But whatever Lancelot saw, or thought he saw, I cannot say that it brought him any nearer to a solution of the question; and he at last ended by a sulky acquiescence in Sam Weller's memorable dictum: 'Who it is I can't say; but all I can say is that SOMEBODY ought to be wopped for this!'

A man's eyes can only see what they've learnt to see.' Lancelot started: it was a favourite dictum of his in Carlyle's works.

"Nobody was ever at one and the same time more factious and more dictatorial," is the clever dictum of M. Saint Marc Girardin.

and I do draw the enemy's shafts, for there is no man that heareth my contumacious dictums

It is the one exception to the critical dictum that all his good work was done in the decade between 1798 and 1808.

There is a curious dictum of Napoleon I. quoted in Hume's Précis of Modern Tactics, p. 15, of which I can neither find the original authority nor do I fully understand the meaning.

Now, however, we are told that this hope is vain, that acquired characteristics are not transmitted by heredity, and that the old folk-proverb "it is only three generations between shirtsleeves and shirtsleeves," is perhaps more scientifically exact than the evolutionary dictum of the nineteenth century.

A quotation of six lines from Wither ends at the top of the very page on which Mr. Parr lays down his extraordinary dictum, and we will let this answer him, Italicizing the words of Romanic derivation: "Her true beauty leaves behind Apprehensions in the mind, Of more sweetness than all art Or inventions can impart; Thoughts too deep to be expressed, And too strong to be suppressed.

A better opportunity for the South to obtain a favorable dictum could never be expected to arise.

Agonizingly, I began to see the penny-wise-pound-foolish dictum again at work (as I had, in the later stages, of WCT's short life.)

You have all heard that impressive dictum that some particular theatrical display, although moving, interesting, and continually entertaining from start to finish, was for occult technical reasons "not a play," and in the same way you are continually having your appreciation of fiction dashed by the mysterious parallel condemnation, that the story you like "isn't a novel."

"What bet will you take that a new one will be the first thing subscribed for?" said the deacon, bringing a certain grave look on the faces of both the elder clergy, and a horror-stricken one upon Anne's; while Cecil pronounced her inevitable dictum, that at Dunstone Mr. Venn always preached in a gown, and "we" should never let him think of anything nonsensical.

You know the literary dictum, that the poet who hasn't written a masterpiece before he is thirty will never write any after.

Although Gray's own modest dictum was the foundation of the first of these harsh criticisms, we are unable to allow the truth of the one and must strongly protest against the other.

The young fellow sitting near me winked; and the divinity-student said, in an undertone,Optime dictum.

When one throws off a subtly philosophic obiter dictum one looks to the discerning critic to supply the meaning.

Thus the formula of justice becomes: "Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man "a law which finds its authority in the facts, that it is an a priori dictum of "consciousness after it has been subject to the discipline of prolonged social life," and that it is also deducible from the conditions of the maintenance of life at large and of social life.

" In connection with hops, the proverb runs that "hops make or break;" and no hop-grower, writes, Mr. Hazlitt, "will have much difficulty in appreciating this proverbial dictum.

The silly dictum was repeated and repeated in the English papers after the battle of the Marne.

and with this specious dictum he drew himself up and met the astonished eyes of his sister Olympia, who had been apprised of his coming.

To them, indeed, I frankly reiterated a terse dictum which I had coined during my first period of elation.

"In an extraordinary situation extraordinary resolution is needed," was the saying of the Great Napoleon, and to no crisis in our history was this dictum more applicable than that at Delhi in September, 1857.

No work, no joy, is the universal dictum.

In a federal case[10] the judge, in a brief and acute dictum, recognized the evil of a rate war that would result from threats of definite cuts.