Jephthah's vow is a familiar instance of this abhorrent rite.

The vow of poverty was a rebuke to that venal and grasping spirit which made riches the end of life; the vow of chastity was the resolution to escape that degrading sensuality which was one of the greatest evils of the times; and the vow of obedience was the recognition of authority amid the disintegrations of society.

The vow she made unto her good man; love, virtue, religion, zeal, are better keepers than all those locks, eunuchs, prisons; she will not be moved: "At mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat, Aut pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras, Pallentes umbras Erebi, noctemque profundam, Ante pudor quam te violem, aut tua jura resolvam.

154; love poems, ii. 78, n. 3; Ode to Liberty, iv. 154, n. 2; Ode to Mr. Hobs, ii. 241, n. 1; Ode upon the Restoration, v. 333, n. 3; Pope, compared with, v. 345; vows, on, iii. 357, n. 1; Wit and Loyalty, v. 57, n. 2; mentioned, i. 252, n. 3. COWLEY, Father, ii. 399, n. 3. COWPER, Earl, iii. 16, n. 1. COWPER, J. G. See COOPER.

The vow of poverty, therefore, was a stern, lofty, disdainful protest against the most dangerous and demoralizing evil of the Empire.

V.Clelia's Vow To Locarno soon afterwards came die news that Ranuce Ernest IV. was dead.

The vow of poverty was a rebuke to that venal and grasping spirit which made riches the end of life; the vow of chastity was the resolution to escape that degrading sensuality which was one of the greatest evils of the times; and the vow of obedience was the recognition of authority amid the disintegrations of society.

The vow of poverty was a rebuke to that venal and grasping spirit which made riches the end of life; the vow of chastity was the resolution to escape that degrading sensuality which was one of the greatest evils of the times; and the vow of obedience was the recognition of authority amid the disintegrations of society.

How your vows are frosts, Fast for a night, and with the next sun gone.

Her husband does not exist for me; her vows are no affair of mine.

The ensuing hour my plighted vows shall be; The time's not long; or only long to me.

Once I heard him express this sentiment when I was supposed to be reading my book: The marriage vows, he said, were the only ones a gentleman might break without great blemish to his honor.