In all institutions where the brisk air of public criticism fails to circulate (as, for example, in scholarly bodies and senates),... an innocent corruption grows up, like a mushroom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you again what you are to presume. [The defendant] is innocent. I am the judge. I am telling you... that. Presume he is innocent. When you sit there, I want you to look and say to yourself, There sits an innocent man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that... goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed inn...ocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before ...the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch, and fills the whole... Country with extravagant Fancies, imaginary Distempers, and terrifying Dreams. In the mean time, the poor Wretch that is the innocent Occasion of so many Evils begins to be frighted at her self, and sometimes confesses secret Commerces and Familiarities that her Imagination forms in a delirious old Age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, th...ey ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »