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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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...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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...ondescript office of vice-king. The compromise was not, I am told, without precedent; but it lacked all appear- ance of success. To the constitution o... ...exceeding bold, employed the word “election,” and implicitly justified all precedented steps towards the kingship according with the “customs of Samoa...

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...t was mere presumption, vanity, and obsti- nacy in her to appeal to such a precedent. There was something in this that struck Esclairmonde, for she wa...

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...igured in bridal raiment. It seemed to make her sister downcast beyond any precedent. The bridesmaids and pages got rather jumbled in the aisle, and s...

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...as preliminaries to the robbery, they could plead no such imaginary social precedent. In deal- ing with a family that seemed almost helpless, if all w... ...oo liberal to have grudged the expense, if he could have found any classic precedent for treating the chorus to a barrel of ale. Ale, he may object, i...

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...cendent bond of his English blood. The spectators, who are numerous beyond precedent, express their sympathy with these fervent feelings by continual ...

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...rbable good-humor, was equally furious. The friction began as follows. The precedents for the conduct of the Committee were to be found in the proceed... ...was 16 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet a resolution to adhere strictly to precedent, the Com- mittee being then unaware that the precedents were on m... ...ed before the Committee, and proposed to read my statement “ac- cording to precedent,” the Committee was visibly taken aback. The Chairman was bound b... ... at to allow me to read my state- ment, since that course was according to precedent; but as this was exactly what the decision was meant to prevent, ...

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...ge that seldom lapseth to excess. To consider them apart, we have not many precedents of her liberality, nor any large donatives to particular men, my... ... did much disturb and mislead her judgment; and the more for that it was a precedent taken out of her own pattern. For as the Queen, by way of divisio... ...he best of the Irish army, counting the defeat of Blackwater, with all the precedent expenses, as it stood from my Lord of Essex’s undertaking of the ...

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.... “Y es!” replied the slave in an intrepid tone. Then, without heeding the precedent or the pecuniary loss, Hamilcar said to the serving-men: “Away wi... ...eir former allies. This abandonment of the Punic cause was a counsel and a precedent. Hopes of deliverance revived. Populations hith- erto uncertain h... ...on, and all were now at his mercy. He must accordingly be fully gratified. Precedents showed that in this way the scourge would be made to disappear. ...

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...ce its course of action. By its cumulative action in shaping the usage and precedents of any such body, this shrinking from an imputation of unseemly ... ...e learned class in all primitive communities are great sticklers for form, precedent, gradations of rank, ritual, ceremonial vestments, and learned pa...

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...matic presents, which were required to be precisely the same as in the old precedents, consisted commonly of the staple wares of the city offering the... ... deserved such a distinction, which, indeed, was not conformable to law or precedent. Consequently, when his suit was rejected, he fell into ill humor...

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... NICOLO GINI, Chancellor of Florence. Attending the precedent relation, it is allowed that this present work of Davanzati may... ...to bind books to their good behaviour. And how it got the upper hand of your precedent Order so well constituted before, if we may believe those men w...

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... but not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” “There are precedents, I may mention Schwarzenberg.” “It’s impossible,” replied anothe...

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... and originality: they also are bewildered and terrified in the absence of precedents and precepts and commandments; but modern Democracy al- lows the...

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...h 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 te... ... If a minority in such case will secede rather than acqui esce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them, for a minority of thei... ...particular 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 ... ...rom this rule in their dealings with us, we may be compelled to follow their precedent. The proper treatment of the original occupants of this land—th... ... can be protected by equitable injunction is utterly with out foundation in precedent or reason. The proposition is usually linked with one to make t...

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... throne Wherefrom Etocles, my younger brother, Ousted me, not by weight of precedent, Nor by the last arbitrament of war, But by his popular acts; and...

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... have not given countenance to it in any of my plays. In this I follow the precedent of the ancient myths, which represent the hero as vanquishing his...

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...ever been Walden 9 measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hithe...

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... ever since. Mistakes were made from ignorance and lack of authorita- tive precedent, before ecclesiology had become a study; but whatever could be do...

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.... And, if so largely God hath doled his grace, That, clean beside all modern precedent, He wills me to behold his kingly state, From me conceal not wh...

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... had engraven upon their minds. 23. The argument of assenting on first hearing, is upon a false supposition of no precedent teaching. There is, I fea... ...V Ideas of Duration and Expansion, considered together 1. Both capable of greater and less. Though we have in the precedent chapters dwelt pretty lon... ...rry not all the happiness and misery that depend on them along with them in their present performance, but are the precedent causes of good and evil, ...

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...qualified.” “I’ll do what I can. But, Margaret, this mustn’t be taken as a precedent.” “No, of course—of course—” “I can’t fit in your proteges every ...

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...ret of always doing the right thing at the right moment, even when defying precedent. Sometimes she blamed the dulness of the people she met for her s...

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...ctation Of future glory, which is the effect Of grace divine and merit precedent. From many stars this light comes unto me; But he instilled it ...

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...een acquired from three books easily accessible to him—namely, T ottell’s Precedents (1572), Pulton’s Statutes (1578), and Fraunce’s Lawier’s Logike...

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...of timber—but this time going outward—as our capital emerges from this un- precedented inundation of loyalty. The most elaborately con- ceived, the mo... ... money or stuff. It is manifest that the next naval war will be beyond all precedent a war of mechanisms, giv- ing such scope for invention and scient... ...s and display themselves wise, capable and heroic— beyond any aristocratic precedent. The alternative, if it is an alternative, is resignation—to the ... ...nd perhaps con- vey my conviction that our present Labour troubles are un- precedented, and that they mean the end of an epoch. The supply of good-tem... ... of practical scientific work; and it was natural he should turn to it for precedents in sociological research. His mind was invaded by the idea of cl... ...assion, their very silences shape a Utopia. Why should they not follow the precedent of Aristotle, and accept Utopias as material? There used to be in... ...moments of reflection will suffice to demonstrate that. This is beyond any precedent an age of change, change in the appliances of life, in the averag... ... and aimless expenditure, of a class irresponsible and wasteful beyond all precedent. One gets a Zolaesque picture of that aspect in Mr. Upton Sinclai... ...xpenditure; in the end they mean possibilities of de- struction beyond all precedent. Such things as the _Zeppe- lin_ and the _Ville de Paris_ are onl...

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... coal. But of Mr. Brooke I make a further remark perhaps less warranted by precedent—namely, that if he had foreknown his speech, it might not have ma... ...e pound. He had now achieved this, and from all who did not think it a bad precedent, his honorable exertions had won him due esteem; but in no part o... ...bon would have trained me for, where the doing would be all laid down by a precedent too rigid for me to react upon. I don’t care for prestige or high... ...n, thrusting a hand into his side-pocket, with an easy air, “if I wanted a precedent, you know—but we never want a precedent for the right thing— but ... ...ling Thy garden rescued here and there from the wilderness.” Metaphors and precedents were not wanting; peculiar spiri- tual experiences were not want...

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...Napoleon, who acts on his own responsibility in defi- ance of professional precedents or orders from Paris. Even when the Austrians win a battle, all ...

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... with different thoughts, would draw the actions of those good rulers into precedent and make them the standard of their prerogative—as if what had be... ...hief and op pression has light only on some few, but in such cases as the precedent and consequences seem to threaten all, and they are persuaded in ...

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...er tears that there was nothing to pre- vent her marrying, that there were precedents (there were up to that time very few, but she mentioned Napoleon...

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...an that the sa- cred majesty of kings should be outraged by so dangerous a precedent. But of what avail was the voice of prudence against the seductiv... ...s mandate of conversion. The example of the court had, however, afforded a precedent to the Roman Catholics of the empire, and seemed to justify every... ...e a plan was early formed for dividing the conquered provinces, (after the precedent of the barbarian hordes who overran the German empire,) as a comm...

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...fashion of a small and intensely snobbish class is negligible as a general precedent. In any case, men and women in the East do not marry anyone they ...

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... received in any sort of pros- ecution. It is introducing a very dangerous precedent, and is quite foreign to the spirit of our age. Civilization is l...

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...but not a distinction,” said the diplomatist— “a gift, rather.” “There are precedents, I may mention Schwarzenberg.” “It’s impossible,” replied anothe... ... her tears that there was nothing to prevent her marrying, that there were precedents (there were up to that time very few, but she mentioned Napo- le...

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...us, we took vengeance on them, and we drowned them all. And we made them a precedent and instance of divine judg- ments to those who came after them. ...