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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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...Twilight You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone The Dead Emperor As the Greek's Signal Flame The Dismantled Ship Now Precedent Songs, Farewell An Evening Lull Old Age's Lambent Peaks After the Supper and Talk SECOND ANNEX: GOOD-BYE MY FANCY Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht! Lingering Last Drops Good-Bye My Fancy On, On the Same, Ye ...

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...orm to hurry so grave a matter as this. Explain to her that we have to go by precedents, and that I believe this one to be new. In fact, you can say I... ...ust like it has happened in our army, therefore I must be guided by European precedents, and must go cau tiously and examine them carefully. T ell he... ...he regular army, to preside over that infant court martial — there isn’t any precedent for it, don’t you see. Very well. I will go on examining author... ...rnaby, my successor, who is Cathy’s newest slave, and in spite of poverty of precedents they got his permission. The bands knew the child’s favorite m...

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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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...ther man, imposed it upon Europe. There is no reason, therefore, either in precedent or pro- fession, for expecting any plain lead from the churches i... ...tion of all the combatant nations, but it has also destroyed wealth beyond precedent. It has also de- stroyed freedom—of movement, of speech, of econo... ... up new assertive alien allies. The Kaiser, if he is not too afraid of the precedent of Sarajevo, may make a great entry into Constantinople, with an ... ...s influence. In an- cient Hebrew history—it may be a warning rather than a precedent—there were two great forces, one formal, conser- vative and corru... ...be said to hold it. Inside his skull imagination and a heavy devil of evil precedent fight for his soul and the welfare of the world. And generosity f... ..., they have been found efficient beyond prece- dent and intelligent beyond precedent. And in the munition factories, in the handling of heavy and ofte... ...man complaint that Germany has been the victim of alien flattery and alien precedents. And what after all is the Prussian dream of world empire but an...

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...f rash and contemptuous short cuts; France, for the same reason, to routine, precedent, tradition, the beaten path. Therefore it ought to help each na... ...rpetual desire for the new thing, is counteracted by a clinging to rules and precedents that have often become meaningless. III Reverence is the life ...

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... whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the several states. This is a precedent that every one who talks about the League of Nations should bear ... ...sion that their great league has now made possible. Now, that clearly is a precedent of the utmost value in our schemes for this council of the League... ...s’ snap, and the Peace Congress begins, it will almost certainly be as un- precedented as its prelude. Before it meets, the broad lines of the settlem... ...s international representatives. And here, again, I turn from any European precedents to that political outcome of the British mind, the Constitution ...

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...is. “On these,” he says, “as modes of impassioned prose ranging un- der no precedents that I am aware of in any literature, it is much more difficult ... ...- dent bond of his national blood. The spectators, who are numerous beyond precedent, express their sympathy with these fervent feelings by continual ... ...*It is true that, according to the law of the case as established by legal precedents, all carriages were required to give way before royal equipages,... ..., etc., Masson’s ed., VIII, 398 [Riverside, IX, 209]. But not even Donne’s precedent justifies the word formation. The only acknowledged compounds are...

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...ted laws relating to title and proof of title, with all the contra dictory precedents and numerous acts of parliament con nected with them; think o... ... interposed the client, impatiently. ‘Don’t talk to me of cases. The general precedent is in a much larger vol ume than any of your law books. Beside...

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...dministration, a laxity that made vast sections of her area lawless beyond precedent, so that it was possible for whole districts to be impassable, wh... ...islature in permanent session, and with a generous suspension of rules and precedents, passed through both Houses the long-dis- puted Bill for univers... ...mph. No doubt he had a time of tremendous exultation and sensed beyond all precedent the sense of power that night. There came an end at last to that ... ... time wit- ness to an amelioration of hygienic conditions rapid beyond all precedent, and to a vast development of intelligence and ability in all the... ...-paper to lie at the door of their war magazine for any spark to fire. The precedents of history were all one tale of the collapse of civilisations, t...

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...d bold implies singular intellectual intrepidity. He had neither model nor precedent. The vastness and novelty of the undertaking increase admiration ... ... not a statesman condescended to attend to it; and a legislation without a precedent was produced offhand *Ibid., p. 90. 61 Tocqueville by the imagin... ... of general notions, and is more completely disengaged from the routine of precedent and the egotism of local prejudice; its designs are conceived wit... ... the two countries. The English and the Americans have retained the law of precedents; that is to say, they continue to found their legal opinions and... ...he French advocate inquires what should have been done; the former produce precedents, the latter rea- sons. A French observer is surprised to hear ho... ...an be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents. The indispensable want of legal assistance which is felt in Eng... ...till perpetually changing, its aspect; in which every act of tyranny has a precedent, and every crime an example; in which there is nothing so old tha... ...l aware of the influence which the nature of a country and its politi- cal precedents exercise upon a constitution; and I should re- gard it as a grea... ...hat their country is unlike any other, and that its situation is without a precedent in the world. America is a land of wonders, in which everything i...

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... necessities of the civil war, so that they might not pass into history as precedents for similar acts in time of peace. It is an unquestionable fact ... ... followed the war, more things were done capable of serving as dan- gerous precedents than during the war itself. Thus it may truly be said of him not... ...ession has reached its highest perfection, and centu- ries of learning and precedent are involved in the equip- ment of a lawyer. Dr. Holmes, when ask...

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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...