donable

I am strongly tempted to give the names of two or three of those little boys, as a testimonial of the gratitude and affection I bear them; but pru - dence forbids; -- not that it would injure me, but it might embarrass them; for it is almost an unpar - donable offence to teach slaves to read in this Chris - tian country.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 1845

So that in proportion to the dignity, the bulk, and the number of these, an abuse is either more or less aggravated or par - donable?

Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812

Taking this for granted, it was a great and unpar - donable fbible in one of so exahed an understanding.

Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A. 1812

Mr. Barnes has great comic excellence in testy and eccentric old men; he has a little bias to buffoonery, which, though very par - donable in an actor in his line, he would do well to correct.

The Monthly mirror: reflecting men and manners; with strictures on their epitome, the stage .. 1795

J, however, make ufe of it, becaufe it was K -? terally the cafe, and therefore I truft 'tis par - donable: - — in the conrff. of our laft ftage, we overtook a gentleman who had been making a little excurfion in his phaeton; we found him

Lucinda Osburn: A Novel ... 1787

a shrewd Constantinopolitan, most people supposed that the Porte had sent him to watch the proceedings of Mohammed Aly, and give information accordingly to the Sultan; and it struck me that his behaviour towards myself was connected with an intention of accusing the Pasha, on his return to Constantinople, of having protected a Christian in his visit to the holy cities, a crime which would be considered unpar-donable in a

Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800

But befides this general, there is (as I d before) another more reftrain'd notion Piety, as it rentes to our niqxe immediate tercourfe with God, in divine Ordinances d Worfhip * in which refpe hopelefs, tlwt wheuthe Apoftte recolle&s tQ tlje Ephejimu the wretchednefs of their Genttfe State, he do's °\% in thole very words* Efk z. i% m And fure, thofe that live fo under £hnfti4nity, ue not in a better, but worfe Condition, by bow much the contempt of God is more unpar - donable than the ignorance.

The Ladies Calling: In Two Parts 1705