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though it may prescribe a new

A legislature, without exceeding its province, cannot reverse a determination once made in a particular case; though it may prescribe a new rule for future cases.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

that it may produce a new

Sides are taken against "the compulsion and violence exercised by usages, customs, habits, and against [Pg 568] those who do not think, save by means of those laws, holding them sacred, with resolute soul and mind inert"; and "that audacious heroic spirit is celebrated, which raises itself above the laws and common morality that it may produce a new order of things."
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce

think it most pathetic and natural

I think it most pathetic and natural, also, that even in her grief and her aspiration for heaven, her words should have the tint of her time, and she should count freedom among the joys of eternity.
— from Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells

tester in my pocket and not

I know more o’ that matter than he does—no offence to his majesty: he knows no more of my purse, I’ll engage now, than he does of this man’s rick of bark and his dog: so I’ll keep my tester in my pocket, and not be giving it to this king o’ the gipsies, as they call him; who, as near as I can guess, is no better than a cheat.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

them in my presence And now

She took them, read them in my presence, And now and then an ample tear trill'd down Her delicate cheek.
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

thing It might perhaps a new

But all his subjects, to express the care 20 Of imitation, go, like Indians, bare: Laced linen there would be a dangerous thing; It might perhaps a new rebellion bring; The Scot, who wore it, would be chosen king.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

Thames is more pleasant and navigable

4. The river Thames is more pleasant and navigable than the Seine, and its waters better and more wholesome; and the bridge of London is the most considerable of all Europe.
— from Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic by Petty, William, Sir

To Introduce Maud P A new

To Introduce Maud P. —A new scholar recently appeared at a Board School with the accompanying letter: "Maud P. will be 6 years of age next january 30th 1905
— from School-Room Humour by T. J. (Thomas James) Macnamara

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