His annual reports as President of Harvard were notable contributions to the literature of education in America, and he delivered numerous public addresses, many of which have been reprinted.
Their lives were spared at the command of the prophet, and they returned home so impressed that their incursions thenceforward ceased (vi.
Duc d'Orleans sent La Vrilliere to say to the Parliament that he revoked that decree, and that the notes would remain as before.
The decree of that date was therefore revoked in six days, after having caused such a strange effect.
The Audiencia, as a court of appeal, revoked the governor's command, and declared the estate free from obligations.
In truth, however, the power of attorney held by the said mariscal had been revoked by the city before he left it in the year 1600.
The council discovered too late the injustice it had committed in respect to the San-benito since it revoked the decree seven years after, in 1539.
His Holiness added that he would have pronounced their deprivation but from respect to the royal decree which had instituted them in their office, but he revoked the authorization which he had given.
He revoked at the same time all the bulls which his predecessors had expedited in favour of the Spanish monarchs, for the collection of the annual subsidy imposed on the clergy, and for the funds destined for the holy crusade.
We must believe that nothing but the excellence of old acts of will can have preserved them so long: if the Sovereign had not recognised them as throughout salutary, it would have revoked them a thousand times.
Under the Roman Republic, neither the Senate nor the Consuls ever attempted to pardon; even the people never did so, though it sometimes revoked its own decision.
These measures shall be revokedat the demand of the National Assembly.
These measures shall be revoked at the demand of the National President or of the National Assembly.
The world blames me for having revoked the privilege enjoyed by foreign embassies to import their clothing free of duty.
He felt that if she revoked the power she had conferred, he would almost die with disappointment.
It is probable, therefore, that either Tiberius or Claudius had revoked the decree of Augustus, and re-invested the Phoenician cities with the privilege whereof the first of the emperors had deprived them.
The king only appointed the commissaires du roi attached to the district courts, criminal tribunals and the court of cassation; but the appointment once made could not be revoked by him.
Nantes was revoked and the Protestant pastors expelled from France.
Prohibition subsequently ordered revokedby the sultan of Cairo.
On the first of May, Congress passed an act which revoked the restrictive system, yet excluded British and armed vessels from the waters of the United States.
The younger Esquirat had made over his inheritance to Simon de Montfort by a first will, and then, offended at the grasping nature of Simon, had revoked his will and constituted Lore his heiress.
But Charles afterwards revoked his abdication, which had been wrung from him by his terrors, and Ferdinand refused to withdraw his claim to having succeeded his father on the surrender of the crown by the old man.
But on the morning of that day Lydgate had to learn that Rosamond had revoked his order to Borthrop Trumbull.
Indignant at this rumour, Sigismund, on the 8th of April, by the advice of the Council, revoked all the letters of safe-conduct which he had granted.
Then, and not till then, were the decrees actually revoked by Napoleon.
For a year and a half the United States had acted on the assumption that France had recalled her decrees, and that England had notrevoked her orders.
But meanwhile the President, in November, issued a proclamation announcing that France had complied with the act of the previous May and revoked the decrees, while the English orders in council remained unrepealed.
Indeed, so completely had it passed out of mind, that the American minister in London, Mr. Pinkney, was obliged to ask the British foreign secretary whether that order had been revoked or was still considered as in force.
These decrees were declared to be fundamental laws, which could never be revoked by King or Cortes, and Charles' acceptance of them was made the condition of his return.
On the 16th of July, Clement, yielding to the wishes of Charles, revoked the powers he had given to Wolsey and Campeggio to try the question of Henry's divorce in England, and cited the cause to Rome.
On May first, 1810, Congress enacted that trade with Great Britain should be forbidden if France revoked her decrees, and vice versa.
Citing the abuses which had from immemorial times resulted from the confusion of temporal with spiritual power in the papacy, itrevoked the donation of Charles the Great to Hadrian I (made a thousand years before!
The commercial treaty with Morocco had done the country the greatest injury; and finally, Bernstorff had revoked a royal decree about embroidery on clothes, and thus insulted the hereditary sovereign.
If Danneskjold came, the king yielded to his will, and revoked what he had just sanctioned, and was so weak as to allow the person who last spoke to him to be in the right.
Mr. Randolph made a contract with him last year, of this nature, which our government revoked afterward.
I learn to-day that the Secretary of War revoked the order confiscating blockade goods brought from the enemy's country.
The Assembly of Virginia passed a resolution yesterday, calling upon the President to have revoked any orders placing restrictions upon the transportation of provisions to Richmond and Petersburg.
License may be refused orrevoked by the board for misstatement in application, for fraud or fraudulent practices, for untrustworthiness or incompetence in real-estate business.
The publication shall include the names of those real-estate brokers and salesmen whose licenses have been revoked at any time within one year prior to the time of the issue of publication.
The French Government had brought so much pressure to bear on the feeble King of Spain that he revoked the Constitution which, at a better moment, he had {43} granted to his people.
The grant of parish relief under the old ways has been humorously likened to a State pension, which, when it has once been given, is never supposed to be revoked during the lifetime of the privileged pensioner.
Pray Heaven, that if haply it do, it will berevoked and forgotten!
And supposing the first case, the defendant might say, either that the will was forged, or was made when the testator was of unsound mind, or was revoked by a later.
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