Here the unwritten constitution, or the constitution written in the people themselves, rendered practicable and dictated the written constitution, or constitution ordained by the convention and engrossed on parchment.
Such is the sovereign people, and so far the original unwritten constitution.
She read his unwritten doubt, and therefore expected her unwritten misery to be read.
Among the seven or eight hundred thousand who have had Irish from the cradle, there is, perhaps, nobody who has not enough of the unwritten tradition to know good verses from bad ones, if he have enough mother-wit.
There is only one kind of good poetry, for the poetry of the coteries, which presupposes the written tradition, does not differ in kind from the true poetry of the people, which presupposes the unwritten tradition.
The giant had deferred to that unwritten law of the woods which reads that every man must win his own battles.
Then she blushed under his look of grave surprise, realizing that she had broken one of the unwritten canons of frontier etiquette.
At Athens in his second period for some twenty years he acquired the further advantage of balancing natural science by metaphysics and morals in the course of reading Plato's writings and of hearing Plato's unwritten dogmas (cf.
There was therefore a written Platonism for Aristotle to read, and an unwritten Platonism which he actually heard.
Aristotle had no sympathy with the unwritten dogmas of Plato.
In the unwritten lectures of his old age, he developed this formal into a mathematical metaphysics.
Accordingly in this dialogue he attacked Plato's fundamental position, both in its written and in its unwritten presentment, as a hypothesis both of forms and of formal numbers.
But she was far too correct not to make any sacrifice called for by the unwrittenlaw of her kind.
One of the unwritten rules of the service: 'Make no memoranda.
In deference to the representatives of authority, in respect for precedent and for the observances of unwritten custom, they went beyond their descendants on the frontier.
The next force was the conception of an unwritten law, of the binding power of custom.
He represented a principle of authority and resistance to the unwrittenpower of Parliament and to the control of the cabinet.
The discriminations so far mentioned have to do with unwritten practices; with customs which differ from community to community; there is another long series upon the statute books.
According to unwritten law, with the beginning of a new dynasty a new capital must be founded, and king T‘ă-jo began to look about for a new site.
By unwritten law the history of no dynasty in Korea has ever been published until after its fall.
And here we touch an unwritten chapter of the Divine life; for as the woman's love flows up around Jesus, casting its treasures at His feet, so the forgiveness must first have come from Jesus.
To everything a place, to everything a time; such is the unwritten law of the realm of physics, where Law is supreme, and anarchy is unknown.
After dinner our people scattered over the city, amusing themselves in various ways, and not having furnished the writer with reports of their experience, he can but note, “unwritten history.
I size up the crowd as they file in and find some are missing; they have dropped out of the ranks and escaped us, and--more “unwritten history.
These nocturnal outings of theirs will have to be noted down as “unwritten history.
With how sure an instinct, by the way, Chaucer has anticipated that unwritten law of the modern drama according to which low comedy characters always appear in couples!
Or had either of them failed to carry out that unwritten contract entered into in the halcyon period of courtship, by which young people promise to be and remain to each other all that they then appeared?
It was a face capable of saying unwritten things--fine and delicate in form, and yet full of an abundance of health and good spirits that shone in deep gray-blue eyes.
Now even the one dubious remnant of personal honor, according to crime's unwritten code, is swept away.
Those living there must conform to the unwritten social law, or risk the ostracising penalties.
The chapter that is unwritten in the book is also unwritten in the lives of perhaps the great majority of men and women.
There is an unwritten law that when one country intends to wage war against its neighbor a formal declaration shall be made.
She was scanning the unwritten pages of some reverie; her eyes, dark, large and wistful, were holding communion with the god of dreams.
It is not in writing only that they have bequeathed to us the tradition of the Church, but also in certain unwritten examples.
For if we neglect unwritten customs, as not having much weight, we bury in oblivion the most pertinent facts connected with the Gospel.
The eye-witnesses and ministers of the word handed down the teaching of the Church, not only by writing, but also by unwritten tradition.
Many things, therefore, being handed down to the Church by unwritten tradition and kept up to the present day, why do you speak slightingly of images?
It is written that our Lord was crucified on Calvary, and buried in a tomb, which Joseph hewed out of the rock; but it is unwritten tradition which identifies these spots, and does more things of the same kind.
As the written Gospel has been preached in the whole world, so has it been an unwritten tradition in the whole world to represent in image Christ, the incarnate God, and the saints, to adore the Cross, and to pray towards the east.
It is written that our Lord was crucified on Calvary, and buried in the tomb which Joseph hewed out of the rock, but it is unwritten tradition that teaches us we are adoring the right places, and many other things of the same kind.
These are but instances; every harem has itsunwritten tragedies.
