set bounds to
Example Sentences
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Any institution or organization, any cult or system which tries to bind the restless spirit of man, to set bounds to his curious searchings, to deny the report of his reason, cannot last.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had tried to codify the evil uses of might by individuals, so that he might set bounds to them by the impersonal justice of the state.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man?
From Nature by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
But I will dwell no longer on this forbidden subject; let me set bounds to my pen, as an earnest that I most truly mean to do so to my thoughts.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana
"Whether it may not be convenient to moderate and set bounds to the authority which the general of the Jesuits exercises in France."
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)
