These Disciplines [mathematics] serve to inure and corroborate the Mind to a constant Diligence in Study; to undergo the Trouble of an attentive Meditation, and cheerfully contend with such Difficulties as lie in the Way.
Who can well suppose, that you on a sudden, relinquishing a life of softness and ease, can take up with our coarse diet and clothing and can inure yourself to our watchings and fastings?
To arm himself against the allurements of pleasure and the artifices of the devil, he began to wear a rough hair shirt under his clothes, and to inure himself to fasting, watching, and prayer.
Our saint was at first apprehensive that he should find it an insupportable difficulty to live without fresh bread, use the same stinking oil for his food and for his lamp, and inure his body to hard labor under so great austerities.
A clause in the act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service contemplates the reorganization of both branches of such service on a salaried basis, leaving fees to inure to the benefit of the Treasury.
The coal, like the forests, should be treated as the property of the public and its disposal should be under conditions which would inure to the benefit of the public as a whole.
Remember I joined the Army to serve my country and inure that you are free to do what you want and to live your lives freely.
Without this precaution the expenditures are but too apt to inure to the benefit of individuals, without reference to the only consideration which can render them constitutional--the public interests and the general good.
He therefore employed great precaution in dealing with the susceptibilities of the Republicans, taking care to inure them gradually to the temperature of absolute power.
Morse himself was often at a loss to determine on the course which he should pursue, a course which would at the same time inure to his financial benefit and be in accordance with his high sense of right.
Gale and myself had to assure him that the extension would legally inure to your benefit, and not to that of your agents and associates before he could reconcile it with his duty to the public to grant the extension.
Uice where lawe is not to correcte, will inure it [Sidenote: Uice as a lawe by cu- stome.
Alexander the greate, alwaies did inure hymself to doe thynges, and manfullie to assaie that he enterprised.
If it were left for them to determine whether money should be expended for this purpose or for some other which would more immediately inure to their private benefit, there can be no two opinions as to the result.
There was usually no summoning of witnesses, no slow taking of testimony and no careful search for laches which would invalidate the finding of the court and inure to the benefit of the accused.
And the parties hereto mutually covenant and agree that all the provisions of this agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the successors, executors, administrators, and personal representatives of both the parties hereto.
The whole money collected wouldinure to the benefit of our own Government and people, to sustain the war and to prevent to that extent new loans and increased taxation.
The bathing was done in cold water, and both the bathing and the sunning were in part intended toinure the body to sudden cold and heat, which inurement was considered a very essential part of physical training.
Whatever it is possible to inure children to, they ought to be subjected to from the very outset, and gradual progress to be made.
Though they might not be inherently important, yet if permitted they would inure the minds of men to the idea of change, and hence be dissolving and anarchic.
He was blessed, till he left the world, with the greatest health and vigour, which doubtless was owing to his extreme temperance, and the care he had taken to inure himself to fatigue.
In these places, such young people were under the direction of different masters, who employed the most effectual methods to inure their bodies for the fatigues of the public games, and to train them for the combats.
I told him there were painful things enough in the world to inure men to hardness without his making more, &c.
To inure him to cold, the Indians compelled him almost daily, to strip and plunge into the icy waters of the river.
If we are right in this position, they also are an example of persons who are clearly not entitled to the rights which inure only to a state of civilization.
Unless we could for ever ensure the bed of roses to our pupils, we should do very imprudently to make it early necessary to their repose: unless the pillow of snow is likely to be their lot, we need not inure them to it from their infancy.
