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• The stake which every one has in the good order of the community, is great--it behoves, then, every one to exert himself to re-establish and preserve it In 1819 in New York there were loud complaints of the violation of the Sabbath, as we see by an account taken from the "Salem Gazette NEW-YORK, JULY 14 VIOLATION OF THE SABBATH. —  The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts
• For it behoves, ere that into the race We enter, to resolve first hereupon Now surely, brother," said the Foxe anon, "Te have this matter motioned in season 125 For everie thing that is begun with reason Will come by readie meanes unto his end; But things miscounselled must needs miswend Miswend_, go wrong.] —  The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5
• It behoves, especially, all those who have the care of infants, to see that everything about their beds is thoroughly dry. —  The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health
• It behoves, me to give your daughter in marriage, and I have destined her for the Duc de Nevers, who is wealthy, and my friend The Duc de Nevers!" —  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
• If, but from Nature's hand, She is all you could expect of gentle blood, Face, form, mien, speech; with these, what to belong To lady more behoves--thoughts delicate, Affections generous, and modesty-- Perfectionating, brightening crown of all If she hath these--true titles to thy heart-- What does she lack that's title to thy hand? —  The Love-chase

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