Care would be taken to spare him any duties which were repugnant to his feelings as a man, and no power on earth would compel him to act against his wife or against his children.
This oath, in short, wasrepugnant to his feelings as a man, and he could not take it.
Grace is not less natural to inclination than dignity to virtue, and that is evident from the idea of grace, which is all sensuous and favorable to the liberty of physical nature, and which is repugnant to all idea of constraint.
Any other gross misbehaviour and wickedness in either of the parties repugnant to and in violation of the marriage covenant.
The constitution provides that the General Assembly or Parliament may make laws "not repugnant to the laws of England.
Believing pious ends justify any means, they glory in conduct the most repugnant to every principle of decency, equity, and humanity.
From such conviction, repugnantthough it be to vulgar ideas, there is no rational way of escape; for however much we may desire, however much we may struggle to believe there was a time when there was nothing, we cannot so believe.
Nor did Hume affect to consider Christianity less repugnant to reason than any other theory or system of supernaturalism.
And this, his silence at the cemetery, which had flagellated her with the unalterable past, now made him repugnant to her.
As repugnant as it is by instinct, it is no more repugnant than him having grown in me to begin with.
This thing that happened to her was repugnant rape but, she argued, only societal norms made it viler than other forms of rape.
The lone dirt-ridden stranger was prodigiously more repugnant than this for even retards and mild madmen chose to be clean.
Still, the lesser knowledge that it was, it was repugnant by being so void of anything wise.
The unbidden intimate gesture of the dog was so repugnant that he drove the knife into the bitch.
Also her art would not pertain to anyone if she were not to some degree a product of her world, as repugnant as that thought was to her.
The theatre people consciously acknowledged sex in the seats as illegal and morally repugnant albeit reprehensibly desired.
Julia comprehends all, and secretly congratulates herself on his imbecility which releases her from embraces that are repugnant to her, though she assumes an air of tender concern at his distress.
He saw that she was a young and lovely woman, about to give herself to the arms of a man thrice her age; and he wished to render the union less repugnant to her, by appearing to be as youthful as possible himself.
The idea of belonging to him, of having no right to think of another man with tenderness, became all at once too repugnant to be endured.
I know how strange this looks to you, and how repugnant it must be.
I shall not linger here to describe them; nothing is more repugnant to my nature than to volunteer a display of my own feelings, especially when I am well aware that many, who listen, cannot or will not understand or believe me.
It is repugnant to no part of the treaty, with respect to the quitrents confiscated by the act of 1782.
It repealed everything on the statute books repugnant to the Treaty of Peace.
But, it may be objected, is it not contrary to the dictate of reason to subject oneself wholly to the judgment of another, and, consequently, is not the civil staterepugnant to reason?
If no such second meaning can be found, the text must be taken literally, however repugnant to reason it may be: and all the other passages, though in complete accordance with reason, must be brought into harmony with it.
As then Scripture only teaches us to keep our word in general, and leaves to every individual's judgment the special cases of exception, it teaches nothing repugnant to what we have just proved.
But if it include something that is repugnant to the order of reason, it shall be an evil action according to its kind; as to steal or take away another man’s goods.
The honourable houses, in their wisdom, will soon observe whether such men, whose avouched tenets are so flatly repugnant to the parliamentary votes and ordinances, are like to be good pleaders for Christian magistracy.
Go to reason in yourselves, from the judgment of nature, whether it follow not, upon this principle, that a man should not wear long hair, forasmuch as his wearing of long hair is repugnant to the principle of nature.
It was held that the court had no power to grant the writ, because the Federal statute by which the jurisdiction was sought to be conferred was repugnant to the Constitution of the United States.
In one of his early opinions he discussed and decided the question whether an Act of Congress repugnant to the Constitution is void.
A residence in a house of public entertainment, to those who have been accustomed to the quiet and retirement of a country life, is always unpleasant, and to strangers as we were, in a foreign land, it was doubly repugnant to our feelings.
We may therefore conclude, that, although repugnant to our taste and feelings, they were the means of effecting much good in a gross and licentious age.
Yet this very freedom, which is so repugnant to all their preconceived notions and prejudices, is by no means so unpleasant as strangers would be led to imagine.
In fact, the system of trade-marks is inapplicable in the existing order, because this system, contrary to the interests of the manufacturers and repugnant to their habits, could be sustained only by the energetic will of power.
Whoever says necessity or fatality says absolute and inviolable order; whoever, on the contrary, says disturbance and disorder affirms that which is most repugnant to fatality.
This conclusion, however repugnant to the sentiment of Heathenism or the practice of Christian nations, stands on the Brotherhood of Man.
The soul shrinks with horror from the cell of constant and unoccupied solitude, as repugnantto unceasing yearnings in the nature of man.
It is impossible that any vessel constructed on principles so repugnant to science can be safe.
I repel the proposition, as repugnantto nature, and as treason to science!
