Assertion: new promise | /r/CapableOf | impose new obligation of morality
Facets:
value: on the person
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: I shall further observe, that, since every new promise imposes a new obligation of morality on the person who promises, and since this new obligation arises from his will; it is one of the most mysterious and incomprehensible operations that can possibly be imagined, and may even be compared to transubstantiation or holy orders, where a certain form of words, along with a certain intention, changes entirely the nature of an external object, and even of a human creature.