If I open it now, it is less to show the obligations which constrain me personally than to make these witnesses plead again the cause which from the beginning I have had at heart.
Long ago I declared, that, while recognizing party as an essential agency and convenience, I could not allow it to constrain my conscience against what seemed the requirements of public good.
Go now apart with your dishevelled daughter, your tearful son-in-law, and let their plaints constrain you.
There was no sphere of human duty over which he did not constrain his countrymen to meditate.
The spiritual authority should punish sin with the ban and with laws, and constrain its spiritual children to be good, in order that they might have reason to do this work and to exercise themselves in obeying and honoring it.
Even if none of these adversities constrain us to call upon God's Name and to trust Him, yet were sin alone more than sufficient to train and to urge us on in this work.
For a moment he seemed minded to constrain her, but almost immediately let her go.
Fierce to her foes, yet fears her force to try, Because she wants innate authority; For how can she constrain them to obey, Who has herself cast off the lawful sway?
The pilot is he of the northward flight, their stay and their steersman he; A helmsman clothed with the tempest, and girdled with strength to constrain the sea.
But when we come to mark the methods by which Moses obtained acceptance of his code by his contemporaries, and, above all, sought to constrain obedience to himself and to it, we find the prospect unalluring.
But as a judge he did not constrain his sons any better than Eli had his, for "they took bribes, and perverted judgment.
But with the majority worldly motives predominated: they were always protesting that they did not constrain men's consciences, but only enforced orderly living.
The love of Christ, I am persuaded, will constrain you to pray that the last glimmering of an expiring taper may be blessed to the guiding of many, wandering souls to the Lamb of God.
The love of Christ, I am persuaded, will constrain you to pray that the last glimmering of an expiring taper may be blessed to the guiding of many wandering souls to the Lamb of God.
If (continued Brasidas) in spite of my assurances, you still withhold from me your coöperation, I shall think myself authorized to constrain you by force.
Here there is comprehended in seven successive articles, or petitions, every need which never ceases to relate to us, and each so great that it ought to constrain us to keep praying it all our lives.
But this should induce and constrain you by itself, that He desires it and that it is pleasing to Him.
This the other Athenian generals wished to constrain them to, and by judicial proceedings against defaulters, and penalties which they inflicted on them, made the government uneasy, and even odious.
I know the necessity of the secrecy you require, and I must constrain myself: say on, I will hear you.
In that city, it is true, he did not much constrain himself, but he was forced to do so to some extent by courtly usages.
At this recital I felt a mixture of anger and compassion, and I did not constrain myself with Biron.
The King spoke very obligingly to the Duc de Chartres, said that he wished to see him married; that he offered him his daughter, but that he did not intend to constrain him in the matter, but left him quite at liberty.
But ultimately the needs of adequate understanding must constrain us to the employment of both methods of enquiry.
I shall append to each of his arguments a statement of the reasons which constrain us to reject them as unsound.
Then the thunginus shall say: "I constrain this man by law, in accordance with the Salic law.
No count, vicarius, or their subordinates, or any other public official shall presume to judge or constrain any persons living on those lands, but John and his sons and their posterity shall judge and constrain them.
The commissioners were directed to so arrange the treaty, as to constrain the Indians to settle within the territory south of Tampa Bay, excluded from the coast on all sides by a strip of country at least fifteen miles in width.
His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather, their prisoner than their proprietor.
I own it is not the most agreeable; but I affirm it to be the most useful thing in the world to one of your age; and therefore I do hope that you will force and constrain yourself to do it.
As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised; only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
So that there is need of people and families to keep them in the way of duty, to constrain them through mildness to do better, and to move them by good example to mend their lives.
