For this reason, whateverMischiefs do hence follow, cannot in the least disparage the Wise Contrivance of Infinite Power in ordering these Tides of our Atmosphere.
Yet the people in office who operated these mischiefs were all appointed by the delegates of the Assembly; for the first towns of the republic were not trusted even with the choice of a constable.
The mischiefs inherent in such a precept rapidly showed themselves, and good sense corrected the error.
The want of a sufficient medium of trade, to remedy themischiefs arising from the scarcity of money.
He was of opinion, which he has declared in this House an hundred times, that the colonies could not legally grant any revenue to the crown, and that infinite mischiefs would be the consequence of such a power.
With us no pride erects stately monuments which repair the mischiefs which pride had produced, and which adorn a country out of its own spoils.
I felt every gazette of triumph as a blow upon my heart, which has an hundred times sunk and fainted within me at all the mischiefs brought upon those who bear the whole brunt of war in the heart of their country.
Gentlemen, was I not to foresee, or foreseeing, was I not to endeavor to save you from all these multiplied mischiefs and disgraces?
Sir, the most serious mischiefs would follow from such a desertion.
He knew that a repeal had no tendency to produce themischiefs which give so much alarm to his honorable friend.
On the next unconstitutional act, all the fashionable world will be ready to say, "Your prophecies are ridiculous, your fears are vain, you see how little of the mischiefs which you formerly foreboded are come to pass.
On the principle of this argument, the more mischiefs we suffer from any administration, the more our trust in it is to be confirmed.
After theMischiefs there Endeavoured, and since in part Conquered, the terrible Plague, of Evil Angels, hath made its Progress into some other places, where other Persons have been in like manner Diabolically handled.
They related Place, Time, Occasion; they gave an account of Journeys, Meetings andMischiefs by them performed, and were very credible in what they said.
The Witches confessed many mischiefs done by them, declaring with what kind of \Enchanted Tools\, they did their Mischiefs.
You enjoy, in common with yourselves, the permanent benefits of civil government; and your remote situation is less exposed to the accidental mischiefs of tyranny.
I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country.
These do all Villanies, and mischiefs of all sorts, yet those they fear not, To flinch where a fair wench is at the stake.
I am friends with all the world, but thy base malice; Go glory in thy mischiefs thou proud man, And cry it to the world thou hast ruin'd vertue; How I contemn thee and thy petty malice!
The power of the church was another rampart against royal authority; but this defence was also the cause of many mischiefs and inconveniencies.
In the single instance in which the governor of this State is coupled with a council--that is, in the appointment to offices, we have seen the mischiefs of it in the view now under consideration.
But this objection will have little weight with those who can properly estimate the mischiefs of that inconstancy and mutability in the laws, which form the greatest blemish in the character and genius of our governments.
The possibility of particular mischiefs can never be viewed, by a wellinformed mind, as a solid objection to a general principle, which is calculated to avoid general mischiefs and to obtain general advantages.
The mistake has proceeded from not attending with due care to the mischiefs that may be occasioned by obstructing the progress of government at certain critical seasons.
The Roman history records many instances of mischiefs to the republic from the dissensions between the Consuls, and between the military Tribunes, who were at times substituted for the Consuls.
If, to avoid an accumulation of offices, there was to be a frequent change in the persons who were to compose the council, this would involve the mischiefs of a mutable administration in their full extent.
No one of these mischiefs is less incident to a power in the States to emit paper money, than to coin gold or silver.
There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
Tis true that all the mischiefs apprehended by our ancestors from a standing army and excise, have not yet happened: but it does not follow from thence, that they will not happen.
The injured kingdom, lately mentioned, can tell us the mischiefs of absentees; and we may perceive already the same disposition taking place with us.
His judgments may sometimes have been hasty, but he gives a very vivid picture of the mischiefswhich follow from having incompetent, intemperate, or inefficient men saddled upon an army.
The incident only emphasizes the way in which we learned by experience the importance of strict system in such movements, and the mischiefs almost sure to follow when there is any departure from a plan of march once arranged.
With an ill grace the Dutch their mischiefs do; They've both ill nature and ill manners too.
Did ever men forsake their present ease, In midst of health imagine a disease; Take pains contingent mischiefs to foresee, Make heirs for monarchs, and for God decree?
See Burke's powerful exposure of the mischiefs of this innovation, in his "Thoughts on the Causes of the present Discontents.
But no authority, however high, can promote a prejudice into a reason, or conciliate any respect for this sort of vague, traditional hostility, which is often obliged to seek its own justification in the very mischiefs which itself produces.
What if I say that Adrian, the Bishop of Rome, did frankly confess that all these mischiefs brast out first from the high throne of the Pope?
I grant it be so: but by what good laws (I would know) have these great mischiefs been punished amongst them?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mischiefs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
