So fill of fodder strew the bin, Who rules the loft, or heads the treat?
Well you may shudder," said the chief cook, "for such would have been your fate if our master's brother had not carried with him the talisman which rules the whirlpool.
The Lord Chancellor rules the kingdom in my stead.
Part C consists of a few tentative rules advanced with the notion of fixing classification practice within the office in certain doubtful cases.
According to all rules for such cases laid down and provided, Cecil's life ought to have been spent in alternations between feverish excitement and poignant remorse.
Under these circumstances, the right thing of course to do is to work out each character by the rules of metaphysical mathematics, and then to reverse the process and "prove" the result.
Robinson Crusoe could not have endured his life for a month without rules to live by.
A life without purpose is uncomfortable enough; but a life without rules would be a wretchedness which, happily, man is not constituted to bear.
The rules by which men live are chiefly drawn from the universal convictions about right and wrong which I have mentioned as being formed everywhere, under strong general influences.
Rightly or wrongly plays dealing with Biblical subjects are not allowed to be performed on the English stage, and the Censor's business is to see that the rules and regulations governing stage productions are duly observed.
But the direct effect of the Dramaturgie was to complete the task which Lessing had in previous writings begun, and to overthrow the dominion of the arbitrary French rules and the French models established by Gottsched.
The unities of time and place, with the Greeks mererules of convenience, French tragedy imposes upon itself as a permanent yoke.
She was quite ignorant of the rules and customs of the prison.
Other principles of policy, and other rules of government, and other maxims of office prevailed in the Committee of Mr. Hastings's devising.
Because it is totally alien to the character of the persons, the situation, the circumstances, and to all the rules of probability.
If his duties had gone no further than the regulation of an Eastern household, he ought to have kept the Nabob's mother there by the rules of that country.
The memory of notes falls into the classification of eye-impressions, and the rules of this class of memory applies in this case.
There are many points in some of these "systems" which may be employed to advantage in natural memory training, by divorcing them from their fantastic rules and complex arrangement.
There are three general rules that may be given in this matter of bestowing the voluntary attention in the direction of actually seeing things, instead of merely looking at them.
But the student who follows the rules which psychology has laid down may know that he is walking in the shortest path, and not wandering aimlessly about.
Well, really, the rules of this club are so extraordinary that I don't know.
No, really: you know it's against the rules of the club to coddle women in any way.
When two ladies quarrel in this club, it is against the rules to settle it when there are gentlemen present--especially the gentleman they are quarrelling about.
Certainly not: the rules of the club forbid anything of that sort.
Many of the best rules have never before appeared in print.
Even the Essenes, John's disciples, were displeased at his infringement of rules and customs.
He amplified Hillel's seven rules of interpretation into thirteen, by subdividing one into several, while he rejected another, and on his own authority added one which was quite new.
It is only according to prescribed rules that they endeavor to bring into agreement the sayings of Scripture, but they do not permit a man to teach unless he has learnt beforehand how to explain the Holy Scriptures.
To him his father recommended certain rules of life, among others a preference for agriculture: "Rather a small plot of land than a great magazine for goods.
The thirteen deductive rules of Ishmael are recognized as the complete form, but the system of Akiba, although partly opposed to it, was not thereby excluded from use, for both were equally employed by succeeding teachers.
It would indeed be absurd if the Jews were able to boast that we are not in a position to celebrate the Passover without the aid of their rules (calculations).
Akiba added a number of explanatory and deductive rules to those of Hillel and Nachum, and his additions afforded fresh means of development for the traditional law.
The Levitical rules of purity, so far as they related to the Temple, were therefore observed with peculiar care and rigorous strictness.
He was so intimately acquainted with the orthographicalrules of the Hebrew language, which render the transcription of the Holy Books almost a science, that he once wrote from memory the whole book of Esther without making a mistake.
This system differed materially from that employed by the Tanaites, for it went direct to the heart of the matter, while the other clung to the formulae of the rules of interpretation.
Nechunya ben Hakana was, however, an opponent of Nachum's system; he approved only the explanatoryrules as propounded by Hillel.
It began with the fundamental propositions of Hillel and Shammai, in order to fix by voting such rules as should hold good in all cases.
I always hated the four rules of arithmetic, and especially the first.
Their everyday practice consists in adapting themselves to the rules of life.
I have seen but little of her lately; but I liked to know that she was not far off; now Aniela will absorb me altogether, because I give to her that power which rules our likings, and makes us conscious of friendship.
I acknowledged he was right in the main, but this was an exceptional case, and general rulescould not apply to it.
Dozens of wild schemes were suggested for guessing the hour, by fortune-telling ruleson the cards; bets were offered and accepted among the prisoners who were not condemned to death, and witnessed in stoical mockery by the prisoners who were.
The rules of evidence in relation to such marvels are also clearly stated.
Philosophy can teach us no more than distinctions and degrees in the phenomenal law which pervades and rules a universe without a God.
Because the savage practises cannibalism, and knows no rules of chastity but those which flow from the husband's right of property in the wife, it is inferred that the savage has no moral sense.
But you and we may work by the same calculus and rules of observation.
Many theories have been expounded of how races always follow certain rules in their migrations, but in my own experience I do not invariably find that those theories are always correct.
It seemed that according to the social rules of Diamantino, Matto Grosso, no one could be considered fully dressed unless carrying an umbrella.
Here, again, the same general rules of good taste apply as to other ornaments.
Never be the first, under such circumstances, to violate the strict rules of convention.
Punctuation and attention to the general rules of composition should not be overlooked, as thus only can unmistakable intelligibleness be secured.
Abstract rules in relations to the hours proper for taking meals, however carefully adapted to the security of health, in themselves considered, must, of necessity, give place to those artificially imposed by custom and convenience.
The rules of etiquette properly observable in making ordinary ceremonious morning-visits, are also applicable to Morning Wedding-Receptions with slight variations.
Instead of giving sketches of particular costumes, it would, perhaps, be better and tend more to develop the importance of dress, if a few remarks were made on the generalrules which should guide one in selections for his own wear.
He adds good rules for mortar-making, and advises that the timber for house-building be cut in November or December in the old of the moon.
All such little troubles as breakdowns, hotels and traffic rules we were to manage by ourselves.
Gladys, thinking of all the traffic rules she might have broken in crossing the busy corner they just passed.
This gave them courage to lay down rules for perspective and to carry the foreshortenings precisely to the point which gives an exact imitation of the relief apparent in nature and the real form.
As to those painters who have written treatises on painting, they were in general too much taken up with giving rulesfor the operative part of the art, to enter into physical disquisitions on the nature of the objects.
The prevailing arrangement of his subjects is symmetrical, holding fast to the earliest rules of ecclesiastical art.
I conformed to the rules of the game; I soon had sense enough knocked into me to understand that the conditions were not of my making.
She became, as you say, a mechanical organization, substituting, as the Jews had done, hard and fast rules for inspiration.
There is something uncanny in the passion of a man whose life has been ordered by the inexorable rules of commerce, who has been wont to decide all questions from the standpoint of dollars and cents.
You never read anything except the sporting columns and the annual rules of tennis and golf and polo.
Laws are the rules of society, to be followed by those who have not found the inner guidance, who live and die in the flesh.
Besides, it is needful to remember what star and what sign of the Zodiac rules the sick person.
Do with it what the rules of religion enjoin, and omit nothing, so that the great deceased may not experience unquiet in that world through your fault.
Take his insistence upon the technique of Parliament, his regrets for the time when the rules of debate were perhaps better observed than they are now.
It is absurd to lay down any such little rules for the testing of literature.
But I wish that social reformers would more often remember that they are imposing their rulesnot on dots and numbers, but on Bob Sawyer and Tim Linkinwater, on Mrs. Lirriper and Dr.
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