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• Beda and his colleagues in the Sorbonne left no device untried to silence the preachers; and, although the restless syndic was in the end forced to expiate his seditious words and writings by an amende honorable in front of the church of Notre Dame, and died in prison,[313] Roussel and his fellow-preachers had long before been compelled to exchange their public discourses for private exhortations, and finally to discontinue even these and retreat from Paris. —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• To expiate which sin, kiss and shake hands: Such sacrifice as this Venus demands." —  Hero and Leander and Other Poems
• It is the consciousness of offence that is unendurable--not the fear of consequent suffering; it is the degradation of sin that his soul deplores--it is the guilt which he would expiate, if possible, in torments; it is the united sense of wrong, sin, guilt, degradation, shame, and remorse, that renders a moment's pang of the conscience more terrible to the good than years of any other punishment--and it thus is the power of the human soul to render its whole life miserable by its very love of that virtue which it has fatally violated. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• I do not wish to expiate, but to live. —  Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The king with infinite difficulty extricated himself from the consequences of this murder, which threatened, under the Papal banners, to arm all Europe against him; nor was he absolved, but by renouncing the most material parts of the Constitutions of Clarendon, by purging himself upon oath of the murder of Becket, by doing a very humiliating penance at his tomb to expiate the rash words which had given occasion to his death, and by engaging to furnish a large sum of money for the relief of the Holy Land, and taking the cross himself as soon as his affairs should admit it. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)

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