His Majesty also begs that you will tell the King that he has been proud of the titles of British Field-Marshal and British Admiral, but that in consequence of what has occurred he must now at once divest himself of those titles.
But you can not divest them of their hope to ultimately have you with them so long as you show a determination to perpetuate the institution within your own States.
Swedenborg is retrospective, nor can we divest him of his mattock and shroud.
But do what he would he could not divest his mind of the thought that the Albino was aware of his plans.
I could notdivest myself of the horror of my position.
He that hath courage To divest himself of that, removes with it Their powers to hurt him; and injur'd Love, Who sees that fortune would usurp his power, I know will not be wanting.
But a mind accustomed to labor for a nation's welfare does not immediately divest itself of ancient habits.
Nor have I been able todivest myself in certain temples of the belief that the air was full of them, though I spent a long, long summer's day there once, alone, trying either to dispel the idea or to determine that it was so.
It would rob the organism of its daring, its tenacity, and ultimately divest life itself of value.
And so to state it, to reduce it to plain terms, and divest it of its disguising verbiage, almost removes the need for further refutation.
Let no such thoughts enter your mind, Tom," says the affectionate girl; "divest yourself at once of feelings that can only do you injury.
He has been the associate of criminals; he has suffered punishment; he feels himself loathed by society; he cannot divest himself of the odium clinging to his garments.
At the same time, it was impossible to declare war against an independent prince, simply because he declined to divest himself of his independence.
But my figure presented an appearance so unnaturally rotund that a policeman experienced in diagnosing these sudden metamorphoses, compelled me to divest and to revolve, unwinding, in the public eye.
It took some little time for Mrs Burgess to divest herself of her bonnet and veil, as precautions had to be observed lest the remarkable addition to her somewhat scanty locks, which she called her "chignon," should come off too.
And she proceeded to divest herself of the bonnet she had on, a creation which Stasy's eyes took in with silent horror.
A] [Footnote A: It may be replied, The colored people were held as property by the laws of Louisiana previously to the cession, and that Congress had no right to divest the newly acquired citizens of their property.
Divest Christianity of its faith and doctrines, and you despoil it of all that is peculiar to it in its motives, its consolations, its sanctions, and its duties.
But as we cannot divest ourselves of the impression that these simple ideas have not been produced through themselves, we are accustomed to furnish them with a ground in some existing substratum, which we indicate with the word substance.
It was necessary to correct a wholly false estimate of the author's scholarship with which reviewers had familiarized the public, and to divest the work of a prestige to which it was not entitled.
They then led him to the side of the road, and told him he must divest himself of his clothing, in order to give them an opportunity to search him.
Neither could he divest himself of the thought that had Mary known him in his early and his only true character, she might not have refused him, and that he owed his failure to that mongrel thing which wealth had made him.
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