Actions the omission of which is punished or blamed are not actions of desert, but of duty and obligation.
The outer sanctions do not insure the coincidence of duty and one's own happiness; nor does the sympathetic sanction secure this, for sympathy is often on the side opposed to duty.
Hesitating between a sense of duty and an inclination to sin, trembling amidst conflicting attractions and opposing interests, they never attain to dignity of character or repose of spirit.
To thy ungrateful country then dost owe Duty and faith no longer.
Antonia," answered the Sicilian, "experienced the most violent struggle between duty and inclination, between hate and admiration.
This proposition, which at this moment perhaps appears paradoxical, will receive a great and deep meaning if we have advanced far enough to apply it to the twofold seriousness of duty and of destiny.
He stood forth, he said, from a principle of duty and affection, to act as a mediator.
In the debate that ensued, all sides of the house expressed confidence in Lord Palmerston's sense of duty and responsibility, and respect and admiration for his talents.
The instinct ofduty and self-preservation suggests this course.
But to come to our purpose, when the soul is pressed under burdens of sin and misery, of duty and insufficiency, and inability to do it, then the gospel discovereth unto the wearied soul a place of reposing and rest.
But I believe, addictedness to our own humours in things not necessary, which have no worth but from our disposition, doth oftener transport us beyond the bounds of charity than the apprehension of duty and conscience of sin.
Learn this, I beseech you, to get your own wills abandoned, and your spirits subdued to God, both in the point of duty and dispensation.
Do not so much look on victory and freedom from sin as a duty and task, though we be infinitely bound to it; but rather as a privilege and dignity conferred upon us by Christ.
They first presented the usual addresses in the warmest terms of duty and affection.
Both houses immediately agreed to addresses, containing the warmest expressions of duty and affection to their new sovereign, who did not fail to return such answers as were very agreeable to the parliament of Great Britain.
They were equal in their professions of duty and affection to the queen; but the addresses imbibed a very different colour from the different sanctions by which the two houses were influenced.
He was favoured with loyal addresses, couched in the warmest terms of duty and affection; but the supplies were retarded by new convulsions in the ministry.
Nor is this view at variance with the position that to woman is assigned a peculiar sphere of duty and action.
The culture of the religious affections, the developement of the sense of duty and of the entire moral nature, this is the great business of human life.
Under the order pursuant to which you have been elected and convened you have no duty and no authority to take part in the present government of the island.
In recommending to Congress a reduction of the present rates of duty and a revision and modification of the act of 1842, I am far from entertaining opinions unfriendly to the manufacturers.
The patience of men animated by a sense of duty and honour, will support them to a certain point, beyond which it will not go.
The general officers lamented the sentence which the usages of war compelled them to pronounce; and never perhaps did the Commander-in-chief obey with more reluctance the stern mandates of duty and policy.
If I still aspire and struggle, it is from a sense ofduty and because of you, Hartmut.
I still believe in duty and honor; I still believe in myself, and with this faith I offer defiance to the doom you hold so triumphantly before me.
Do not deny me the satisfaction of acquitting myself in point of duty and obligation.
But yet the reality of these are not necessary to make him a visible pastor, as to the people's duty and benefit.
That it is certain that God will make no other covenant, testament, or universal law, for the government of mankind or the church, as a rule of duty and of judgment.
This trained, habitual will, causing acts to be performed in conformity to duty and virtue, yet without conscious reference to the explicit principles that underlie them, is character.
He does not stop to reason out the relation of duty and virtue to reward, or of temptation and vice to penalty, before he decides to help the unfortunate, or to be faithful to a friend, or to vote on election day.
They are in reality, one the detailed and particular, the other the comprehensive and universal aspect of the same world of duty and virtue.
But is all our life to be taken up in meeting the claims of Duty and of Charity?
No; for he recognises the claims of Duty and of Charity.
After the battle of Chickamauga she again felt it a duty and privilege to proceed to the field, on a mission of mercy.
But to the call of duty and patriotism, they had no such objections to urge.
This at once opened for her a wide and most important field ofduty and labor.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duty and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
