Dazzi, Andrea, devises the cars for the Pageant of the Golden Age, iv.
His appetite so blinds him that he devises the odious scheme I have described, in order to gratify a senile whim.
The debts of the deceased being satisfied, the representative must next proceed to satisfy the legacies and devises left by the testator.
Perfect fur would be marred by the twine snare, so the trapper devisesas cunning a death for the ermine as the ermine devises when it darts up through the snow with its spear-teeth clutched in the throat of a poor rabbit.
He wishes to express the very simple thought that music cannot communicate definite images and judgments, but merely feelings of a general character; and for this purpose devises the following rigmarole (p.
Now a heretic is one who devises or follows false or new opinions.
Whoever purposes to do some evil deed, must needs devise certain ways of attaining his purpose, and for the most part he devises deceitful ways, whereby the more easily to obtain his end.
Credendi i) that "a heretic is one who either devises or follows false and new opinions, for the sake of some temporal profit, especially that he may lord and be honored above others.
The second prudence is indeed true prudence, because it devises fitting ways of obtaining a good end; and yet it is imperfect, from a twofold source.
It creates a spirit of cunning and devises hidden and secret means, and cheating at cards is almost synonymous with playing at cards.
Devises for raising money by appealing to the gambling instinct are common accessories at church socials, ward fairs, and the like.
The child who devises a new way of tying his shoes, of arranging his books, of managing his pets, of sharpening his skates, may very easily get no clinical credit for these inventions.
A boy who writes a poem, draws a steamboat, or devises a new game of checkers may immediately get credit for originality, while one who invents a technique of his own for shaving the back of his own neck may remain unheralded as a creator.
As if of set purpose to raise Satan high above the heads of the other Archangels, Milton devises a pair of similar scenes, in Heaven and in Hell.
The ready humourist devises a pleasant and cheap entertainment by dressing Adam and Eve in modern garments and discussing their relations in the jargon of modish frivolity.
Devises to charitable uses were supported in England at an early period in the common law, which is supposed to have derived its maxims on this head from the civil law.
Tancred,[210] that devises to corporations, though void under the Statute of Wills, were good in equity if given to charitable uses.
She instinctively feels that that is not what can be done by God, and so she says that He 'devises means' by which He can restore His banished.
Did Christ recommend the establishment of a general fund by begging donations, and obtaining testamentary devises from dying men to remunerate His apostles for missionary labors?
At the Devisesseverall faires; but the greatest is at the Green there, at Michaelmas: it continues about a week.
Eire's) in Cosham parish are huge snakes, an ell long; and about the Devises snakes doe abound.
About two or three miles from the Devises are found in a pitt snake-stones (cornua ammonis) no bigger than a sixpence, of a black colour.
The Devises is famous for making excellent Metheglyn.
Therfore the Frenchmen have, manye otherdevises like these, the whiche because they have not beene seene of our men, they have not beene considered.
He that shall be in the warre moste vigilant to observe the devises of the enemie, and shall take moste payne to exercise his armie, shall incurre least perilles and maie hope moste of the victorie.
Some have sente into exile one of their familiars, and by meanes of the same, hath knowen the devises of his adversarie.
Bequests and devises to Lights and Altars were very common.
Philip Billes devises his estate, on condition of being buried under that tree, 42.
He performs an old task with new economy, as when he devises a mowing-machine to oust the scythe; or he creates a service wholly new, as when he bids a landscape depict itself on a photographic plate.
Devises as his first articulating telephone a harp of steel rods thrown into vibration by electro-magnetism.
The Romans transmitted the Marks of their Families: but they were the Images, not the Devises of their Ancestors.
But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
He deviseswicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
The will of Cornelius van Catts of Bushwick, dated in 1726, and expressed in a sort of half Dutch dialect, devises to his wife Annetjie, his whole estate .
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