M^r Madison was for striking it out; considering it as of no advantage to the large States as fettering the Gov^t and as a source of injurious altercations between the two Houses.
He observed that the State of Penn^a which had gone as far as any State into the policy of fettering power, had not rendered the members of the Legislature ineligible to offices of Gov^t.
Think how much money I have; it would be like taking a burthen from me if you took some of it every year till you got free from thisfettering want of income.
If he were not only to sink from his highest resolve, but to sink into the hideous fettering of domestic hate?
Sir Camarin departed, her release From the remorse and fettering will seem Sweet as a vista into fairyland.
And do you still forbid that I bear gold And bribe away this Philistine array Folded about us, fettering with flame?
It was the fettering which alone interested him, and he spent much time in trying to imagine the feelings of the fettered prisoners, and he often imagined that he was himself a prisoner in fetters.
Stcherbak discusses the case at length and considers that it is essentially an example of sadism, on the ground that the impulse of fettering was prompted by the desire to humiliate.
Soldiers also stood ready with chains, with which they lost no time in fettering the old man's ankles and wrists.
Life rises out of the grave; the soul can not be held by the fettering flesh, 714-m.
Eternal morning follows the night: a rainbow scarfs the shoulders of every cloud that weeps its rain away to be flowers on land and pearls at sea: Life rises out of the grave, the soul cannot be held by fettering flesh.
Probably it was Hamilton's intention to leave the form in which the new system should be adopted for future action, without fettering the movement by prescribing the mode before the convention had assembled.
But Rome, in her master, Constantine, saw only the lure of a temporal advantage to be gained by fettering the totally misunderstood teachings of Jesus with the shackles of organized politics.
An ascendency hereditary and dominant, capable of utmost good, but expressed in the fettering of initiative and action, in the suppression of ambition, and the quenching of every impulse toward independence of thought.
Add to this, that the limits and hindrances to such fettering and unfettering are as little to be assigned as the causes of the same.
So, too, among multitudes of similar efforts abroad, we have during centuries the fettering of professors at English and Scotch universities by test oaths, subscriptions to articles, and catechisms without number.
Here, too, we have an example of the efficiency of the older biblical theology in fettering the stronger minds and in stupefying the weaker.
The educating surroundings aim at fettering every individual, by always placing before him the smallest number of possibilities.
For wherever the great architecture of culture manifested itself it was its mission to compel opposing powers to agree, by means of an overwhelming accumulation of other less unbearable powers, without thereby oppressing and fettering them.
M^r Gov^r Morris opposed it asfettering the Legislature too much.
M^r Sherman thought it less objectionable than an absolute appointment by the Executive; but disliked it, as too much fettering the Senate.
All the principal parties to its compilation joined immediately in mutilating & fettering the Governm^t in such a manner that it has disappointed every hope placed in it.
However, as most people's complexes are neither so deeply buried nor so obstinate as this, a simple explanation or a single demonstration is usually enough to loose the fettering hold of old misconceptions.
The hands and feet strained impotently against the fettering cords.
When he had finished, Tagala began to strain uneasily at the cords fettering his hands and feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fettering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
