" Here is a third clause, which, like the other two, makes no mention of slavery or slaves, in express terms; and yet, like them, was intelligently framed and mutually understood by the parties to the ratification, and intended both to protect the slave system and to restore runaway slaves.

"We are worse off than our neighbours for the simple reason that it is the intention of the American system, which has been deliberately framed, and which is moreover the result of a bargain, to carry out its theory in practice; whereas, in countries where the institutions are the results of time and accidents, improvement is only obtained by innovations.

Aunt Sarah had these words neatly framed, and they have hung in her back parlor to this day.

Happily his constitution was framed to a singular temperament, which enabled him to require but very little sleep; and he was capable of enduring long and frequent fasting, when imposed upon him either by necessity or business, without any observable prejudice to his health, or any other inconvenience.

They are all beautifully framed in groups.

They painted upon tablets or panels, and not upon the walls,the panels being afterward framed and encased in the walls.

He would not expose the boy to the necessity of dividing the inheritance in accordance with badly framed laws.

The old monks belonged to that school, and they wrought out branches, leaves and leaf-veins, and framed the lacework of their chisels with colored glass most exquisitely.

Yes, we were purposely designed, and fitly framed, to understand and contemplate, to affect and delight in, to undertake and pursue most noble and worthy things; to be employed in business considerably profitable to ourselves, and beneficial to others.

" If Stephen had known Mercy from her childhood, he could not have framed his words more wisely.

Dr. Kane was slight, delicately framed, lean, with sharp, clear-cut features, of quivering mobility and fineness of texture, having the aspect rather of an artist than an explorer,not at all the personage to whom most judges would assign great power of endurance.

But they are admirably framed for the purpose of exhibiting striking groups of eccentric characters, each governed by his own peculiar whim, each talking his own peculiar jargon, and each bringing out by opposition the oddities of all the rest.

Lord Shaftesbury was tall and sparealmost gauntin figure, but powerfully framed, and capable of great exertion.

He relies on equity; he urges that the law ought to have been framed differently, if that was what was meant; but that the truth is, that whatever kinds of corruption could possibly exist were all meant to be included under the one term prevarication.

The schemes that have been diligently framed and executed for promoting your material convenience and advanceschemes unsurpassed in their magnitude and their boldnessbear witness before the world to the zeal with which that benignant promise has been fulfilled.

The bona fide settlers in Kansas who were opposed to slavery then assembled at Topeka, refused to recognize the bogus laws, and framed a constitution which President Pierce"a Northern man with Southern principles," gentlemanly and cultivated, but not strongpronounced to be revolutionary.

I noticed that the walls were hung with good oil paintings gorgeously framed, principally family portraits, but the most prominent in position was that of the unfortunate Haytian chief, Toussaint L'Ouverture, whose cruel end, at the instigation of the vindictive Bonaparte, will for ever reflect shame on the French name as long as a sense of justice and love of virtue and probity exists in the bosom of mankind.

The mouth was mobile, expressive, perhaps more habitually framed for pathos and the gentler feelings, than for laughter.

The Declaration was handsomely framed, and now hangs in the Vice President's room in the Capitol at Washington.

The entire history of European manforty centuries of wars, emigrations, and racial impactwas due, according to the doctor, to the desire of possessing this harmoniously framed sea, of enjoying the transparency of its atmosphere and the vivacity of its light.

Old Bullock was then called, a heavy-framed, sluggish giant, of that strong, old-fashioned type of head and face, now nearly out of date.

" Paul, like all men agitated by strong passion, was inconsistent, and far from just; and Eve felt the truth of this, even while her mind was ingeniously framing excuses for his weaknesses.

It is not probable, in the present state of the case, that a third constitution can be lawfully framed and presented to Congress by Kansas before its population shall have reached the designated number.

Some of the windows are leaden-framed lattices, opening on hinges.

The walls bore lightly framed photographs of men famous in the annals of flying, from Santos-Dumont and the Wrights to Gruynemer and Nosworthy; also pictures of famous machinesthe Spad, Bristol Fighter, Sopwith Pup, 120-135, and others.