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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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...ly last. It was the hardest, by far, and she did not want to use it as the precedent for the other three. She felt it would somehow unfairly minimi...

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...considered a freshman Senator, but for him to hook up with Kensey on this Bill is without precedent.” “How does this fit in with Stone?” “It doesn...

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...wsletter distributed by subscription only to dozens of subscribers countrywide. In a legal precedent in 1995 – studied in business schools and law ...

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...is may be an extreme case, and one not justly entitled to be considered as a precedent of general ap plication. If a friend happen to dine in a frien... ...The visitor, rendered not altogether comfortable per haps by this and other precedents, inquires very affection ately after Mr. Merrywinkle, but by...

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...ch time-beguiling sport." With this she seizeth on his sweating palm, The precedent of pith and livelihood, And, trembling in her passion, calls it b...

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...mselves; they are not (I speak of social matters) tied up by authority and precedent. We shall have all the Titians by and by, and we shall move over ...

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...oming the advocate of a murderer. He demonstrated, that, according to this precedent, every law might be violated, and the public security utterly des...

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...gave his narrative in instalments, expecting to be questioned according to precedent. “A ye, and a partic’lar thing happened, didn’t it, Mr. Macey, so...

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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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...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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...tain immortality in this manner, and this is what makes him a hero without precedent in the Greek world. He is a hero unequalled by any other hero i...

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...er emperor stopped it and sent the missionaries packing. So there has been precedent for both the allowance and the disallowance of outside religion...

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... Donnie. “Are you going to let her tell you what to do? It would set a bad precedent. She’ll think she can boss you around any time she wants. I...

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....” The king spread his arms as he addressed the crowd. “Since this is a new precedent, let the conditions be set. If any girl wishes to prove her...

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...iveller addressed himself to his fate or destiny, whom, as we learn by the precedents, it is the custom of heroes to taunt in a very bitter and ironic... ...ey had agreed upon, respecting Becky Morgan, whose decease was no longer a precedent of uncomfortable application, and would be no business of theirs ... ...p when he was required might be to establish an inconvenient and dangerous precedent, he immediately started off again, rattled at a fast trot to the ...

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... ‘An honourable sentiment, my dear sir. Your own entirely. But a dangerous precedent,’ said Mr Pecksniff, ‘permit me to suggest.’ ‘It shall not be a p... ...ity, or tender- ness, or the like idle folly, in obstinate defiance of all precedent and usage; and will even venture to maintain the same against the... ...ll even venture to maintain the same against the persons who have made the precedents and established the usage, and who must therefore be the best an... ... dishes and so forth; and as they were usually in direct opposition to all precedent, and were always issued in his most facetious form of thought and...

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...lready near the wooden Midship- man, and as Walter went on to cite various precedents, from shipwrecks and other moving accidents, where younger boys ... ...subjects in an utterly for- lorn and pitiable light, and bringing dreadful precedents to bear upon them, and deriving the greatest consolation from th... ... conscious- ness, Mrs Chick drew off as from a criminal, and reversing the precedent of the murdered king of Denmark, regarded her more in anger than ...

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... ever, at different times, pleaded for and against the same cause, and cited precedents to prove contrary opinions? Whether they were a rich or a poor... ...s to the decision of civil causes, or proceedings against crimi nals, their precedents are so few, that they have little reason to boast of any extra... ... common justice, and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous op... ...oad; what diseases she is subject to, and the like; after which they consult precedents, adjourn the cause from time to time, and in ten, twenty, or t...

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...out 49 Thomas de Quincey them, were indebted for their nose-rings to this precedent of their camels. Sometimes a ring depended from both nostrils; an... ... reward before any audience whatever is henceforth privileged by authentic precedent; and, unless adulterating with political partisanship, is consecr... ...by any other modes of encouragement, or by inciting oth- ers to follow the precedent which he has set, he continues to express an unabated interest in... ... annum, and chiefly from land; an income at that period absolutely without precedent or parallel in Eu- rope. In this there might be some exaggeration...