If it be that which belongeth to private men, by God's appointment, they cannot disoblige themselves by transferring it to a new officer.
Therefore no vows can disoblige a man from any present duty, nor justify him in the committing of any sin.
Else they might oblige all to believe a lie, to consent to malicious injuries, and might disobligethe people from truth, righteousness, and charity.
For God having antecedently bound me to obey my superiors in all lawful things, I cannot disoblige myself by my own vows.
If in a complex vow or promise there be many things which prove materially unlawful, and one or more that are lawful, the conjunction of the things unlawful doth not disoblige me from the vow of doing the lawful part.
No doubt it is in God's power to disoblige a man from his vow; but how he ever doth such a thing is all the doubt: extraordinary revelations being ceased, there is this way yet ordinary, viz.
No superior can disoblige us here; for the power of superiors is only for the inferior's indemnity and good.
Otherwise a man might disoblige himself at his pleasure.
God is still the same; and his error doth not disoblige him: Nemini debetur commodum ex sua culpa.
If some part of that which you vowed become impossible, that doth not disoblige you from so much as remaineth possible.
Sir, said I, I will not do any thing to disoblige you wilfully; and I am glad he is at liberty, because I was the occasion of his misfortunes.
Sir, said I, I hope I shall always comport myself so, as not wilfully to disoblige you for the future; and the rather do I hope this, as I am sure I shall want only to know your pleasure to obey it.
He offered to go himself to Lady Jones, in the morning, and reveal the matter to her, and desire her secrecy and presence; but I said, That would disoblige the young Ladies Darnford.
Remember that trusting God doth, as it were, oblige him, and distrusting him doth greatly disoblige him, especially when any thing else is trusted before him.
Tiberius thought it well to consent, desirous as he was to have his books returned, and was afraid lest he should disoblige them by showing any distrust.
But indeed she had engaged to give a faithful account of what was to pass between herself and me: and it was, doubtless, much more eligible to give up a daughter, than to disoblige a husband, and every other person of the family.
But he affects to rally me, and not to believe it possible, that one so dutiful and discreet as his sister Clary can resolve to disoblige all her friends.
I have yours of this Day, wherein you twice bid me not to disoblige you, but you must explain yourself further before I know what to do.
I afterwards threw both the Sexes into the Ballance; but as it is not for my Interest to disobligeeither of them, I shall desire to be excused from telling the Result of this Experiment.
I forgot to tell you that Mr. Harley asked me yesterday how he came to disobligethe Archbishop of Dublin.
He has engaged me to dine with him again to-morrow, though I did all I could to put it off; but I don't care to disoblige him.
And then she does not choose to disoblige Joseph; for although she pretends to look above him, she listens, I believe, to some love-stories he tells her.
Charles, unwilling to disoblige one whose principality was the most powerful of the Austrian provinces he sought to absorb in his scheme for the unification of all nations, offered no demur to a request fraught with advantage to himself.
Because repealing the test clause will probably disobligeten of his Majesty's good subjects, for one it can oblige.
May one person disoblige another of a promise made to him?
Those sins which will damn a man's soul, and deprive him of heaven, will not deprive him of his kingdom, nor disoblige the subjects from their obedience.
The statesman tells you with a sneer, His fault is to be too sincere; And, having no sinister ends, Is apt to disoblige his friends.
You will surely remain a few days, senor; it would disoblige me if you answered by a refusal.
If he hath said or done anything to disoblige you, I am sure I can justly acquit him of design.
I am sorry to disoblige your highness," replied the officer, with a supercilious smile, "but that very declaration compels me to refuse you egress through the gates of Rocroy.
I am not to be bribed to silence, when you really disoblige me.
He told me he had indeed sold two or three casks, but he would not disoblige me so much as to sell the whole parcel before I came.
Madam, continued he, turning to Gulnare, the king your brother has put me into the greatest confusion in the world; and I would beg of him to retain his present, were it not that I fear to disoblige him.
