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If they can legally vote for men to get in why can't men vote for them?" "That is the pint," sez Josiah, "that is the very pint I have been tryin' to explain to you. Wimmen can help men to office, but men can't help wimmen; that is law, that is statesmanship.
At four periods pestilence grows apace: in the fourth year, in the seventh, at the conclusion of the seventh year, and at the conclusion of the Feast of Tabernacles in each year: in the fourth year, for default of giving the tithe to the poor in the third year; in the seventh year, for default of giving the title to the poor in the sixth year; at the conclusion of the seventh year, for the violation of the law regarding the fruits of the seventh year, and at the conclusion of the Feast of Tabernacles in each year, for robbing the poor of the grants legally assigned to them.
The dignity of their birth was preserved by pure and equal alliances; their sons alone, who could produce four quarters or lines of ancestry without spot or reproach, might legally pretend to the honor of knighthood; but a valiant plebeian was sometimes enriched and ennobled by the sword, and became the father of a new race.
Deft manipulation contrived that though its stock was legally vested in Cochrane and Holden and Jones Cochrane negligently threw in Jones as a convenient name to use and they were officially the owners of nearly all the stock, nobody who checked up would believe they were anything but dummies.
If I were but legally executor of Johnny's will! If I had but the right to pay your legacy and to take your receipt! Something to this purpose surely mingled with the blast of the train as it cleared the stations, all knowingly shutting up their green eyes and opening their red ones when they prepared to let the boofer lady pass.
They hired slaves to the slaves themselves whether legally permitted or not; they sent them on responsible errands to markets dozens of miles away, often without providing them with passes; they sanctioned and encouraged assemblies under conditions prohibited by law; they taught their slaves at will to read and write, and used them freely in forbidden employments.
The true reason why the slave states have held this theory, probably is, because it would give, or appear to give, to the states the right of determining who should, and who should not, be citizens of the United States. Again. If the constitution was established by authority of all "the people of the United States," they were all legally parties to it, and citizens under it.
You?" she repeated at intervals, mechanically, dazed still, lost in a whirl of conflicting emotions wherein fear, amazement, and a certain vein of superstitious horror fought a hard battle in her dizzy brain. "The risks," she murmured more coherently. "Bah!" "If she discover you, before ... before ..." "Before she is legally my wife?
I cannot legally force you to hold the estate of the Val d'Erraha. I can only ask you as the daughter of one of my best friends to accept the benefit of a very small doubt." Eve hesitated. What woman would not? Captain Bontnor set down his cup very gravely on the table. "I don't rightly understand," he said sturdily, "this 'rotas' business.
Jerold has assured me it is legally mine." "I know what Mr. Jerold thinks," replied the attorney. "It nettled him to hear me repeat that story. 'Why, it's incredible," he said. "'There are documents I drew up last fall that refute it completely." Mr. Bromley paused, then went on slowly: "Last fall you were in a hospital, Mr.
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