Since, then, Congress is the sole legislature within the District, and since its power is limited only by the checks common to all legislatures, it follows that what the law-making power is intrinsically competent to do any where, Congress is competent to do in the District of Columbia.

We can neither reverse the physical nor the moral laws of our nature, and as this movement is an attempt to reverse these laws, and to devolve upon the female sex important and laborious duties for which they are not by nature physically competent, I am not prepared to support this bill.

Yet you could not rightly call them amateurs either; each of them had taken a short course in nursing, it seemed, and was amply competent to perform many of the duties a regular nurse must know.

Her master was barely competent to the ordinary duties of his command; and it was no surprise to me when the first storm that we encountered drove us completely out of our course, nor was I much astonished that the captain was for some days, partly from fright and partly from drink, incapable of using his sextant to ascertain the position of the ship.

I assume that the acting is merely competent enough to pass muster without irritating us, and so distracting our attention.]

But there at the Front and in the Forest you were brave and extraordinarily competent.

Let us even suppose that the factory is ready and that the proprietor must mobilize his managers, overseers, foremen, and labour from far and neara force individually competent, but which had never before worked together.

The estate in danger is not his, but that of his father, who presumably was the only man legally competent of action in case of eviction.

Jules, however, proved unresentful; and he was marvellously competent.

* I have on the day of 191 seen and examined and hereby certify that she is apparently in good health, that she is not labouring under any deformity, and is, in my opinion, both physically and mentally competent to undertake duty in a Military Hospital, and is [*

I remember when old Doc Hoover, just after his wife died, bought a mighty competent nigger, Aunt Tempy, to cook and look after the house for him.

It was a startling exhibit of national danger from one professionally competent to judge and officially entitled to advise.

For something in his eye made it plain that, with all his other qualities, our merry greenbacker was a reasonably competent hand at a bargain; so that I was not in the least surprised when his seat-mate told me afterward, in a tone of much respect, that the "Colonel" owned a very comfortable property at St. Augustine.

After which childish display he pulled himself together and indented on Corps Educational Branch for four hundred treatises on elementary Arabic, Arabic being the sole respectable subject in which he was even remotely competent to instruct.

The nature of my calling so far separates me from public life that I am scarcely competent for the office of alluding to the elements which naturally gather around his career.

Agriculture, commerce and trade, the cultivation of cotton, education, the arts of design, banking, mining, steam, the fur-trade, etc., are subjects of interest everywhere, and the present writers seem to be specially competent for the task they have assumed.

Frances was strangely competent and collected....

It would be no easy matter to find a tolerably competent individual who more venerates the writings of Waterland than I do, and long have done.

But more than this, there are many single regiments whose members, one and another, possess full practical knowledge of all the arts, sciences, professions, and whatever else, whether useful or elegant, is known in the world; and there is scarcely one from which there could not be selected a President, a Cabinet, a Congress, and perhaps a court, abundantly competent to administer the Government itself.

His journal shows the state of the new settlements as seen by an unusually competent observer; for he was an intelligent, well-bred, thinking man.

It was shameful that a grave injustice should be done to a girl who was admittedly competent in the fulfilment of all her duties, and he had not tried to conceal his opinion from Father Peter during dinner and after dinner, leaving him somewhat earlier than usual, for nothing affronted him more than injustice, especially ecclesiastical injustice.

Still this "learned priest," though antecedently as competent a critic as Manetho, is so portentously mythical in his accounts, that "no historical value can be attached to them," which must be regretted, since he pushes history back a quarter of a million years prior to the Deluge, and the Deluge itself to about half a million years ago.

"In a busy week a comparatively competent 'sweater' may earn from 18s.

As an officer at the front writes to a friend: "These animals look so dreadfully competent, I am quite sure they can swim.