) The state of being constrained, bound, or obliged; that which constrains or obliges; obligation; bond. Obstringe (v. t.) To constrain; to put under obligation. Obstructed (imp. & p. p.) of Obstruct Obstructing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obstruct Obstruct (v. t.) To block up; ...
Benjamin’s status as a thinker and philosopher increased in the years after his death. Naturally, therefore, curious students would turn up in Portbou on the lookout for his lost work, the one he had refused to abandon in the mountains. “Seen a black suitcase?” they would ask. “Got ...
Just this morning, one of the devotionals that a group of us read by Max Lucado. I responded to the question Max put forth that went something like this: will you be prepared to reply when the time comes for you to respondabout your faith that could mean your death, as it did for ...
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue does always consist in the mean. — Sir Walter Raleigh 0 When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must al...
Amen. God is the Father of the "God Family." His family starts with Jesus Christ, His Son and also the Holy Spirit. His family is commonly known as the trinity, however the term is not in the Bible. The three of them are united as One. Jesus said that if we...
This,ofcourse, is an oversimplifiedpresentation of ancient scepticism that,amongother things,does not distinguish betweenAcademics and Pyrrhonians.For amorenuanced, critical presentation,see Myles Burnyeat,“Can the Skeptic Live His Skepticism?”inTheSkeptical Tradition,ed. Myles Bur-nyeat,(Berkeley...
What does the word "noble" still mean for us nowadays? How does the noble man betray himself, how is he recognized under this heavy overcast sky of the commencing plebeianism, by which everything is rendered opaque and leaden?—It is not his actions which establish his claim—actions are ...
Everyone is wondering, and the truth is, we don't know. We are in the embryonic stages of constitutional analysis, since it's only been four and a half years since the Supreme Court held that the ...
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My own research didn't turn up results on Google that traced the origins of the phrases. I can only speculate (as stated in the comments) that the "stairway to heaven" phrase may derive from Jacob's ladder in Genesis 28 of the Bible, and that "highway to hell...