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... such a thing had never hap- pened before, and that it was contrary to all precedent. I wrote, too, to M. d’Orleans, who was then in Spain, inform- in... ...ng them to the rank of Princes of the Blood in defiance of all law, of all precedent, of all decency, if I must say the word. What I felt at this accu... ...ren, should he marry and have any, or their restitution be considered as a precedent to be made use of at any future time. “I have the pleasure to ann... ...e- crated at Rheims. The disorder at the ceremony was inex- pressible. All precedent was forgotten. Rank was hustled and jostled, so to speak, by the ...

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... In this unfashionable re- gion Catherine the Great, always indifferent to precedent and thrifty of purse, had built herself in her youth a many-peake...

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...s easily draw, from this primitive and ever-flowing fountain, examples and precedents to trouble and discompose our gov- ernment: we read in our very ...

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... leader originally leaped there when a stick was held. There’s your law of precedents; there’s your utility of traditions; there’s the story of your o...

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...ere when a stick was held. 302 Chapter 69 The Funeral There’s your law of precedents; there’s your utility of traditions; there’s the story of your o...

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...and made a set speech, in which he told them, that he thought it with- out precedent and not just to take away the lives of persons of their birth and... ...rds consum- mated by Cleomenes, were supported by the great and glori- ous precedent of those ancient laws concerning frugality and leveling which the... ...raud them merely himself in their present expectations, but to give an ill precedent, and instruct his successors to do the like. This heart-burning, ...

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...ymous one — so greatly are people’s ideas of probability a mere sense that precedent will repeat itself. ‘I don’t think it is for you, sir,’ said the ...

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...llent thing, but to permit it would have been to establish a most pernicious precedent. It will easily be guessed, considering the pilot’s boundless a... ...boat, and stage coach, and a sort of war whoop was sent forth perfectly un precedented in my recollection upon any occasion whatever. An ardent desi...

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...uel’s patch of sunlight was in shadow, and when, according to all rule and precedent, he had no right whatever to bring his red ribbon out of doors, b...

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...s, feels, acts and lives Just as his father did; the unconquered powers Of precedent and custom interpose Between a king and virtue. Stranger yet, To ... ...apply to Chancery for an in- junction to restrain the sale; but, after the precedent of Mr. Southey’s “Wat T yler” (a poem written, I believe, at the ...

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...ld not have used the argument. “All that a gentleman may say, may not be a precedent for a young lady; but you are interrupting Mary.” “Only let me sh... ...ding her father to like the notion, and assuring him it need not be made a precedent for the renewal of invi- tations to dine out in the town. He thou... ...vour and kindness, and Margaret could find no tangible objections, nor any precedent from her mother’s conduct, even had any one had the power to inte... ...ved. She made no stay—she had only come to show her child, and establish a precedent for driving out, and Margaret had begun to believe the apparition...

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...over: the sun having, in the discharge of his public duty, as the books of precedent report, invariably risen according to the almanacs, and without s... ...special kind and it is very doubtful whether either can be considered as a precedent likely to be extensively followed by succeeding gen- erations. Ar...

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...o me in order to learn its application in practice. And therefore, guided by precedents, I must inform you that in practice cases of divorce may all b...

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...e story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, however, a true impertinence in calling on the very great to justify the very small!...

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... revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, how- ever, a true impertinence in calling on the very great t...

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...orm to hurry so grave a matter as this. Explain to her that we have to go by precedents, and that I believe this one to be new. In fact, you can say I... ...ust like it has happened in our army, therefore I must be guided by European precedents, and must go cau tiously and examine them carefully. T ell he... ...he regular army, to preside over that infant court martial — there isn’t any precedent for it, don’t you see. Very well. I will go on examining author... ...rnaby, my successor, who is Cathy’s newest slave, and in spite of poverty of precedents they got his permission. The bands knew the child’s favorite m...

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...ted laws relating to title and proof of title, with all the contra dictory precedents and numerous acts of parliament con nected with them; think o... ... interposed the client, impatiently. ‘Don’t talk to me of cases. The general precedent is in a much larger vol ume than any of your law books. Beside...

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...dministration, a laxity that made vast sections of her area lawless beyond precedent, so that it was possible for whole districts to be impassable, wh... ...islature in permanent session, and with a generous suspension of rules and precedents, passed through both Houses the long-dis- puted Bill for univers... ...mph. No doubt he had a time of tremendous exultation and sensed beyond all precedent the sense of power that night. There came an end at last to that ... ... time wit- ness to an amelioration of hygienic conditions rapid beyond all precedent, and to a vast development of intelligence and ability in all the... ...-paper to lie at the door of their war magazine for any spark to fire. The precedents of history were all one tale of the collapse of civilisations, t...

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... necessities of the civil war, so that they might not pass into history as precedents for similar acts in time of peace. It is an unquestionable fact ... ... followed the war, more things were done capable of serving as dan- gerous precedents than during the war itself. Thus it may truly be said of him not... ...ession has reached its highest perfection, and centu- ries of learning and precedent are involved in the equip- ment of a lawyer. Dr. Holmes, when ask...

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..., the noble institutions, the venerable or- der, the broad slow march from precedent to precedent that has made our English people great and this sunn... ...ould capitulate and go apart and form a community of their own. There were precedents, he said, for this. “W e would assign them territory—” “Where?” ...

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...ardie. I do not say I was in love; I am far from certain that there is any precedent for a pocket-handkerchief’s being in love at all, and I am quite ... ...ry heart ached. Poor child! Little did she think that she was establishing precedents against herself, by which further and destructive exertions migh...