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It would be attaching very great importance to one's smallest sayings, to think a formal retractation requisite every time that one commits an error.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart

Nothing was done; deceived on this wise, she could not fail to retract her retractation.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter

The retractation and apology which Hearne afterwards actually submitted to the Vice-Chancellor in court in 1718, when in trouble again for his preface to Camden's Elizabeth, was very similar in style to this.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn

But even that strong measure failed to induce a satisfactory retractation.

From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant

If so, my retractation is, that if he be excused one way, he must be accused another way; and if he be blameless of ignorance, he is blameworthy for dissimulation.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George