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However, the divines of the age have debarred men from this transcendent station, and have kept them back from this Pinnacle of Glory, this Supreme Goal.

From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

It was unfortunate that, upon this occasion, the lack of means or slenderness of margin for incidental expenses should have debarred him from having recourse to a similar expedient.

From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

Idle fancies have debarred men from the Horizon of Certitude, and vain imaginings withheld them from the Choice Sealed Wine.

From Epistle to the Son of the Wolf by Bahá'u'lláh

The situation is interesting in view of the amiable resolutions adopted at Washington, by which the Powers would seem to have debarred themselves, in the future, from any active form of intervention in this country.

From The Problem of China by Russell, Bertrand

Those who have sentenced him to servitude from his mother's womb, not being able to debar him from reverie, have debarred him from reflection.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage