As the catholic prelates died away, they were replaced by protestant ministers, on private compacts to alienate the principal part of the revenues to those through whom they were appointed.
The compacts which are to embrace thirteen distinct States in a common bond of amity and union, must as necessarily be a compromise of as many dissimilar interests and inclinations.
Compacts of this kind exist among all civilized nations, subject to the usual vicissitudes of peace and war, of observance and non-observance, as the interests or passions of the contracting powers dictate.
As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign states.
Concordias were compacts which could not be modified without its consent.
But one asks, Will you strike hands with treason, and enter into compacts with rebels and traitors?
The second end of religion is that man may be taught by God Whom he worships; and to this must be referred divinatory superstition, which consults the demons through compacts made with them, whether tacit or explicit.
Divinations and certain observances come under the head of superstition, in so far as they depend on certain actions of the demons: and thus they pertain to compacts made with them.
Hence in no way is it lawful for man to make use of the demons' help by compactseither tacit or express.
The present century is learning facts which teach that inborn properties and susceptibilities, and not compacts with the devil, constitute witches--some of whom are very lovely.
That that prohibition is restricted to compacts or agreements with foreign powers, is manifest from the whole structure of the section.
He was solicitous about his soul in a fashion very uncommon with demon-worshippers, and in all his projected and rejected compacts with Satan he was careful to insert a clause that he should not suffer in body or soul.
It was in vain that Gilles gave to Prelati compacts signed with his blood, pledging himself to obedience in return for the three gifts of knowledge, wealth, and power; Barron would have none of them.
To the beginning of the 13th century the popular superstitions regarding sorcery, witchcraft and compacts with the devil were condemned by the ecclesiastical authorities as heathenish, sinful and heretical.
Evidently, then, compacts or pledged words do not create justice, they presuppose it; and it is only in virtue of the law of justice thatcompacts are obligatory, and no compacts not conformable to that law can bind.
Compacts as an instrument which justified him in oppressing the Bohemian Brethren, and the advanced Utraquists, whose teaching now differed but little from that of Luther.
The estates expressed the wish that the celebrated Compacts should cease to form part of the laws of the country.
After the Compacts had been formally recognized at Iglau in Moravia, Sigismund proceeded to Prague and was accepted as king.
Both parties agreed to respect the religious views of their opponents and to abstain from all violence, and the Compacts were again confirmed.
It referred to the Compacts that had been abolished, and was liable to an interpretation excluding from tolerance all but the Romanists and the retrograde Utraquists.
In the mutual compacts of private life, they said, the just man is always a loser, and the unjust a gainer.
He expressly denied, however, that "they carry with them an obligation to outward acts of obedience, even apart from civil laws and from any consideration of compacts constituting governments.
The allies were welcomed by the secondary German princes, who, in return for compacts guaranteeing their sovereignty, promised to raise contingents that amounted in all to upwards of a quarter of a million of men.
And if, as it thus appears, the supposed compact had no obligatory force as to the North, of course it could not have had any as to the South, for all such compacts must be mutual and of reciprocal obligation.
The compacts which have temporary matters for their object are called agreements, conventions, and pactions.
General compacts between nations may be divided into what are called transitory conventions, and treaties properly so called.
These compacts are perfected in their execution once for all; treaties receive a successive execution, whose duration equals that of the treaty.
For such contracts are regulated by the law of nature alone, in the same manner as compacts made by sovereigns in their public capacity.
Yet no such compacts can bind either of the parties to the support or prosecution of unjust wars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compacts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
