obligement

Neither is it in God’s esteem the diminution of his glory, when honorable things are spoken of good men and worthy magistrates; which if I now first should begin to do, after so fair a progress of your laudable deeds, and such a long obligement upon the whole realm to your indefatigable virtues, I might be justly reckoned among the tardiest, and the unwillingest of them that praise ye.

Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19 1909

This was an obligement never to be forgotten; and the more to be consider’d, because antecedent to her love.

Dedication Vergil 1909

Neither is it in God’s esteem the diminution of His glory, when honorable things are spoken of good men and worthy magistrates; which if I now first should begin to do, after so fair a progress of your laudable deeds, and such a long obligement upon the whole realm to your indefatigable virtues, I might be justly reckoned among the tardiest, and the unwillingest of them that praise ye.

Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing 1906

"Oh, well, as long as it's been an obligement to you, I don't so much care," said the virtuous Cripps.

The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is either of divine or human obligement that you lay upon me; but will forthwith set down in writing, as you request me, that voluntary Idea which hath long in silence presented itself to me of a better Education, in extent and comprehension far more large, and yet of time far shorter and of attainment far more certain, than hath been yet in practice.

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is either of divine or human obligement that you lay upon me; but will forthwith set down in writing, as you request me, that voluntary Idea which hath long in silence presented itself to me of a better Education, in extent and comprehension far more large, and yet of time far shorter and of attainment far more certain, than hath been yet in practice.

The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

It casts an obligement upon the very place where we are born to regard us; and if there be no father known, it ought not only to be our country, but our parent.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

The strength of this obligement appears in these two considerations.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

That God put this obligement upon himself; therefore it must needs be a great and a strong one: and this is clear, because the relation of

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

A moral dependence upon any one, that is, the voluntary placing of all a man's hopes and confidence upon the goodness of such an one, puts a strong obligement upon the party confided in, to employ the utmost of his power and interest to preserve and defend that man.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823