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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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...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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...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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...r strength consists in eating beef,— _145 Now there were danger in the precedent If Queen Iona— PUR PUR PUR PUR PURGANAX: GANAX: GANAX: GANAX: GAN... ...sembled Swine, Of delicacy mercy, judgement, law, 469 Shelley Morals, and precedents, and purity, Adultery, destitution, and divorce, ...

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...ich we can draw from the face of nature. And for this method we plead many precedents. First, this is an art well known to, and much practised by, our... ... of honour and virtue were given up in any one instance, that there was no precedent for resorting to them upon a second occasion. In short, poor Cons...

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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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...hour. SEBASTIAN: Thy case, dear friend, Shall be my precedent; as thou got’st Milan, I’ll come by Naples. Draw thy sword: one s...

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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...

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... Does she love him? Old Athenian : She is young and apt: Our own precedent passions do instruct us What levity’s in youth. TIMON: [To LU...

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...ld endure it?’ and, having cross examined solitude after the most approved precedents, at considerable length, Mr. Pickwick thrust his head out of the... ...izkin, Esquire, to mortal combat. At this violation of all known rules and precedents of order, the mayor commanded another fantasia on the bell, and ... ...a gentleman in a barrow, as a gross violation of all established rules and precedents. It was a great objection, but not an insurmountable one. The ga... ... a good stiff glass without stopping for breath. But notwithstanding these precedents to the contrary, Gabriel Grub was an ill conditioned, cross grai...

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...! Which I’ll not call a creature of thy place, Lest barbarism, making me the precedent, Should a like language use to all degrees And mannerly disting...

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...well meaning soul, Whom fair befal in heaven ‘mongst happy souls! May be a precedent and witness good That thou respect’st not spilling Edward’s blood...

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...un, let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance: Return the precedent to these lords again; That, having our fair order written down,...

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...rows. TITUS ANDRONICUS : A reason mighty, strong, and effectual; A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant, For me, most wretched, to perform the like...

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...the favourable quar ter, where, it was clearly shown by all the rules and precedents, it ought to have sprung up long ago. The first mate, who whistl... ...its origin in the United States, which we cannot more than parallel by the precedents of Mrs. Southcote, Mary Tofts the rabbit breeder, or even Mr. Th...

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...ead years that followed the Napole- onic wars, which are often quoted as a precedent for expec- tation now, the spirit of collective service was near ... ...age of the Bombay Lancers riding down Unter den Linden. But the Versailles precedent of a council of victors dictating terms to the vanquished is not ... ...e of the world, really the beginning, and the proper beginning, of the un- precedented Peace Negotiations to end this unprecedented war? And, I submit...

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...t form of sentimental decentralization was still in its early stages, and, precedents being few, and the desire to set an example contagious, the matt...