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Letter "A" » at liberty
«Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.»
«If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
at liberty, enact, enacted, enacting, Judges, legislature, positively, reject, subversive
«What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle»
«And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name: / But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.»
«And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.»
«The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.»
Author: Bible
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at liberty
«And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, / The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, / To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.»
Author: Bible
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acceptable, anointed, anoints, at liberty, Book of, brokenhearted, bruised, bruises, captives, deliverance, delivered, gospel, heal, It Was Written, opened, open sight, place setting, preach, prophet, recovering, The Blind, The Captive, The Prophet
«Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!»
Author: Henry James
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at liberty
«He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
anticipate, at liberty, companion, continuity, disjoin, disjoined, disjoins, lacerate, lacerated, lacerating, motionless, outlives, retrace, sentiment, settled, suspended
«The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
at liberty, devils, fetter, fettered, fetters, in fetters, Milton, The Devil You Know, wrote
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