hold in respect
Example Sentences
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It is being overwise, to treat with contempt what mankind hold in respect: and philosophy teaches us not to extinguish our feelings, but to correct and refine them.
From A Voyage to the Moon by George Tucker
No, Madame; human nature such as his does not stir to these when they come from the lips of one he does not hold in respect.
From The Grey Cloak by Thomas Mitchell Peirce
Do they really hold, in respect to every act of will, that, in the circumstances of its occurrence, that one act only is possible, and that cannot but arise?
From Doctrine of the Will by Asa Mahan
Georgie guessed that Hermy was making a humourous allusion to Foljambe, who was the one person in Riseholme whom his two sisters seemed to hold in respect.
From Queen Lucia by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
This was in order to grant them forgiveness together with the warning that in the future they should hold in respect the troops and the Fathers.
From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Sherburne Friend Cook
