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A somewhat similar act had, as we have also seen, revived the discussion a few years later, when the minister of the day had shown a more temperate feeling on the subject. On neither occasion, however, had the question of the privileges of the Lords been definitively settled; and no occasion had since arisen for any consideration of the subject.
Nor is this all; it is a constitution peculiarly English: and who is there so base, so vile, so untrue to himself, to his fathers, to his descendants, as to turn his back on a constitution that is thoroughly and inherently English, a constitution that he has inherited from his ancestors, and which by every obligation both human and divine he is bound to transmit unchanged to posterity"; here the orator, who continued to speak, however, was deafened by shouts of applause, and that part of the subject might very fairly be considered as definitively settled.
I should like to know their names." "The Seacombes." "Stuff! I have cut them." Hunsden looked at me incredulously. "I have," said I, "and that definitively." "You must mean they have cut you, William." "As you please.
By 1795 France seemed definitively committed to a republican form of government, which, however, would not be extremely radical but only moderate, being now founded on the bourgeoisie rather than on the proletariat. The constitution of the first French Republic was drawn up by the National Convention during the last year of its session and after it had passed under bourgeois influence.
By a common understanding between the Governments it was agreed that no exercise of exclusive jurisdiction by either party while the negotiation was pending should change the state of the question of right to be definitively settled. Such collision has, never the less, recently taken place by occurrences the precise character of which has not yet been ascertained.
Of the interminable train of shames and brutalities entailed by this pernicious system, I shall mention here only a single one the sentencing and punishment of an accused person in the midst of the proceedings against him, and while his guilt is not finally and definitively established.
This route, therefore, to the great regret of Washington and the indignation of the Virginia Assembly, was definitively adopted, and sixteen hundred men were immediately thrown in the advance from Raystown to work upon it.
She made no objection to the bit of elder-brother-ism, but half-way up to the summit of the spur she had her small fling at the conventions. "I don't admit that I ought not to have come alone; neither that, nor your right to question it," she said definitively. "You protest because you are conventional: so am I conventional but only so far as the conventions subserve some good end.
Mrs. le Maistre! cried another footman; 'my lady's in the carriage, and Miss Nugent. 'Miss Nugent! is she? cried Mrs. le Maistre, running downstairs, followed by Anne. 'Now, for the world in pocket-pieces wouldn't I have missed seeing him hand Miss Nugent in; for by that I could have judged definitively. 'My lord, I beg pardon!
Soon four Risler Presses were definitively set up and used in the work of the factory. People began to take a deep interest in them and in the wall-paper trade. Lyons, Caen, Rixbeim, the great centres of the industry, were much disturbed concerning that marvellous "rotary and dodecagonal" machine.