recantation

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Recantation of an unbeliever at the point of death proves nothing 193.

From Good Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

He has himself beautifully expressed this in one of the poems addressed to her, and which he has entitled the Recantation.

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

The Place is in the Poem, where he sings a Recantation to the Witch Canidia. tuusque venter pactumeius, et tuo cruore rubros obstetrix pannos lavit, utcunque fortis exilis puerpera.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

See the Recantation of Thomas Cranmer, reprinted from Bonner's original pamphlet: Jenkins, vol. iv. p.

From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Rhys, Ernest

He also wrote Jackson's Recantation; or the Life and Death of a notorious highwayman, then hanging in chains at Hamstead, 1674.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Cibber, Theophilus