The judiciary system of the Colony therefore provided for the following courts: First, the Great and General Court which possessed legislative powers and limited appellate authority from the Court of Assistants.
Whenever it becomes so, the dyspeptic approaches the condition of the reptiles or ruminating animals, in whom the process of digestion so absorbs the powers of the nervous system that all other modes of its activity are suspended.
As the latter are expected to decide in the doctrines of natural or revealed religion, so the former is supposed to have a casting vote in regard to the agitating claims for the extension of new powers to women.
He gives to different plants different powersof appropriation, sets them in precisely the same circumstances, and leaves them.
They are trying to the full their powers of endurance, and any change must be for the better.
So, in human education the first attention should be given to bringing out the broad, healthy powers of human nature, not to increasing any peculiar attributes.
The exercise of the intellectualpowers is the best means of preventing and counteracting an undue development of the emotional nature.
No evil, however deplorable, can justify the assumption either on the part of the Executive or of Congress of powers not granted, but both will be highly blamable if all the powers granted are not wisely but firmly used to correct these evils.
The legislation of Congress at the last session is in conformity with the propositions of the conference, and the proclamation therein provided for will be issued when the other powershave given notice of their adhesion.
The assurance that these powers would be freely and unhesitatingly used has done much to produce and sustain the present favorable business conditions.
This asylum was freely given, according to my information, by the naval vessels of several foreign powers and by several of the legations at Santiago.
It is of urgent importance, therefore, that Congress should supply, either by direct enactment or by conferring discretionary powers upon the Commissioners, proper limitations and restraints upon the liquor traffic in the District.
The formation of the government agreed upon will soon replace the disorder of the past by a stable administration alike just to the natives and equitable to the three powers most concerned in trade and intercourse with the Samoan Islands.
Perhaps the organization of several sub-districts with a small municipal council of limited powers for each would be safe and useful.
An attempt was made in the last Congress to bring to bear the constitutional powers of the General Government for the correction of fraud against the suffrage.
It was the Spirit of this world, one of the Powers and Dominions whom of old men called the gods.
Around him were the Nine Angels, the Crois nan Aingeal of our prayers, and two Seraphs--the Eleven Powers and Dominions of the World.
This individual was Mr. Grimshaw, the principal mover of the powers that be, notwithstanding he asserted that it was not his office, and that he just walked round to take a look.
The sheriff being created an absolute functionary, with unlimited powers to control the jail in all its varied functions, without either commissioners or jail-committee, what state of management may be expected?
I prevented Hannibal from conquering, in order that he might even be conquered by you, whose powers are now in full vigour.
True, hers was a time of life when the bud is seen to expand rapidly; but here there had been forcingpowers at work.
Her conversationalpowers were of a high order, by common consent.
The peculiar circumstances attending the marriage in that country, and at that agitated crisis, involved Margaret in numerous afflictions, and taxed her powers of endurance to the very uttermost.
Labby is usually brilliant; while he discoursed on Uganda he actually made people think Mr. Gladstone ought to have made him a Cabinet Minister--he displayed such undiscovered and unsuspected powersof respectable dulness.
It is only the marvellous powers of the man that can keep the House patient, for it is pointing to one o'clock, and the division has not yet come.
This is largely due not merely to his oratorical powers but to the extraordinary range of his gifts.
But, speaking generally, Mr. Gladstone uses his giant powers with extraordinary benignity and mercifulness, and is almost tender with even his bitterest opponents.
It had been contended by Mr. Sexton that the veto would never be used unless the Irish Parliament so abused its powers as to justify the use of it.
In disclaiming this charge he showed his great powers of oratory and the splendid and thrilling notes of his fine voice.
Mr. Gladstone gave proof ofpowers of equally wide versatility; and all at the expense of poor Joe.
Neither of them would own to have been the most overjoyed at the meeting, delayed as it had been by an apparent conspiracy of all the powers of darkness.
Mr. Kipling’s varied and complex powers are seen at their strongest and best.
As for himself, he did not require change or recreation, his duty was to the shareholders, who had entrusted him with such uncontrolled powers of dictatorship.
The speech and intellectual powers of the youth were instantly and fully restored; he burst forth into prayer, and expressed in the most glowing terms his reliance on the truth and on the Author of the Gospel.
To this provincial magistrate the law of Scotland assigns judicial powers of considerable extent, and the task of inquiring into all crimes committed within his jurisdiction, the apprehension and commitment of suspected persons, and so forth.
For two days before the appointed day for the sale of the lands and estate of Ellangowan, Mac-Morlan daily expected the appearance of Colonel Mannering, or at least a letter containing powers to act for him.
This noble story displays to the best advantage all the powers of Dr.
Had I tenfold the powers your mate imputes to me, could I work you evil?
Where the fables came from Tonson did not care, provided they would sell; and Dryden, with his rapid powers of versification, soon produced versions of some tales of Chaucer and Boccaccio which answered the purpose exceedingly well.
On the contrary, he had observed him as a man would his personal enemy, and in so doing had formed a great many conclusions respecting his powers and his character.
And what was that special mode of activity to which Milton, still in the bloom and seed-time of his years, had chosen to dedicate the powers of which he was so conscious?
By his powers of expression, in fact, Shakespeare has beggared all his posterity, and left mere practitioners of expression nothing possible to do.
I am also a cat with some powers of observation, and I have observed that two things go a long way with men--flattery and persistence.
Let us hope that it may stir up some sight-seers to be naturalists, and some naturalists to devote their powers to furthering our too limited friendship with the sea-gentry.
It was inevitable, in the height of the Silly Season, that such a topic as the simultaneous invasion of Great Britain by nine foreign powers should be seized upon by the press.
When they had left, the remaining four Powers would continue the invasion jointly.
Your powers of observation are keen, my dear Prince.
Indeed one of these was in flood, and they never could have crossed it had it not been for Otter's powers of natation.
Therefore in the first rush of his religious enthusiasm he had accorded a hearty welcome to the incarnations of the divinities whom for some eighty years he had worshipped as powers spiritual.
Xavier, whose strength and powers were coming back, still hugged him in his fearful grip; he also saw the knife, and would win it.
Belle felt that since he had given up so much for her, it was her part now to prove how good a bargain he had made; and she exerted all her powers to double her ample hold on his love and devotion.
With this new responsibility upon her, the inborn powers of Kitty Hartigan bloomed forth.
When they reached the camp, Edward of Aescendune exerted his powers of persuasion in vain to induce the Knight of the Holy Sepulchre to accompany him to his father's tent, there to receive the paternal thanks.
It was the unknown danger that troubled them, the thought that supernatural powers were arrayed against them, that the English had called the fiends to their aid, which terrified these hardened warriors.
Be a man's powers what they may, it is impossible that his share of the wealth which he has helped to create can be fairly represented by a sum so vast.
It took us in different fashion, each according to the measure of his sensitiveness and powers of resistance.
The powers of this awful place, whoever they are," he replied, keeping his eyes on the map.
Our intrusion had stirred the powers of the place into activity.
These are the powers of the imagination; and what are its pleasures?
Perhaps the whole business was an illusion, though if so Zikali's powersmust be great indeed.
Moreover, was this man quite human, or perhaps an emissary of Satan upon earth who had knowledge denied to other men and a certain mastery over the Powers of Ill?
This woman was a savage; more, a mystic savage of considerable powers of mind--a formidable combination.
That we are determined to make use of any powers we have, or may have at any time in the future, to work for our own advancement, and for the creation of a prosperous, virile, and independent nation.
This war is not waged by any of the great Powersas a quixotic enterprise for lofty ideals.
The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilettes, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world.
The historians on our side tell us that the armies of the allied powers were all providentially on a war-footing, and ready to bear down at a moment's notice upon the Elban Emperor.
And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener!
Our luck may fail: our powers forsake us: our place on the boards be taken by better and younger mimes--the chance of life roll away and leave us shattered and stranded.
He was thinking of his own plans, and lost in pompous admiration of his own irresistiblepowers of pleasing.
And I say that the escape of Boney from Elba was a damned imposition and plot, sir, in which half the powers of Europe were concerned, to bring the funds down, and to ruin this country.
It is not surprising when the brain substance like other tissues is becoming less flexible, that the powers of attention should weaken, that memory for recent events should diminish, or that other mental powers should fail.
What are the duties and powers of your local board of health?
