•f fafety or protection from without* than in fmali ones; yet, as there are more whofe interefts nuft be confulted, there muft be more of reftraint on the liberty of individu - als; and that the more there is of union in the views or interefts of individuals thus united, the reftraint will be the lefs. ❋ Unknown (1770)
I did, faid Mr.R. * as one of the Committee, put many queitions to the gentlemen attending, but under the difad vantage at the commencement of a total unacquaintance with the futge&i at all times under the reftraint arifing from interrogating gentle - men of high refpe&ability on points in which their interefts op - pokd a dire£\ anfwer, and who appeared for others, the circurn - fiances of whofe cafe was more exceptionable. ❋ Unknown (1812)
As thefe combats formed the fupreme pleafure of the people of Home at one period, the moft cruel of their emperors were fometimes the moft popular, merely becaufe they indulged the people without reftraint in their favourite amufcment, ❋ Unknown (1797)
The infliftion of cruel and un - to deprive the oppreflcd of confo - ufual punifliment is prohibited by Intion, and to deliver the oppreflbr the tenth claufe of the Bill of from reftraint. ❋ Unknown (1797)
In a government of check, the felfifti paflions undergoing reftraint and diredtion, are made to produce good to focicty. ❋ Unknown (1796)
The furefl means of prcferying thee from the faf - cinating power of the. imagination, is to lay a reftraint on its adivity, that thou mayft refign thyfelf entirely to the feelings of thy heart. ❋ Unknown (1796)
They were intended as regulatiohstlf le, and not as fources of national fupplics* Till the year 1 764, all d on commercial regulation and reftraint. ❋ Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. [from Old Catalog] (1795)
But they could foon ceafe to be beheved, and their execution would no longer be expected, if in feveral inftances they ihould be difpenfed with, and aiucceffion of fmners ihould pafs with impu - nity* Other fmners, judging of future events by paft fads, would exped the fame indulgence, and therefore venture upon difobence without any reftraint from the penalty of the law. ❋ Unknown (1794)
It is becaufe he loves his creatures fo much that he requires them to be fo holy; and that very thing, againft which there are fo many cavils and objections, as too fe - vere and oppreflive, and a rigid reftraint from the purfuit of pleafure, is the higheft inftance of the love of God for them, and his regard for their happinefs. ❋ Unknown (1794)
They likewife gave me to underftand, that as long as the prien hood mould be debarred from marriage, and confeflbrs continue liable to abufe the con - fidence repofed in them, the fecrecy, the prudence, and, when needful, the feverity of the inquifition, would be the only effectual reftraint againft licentioufnefs and the uni - verfal depravation of their morals. ❋ Unknown (1792)
_ * Private European traders and the Native agents of Europeans, who had in the be - ginning of the Company's power been guihy of fuch diforders in the diftriaj, were by this time brought under confiderable reftraint. to fuffer from another calamity, which in the end overwhehned it in mifeiy, in - comparably more dreadful than all it had before endured. ❋ Grant, Charles (1792)
They likewife gave me to underftand, that as long as the priefthood fliould be debarred from marriage, and confeflbrs continue li - able to abufe the confidence repofed in them, the fecrecy, the prudence, and, when needful, the fevcrity of the inquiiition, would be the only eifcdlual reftraint againft licentioufnefs and the univerfal depravation of their morals. ❋ Unknown (1791)
This mode of reprefenting the inconveniencies of reftraint as light and iniig - pificant, was a kind of fophiftry in which he delighted to indulge himfelf, in pppofition to the extreme laxity for which it has been fefliionable for too many to argue, when it is evident, upon refleftion, that the very eflehce of govern - ment is reftraint j and certain it is, that as government produces rational happinc/s. ❋ Unknown (1791)
Evil ey*d unto you: you are my prifoner, but Your gaoler fhall deliver you the keys That lock up your reftraint. ❋ William Shakespeare , Joseph Rann (1791)
JOHNSON, liappinefsj too much reftraint is better than too little. ❋ Unknown (1791)
It is the greateft of all poffiblc evils y for it is folly, vice, and madnefs, without tuition or reftraint. ❋ Unknown (1790)
Come, Sir, be under no reftraint on my ac - count, Ciarifiahafrmadc me her confidant. ❋ Unknown (1789)
A rich Englilhman, and in general every - inhabitant of that fortunate ifland, knows no other reftraint on his condu£t than the laws, and his own inclination. — ❋ Unknown (1789)
He loft all llenfe of religious reftraint; and, finding it not con - venient to admit the authority of laws which he was refolded not to obey, iheltered his wickednefs behind infidelity. ❋ Unknown (1787)
Throw off* all reftraint and decency in their complaints againft Great Britain, 86. — ❋ Unknown (1785)
