They were likewise solemnly engaged to employ their official influence and authority to put away systems that had been abjured in the National vows,--Popery, Prelacy and Erastianism, and to discourage all profaneness and ungodliness.
If the ministers were acquitted or condemned to any other sentence than that of death, the Revolution of July would be abjured before all Europe, and by the king who won his crown by means of the barricades.
He had, it was said, abjured the Abbé Ledru with his last breath; but it was not an assured fact and the report might even have been set about by the bishop!
A poet, I have ever pitied noble misfortune; as son of the people, I have never abjured renown.
I wish, since he has not finally abjured his duty in this House, that that detestation had been stated earlier, that he had mixed his own voice with the general voice of his country on the result of that negotiation.
There were some acts of hostility committed previous to the war with this country, and very little indeed subsequent to that declaration, which abjured the love of conquest.
Hence, too, French parties were condemned to six years more of civil war, which only ended when Henry of Navarre, the Protestant heir to the throne of France, abjured his religion in order to get accepted by the Catholics.
A fourth, Capello, abjured his so-called heresies, and was assigned a pittance for the last days of his failing life in Rome.
He abjured Protestantism, and like Muretus, sold his pen to Rome.
After his first appearance before the Inquisition in 1616, he was publicly and falsely charged by his enemies with having then abjured his opinions; and he was taunted as a criminal who had been actually punished for his offences.
In view of all this they were solemnly abjured not to give "one kopek to the throne, or one soldier to the army," until there exists a popular representative Parliament.
Indemnity and pardon were offered to those whoabjured the Roman Catholic faith, and many were received into the bosom of the National Orthodox Church; those refusing this offer of clemency being subjected to great cruelties.
Calls he this a superstitious vow, which abjured all superstition and superstitious rites?
Overwhelmed with horror at having deprived his father of life, the unhappy man abjured a country whose civil wars had given birth to such tremendous crimes.
He had been born a Protestant, but he abjured his religion, and from a convert he became a converter.
Recaredo, his son and successor, solemnly abjured Arianism before the third Toledan Council, as the inscription on his statue outside the Alcázar records.
With such powerful interests on the side of Rome, it is not surprising that the Arian prince speedily abjured his heresy, to the anger and dismay of his father.
Through the persuasion of Edwin too he was baptized; and after, at the instigation of his wife, abjured the faith.
Odo, now taken a second time, abjured England for ever: the bishop of Durham of his own accord retired beyond sea, the king allowing him to escape uninjured out of regard to his former friendship: the rest were all admitted to fealty.
The first positive denial of the "Divine Right" of sovereigns had been heard in the Netherlands when the Estates General abjured their lawful sovereign King Philip II of Spain, in the year 1581.
Mantegna abjured his faith, abjured the Middle Ages, abjured all that belonged to his time; and in so doing cast away from him the living art and became the lover, the worshipper of shadows.
Now, the Jacobins, even if they have abjured their principles, remember their acts.
He was an obscure Armenian, and while under the influence of alcohol had abjured the faith of his fathers, and declared himself a Mohammedan.
But they lost all peace of mind from that moment, until they had abjured their recantation, and publicly declared their determination to abide by the doctrines of the Gospel, even unto death.
Whoever abjuredhis errors gained nothing by his apostacy but at farthest a milder kind of death.
One Calas son had already abjured the Protestant for the true faith, this now dead son was said to have been anxious to go over, and the father was resolved to prevent it at all cost.
The catafalque bore a notice to the effect that he had abjured heresy.
Many who abjured these rites went also as to a festival.
His followers abjured idolatry and sought to know only the invisible things of the spirit.
This zealous reformer, in an unhappy moment, had yielded to his fears, and subscribed a recantation, which he soon afterabjured before a Protestant congregation in Germany.
The boat drew under the blazing windows, and half guessing, half hearing, Vittoria understood that Pericles was giving an entertainment here, and had abjured her.
Carlo's involvements cast him into extreme peril, almost certain death, unless he abjured his honour, dearer than a life made precious by love.
