And the land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, saith the Lord; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me."[14] The attentive reader of the Mosaical law will observe, that though a Hebrew could not divest himself of his land in perpetuity, he could dispose of it so far as to put another person in possession of it during a certain number of years; reserving to himself and his relations the right of redeeming it, should they ever possess the means; and having at all events the sure prospect of a reversion at the period of the jubilee. — from Palestine, or, the Holy Land: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell
passed in pursuance of its delegated
Mr. Doolittle moved to amend the proposed substitute (the Crittenden Proposition), by the insertion of the following, as an additional Article: "Under this Constitution, as originally adopted, and as it now exists, no State has power to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the United States; but this Constitution, and all laws passed in pursuance of its delegated powers, are the Supreme Law of the Land, anything contained in any Constitution, Ordinance, or Act of any State, to the contrary notwithstanding. — from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan
pain in peril or in death
I do—I do—and so should you, methinks— That these are demons: could it be else that Men, who have been of women born and suckled— Who have loved, or talked at least of Love—have given Their hands in sacred vows—have danced their babes 120 Upon their knees, perhaps have mourned above them— In pain, in peril, or in death—who are, [142] Or were, at least in seeming, human, could Do as they have done by yours, and you yourself— You , who abet them? — from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5
Poetry by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
poverty in periods of industrial depression
Baneful it is henceforth for all branches of social production which the mad and unorganized pursuit of profits subjects to disastrous perturbations, to periodical crises swamping the market and lasting amid failures and shut-downs until the outlets for goods once more open up; baneful for all the workers, worked to utter exhaustion in periods of business activity and reduced to wretched poverty in periods of industrial depression, during which they suffer from want of everything, because there is, relatively to the purchasing power of the people, too much of everything—(here — from Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism by Gabriel Pierre Deville
[554] The design, engraved upon a copper plate, is printed off in divisions upon pieces of parchment ten inches long, each numbered according to its order. — from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.
put in peril of immediate death
I have heard it asserted that the experience I have here described was only that of persons who, in the full vigor of life and health, were suddenly put in peril of immediate death; and that whatever regret, repentance, or remorse might afflict the last moments of elderly persons, or persons prepared by previous disease for dissolution, this species of revelation, by the sudden glare of death, of the whole past existence was not among the phenomena of death-beds. — from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble
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