some remission from the burden, of the industrial fight, are a positive handicap in the struggle for a livelihood.

His promises are made indefinite to all believers, generally spoken to all touching remission of sins that are truly penitent, grieved for their offences, and desire to be reconciled, Matt.

He therefore that doubts of the remission of his sins, denies God's mercy, and doth Him injury, saith Austin.

Besides, remission of sins is to be preached, not to a few, but universally to all men, "Go therefore and tell all nations, baptising them," &c. Matt. xxviii.

Besides the fact that their own sufferings obliged each to do so, when summoned by public authority, they filled all the shrines; the prostrate matrons in every quarter sweeping the temples with their hair, begged for a remission of the divine displeasure, and a termination to the pestilence.

To a man who, like Seneca, aimed at being not only a philosopher, but also a man of the worldwho in this very treatise criticises the Stoics for their ignorance of lifethere would not have seemed to be even the shadow of disgrace in a private effusion of insincere flattery intended to win the remission of a deplorable banishment.

"When a little remission comes, however, then comes the torpor too;he cannot then be waked by pain or moderate pleasure: and such was my case, when your talents roused, your offered friendship opened my heart to enjoyment Oh! never say hereafter that the obligations are on your side.

It is evident, that the Apostle was sent to Cornelius for the single purpose of inculcating the doctrine of the remission of sin, through faith in Christ.

The last-named article has been grown in considerable quantity about the river Detroit, near the head of the lake, and favoured, in a small remission of duty, by the British government, is sent to England, after having undergone an inland carriage, to Quebec, of 814 miles.

When the prosecutor heard of the circumstance, he got up a petition to the secretary of state for a remission of the sentence, in which he stated that on the trial he himself had given the old man a good character, and not the other.

"They sel images, prayers, the sound of bels, remission of sins, &c."Perkins's Theology, p. 401.

Johnson had the remission of the convulsions on June 18, 1779.

He recorded on June 18, 1780: 'In the morning of this day last year I perceived the remission of those convulsions in my breast which had distressed me for more than twenty years.

He joined the Wesleyan society, and after a short period, professed to have obtained peace with God through Christ, and the remission of sins through faith in his blood.

# Junior Pemberton £30 and remission of Awarded on the results of two-thirds of the the first B.Sc.

For (renewable) students not over 19 years of age Studentships Remission of fees 1 year (renewable)

£40 2 years (renewable) St Andrew's Hall Amount variable Students in need of Bursaries pecuniary assistance Exhibition Remission of College For graduates, whether fees 1 year already students of the College of not.

Now as the relaxation of that statute is manifestly one of the reasons which gives the Bishop those terrible apprehensions of Popery coming on us; so I conceive another ground of his fears, is the remission of the first-fruits and tenths.

INDULGENCE, remission by Church authority of the guilt of a sin on the penitent confession of the sinner to a priest, which, according to Roman Catholic theology, the Church is enabled to dispense out of the inexhaustible treasury in reserve of the merits of Christ.

165 examples of  remission  in sentences