And this accursed inheritance tempts men ever to long for and hope for that which they have not earned.

It would have been a sinful and a blasphemous tempting of Providence to have done otherwise, seeing that our duty called us to no such sacrifice.

Her innocent tempting of Fenwickas an act, partly, of piteous self-defence against impulses of quite another quality and powerthis must remain her secret to the end.

They should beware of thinking that God should come to them with light and instruction in an extraordinary manner, and reveal the truth of the question controverted somewhat immediately: for this were a manifest tempting and limiting of the Holy One of Israel.

It is a sinful tempting of God, to think to be sanctified another way than God hath in his deep wisdom condescended upon.

"Without such little worries the world could not get on! That sweet thought tempts Dame Justice the bonnet brown to don, And smite the clanging sheepskin, and aid with voice and fist The tow-row, tow-row, tow-row of the loud Salvationist!