Facred

And plac'd within their call the facred band That waits on Nurture and Inftrudion fage. ❋ Unknown (1790)

But if thou doft, 1 call my facred honour To witnefs, thy reward fliall be my love, ❋ Unknown (1783)

A kind of facred interlude, in which Pleafure, Religion, Divine Grace, &c. are perfonlfied, and introduced to aft their leveral p. irts. ❋ Unknown (1789)

The Conjugal love tranfplanted into the grave, (as into a finer mould) improves into Piety, and lays a kind of facred Obligation upon the Widow, to perform all Offices of Reiped; ❋ Unknown (1705)

Only fome one or two places I haue fhewed to my worthy and moft learned friend, M. Harriots, for his cenfure how much mine owne weighed: whofe iudgement and knowledge in all kinds, I know to be incomparable, and bottomlefle; yea, to be admired as much, as his moft blameles life, and the right facred expence of his time, is to be honoured and reuerenced. ❋ Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 (1885)

The confidence of all was repofed in him, and he repaid it by a facred devotion of himfelf to the good of all. ❋ Crafts, W. [from Old Catalog] (1812)

To mention the facred names of a Newton, or a Locke, would be to draw a comparifon between the feeble glimmer of a glow-worm and the effulgence of the fun. ❋ Unknown (1797)

He knew that the opinions of man - kind had undergone a very great change iince thofe ceremonies were firft eltabliihed j and that the moft refpedable of the fpedators considered as frivolous, what had once been held facred. ❋ Unknown (1797)

Qn the feventh night of the F moon moon Rhamazan, I was fleeping under the fhade of the facred tombs, when methought the holy ravens of the fanftuary bore me upon their wings into the air, and in a few moments conveyed me to the loweft. ❋ Unknown (1797)

The Duke of Hamilton and our author were conduced, by the Britifh minifter, to a houfe ex - actly oppofite to the portico where the facred head was placed. ❋ Unknown (1797)

But to reft in them, and to think, becaufe we have obferved the bare form of public, private, or fecret prayer and praife, that we have done our duty, is a grofs perverfion of facred things. ❋ Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 (1797)

But the provident wifdom of our anceftors did not leave thefe facred privileges to reft on the mere foun* ihtioii of their own juftice and ne - ccflity. ❋ Unknown (1797)

'The firib book of the Maccabees is an excel - lent hiftory, and comes' nearefl to the ftyle and manner of the facred hiflorians of any extant. ❋ Unknown (1797)

Mr. Davenport ex - pounded feveral fcriptures to them, defcribing the char - acter of civil magiftrates given in the facred oracles. ❋ Unknown (1797)

It cannot be fuppofed that Jofeph omitted this to infult the nation, but rather to avoid fwearing to them, by taking the oath whi6h accompanies this ceremony, to keep facred their rights and privileges, when he in - tended immediately to deftroy them. ❋ Unknown (1797)

The mutual confidence of the troops in their general, and the general in his troops, is indifpenfab'le to the execution of fo great a plan, - and the fulfilment of duties fo noble and fo facred* ❋ Unknown (1797)

The ceffion of Belgium to the Emperor is there propofcd by the King upon the footing, that the facred obligation of his crown, and the force of treaties, rendered it binding upon his Majefty to demand it. ❋ Unknown (1797)

This is the firft in - flance of God's particular favor to Abraham, which we find mentioned in facred hiftory. ❋ Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 (1797)

What other fovereign has fought with more zeal and glory for the facred caufe of religion, royalty, and humanity, againft the fodl - hardy innovators, who are bent on exterminating them from the whole furface of this globe. ❋ Unknown (1797)

And he was called the friend of GoL Abraham is one of the moft illuftri - dus perfonages, which we find in facred hiftory. ❋ Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 (1797)