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Samuel Butler has a palinode, in which he recanted what he said in a previous poem of the Hon. Edward Howard.— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
Of this his hymn or palinode is a proof; fragments of which are quoted by many of the Fathers, as Justin, Tatian, Clemens of Alexandria, Cyril, and Theodoret, and the whole by Eusebius, quoting from Aristobulus.— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
The founder of the house was one Kaspar Campčll, who in the first half of the sixteenth century preached the Reformed religion in the Engadine Footnote 4: I have translated and printed at the end of the second volume some sonnets of Petrarch as a kind of palinode for this impertinence Footnote 5: This begs the question whether [Greek leukoion] does not properly mean snowflake, or some such flower.— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
This palinode is, no doubt, intended to give a plausible air of fairness to the book, but such a death-bed repentance comes too late, and makes the whole preceding history seem not fair but foolish It is a relief to turn to the few chapters that deal directly with the social life and thought of the Greeks.— Reviews
And these answer to the palinode (recantation) which he promises in my name in his forged preface.— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.

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