Blackstone says, and what he says every lawyer will concede is the end of the law, and the beginning too, for that matter, that when a woman becomes a wife, she loses her identity, becomes nobody; that her husband absorbs her existence, as it were, as he does her goods and chattels, in his own.

They were occasionally willing to concede that they might have been wrong when an analysis of the play was brought to their attention and they were firm in asserting discipline without becoming overheated on their own account.

Loth was William to concede such great powers to the Pope, but he could not be King of England without making a king of Canterbury.

And when we remember that for nearly forty years she escaped the scandals which made those times unique in infamy, we are forced to concede that on the whole she must have been a good woman.

I'll concede this, though: I think the smile was meant to be ingratiating.

Although he is ready to concede that a lie may, theoretically, be justifiable, he is sure that the moral sense of mankind is, at the present state of average development, against its propriety.

I heard him say once: "There are some things a man can't concede, and one is, that a man who has broken a law, like a man who has broken a leg, has got to suffer for it.

As to the housewife, I am not prepared to concede that my picture is in essentials very fanciful.

"I was wrong,too quick to resent, too ready to concede.

Never did a mother bathe the eyes of her son with tears of such exquisite joy, when he came home after news of his death in battle, as the Saracen king beheld this sudden apparition with Così vôto nel mezo, the concede Fresca stanza fra l'ombre più nascose: E la foglie coi rami in modo è mista, Che 'l Sol non v' entra, non che minor vista.

If they are innocent, I pronounce them so; if guilty, I concede their pardon.

If then we concede that the expression of opinion is a right of the same kind, it is impossible to contend that on this ground it can claim immunity from interference or that society acts unjustly in regulating it.

To-day the greatest of the Churches demands freedom of conscience in the modern States which she does not control, but refuses to admit that, where she had the power, it would be incumbent on her to concede it.

Locke would concede full liberty to idolaters, by whom he means the Indians of North America, and he makes some scathing remarks on the ecclesiastical zeal which forced these “innocent pagans” to forsake

Some may believe that the world has given birth to warriors more renowned, to rulers more skilled in statecraft, but all must concede that a purer, nobler man never lived.

Extremum hunc Arethusa mihi concede laborem.[4460] I am resolved howsoever, velis, nolis, audacter stadium intrare, in the Olympics, with those Aeliensian wrestlers in Philostratus, boldly to show myself in this common stage, and in this tragicomedy of love, to act several parts, some satirically, some comically, some in a mixed tone, as the subject I have in hand gives occasion, and present scene shall require, or offer itself.

If they are not indifferent, why did you previously concede them to be such?

Pater benigne, summa semper lenitas, Crimine gravatam plurimo mentem leva: Concede veram poenitentiam, precor, Concede agendam legibus vitam tuis.

Pater benigne, summa semper lenitas, Crimine gravatam plurimo mentem leva: Concede veram poenitentiam, precor, Concede agendam legibus vitam tuis.

An explicit declaration, that an "overwhelming majority" of the present Congress concede the power to abolish slavery in the District, has just been made by Hon.

An explicit declaration, that an "overwhelming majority" of the present Congress concede the power to abolish slavery in the District has just been made by Robert Barnwell Rhett, a member of Congress from South Carolina, in a letter published in the Charleston Mercury of Dec. 27, 1837.

The latter received his distinguished visitor with empressement, placed himself at his disposal, and intimated his intention of personally conducting him over the establishment, not being willing to concede to anybody else the honor of being his cicerone.

ALTHOUGH, signifying admit, allow, is from all and though; the latter being supposed the imperative of Thafian or Thafigan, to allow, to concede, to yield.

"But, King of Arles, how do you know that this is not an ordinary feather?" "Count of Poictesme, do people anywhere?" "Oh, spare me that vile bit of worldly logic, sir, and I will concede whatever you desire!"

This Government can never concede to any foreign government the power, except in a case of the most urgent and extreme necessity, of invading its territory, either to arrest the persons or destroy the property of those who may have violated the municipal laws of such foreign government or have disregarded their obligations arising under the law of nations.