Jupiter, telling him that it would be the last time that he could grant his request,
ordained that he be sold to a tanner.
little did I then think I was
ordained so soon to quit that humble Cottage for the Deceitfull Pleasures of the World.
But for the miscreant exile who returned Minded in flames and ashes to blot out His father's city and his father's gods, And glut his vengeance with his kinsmen's blood, Or drag them captive at his chariot wheels-- For Polyneices 'tis
ordained that none Shall give him burial or make mourn for him, But leave his corpse unburied, to be meat For dogs and carrion crows, a ghastly sight.
She was self-ordained a Sister of Mercy, or, we may rather say, the world's heavy hand had so
ordained her, when neither the world nor she looked forward to this result.
The masters, graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, were
ordained and unmarried; if by chance they wished to marry they could only do so by accepting one of the smaller livings at the disposal of the Chapter; but for many years none of them had cared to leave the refined society of Tercanbury, which owing to the cavalry depot had a martial as well as an ecclesiastical tone, for the monotony of life in a country rectory; and they were now all men of middle age.
But the bishop would not ordain him--why is not known, but it was said that he was offended with Goldsmith for coming to be
ordained dressed in scarlet breeches.
Such dispositions, are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber, to make great politics of; like to knee timber, that is good for ships, that are
ordained to be tossed; but not for building houses, that shall stand firm.
"Forasmuch as it is
ordained of God that all flesh hath spirit and thereby taketh on spiritual powers, so, also, the spirit hath powers of the flesh, even when it is gone out of the flesh and liveth as a thing apart, as many a violence performed by wraith and lemure sheweth.
But now you have honoured me not even a little, though you
ordained me to have a long span of life, and to live through seven generations of mortal kind.'
And so by reason of the smallest part or class, and of the knowledge which resides in this presiding and ruling part of itself, the whole State, being thus constituted according to nature, will be wise; and this, which has the only knowledge worthy to be called wisdom, has been
ordained by nature to be of all classes the least.
After this they inflicted various kinds of tortures on him, which he endured with incredible resolution, and without uttering the least complaint, praising the mercy of God who had
ordained him to suffer in such a cause.
To them, and not to us, perhaps, is the future
ordained.