" "For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, And hold a synod in thy heart, I'll never love thee more.

We abhor that profane vulgarity of our politics which denies to an antagonist the merits which are justly his, because he may have been blinded to the truth of our principles by the demerits which are justly ours,which hates the man because it hates his creed, and, instead of grappling with his argument, seeks in the kitchen-drains of scandal for the material to bespatter his reputation.

Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other.

I conjure you not to make me abhor myself!

God of Love no morehow have I deserved this of thee!Never before the friend of frozen virtue?Powerless demon, for powerless thou must be, if thou meanedest not to frustrate my hopes; who shall henceforth kneel at thy altars!May every enterprising heart abhor, despise, execrate, renounce thee, as I do!But, O Belford, Belford, what signifies cursing now!

But how she must abhor me to run all these risques; how heartily she must detest me for my freedoms of last night!

Though I am so much puzzled by what occurs on both sides of the ques- >>> tion, that I cannot but abhor the devilish wretch, whose inventions and contrivances are for ever em- ploying an inquisitive head, as mine is, without affording the means of absolute detection.

For in vain were it otherwise to desire and to abhor, if we had not likewise power to prosecute or eschew, by moving the body from place to place: by this faculty therefore we locally move the body, or any part of it, and go from one place to another.

The same Author, Cardan, in his Hyperchen, out of the doctrine of Stoics, will have some of these genii (for so he calls them) to be desirous of men's company, very affable and familiar with them, as dogs are; others, again, to abhor as serpents, and care not for them.

tempestuous storms and troublesome waves, and those infinite, "Tantum malorum pelagus aspicio, Ut non sit inde enatandi copia," no halcyonian times, wherein a man can hold himself secure, or agree with his present estate; but as Boethius infers, [1760]"there is something in every one of us which before trial we seek, and having tried abhor: we earnestly wish, and eagerly covet, and are eftsoons weary of it."

The Lord hath created medicines of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them, Ecclus. xxxviii.

"Maidens shun their embraces; Love, Venus, Hymen, all abhor them.

An intense conviction of the supreme importance of a moral guidance in this difficult world, made him abhor any rash inquiries by which the basis of existing authority might be endangered.

And must we prove, that Jesus Christ is not in favor of what universal christendom is impelled to abhor, denounce, and oppose;is not in favor of what every attribute of Almighty God is armed against?

It is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they shall reject with indignation the wild and guilty phantasy, that man can hold property in man.

And must we prove, that Jesus Christ is not in favor of what universal Christendom is impelled to abhor, denounce, and oppose; is not in favor of what every attribute of Almighty God is armed against?

Henceforth unbiass'd measures let them draw From no false gloss, but genuine text of law; Nor urge those crimes upon religion's score, Themselves so much in Jebusites abhor.

All good subjects abhor the thought of arbitrary power, whether it be in one or many: if you were the patriots you would seem, you would not at this rate incense the multitude to assume it; for no sober man can fear it, either from the king's disposition or his practice; or even, where you would odiously lay it, from his ministers.

And yet they grow upon you every day, While you, to speak the best, are at a stay, 270 For sects, that are extremes, abhor a middle way.

To abhor the makers, and their laws approve, Is to hate traitors, and the treason love.

Some kings the name of conquerors have assumed, 340 Some to be great, some to be gods presumed; But boundless power and arbitrary lust Made tyrants still abhor the name of just; They shunn'd the praise this godlike virtue gives, And fear'd a title that reproach'd their lives.

William Smith, at page 28, says, "The Gambians abhor slavery, and will attempt any thing, tho' never so desperate, to avoid it," and Thomas Philips, in his account of a voyage he performed to the coast of Guinea, writes, "They, the Negroes, are so loth to leave their own country, that they have often leaped out of the canoe, boat, or ship, into the sea, and kept under water till they were drowned, to avoid being taken up."

Goldsmith's idea certainly was that Burke was never able to say, in the words of the Roman adage, in tempore veni quod rerum omnium est primum; but rather in plain English, "confound my ill luck, I never yet was invited to a feast but I either missed it in toto, or came so late as to be obliged to eat my mutton cold, a thing, which of all others, I most abhor."

Abhor a falsehood.

You will come round right after a while, and then you will find that to be saved, a man must abhor every so-called good thing that he ever did.