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Doubtless other laws were enacted, such as were necessary for the settlement, though no record of them is extant.
Here their life activities, their struggles, their conquests, and silent tragedies are enacted before the eyes of the observer.
He knows nothing, sees nothing, hears nothing, save that which is being enacted before the senses of his soul.
Tom Paine was one of their number, participated in their deliberations, helped to get up the constitution they enacted.
Browning, a leading member of that convention, drafted a drainage bill which was enacted into a law without change.
They were to work the ordinary factory hours, as enacted by statute, and to be paid the ordinary wages.
Yet he made it somehow, and unnoticed, for all eyes were turned on the tense drama being enacted below.
There would be substantially the same reason in enacting mathematics by statute, that there is in enacting natural law.
More recently general statutes have been enacted whereby individuals may form such corporations without the aid of a legislature.
A board was appointed to enact laws, and judges were selected for the decision of all matters in dispute.
Under those protective enactments, citizens grow up in comparative peace, and become capable of enacting further and superior laws.
Round the beds on which your solitary drama is enacted, men are still taking part in a sinister comedy.
The scene is one of the most memorable that has ever been enacted within the proud city of Athens.
What reason could there be for enacting this law, if the principles of the law of 1807 were correct?
Jack at the head of the stairs could look down upon the tragedy being enacted on the floor below.
In 1887 a measure was enacted for the regulation of interstate railways, commonly known as the Interstate Commerce Act.
Beth played her gayest march, Amy threw open the door, and Meg enacted escort with great dignity.
Conscription was introduced, not by law enacted by responsible elected representatives of the people, but by decree.
All the achievements of the race, of which we know anything, have been enacted since that figure was carved.
What a beautiful stream, indeed, is this, and how fond history has been of enacting its spectacles upon it!
He pictured her, always in new landscapes of more than earthly beauty, enacting a hundred scenes of uninterrupted tenderness.
I do not know what to suspect, except that I have a strong idea of some unfair play having been enacted.
In still other cases a drama of death and resurrection is enacted by the novices or played before them.
He thought very wisely that they looked too clean and neat for the parts they were endeavoring to enact.
Randolph Schuyler, a well-known society lady, live a double life and enact Miss Van Allen, a gay butterfly girl?
Historic scenes have been enacted on its shores, and Indian, Dutchman, Briton, and American have invested it with romance.
The law forbids it, a law enacted rather because you are not competent than to disgrace you when competent.
They announce the universal rights of man and then enact into law enough to augment the rights of property.
Meanwhile, very different scenes were on the point of being enacted only twice ten miles from the spot.
Sidney at once proceeded to remedy the evils under which the unfortunate country groaned, by enacting other evils.
He shuddered, failed, and seemed about to faint, as he recalled the horrible tragedy enacted in the room that night.
While this scene of violence was being enacted Phil was perfectly happy and strangely unconscious of any trouble.
State after state enacted new laws and instituted new methods solely on the showing of this one woman.
A governing body might enact any laws, but they would not be obeyed unless consonant with human nature.
New laws must be enacted by Congress, and new treaties formed between the Indians and the United States.
New and improved Edition; with the Statutes enacted, and the Judicial Decisions pronounced since the last Edition incorporated.
For although Henry James cannot write plays he can write passing well of the people who enact them.
The scene enacted by John and Herod is today reproduced in almost every kingdom of the old world.
Every law, then, which is not unjust, and which the public good demands, should be enacted by society.
They saw the crowd getting ready to depart for the enacting of the final drama in that locality.
Though from time to time many restrictive statutes have been modified and many repealed, other restrictive statutes have been enacted.
I would enact a law, compelling a man, before being granted a license, to show a certificate of financial success.
When this grand ceremony was finished, a most poignant scene was enacted on the slopes of the hill.
They would be quite as ready to pass a law prohibiting strikes as to enact a statute fixing maximum wages.
He enacted that no one should in future be so dealt with without formal trial and the right of appeal.
The scene which had been enacted five months before on this spot was now repeated in a more fatal manner.
In Buddhist monasteries a rigid obedience, together with a quite superstitious respect for the person of a superior, is enacted.
Necessary as such an incorporation was for the very existence of the Union, no constitutional union had ever been enacted.
We have enacted laws protecting the rights and the welfare of our working people and the income of our farmers.
One of these scenes is just now enacting in this good lady's apartment, upon which we will raise the curtain.
Dolly was satisfied with the outcome of the discussion, but quite another scene was being enacted next door.
He was a legislator: bad laws he abolished, and enacted such as were required by an improved state of society.
In the meantime a scene unusual at that hour was being enacted on the forward part of the berth deck.
The scene was so very well enacted that a "Bravo" broke from the learned group around the table.
All this takes time to tell, but I do not suppose that it took more than fifteen seconds to enact.
They also enacted an ordinance for the celebration of this day year by year, the thirteenth day of Adar.
The next income tax law was that of 1894, enacted in connection with the tariff revision of that year.
They gave a shrill cheer, and then raced away shuddering from the scene of so much rapidly enacted tragedy.
Every year new laws and amendments are enacted in several of the states, and the advance is very marked.
At this very hour an amusing scene was enacting among the lunatics in the large hall of the asylum.
This is a particularly enjoyable game for an older person to play with children, the former enacting the farmer.
Near the hour of two o'clock in the morning another scene of this drama was enacted, twenty-six miles away.
We were about to enter upon the real stage of action, and do our part in the mighty tragedy then enacting.
All possible scenes in history or imagination that she understood did the child try to enact in the wilderness.
These horrible scenes must continue to be enacted till the nations of the earth shall learn war no more.
It was a scene that is enacted every day of every year by fathers and daughters, mothers and sons.
This proposal was enacted into law on June 18, 1910; and the appointments were duly made by the President.
Then only did the two old ladies understand that they had looked on whilst a tragedy had been enacted.
As the wine mounted to their heads, in the mirth of drink and desperation, they enacted their own trial.
I did not realize then that one of the greatest tragedies of history was being enacted under my eyes.
The stenographer, as he read from his notes, reproduced the entire scene which had been enacted two weeks before.
Many stirring scenes have been enacted at this place that would furnish foundation for romantic story or bloody tragedy.
A kind of sob came from my friend at the swift little tragedy enacted in the wonderful morning light.
Careful, then, should every parent be how he enacts a law, the very existence of which insures its violation.
The Sioux had forced them into a ravine, and here was enacted the closing scene of the bloody drama.
Last month, I signed a compromise national energy bill which enacts a part of my comprehensive energy independence program.
Here all the laws were enacted; here all the military movements and other affairs of state were decided upon.
After the ceremony is over, every one retires to hit own dwelling, to enact the sultan to his subordinates.
Why enact laws to prevent the commission of acts, which their own examples encourage and aid, and even induce?
Although a law was subsequently enacted, to effect this very desirable object, it has been almost wholly without operation.
Then was a scene enacted such as perhaps was never before witnessed, nor has it since, in all probability.
From this vessel we learned that during the past season a fearful tragedy had been enacted at the group.
He initiated wise and far-reaching improvements, including the first forestry program, which were enacted into law by later governors.
Next, in regard to the ignorant and simple, for whose protection from imposition or fraud, these laws are enacted.
It was then enacted that all who favored the allies should be considered guilty of treason to the state.
Certainly you are not, if you want all the great people pulled down, and the most dreadful scenes enacted.
Am I right in saying that the rules enact that the ball shall be played from where it lies?
To assure this the colonial legislature enacted a law requiring the maintenance and support of schools by the towns.
Not a line of the tragedy that was being enacted before his eyes escaped this native son of the wilderness.
The dialogue could now be carried on by the two actors, who were thus able to enact a complete story.
They would realize democracy, happiness, they believed, when their state represented labor and enacted statutes in its behalf.
Towns are laid out, villages and cities are incorporated, in accordance with the provisions of laws enacted by State legislatures.
It is proper, therefore, that new legislation should be enacted upon this subject in order to meet the changed conditions.
Whichever is most advisable should be enacted now; namely, that there be or be not rewards, at your Majesty's pleasure.
Confucius still enacts the law for China; and the thoughts and ideas of Peter the Great govern Russia.
Kruger, was afterwards enacted, we must assure ourselves that the sad climax was bound to have come sooner or later.
A bill of great value enacted that all proceedings in courts of justice should henceforth be in the English tongue.
People are very unconscious, as a rule, of the tragedy, the drama or the comedy being enacted before their eyes.
The band would probably return during the night, and in the morning the last scene would be enacted.
This function is exhibited as power to control in greater or less measure the pure reflexes enacted by the system.