One of her first acts as Queen was to free a number of prisoners in the Tower, but she never lifted a finger to the liberation of Lady Jane, her kinswoman.
She was to be good and obedient, to go often to Church, and to be guided in all her future acts by the advice of St. Margaret and St. Catherine who had been chosen to be her counsellors.
That the sense in which the acts of David are here understood, is the most obvious and natural, appears from the amazing pains it has occasioned his champions, to force another upon them.
Like a biologist or a botanist, and with much more deliberate effort than most of her fellow-craftsmen, she traces and scrutinizes all the acts and motives of her characters until she reaches and reveals their absolute inmost truth.
Slight as is the sound, it acts on her as an electric shock, suddenly and altogether changing the cast of her countenance.
She acts as one expecting to hear footsteps, or a voice in friendly salutation--and see him saluting, for it is a man.
No atom of this turbulence fulfils A vague and unnecessitated task, Or acts but as it must and ought to act.
He, like the vulgar, thinks, feels, acts and lives Just as his father did; the unconquered powers Of precedent and custom interpose Between a KING and virtue.
The result is that the officers feel themselves practically immune from any evil consequences to them from their own acts of injustice or violence.
It need not be said which of these men acts the friendly part and comes nearest to the Christian principle of Paul.
A man may possibly do a wrong thing when he obeys conscience; he is certainly wrong when he acts contrary to conscience.
It is only too possible to do great acts of charity from a love of display, or from an uneasy sense of duty which parts reluctantly and grudgingly with what it bestows.
To the ordinary man," says Wellhausen, "it was not moral but liturgical actswhich seemed to be religious.
What made the humiliation more terrible was that the invasion and conquest were accompanied with acts of unwonted cruelty.
As there was nothing more to tell about him, the historian omits the usual formula about the rest of the acts of Ahaziah, and all that he did.
Our acts still follow with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are.
There may be more wicked acts recorded in Scripture than that of Gehazi, but there is scarcely one which shows so paltry a disposition.
But the reference to analogous acts furnishes no justification for those acts.
One of Lord Roberts' first actswas to visit the large German hospital which was established in the village.
Thus it would seem that the Boers were guilty of acts even more questionable than those with which they charged our men.
He found that the train of waggons had been much scattered, and one of his first acts was to recall about 400 teams and vehicles from Queenstown in the east of the Colony.
At times like this a man acts by instinct, and Wiley Holman dropped to the ground; then with the swiftness of an Indian he bellied off down the hill, looking back after every lightning move.
There was a war on now between the Huffs and Holmans into which Wiley's father had been drawn; and since Honest John had repudiated his son's acts and disclaimed all interest in his deal, Charley knew that Wiley was bitter.
For we do all things with refinement, and not like those outside, seeing to it that in all our acts we keep our souls and bodies both delicate and pure.
The anti-press ordinances of July 1830, which were the means of hurling the Bourbons from the throne of France, were scarcely more tyrannic than the gagging Acts in question.
To add strength to 'the strong arm' in question, the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, and six Acts were passed.
It is no unusual thing for it to rob the Gannet of the fish which it has just caught: the unfortunate bird thus acts as purveyor to this sea-robber.
The air carried by the windpipe acts upon the blood through the thin substance of the cells which constitute the pulmonary tissue, in which it traverses in an infinity of minute vessels, whose thin walls are permeable by the gas.
The whole objection, however, of the immorality of poetry rests upon a misconception of the manner in which poetry acts to produce the moral improvement of man.
But the coarseness of organization, peculiar to men capable of committing acts wholly selfish, is usually found to be associated with a proportionate insensibility to fear or pain.
For there is no charter which can safeguard liberty against the acts of the sovereign nation.
He was troubled by a provincial accent which spoilt his delivery, and between the acts he sat busily trying to correct it in his mind, modelling his correction on what he had just heard.
But certain other acts of my life, which were merely opposed to those subtle and lofty niceties that we call the conventions, have often filled me with sharp regret and even with a kind of remorse.
Revisiting the earth is a simple string of these acts of spontaneous recollection.
I bow my head now and grieve over certain acts or rebukes or injustices or humiliations or wounds.
Bout the way a red-hot stove acts when you spill water on it; every time he thinks of the minister he sizzles.
So he went on to tell how his housekeeper had helped him, of her advice, of her many acts of kindness, of what he owed to her.
Let the future historian record it, for it is recorded in the dispatches, as well as in the acts of the government.
But you must look with forgiveness on these people, my son, and seek to forget many of those acts of vindictiveness which characterized them during the war.
This mode of address answers for all the littleacts of heedlessness, awkwardness, or ill-manners, so frequently occurring, with children.
It is owing to this, that opium, applied on the skin, acts in a manner similar to its operation when taken into the stomach.
Where a meeting was noticed for one day and held on a different day without notice of adjournment, all acts done were void and the officers elected were neither de jure nor de facto officers.
The official acts of a minister coming in question incidentally, unless contrary to the statute, are as valid as the official acts of any other officer.
The acts of de facto officers can not usually be questioned in a collateral proceeding, such as to set aside a conveyance, when the merits of the question do not involve the election.
The acts of a majority of the members of a corporation, unless done according to law and in conformity with the charter and by-laws of the corporation, are absolutely null and void.
When the trustees of a church are authorized to execute contracts for the church, they should act as a body or delegate the power to one of their number or ratify the acts of one of their number.
However, if the irregular acts of officers or members of a congregation are subsequently ratified in a lawful manner, they become binding.
A state has the right to legislate for the punishment of all acts inimical to the peace, good order, and morals of society.
A minister is one who acts as, or performs some of the functions of, a clergyman.
However, where a meeting is presided over without objection by a member instead of the proper officer, the acts of the body are lawful.
While the State courts have no ecclesiastical jurisdiction and can not revise or question ordinary acts of church discipline, they have the power to adjudicate conflicting claims of parties to the church property or the use of it.
But if members are improperly excluded from the use of the church property they must appeal to the courts for redress and can not resort to acts of trespass to gain entrance into a church.
God himself only acts or is in existing beings or men,' as Blake believed?
Her looks and acts had the grace of a wild nature, which purrs, and kills, and purrs again.
Oh, how poor are words and looks and acts to express that fire which rages in the weakest and saddest of men.
A forming tool, having a non-cutting face which acts as a depth guide against the base, corrects the outer rim and shoulder.
