hold in respect

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It is being overwise, to treat with contempt what mankind hold in respect: and philosophy teaches us not to extinguish our feelings, but to correct and refine them.

From A Voyage to the Moon by Tucker, George

Paris, the impregnable, vanquished by famine, is no longer able to hold in respect the German hordes.

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John

I know not; I only feel that here we are subdued by genius, which men still hold in respect.

From Great Violinists And Pianists by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

Do they really hold, in respect to every act of will, that, in the circumstances of its occurrence, that one act only is possible, and that cannot but arise?

From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa

This was in order to grant them forgiveness together with the warning that in the future they should hold in respect the troops and the Fathers.

From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Cook, Sherburne Friend