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Updated: May 9, 2025
Every thing indicates poverty; but order and neatness preside over the room. The curtains of the little bed are white as snow, the stove is polished with black-lead till it shines, and the floor is sanded in Flemish style. Mignonette and violets bloom in a box on the window-sill, and a bird chirps in its cage above them.
At the table, different members of the family meet; and where affection and kindness, those aids to true politeness, preside, it is truly a delightful treat to be the guest of such a family. Every symptom of selfishness should be discouraged, for if suffered to take root in a child, it lays the foundation of much that is disagreeable to themselves and others.
The magistrates conceal those things which require to be kept unknown; and they disclose to the people whatever they determine to be expedient. It is not lawful to speak of the commonwealth, except in council. XXI. The Germans differ much from these usages, for they have neither Druids to preside over sacred offices, nor do they pay great regard to sacrifices.
It is exactly the opposite to the American position; in which the President does not preside at all. He moves; and the thing he moves may truly be called a motion; for the national idea is perpetual motion. Technically it is called a message; and might often actually be called a menace. Thus we may truly say that the King presides and the President reigns.
This was a custom which had been adopted by the Baroness for the suppers which were given by her husband at the close of his hunting parties; she dispensed with appearing at table on those days; perhaps she was too fastidious to preside at these lengthy seances of which the ruses of the hare, the death of the stag, and the feats of the hounds, formed the principal topics of conversation.
The Lord Justice-Clerk was head of the criminal justiciary of the country; he might have insisted on his right of being present on the bench when his son was tried; but he would never have been allowed to preside or to pass sentence. Now in a letter of Stevenson's to Mr.
The five years immediately succeeding our first treaty of peace with Great Britain have been truly defined, 'our period of greatest peril. It was fortunate, indeed, that Washington was called to preside over the historic convention of '87, and that his spirit a yearning for an indissoluble union of the States permeated all its deliberations.
In the previous summer King Philip had gone into Aragon to preside over the Cortes, and Vasquez, who had gone with him, had seized the opportunity to examine the ensign Enriquez, who had, meanwhile, denounced himself of complicity in the murder of Escovedo.
I will not need her to preside over my dinner-table to-day." "But, my lord," stammered the valet, "the countess " "Well what of her?" "The countess has been de gone for a week." "Gone, without taking leave? Where?" "There, my lord," replied the valet in a low voice, pointing upward toward heaven. "What does he mean, Binder?" asked Kaunitz, with a shrug. Binder shrugged responsive.
Proceed, then, my lords, with that sentence which the law directs I am prepared to hear it I trust I am prepared to meet its execution. I shall go, I think, with a light heart before a higher tribunal a tribunal where a Judge of infinite goodness, as well as of infinite justice, will preside, and where, my lords, many many of the judgments of this, world will be reversed."
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