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been a relief to his extremely sensitive
Rimsky-Korsakov may have felt himself braced and strengthened by {286} this severe course of musical theory; it may have been a relief to his extremely sensitive artistic conscience to feel that henceforward he could rely as much on experience as on intuition; but his remorse for the past—supposing him ever to have felt the sting of such keen regret—never translated itself into the apostasy of his earlier principles.
— from The Russian Opera by Rosa Newmarch

before a Roman tribunal He even stayed
When upon His trial for life or death, before a Roman tribunal, He even stayed to apologize for Pilate's weakness, casting the [350] heavier sin back on the hierarchy that had bought Him and delivered Him up; while upon the cross, amid its untold agonies, though His lips were glued by a fearful thirst, He opened them to breathe a last prayer for His Roman executioners: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."
— from Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St Luke by Henry Burton


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