debarring

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If you abide by it, you deny the Absolute and Infinite in the very act of affirming it, for, in debarring the First Cause from self-revelation, you impose a limit on its nature.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George

This comprehensive Act, calculated to overawe the Army Magnates by debarring them from all power of money-raising, had been hurried through because of signs that nothing less would avail, if even that would now suffice.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by Masson, David

By much musing on this matter, I have convinced myself that man is not capable of debarring himself utterly from death, since it is evidently a remedy for many evils that nothing else would cure.

From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Depend upon my sincerity for this," Defoe answers, "that I am far from debarring you.

From Daniel Defoe by Minto, William

Albeit a judicial trial or censure be indeed necessary, for inflicting punishment or censure upon men, yet it is not necessary for avoiding association with them, or debarring them from trust.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh