We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.
Till life to death acquit my forced offence.
Pray God he may acquit him of suspicion!.
Though this was one of the first mercantile transactions of my life, yet I had no doubt about acquitting myself with reputation.
If he was convicted, it was because it was impossible to acquit him without offering the grossest outrage to justice and common sense.