But these and other omissions are pardonable, and come to mind only because the book has come so close to being a complete survey.
These are probably pardonable blemishes.
Political compulsion to work may, of course, be a pardonable thing, but it is always a doubtful thing.
One must allow for a certain pardonable vigour with which taxes are received.
I believe that that was pardonable exaggeration in a debate of this nature.
There would be in those circumstances a pardonable difference of opinion as to what the date was.
It has also suffered a little, so some people think, from the pardonable but possibly premature blowing of its own trumpet.
In fact, the recommendation was made in the face of information which was incorrect, and of one or two pardonable false assumptions.
