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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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...bly are being discussed. Every new religious development is haunted by the precedents of the religion it replaces, and it was only to be expected that... ...al or observances that will seem to insist upon differences. The Christian precedent of a church is particularly misleading. The church with its sacra...

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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...

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...The population of Utopia will be a migratory population beyond any earthly precedent, not simply a travelling popu- lation, but migratory. The old Uto... ...ts of the very rich during the Roman Empire, there was never the slightest precedent for this mod- ern detachment from place. It is nothing to us that... ..., to the extent that his or her individuality is marked, breaks the law of precedent, trans- 58 A Modern Utopia gresses the general formula, and make... ...ned and experimental, and is positively ham- 166 A Modern Utopia pered by precedents and good order. With this substitution of the efficient for the ...

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... End, Let it be seldom, and compell’d by Need , And have, at least, Their Precedent to plead. The Critick else proceeds without Remorse, Seizes yo... ... But catch the spreading Notion of the Town; They reason and conclude by Precedent, And own stale Nonsense which they ne’er invent. Some judge o...

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...ria de Profundis. On these, as modes of impassioned prose ranging under no precedents that I am aware of in any literature, it is much more difficult ... ...coming generation, which will prove much worse than ourselves. On the same precedent, all the sermons through the last three centuries, if traced back... ...f the faculties under the petrific mace of abso- lute ceremonial and fixed precedent. For it will hardly be objected, that the privileged condition of... ...ars in extent, and had there been added to the picture (ac- cording to his precedent) the many and remote embassies to and from independent states, in...

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...in the diplomatic. We English, haters and revilers of ourselves beyond all precedent, disparagers of our own eminent advantages beyond all sufferance ... ...rgument which we have ourselves derived from the analogy of all scriptural precedents. But the case is far otherwise as concerns the second prob- lem,... ...y, that of sceptical slights shown to the Oracle, there are some memorable precedents on record. Everybody knows the ridiculous stratagem of Crœsus, t... ...ad the audacity to found a colony without seeking an oracular sanction, no precedent was established; though the journey to Delphi must often have bee... ...bute to the Sultan. So favored, their commerce had flourished be- yond all precedent. And latterly, when the vast extension of European warfare had cr...

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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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... swamped. People couldn’t ask one to wedding breakfasts. There would be no Precedents to hammer at, except the plain- sailing Precedent of keeping the...

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...amour?” “Let me explain,” said the elder sister. “The ancient cus- tom and precedent of our family have always transmitted the estates to the male hei... ...n the existence of a deed of entail; but none could ever be found, and the precedents were not held to establish the right.” “Did he leave my father n...

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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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...ckens sand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee deep in technicalities, running their goat hair a... ...w flies. Both the world of fashion and the Court of Chancery are things of precedent and usage: over sleeping Rip Van Winkles who have played at stra... ...mine below it on a busy day in term time, with all its records, rules, and precedents collected in it and every func tionary belonging to it also, hi... ...ir, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach. That’s the whole collection,” said ... .... 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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.... One sand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee deep in technicalities, running their goat hair a... ...w flies. Both the world of fashion and the Court of Chancery are things of precedent and usage: over sleeping Rip Van Winkles who have played at stra... ...mine below it on a busy day in term time, with all its records, rules, and precedents collected in it and every func tionary belonging to it also, hi... ...ir, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach. That’s the whole collection,” said ...

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... and wait impatiently for Barnaby’s return. But Barnaby delayed beyond all precedent. The visitor’s dinner was served, removed, his wine was set, the ... ...ion on the part of some of those present, that it would be an inconvenient precedent to meddle too curiously with a gentleman’s private affairs if he ... ... Dolly was all smiles and graces, and Mrs V arden was agreeable beyond all precedent. As they jogged through the streets talking of this thing and of ... ... doctrine was strongly opposed by the other three, who quoted a great many precedents to show that bad weather was the very time for such appearances;... ...n Chester (whose accommodating conscience was soon quieted by the numerous precedents that occurred to him in support of his last observation), the sa...

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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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...the first king of any country was by election, that likewise es tablishes a precedent for the next; for to say, that the RIGHT of all future generati... ...ver to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty. But even this is admitting more than is tr... ...ritain, we must, in the eye of foreign nations. be considered as rebels. The precedent is somewhat dan “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 60 gerous to TH... ...g, perfect Independance contending for dependance. The instance is without a precedent; the case never existed before; and who can tell what may be th...

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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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..., and our judgment upon what is fun- damental and essential as a condition precedent to perma- nency should be spoken now, not afterward, when it may ... ...ich we shall know how to maintain and for which there is abundant American precedent. NOT CONTEMPLATING WAR, BUT WANTS TO BE READY It is devoutly to b...

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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...