Innocence

See also Inexperience, Naïveté.

Inquisitiveness (See CURIOSITY.)

Insanity (See MADNESS.)

Adam and Eve

naked in Eden; knew no shame. [O.T.: Genesis 2:25]

Arjuna

Sanskrit name means sinless. [Hindu Myth.: Benét, 50]

Babes in the Wood

innocent children are lost in the wood and die. [Br. Lit.: Babes in the Wood, Walsh Classical, 42]

basin and ewer

Pilate’s guiltlessness signified by washing of hands. [N.T.: Matthew 27:24]

Budd, Billy

friendly sailor; held in warm affection by crew. [Am. Lit.: Billy Budd]

Christabel

free of evil. [Br. Lit.: “Christabel” in Walsh Modern, 95]

Cinderella

with fairy godmother’s aid, poor maligned girl wins prince’s heart. [Fr. Fairy Tale: Cinderella]

Cio-Cio-San

believes marriage to Pinkerton is real. [Ital. Opera: Puccini, Madama Butterfly, Westerman, 357]

daisy

symbol of blamelessness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 173; Kunz, 328]

Delano, Amasa

naive, goodhearted captain rescues captive captain from mutineers. [Am. Lit.: Benito Cereno]

Desdemona

blamelessness martyred through slander. [Br. Lit.: Othello]

Hallyard, St

. Norwegian martyred in defense of guiltless woman. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 165]

Heidi

has instinct for goodness. [Children’s Lit.: Heidi]

Imogen

chaste wife unjustly suspected by Postumus of unfaithfulness. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Cymbeline]

lamb

attribute of young woman; personification of guiltlessness. [Art: Hall, 161]

Minnie

female saloonkeeper in mining town; never been kissed. [Ital. Opera: Puccini, Girl of the Golden West, Westerman, 360–361]

Pedro

in marrying former mistress of enemy. [Ger. Opera: d’Albert, Tief land, Westerman, 371–374]

Pinch, Tom

guileless, with unbounded goodness of heart. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit]

Rima

beautiful jungle girl, lover of birds and animals, knows neither evil nor guile. [Br. Lit.: Hudson Green Mansions in Magill I, 333]

Susanna

unjustly condemned for adultery; later acquitted. [Apocrypha: Daniel and Susanna]

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Nothing but Innocency and Knowledge can make the Mind truly easy.

The manuscript of "Culture and its Enemies"

His autobiographical works are Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack (1980), Colonial Innocency (1982), and Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography (1990).

Clarke, Austin C(hesterfield) (1934- )

When he returns in Book 12 to provide the critical review of Pompilia's performance, the poet once again reveals his distance from her in his failure to be convinced by her valiant attempt to sway her audience: "But here's the capital mistake: the Court / Found Guido guilty,--but pronounced no word / About the innocency of his wife" (12.

Augusta Webster, dramatic forms, and the religious aesthetic of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book

(27) Danvers replied with Innocency and Truth Vindicated (1675), and Wills responded with Vindiciae Vindicarum (1675), including an Appeal attached as an appendix.

Debating the true church on the grounds of believer's baptism: the ecclesiology of Hanserd Knollys

out of thys miserable captivity & bondage, wherein I am now." Finally, Foxe documents "the words that the Lady Jane spake upon the Scaffold at the houre of her death," representing Jane as critical of both herself and Mary: "The fact against the Queenes highnes was unlawfull, and the consenting thereunto by me: but touching the procurement and desire therof by me or on my behalfe, I doe wash my hands thereof in innocency before God." (15) Foxe's hagiographic, though vitriolic, representation of Jane typifies his genre of protestant martyrology; thus, Elizabethans would not have read his Jane as hostile to Elizabeth.

Locating Lady Jane Grey: the Tower of London in Michael Drayton's Englands Heroicall Epistles

Before his release, Penn wrote another work, "Innocency with her Open Face, Presented by Way of Apology for the Book entitled, The Sandy Foundation Shaken," clarifying that he did not reject the deity of Christ.

Pluralism, postmodernity, and religious liberty: the abiding necessity of free speech and religious convictions in the public square

So took a ticket for the third tier where nameless characters resort, & I assure you in sincerity & truth my heart sicken'd at the sight, & I wished for once I had the power of the Almighty, to snatch them from their career of infamy & once more restore them to their original purity & innocency, as for the plays they were good & the Scenery was rich & splendid.

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Thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell, and what should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days of villainy?

Falstaff: subjectivity between the carnival and the aesthetic

That was why Coke, concluding his final Institute, dug up an Old Testament quotation: "keep innocency, and take heed to the thing that is right, and that will bring a man peace at the last." James, also capable of being a Roi Triste, could oversimplify in self-defeating percipience, as when he denied a barrier between his public and private selves (p.

Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England: Essays Presented to G.E. Aylmer