291 collocations for refer

" A more minute description follows, of the dress of the male and female lunarians, especially of that of the latter, to which we can merely refer the reader.

" It must not be supposed that Mr. P. submitted tamely to this outrage, but after a long dispute, it was agreed to refer the matter to the arbitration of three of the principal citizens.

And if in the present-day situation of affairs we cannot refer every question which arises directly to the nation, we must at least do away with the one-man-Secretary system, and have in his place a large and responsible committee, representative, not of any one party or class but as far as possible of the whole people.

When the National Assembly came to examine grievances it found protests against the judicial system from every corner of France, and it referred these petitions to a committee which reported in August, 1789.

But I will refer this subject to its proper season.

The inhabitants gradually referred all their disputes to the Grand Prince; and he, profiting by the growing desire to erect him into the sole judge of their domestic grievances, at length summoned the citizens to appear before him at Moscow.

There was quite enough doubt as to my power of acting, to have justified me in referring the case to the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjâb.

In French we find this joint called surlonge, which so closely resembles our sirloin, that we may safely refer the two words to a common origin.

Edward III. had referred this claim to Parliament, and the Parliament had rejected it without hesitation on the ground that John had no power to bind the realm without its consent.

[Footnote 4: I would here refer my student to the soliloquywith its sea of troubles, and the taking of arms against it.

A patriot is he whose publick conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest.

On July 14th the Admiralty referred to me a Memorial of Mr J.G. Ulrich, a chronometer maker, claiming a reward for improvements in chronometers.

" "To what would you refer the decision, my dear madam?" inquired the Lady Laura.

To the Senate of the United States: I have the honor to transmit herewith a report submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate of the 3ist July last, requesting to be furnished with certain information in relation to the commerce, etc., of the district of Brazos Santiago, in Texas.

Aristotle refers the cause of them to common sense, but placed in the fancy.

He may believe in a moral sense, like Shaftesbury; he may refer all human actions to self-interest, like Helvetius; or he may never think about the matter at all.

(Writers on the history of chivalry are unable to refer its origin to any definite time or place; and even specific definition of chivalry is seldom attempted by careful students.

then moved to refer the address of the annual assembly of Friends, held at Philadelphia, to a committee; he thought it a mark of respect due so numerous and respectable a part of the community.

120 'Hold,' says the fowl; 'since human pride With confutation ne'er complied, Let's state the case, and then refer The knotty point: for taste may err.' As thus he spoke, from out the mould An earth-worm, huge of size, unrolled His monstrous length.

If this were the case there would be no common standard to which to refer our sensations; and, indeed, coming into existence with no consciousness of environment except such as we could form by our own unaided thought, and having by the hypothesis no standard by which to form our thoughts, we could not form the conception of any environment at all, and consequently could have no recognition of our own existence.

In reply, Mr. PUNCHINELLOalthough his own opinion is that the mistake has been in making it rather dollar-ous than cent-imentalwould refer his correspondent to the artist.

He referred the House to various instances of this in the evidence: but there was one in particular, from which we might immediately infer the frequency of the practice.

To this head alone, ought to be referred all the rules of construction by which our articles, our nominatives, our adjectives, our participles, our adverbs, our conjunctions, our prepositions, and our interjections, are to be parsed.

So Mahomet referred his new laws to the angel Gabriel, by whose direction he gave out they were made.

I cannot, therefore, discover any reason, my lords, that should induce us to refer to a committee this bill, of which part is confessedly to be rejected, and the rest is apparently superfluous.

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