In modern days, in addition to the other forms of gambling, have come up the thoroughly organized and, in some States, legalized institution of lotteries.
The usual lot of prisoners of war was slavery; a practice bad enough, but common to the rest of antiquity with Rome: the institution of triumphs is her peculiar glory and distinction.
They were as narrow bigots to the omnipotency of aninstitution as any Cockney Radical.
It would always add another grace to an institution to have its home venerable with age and restored to beauty.
Institution of the Brotherhood of St. George for the protection of the Pale.
The institution lasted till the end of the 3rd century A.
This was immediately followed by the institution of the Epee Club of London, which, under the successive residencies of a veteran swordsman, Sir Edward Jenkinson, and of Lord Desborough, subsequently held annual open international tournaments.
In the following article it is attempted to ascertain the date of institution of the Epiphany feast, its origin, and its significance and development.
Our churches and best people, as they call themselves, defending the institution of slavery.
The same God upheld the institution of human slavery; and the church says the bible that upholds that institution was written by men under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Think, I say, how long we clung to the institution of human slavery; how long lashes upon the naked back were the legal tender for labor performed!
I believe in marriage, and I hold in utter contempt the opinions of long-haired men and short-haired women who denounce the institution of marriage.
They have been the slaves of slaves; and in my judgment it took millions of ages for women to come from the condition of abject slavery up to the institution of marriage.
Let me say right here, tonight, I regard marriage as the holiest institutionamong men.
I add that the book upheld all this, that it sustained and sanctified the institution of human slavery.
The return to Jerusalem and the institution of reforms were events of tremendous import to the Jews, and the faithfulness of a few men was given high recognition.
This institutionwas an outgrowth of the captivity experience, and was most valuable.
And it is well worthy of remark, that the charter now first granted to this celebrated institution declares that its object is the extension of natural knowledge, as opposed to that which is supernatural.
It was not till 1694 that the Bank of England was established; and this great institution at first met with the warmest opposition from the admirers of old times, who thought it must be useless because their ancestors did without it.
The supporters of that barbarous institution were not hypocrites, but enthusiasts.
As an institution it advertises itself with the sweeping gesture.
Or what is the type of institution that will ultimately take the position of leadership in culture through this new universal instrument?
They have no notion that this institution is penetrating to the last backwoods of our civilization, where its presence is as hard to prevent as the rain.
The stage is aninstitution that has grown out of a necessity in human nature.
The men who were acting female characters upon the London stage when that institution was revived immediately after the Restoration were Kynaston, James Nokes, Angel, William Betterton, Mosely, and Floid.
There is no reason, however, why the institution should be in the future so intellectually and morally unprofitable as in the past.
They are drawing from the splendid institution the earning upon money raised by miscellaneous public subscription.
What, in God's name, can be expected of an institution containing several hundred young people of both sexes, if it be deficient in dissipline?
Because some girls go wrong at an institutionfor the promotion of ignorance, it by no means follows that all, or any considerable number thereof are deficient in morality.
I have yielded to the urgent appeals of my friends to let the institution down easy, to cast a little kerosene on the troubled waters, to hold out the olive branch to Baylor.
We all of us here assembled know that marriage is a defective institution tempered by love.
Compagnonnage is still a popular institution in France.
Chivalry--the institution and the whole knightly character--began in the rough and veritable, and progressed to courtlier idealizations.
Nevertheless, this great corporate institution was Roman rather than Gallic or Frankish or German.
Everywhere the crass barbarian law and the pure Roman institution was passing away, or changing into something new.
On their side the Franks and other Teutons had inherited the institution of the comitatus, which bound the young warrior to his chief.
The Royal Institution is more the ton than anything and Ladies of all ages submit to a squeeze of an hundred people in a morning, to hear lectures on the Human Understanding, Experimental Philosophy, Painting, Music or Geology.
Where the orthopaedic institution is already an accomplished fact, we may very soon see the chemical clinic established.
In an institution for deserted children, there was one extremely ugly little creature, who had nevertheless greatly endeared himself to a young woman who had the care of him.
Hence it has been deemed more practical to establish a kind of orthopaedic institution within the building itself in certain model schools in Rome.
These mothers consider countries where the wet nurse is still an institution as less highly developed, but on the same plane of civilization as their own.
But no human legislation can so guard this institution but that it may be broken in spirit, though, perhaps, acceded to in form; for, it is the heart which this institution requires.
Who will dare to advocate the humaninstitution of marriage without the warm heart of a devoted and loving companion!
How it literally profanes this holy of holies, and drags down this heaven-born institution from its original, divine elevation, to the level of a merely human device.
Regulations under this section may be made to apply generally or to any specified institution or institutions.
It is that most important institution in which you put a stamp on your mail and drop it into a slot, knowing that it will find its way across city or country to that man or woman who is waiting for it.
I am not sure but there were some additional suggestions on the expediency of abolishing the Christian religion and the institution of matrimony, but that has nothing to do with politics.
Webster, a graduate of the Military Academy, and was many years a successful teacher in thatinstitution and in Kenyon College.
It is convenient for all public purposes, and affords the comparative quietude and retirement which are desirable for an institution of constant resort for study and for the consultation of authorities.
There exists an institution in which has been embodied the negation of social justice--Slavery.
Ponder this fact, Gentlemen: contemplate the ancient institution of slavery shaken to its foundations, without being the object of any direct attack, by the breath of a new spirit.
For that reason, as it meant a good deal out of the family purse to board three or four children in such an institution as that, eight or nine years ago the family moved from a little town in the northern part of Kentucky to Nashville.
They are soliciting money for themselves alone, and have no connection with any charitable institution whatever.
This was the first institution of the kind ever seen in New York, and imitations of it soon became common.
The institution grants diplomas, confers degrees, and is entitled to and exercises all the privileges of a first-class college.
A very remarkable occurrence took place at the institution not long ago.
Hundreds, nay, thousands of good and useful men and women have been reared by the institution since its establishment.
This institution is situated on the Bowery, near Pearl street, and is in charge of the Rev.
The officers are courteous and obliging, and every care is taken to make the institution meet the wishes of its founder.
In this institution all the branches of a thorough and complete collegiate course are taught.
This institution is located on Amity street, and is open at all hours, to all who seek its doors voluntarily, or are directed thither.
And the exact origin of a religious institution is of much less significance to us than its present effect.
The State has come in as protector and educator of the children, taking over personal powers and responsibilities that have been essential to the family institution ever since the dawn of history.
And if it chances to you to feel called upon to make a breach with the institution or custom or prejudice that is, remember that doing so is your own affair.
No better method could be employed for securing the complete and absolute extinction of a dogma or an institution than to maintain it till the last possible instant; its fall under such circumstances becomes a veritable annihilation.
But then it extends to all things of the institution kind.
Incidents like the following are common in our practice: A little girl in the neighborhood of our institution was taken with diphtheria.
If we could achieve equally good results without our heroic methods of treatment, the sidewalks leading to our institution would be crowded with people clamoring for admission.
The doctors of the institution had ordered ice packs.
With very few exceptions, every one of our patients (and we have in our institution as fine a collection of dyspeptics as can be found anywhere) heartily enjoys our mixed dietary and is greatly benefited by it.
