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If the right existed to form a constitution at all, the power of Congress in relation to the instrument was limited to the simple inquiry: is it republican? In this view of the case it would not matter to him the ninety-ninth part of a hair whether a people should chose to admit or exclude slave property. Their right to enter the Union would be a thing apart from that consideration.
The offences against military law are determined by the "Rules and Articles of War," in which the principal offences are distinctly set forth and forbidden; and, that unanticipated misconduct may not be without cognizance and punishment, the ninety-ninth article includes all such cases under the charge of "conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," which is of universal scope.
When it was the Five Hundred and Ninety-ninth Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the merchant's son said to his sire, "There is no help for it but that I journey to Baghdad."
My attention has just been attracted to this subject, by the perusal of a long story, which must be not far from the one hundred and ninety-ninth that I have read during the past twenty years, all tipped with the same general moral. A good-natured lady, in easy circumstances, and of benevolent impulses, is appealed to by a poor man in the kitchen.
I do not wish to prefer any charges." "Do you, Captain Prescott?" demanded the colonel. "No, sir." "You, Captain Holmes?" "No, sir." If any of the trio had hoped this much explanation would prove satisfactory to the E.O. of the Ninety-ninth, that one had reckoned without his host.
Up the street, away from where the Ninety-ninth American sentries were posted, soldiers of the American military police patrolled. "You see how American this city has become," said Captain Ribaut. "Here French law runs only for citizens of France. Your American military authorities look after your own men."
Hans, dear, do leave off laughing at those poems for the ninety-ninth time, and come too. I have something wonderful to tell." "As if I didn't know that, ma.
Gentlemen, do you wish to offer me any further explanation at this moment?" "I have said all that I really can say, sir," protested Cartwright, "except that I do not harbor any unkind feelings for what has taken place." Steps were heard on the stairs, and other officers of the Ninety-ninth came upon the scene.
"What do you think of the new K.O.?" Dick asked, as he picked a newspaper up from the desk and started to fan himself. "He means business," Greg returned. "I am glad he does," Dick went on. "This is no time for slack soldiering. Greg, I'll feel consoled for working eighteen hours a day if it results in making the Ninety-ninth the best infantry regiment of the line." "Can it be done?"
"I dare not," answered Bridgenorth, "lay even the ninety-ninth part of a grain of incense upon an altar erected to Satan." "How, sir!" said the lady; "do you bring Satan into comparison with our master King Charles, and with my noble lord and husband?" "Pardon me, madam," answered Bridgenorth, "I have no such thoughts indeed they would ill become me.
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