hold up to view

He will hold up to view the nature and extent of the requirements He made of us, their reasonableness and beneficialness we shall all acknowledge. 

His sister's eyes, as well as her posture, were girlish when she laid it aside to hold up to view a battered black velvet suit with wide collars and cuffs.

Major Wainright ordered his marines to load their pieces, and, that they might not be suspected of trifling, each man was made to hold up to view the bullet which he afterward put in his gun.

It would be a very simple matter to hold up to view the senseless unreasonableness of this stupid set of people, if, in so doing, one had but a rational public on one's side; this would at the same time be a declaration of war against that superficiality which it has now become necessary to combat in every department of learning.

If camps and councils—soldiers' 'fields of fame'—   Or yet a people's praise or people's blame,   Is all that gives the sage or bard his name,   We can 'forego the strife, nor own our shame'   What great temptations you hold up to view   For men of sense or reason to pursue!