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Accept the excuse of him who excuseth self to thee and hate not any one of the Moslems.
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The want of means to know the law totally excuseth: for the law whereof a man has no means to inform himself is not obligatory.
Leviathan 2007
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Ignorance of the law of nature excuseth no man, because every man that hath attained to the use of reason is supposed to know he ought not to do to another what he would not have done to himself.
Leviathan 2007
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Ignorance of the sovereign power the place of a man's ordinary residence excuseth him not, because he ought to take notice of the power by which he hath been protected there.
Leviathan 2007
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That which totally excuseth a fact, and takes away from it the nature of a crime, can be none but that which, at the same time, taketh away the obligation of the law.
Leviathan 2007
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In the like manner, if the civil law of a man's own country be not so sufficiently declared as he may know it if he will; nor the action against the law of nature; the ignorance is a good excuse: in other cases ignorance of the civil law excuseth not.
Leviathan 2007
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βHe hath been round the world three times β excuseth of him for only one leg left.β
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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How Pantagruel excuseth Bridlegoose in the matter of sentencing actions at law by the chance of the dice.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How Pantagruel excuseth Bridlegoose in the matter of sentencing actions at law by the chance of the dice.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How Pantagruel excuseth Bridlegoose in the matter of sentencing actions at law by the chance of the dice.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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