Some one asked him in fury by what right he took upon himself to judge of the motives of gentlemen on that side of the House of whom personally he knew nothing.
Can I reconcile it to myself to make his life utterly desolate and wretched simply because duties which I took upon myself at my marriage have become distasteful to me?
How Accolon found himself by a well, and he took upon him to do battle against Arthur.
Sir, said he, this adventure is mine, and the first that ever I took upon me, and that will I follow whatsoever come of me.
Our cousin Maud, a childless widow, took upon herself to care for us.
He wished to go to Holland, and I took upon myself to give him a passport.
Convinced of this fact by a thousand proofs, and weary of the vexations of the preventive system, I took upon myself to lay my opinions on the subject before the Emperor.
I took upon me the office of conciliator, which I had before discharged with success.
Sir, said he, this adventure is mine, and the first that ever I took upon me, and that will I follow whatsomever come of me.
To him he made so plain demonstration of the apparent danger to England, that he took upon him to write to the Secretary Cecil; who with expedition returned answer back again.
But the Lord James, the man whom all the godly did most reverence, took upon him to keep the chapel door.
Master John Lauder was accuser, and alleged that he took upon him to preach.
The Abbot had the advantage that he required; to wit, he took upon him to prove that Melchisedec offered bread and wine to God, and this was the ground upon which was founded the argument that the Mass was a sacrifice, etc.
Both my knees bare bent, they forming a square; both hands on the Holy Bible, Square, and Compass; in which posture I took upon me the solemn oath or obligation of a true Master Mason.
My left knee bare and bent, my right forming a square, my left hand supporting the Holy Bible, Square and Compass; I took upon me the solemn oath or obligation of an Entered Apprentice Mason.
Of this, as I was a man of years and more experienced in the world than he, I took upon me to forewarn Mr. Campbell, as soon as I perceived the first dangerous fit of this elegant idleness had seized him.
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