The marechal offered to take upon himself to sort what I should leave behind me, and throw into the fire every sheet that he found useless, without trusting to any person whomsoever, and to send me those of which he should make choice.
If he asks me, By what authority I take upon me thus to reason?
So the king called unto him Sir Dinas the seneschal, and prayed him for his sake to take upon him to just with Sir Uwaine.
Well mayest thou be called so, said the damsel, the knight with the evil-shapen coat, but and thou be so hardy to take upon thee to bear that shield and to follow me, wit thou well thy skin shall be as well hewn as thy coat.
And now I take upon me the adventures of holy things, and now I see and understand that mine old sin hindereth me, and shameth me, so that I had no power to stir nor to speak when the holy blood appeared afore me.
Ye take upon you a great charge, said Sir Lamorak, for Sir Launcelot is a noble proved knight.
That there shall be any heroine the historian will not take upon himself to assert; but if there be a heroine, that heroine shall not be Lady Eustace.
What right have you to take upon yourself to decide whether this thing or that belongs to Lady Eustace or to any one else?
And that is the cause I take upon me more for to do for damosels and maidens than ever I did to-fore, that men should understand my joy and my delight is my pleasure to have ado for damosels and maidens.
And now I take upon me the adventures of holy things, and now I see and understand that mine old sin hindereth me and shameth me, so that I had no power to stir nor speak when the holy blood appeared afore me.
To take on, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take on a character or responsibility.
Who was to take upon himself to nominate either the one or the other?
God forbid, that ever I take uponme to command any to obey me, or yet to set subjects at liberty to do what pleaseth them.
The Kingdome hee claimed was to bee in another world; He taught all men to obey in the mean time them that sate in Moses seat: he allowed them to give Caesar his tribute, and refused to take upon himselfe to be a Judg.
We take upon ourselves a great and an awful responsibility; and every drop of unnecessary blood that is shed in this great effort, will cry loudly to Heaven for vengeance on the head of the rash men who caused or suffered it to flow.
But now where yetake upon you to defy the whole matter as ye were in no default, I cannot so far promise you.
I take upon myself to say that if any man alive spoke to me as he ought not to speak, I should know how to resent it myself.
Why should he take upon himself to have prudence enough for two, seeing that she was so very discreet in all her bearings?
But she had not been willing to take upon herself as yet independence so complete as this would have required.
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