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Innocency is no fence against calumny and false accusation.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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I think on that, who is there so Righteous, but that they may wish they had dyed in the State of Innocency?
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Righteousness and Innocency, beautiful and comely to all pure eyes, and of a satisfaction unsating.
The Confessions 1999
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Thy company has been right pleasant to me, and thy countenance ever reminds me of William Penn's title-page, '_Innocency with her open face_.'
Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler
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Which nevertheless he had like to have lost about the Business of Queen _Anne Bullein_; but by his Innocency, Industry and Prudence, he extricated himself.
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Humble Thanks: For by this Miracle that you have wrought for me, my Husband surely will believe my Innocency; and I am glad I shall be able at the
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But all would not do, their Innocency was so far from stopping the
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Expence of so much blood, and so much Pain and Misery, to let him know how much he has wrong'd me, and how much I love him: Yes, O ye Powers above, that have so wonderfully clear'd my Innocency, I do appeal to you how much
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But if I have kept my Chastity inviolate, and never wrong'd my Husbands Bed so much as in a thought, let my Disfigur'd Face be healed again, and my lost Beauty and dismembered Nose, which has been taken from me so unjustly, be both restored again, as a convincing Testimony of my Innocency.
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The Shepherds answered, This man is named Godly-man, and this Garment is to shew the Innocency of his life.
The Pilgrims Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 600-699 1909
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