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.... Chancery, which knows no wisdom but in pre cedent, is very rich in such precedents; and why should one be different from ten thousand? Yet the time... ... Is Richard a monster in all this, or would Chancery be found rich in such precedents too if they could be got for citation from the Recording Angel? ... ..., Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheep skin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach!” The poor soul kissed me with the m...

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...state legislature and prove, absolutely, with figures all in rows and with precedents from Poland and New Zealand, that the street-car company loved t... ...e followed the custom of his clan and cheated only as it was sanctified by precedent; and he never descended to trickery—though, as he explained to Pa... ... is C 10 H 16 , which turns into isoprene, or 2C 5 H 8 . Suddenly, without precedent, Babbitt was not merely bored but admitting that he was bored. It...

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...eve you are delighted,’ growled Aubrey. ‘So should you be, at the valuable precedent you will afford.’ ‘I’ve no notion of being experimented on to pro... ...e, when I hear her drawing down herself as an ex- ample to Flora.’ ‘Only a precedent,’ said Blanche, blushing a little, but still grave. ‘We have had ... ... e have danced with Harry, you must have this waltz with me.’ ‘A dangerous precedent, Ethel,’ said the Doctor, laughing. ‘I couldn’t waltz to save my ... ...g, he expressed gratitude for the opening held out to him, but begged that precedents applicable to very different circumstances might not be regarded...

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...s of her expenses that she allowed all the worst, and, as it proved, fatal precedents to be established. T o avoid a law- suit, she allowed the neighb... ...undred subscribers, in the sum of three francs, guar- anteed the dangerous precedent of immortality to the poem,—a liberality that was all the greater...

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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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... of it. None the less however, his threat did touch them; for if they had escaped it was only to meet a new danger. Mr. Moreen appealed to him, on eve... ...ich made him 28 The Pupil acute about betrayed meanness; as well as a critical sense for the manners immediately surrounding him that was quite witho...

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...im his entire power to serve you. And you ought to remem- ber how long, by precedent, Judge Douglas holds himself obliged to stick by compromises. Y o... ...l of the African slave trade, that suffi- cient time will have arrived, by precedent, for Judge Douglas to break through, that compromise. He says now... ...n the varying and repeatedly shifting scenes of the present, and without a precedent which could enable me to judge by the past, it has seemed fitting... ...ee with me that, when it is considered that these difficulties are without precedent, and have never been acted upon by any individual situated as I a... ...many perils, and generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term... ... If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them; for a minority of their ... ...rticular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a di... ...not often proper, but that no popular government can long survive a marked precedent that those who carry an election can only save the government fro... ...urrection based on a con- flict of political ideas, being an event without precedent in the United States, was necessarily attended by great confusion...

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...murderer and a villain; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, T... ...econcilement, Till by some elder masters, of known honor, I have a voice and precedent of peace, To keep my name ungored. But till that time, I do rec...

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...many persons; that three old women laboured under strong suspicion, and that precedents had been consulted and solemn council had, and it was found th...

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..., and Mr. C. J. Smith has ruralised at Sadler’s Wells, we find no theatrical precedent for a general tumbling through the country, except in the gentl...

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...coming to them over enormous distances upon a scale that made the one sole precedent, the corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge ... ...slipped a silver piece into his hand…. It was a gift that, in spite of the precedent of De Quincey, might under the repressive social legislation of t...

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...n of things theatrical, her knowledge of technical “dodges” and green-room precedents, her glibness about “lines” and “cur- tains”, was the primitive ...

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...no more than the people who called upon me to explain myself. There was no precedent. I verily believe mine was the only case of a boy of my nationali...

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...iquette; as a thing necessary just now, but by no means to be wrested into a precedent; no, a week or two would limber up her piety, then she would be...

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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...

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...a, at which you may perhaps laugh, but which, nevertheless, is not without precedent in crimi- nal annals. I told you just now that this thought invad... ...to search for the solution of a difficulty which may be said to be without precedent in parliamentary annals, your committee, in the adoption of suita...

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...nd let them be reduced according to the table in the others: this to be no precedent for subsequent ac- tion. But, as I think this report may, on ful... ...and withal so new and un- 338 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven precedented is the whole case, that no exclusive and inflexible plan can sa...

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...h his hat or helm before the King’s Majesty, without let or hindrance, and this none other may do.* Invoking this precedent in aid of my *The lords of...

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...hter’s outlook old Grammont had found much that was very suggestive in the precedent of Queen Victoria. She had had no husband of the lord and master ...

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...ed alarmed, scratched himself, and pro- tested, “I think it would be a bad precedent for the board- members to contribute money—uh—not that I mind, bu... ... to contribute money—uh—not that I mind, but it wouldn’t be fair—establish precedent. Gracious! They don’t pay us a cent for our services! Certainly c... ...t-corner loafing… . I think I can.” On her way home: “Now that I’ve made a precedent, joined the union and gone out on one strike and learned personal...