Parliaments and Senates may represent the general will of the community, and may pass laws and administer them as public sentiment approves.
There were no more Catos, no more phantom Senates to lend to rebellion the pretended dignity of a national cause.
Senates of Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and South Carolina shall have permitted those States to vote).
His early struggles were dwelt upon and rehearsed by parents and pedagogues until every boy was looked upon as a possible Demosthenes holding senates in thrall.
We work for others; and to win the applause of senates or nations, and not be able to know that Some One is glad, takes all the sweetness out of victory.
Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Dings and senates might scrawl words on parchment or impress figures on wax; but those words and figures could no more change the course of the spiritual than the course of the physical world.
Judges and senates have been bought for gold, Esteem and love were never to be sold.
By that, in former reigns, 'tis said, The knave in power hath senates led.
As party-chiefs in senates who preside, With pleaded reason and with well turned speech Conduct the staring multitude; so these Direct the pack, who with joint cry approve, And loudly boast discoveries not their own.
If in his country's cause he rise, Debating senates to advise, Unbribed, unawed, he dares impart The honest dictates of his heart.
Nor did the bœotarchs think it safe to divulge their communications with Kleobûlus and Xenarês, or to acquaint the Senates that the whole plan originated with a powerful party in Sparta herself.
That sanction was to be obtained from “the Four Senates of the Bœotians;” bodies, of the constitution of which nothing is known.
Whenever the Christian religion was embraced by the civil power in any nation, there is no doubt but the magistrates and senates were fully instructed in the rudiments of it.
I lamented the necessity of making such a communication to the Senates of Bremen, Lubeck, and Hamburg; but my duty compelled me to do so, and I had long been accustomed to fulfil duties even more painful than this.
Him senates hear, whom never yet they heard, Contemptuous once, and now no less absurd.
Then in theSenates of your sinking state Show me the man whose counsels may have weight.
Debates of Senates dreadfully in earnest are seldom given frankly to the world; else perhaps they would surprise it.
But on the whole does not TIME envelop this present National Convention; as it did those Brennuses, and ancient August Senates in felt breeches?
They had none of the divine gifts that govern senates and guide councils.
Besides, the days are gone by forsenates to have their beards plucked in the forum.
Well canst thou boast, to lead in senates fit, A Spartan firmness with Athenian wit: Though yet in embryo these perfections shine, Lycus!
Or emulous of prouder sway, Dost thou to list'ning Senates take thy way?
All had richly endowed ecclesiastical establishments, municipal corporations enjoying large franchises, andsenates whose consent was necessary to the validity of some public acts.
It seemed, therefore, that the decisive hour was approaching, and that the English Parliament would soon either share the fate of the senates of the Continent, or obtain supreme ascendency in the state.
Which shook the nations through his lips, and blazed Till vanquished senates trembled as they praised.
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