Word: blameless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...others. Certainly this principle is recognized everywhere, and all feel instinctively that they have an obligation of a different kind toward members of the University than toward outsiders. To say that one thing is to be recognized as worse than another, is not to say that the second is blameless...
...real significance of our life here. It is a time when the common grief vivifies a sincere sense of fellowship among us, and we realize what warm sympathy we shall ever hold for the fellow student who today is in great grief over the accidental result of a wholly blameless...
...American stage respectable. In the early days of his career the theatre was held in evil repute by many people of Boston; but none felt any hesitation about going to the plays in which he performed. To his acting as finely as he did and yet living the blameless life he led, is due a great deal of the position which actors now hold among...
...Carlyle was tender-hearted and affectionate, but uncompromising and stern in his judgment of others. For 85 years he lived without a single moral spot - always pure, upright, blameless. But his life was not a happy one. The more his character is understood the more it will be seen to correspond to his moral teachings. Finally we must judge him a great poet, although he wrote no poetry and a great philosopher, although he was left no complete philosophy...
...pure elections again neither party was blameless. The Southern Democracy had used revolutionary means of overthrowing the carpet-beg rule which could not be altogether justified, but on the other hand the national Republican committee had been in the hands of such men as Quay, and Dudley with the generally known results...