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 1  I, 7  |       whether there is any fair excuse which I can make to those
 2 II, 4  |      all reasonable pretext and excuse. But I say precisely the
 3 III, 16|         depriving them of every excuse. Now most men, when they
 4 IV, 1  |        deprived himself of this excuse beforehand,1 by having hurriedly
 5 IV, 1  |    afford thee ample ground for excuse.~Chrysostom: At this I shook
 6 IV, 1  |    greatness of his honor as an excuse for his errors, but should
 7 IV, 1  | repeated refusals be pleaded in excuse for him? Could they prevail
 8 IV, 1  |         office are left without excuse for the sins they commit
 9 IV, 1  |        to plead as a sufficient excuse the consciousness that we
10 IV, 1  |   punishment. Since, then, this excuse of thine has been shown
11 IV, 1  |         too are deprived of all excuse. For in my judgment, if
12 IV, 2  |        who are chosen to say in excuse for themselves, "I did not
13 IV, 2  |      forward, and what seems to excuse them only serves to accuse
14 IV, 2  |        and then advance, as our excuse, the pressing entreaties
15 IV, 2  |          would it be sufficient excuse for him to allege that he
16 VI, 1  |  inexperience to be urged as an excuse, nor to take refuge in ignorance,
17 VI, 1  |        forward ignorance as his excuse, or to say, "I have never
18 VI, 9  |         never readily allow any excuse. But the truly excellent
19 VI, 13 |      thee wanting to learn what excuse I should make on thy behalf
20 VI, 13 |         on thy behalf, but what excuse I shall make to God for