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It is the foundation of all rights and obligations, and of all accountableness; and the notion of it is fixed and precise.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

His own accountableness, as soon as he can comprehend it, he begins to feel habitually, and always.

From The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason by Kleiser, Grenville

Yes, they can—for they are men; generally reputable men; in cases not a few, pious men; and all have consciences, and may be made to feel their accountableness to God.

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

We are taught also that men, independently of their accountableness to their own governments, are accountable for their actions in a future state, and that punishments are unquestionably to follow.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Clarkson, Thomas

With me, indeed, this question is one of sacred accountableness; whereas with my opponents, I have good reason to say that it is an occasion for gratifying a spirit of worldly opposition.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George




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