In the day of their bloom it was the thing itself, the craze, the study, for its own sake; now it is the discipline, or any broad human culture, in which they may have been influential.

The latter, which it was hard to recruit on account of the growing effeminacy of the city, it was harder still to keep under discipline.

This is one of the best tests for determining the discipline and efficiency of troops.

The system of sentinels on fixed posts is of value in discipline and training because of the direct individual responsibility which is imposed and required to be discharged in a definite and precise manner.

The commander of the guard is responsible for the instruction and discipline of the guard.

Red martyrdom was death for the faith; white martyrdom was the discipline of fasting, labour and bodily austerities; while blue martyrdom was abnegation of the will and heartfelt sorrow for sin.

there is something as regards discipline itself which has its charm; it is wholesome and relieves the spirit to have one's life ordered in advance with no possible dispute, and consequently with no irresolution or regret.

Call them the results of a Divine Providence, seeking by a fresher current of life to revive systems of civilization which through long ages of luxury have come to frailty,still it was through this severity of discipline alone that Providence accomplished its end.

It is from swaddling-clothes, as the nursling of our Lady, and out of the sorrowful discipline of earth, that the child grows to be the Saviour, both for our Lady and for all her children.

This is the meaning of the old Indian fable which made two of the Rishis or penitents to have risen by the discipline of sorrow from some low caste,it may be, from very Pariahs,first to the rank of Brahmins, and at last to the stars.

Our colonial policy, prison-discipline, the state of the Hulks, agricultural distress, commerce and manufactures, the Bullion question, the Catholic question, the Bourbons or the Inquisition, "domestic treason, foreign levy," nothing can come amiss to himhe is at home in the crooked mazes of rotten boroughs, is not baffled by Scotch law, and can follow the meaning of one of Mr. Canning's speeches.

Another way Mary Elizabeth shows sense is the way she accepts discipline from the ol' nigger, Dicey.

Does it matter particularly?' 'My dear Johnny, there is discipline in the Church as well as in the army, you know.

Red martyrdom was death for the faith; white martyrdom was the discipline of fasting, labour and bodily austerities; while blue martyrdom was abnegation of the will and heartfelt sorrow for sin.

Declan judged it proper that he should visit Rome to study discipline and ecclesiastical system, to secure for himself esteem and approbation thence, and obtain authority to preach to the (Irish) people and to bring back with him the rules of Rome as these obtained in Rome itself.

From idolatry and slaveholdingthose twin-vices which had always so greatly prevailed among the heathenthey seem at length, as the result of a most painful discipline, to have been effectually divorced.

She was still under the strict discipline of a man-of-war.

And after work, obedience the best discipline, so he says in Past and Present, for governing, and "our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break."

The "slight passage" is one which, it will be seen, was "edged in" near the end of the second act, but taken out againthat beginning: I saw him [John Woodvil] in the day of Worcester fight, Whither he came at twice seven years, Under the discipline of the Lord Falkland (His uncle by the mother's side), etc. Lamb naïvely asks Southey, "But did Falkland die before the Worcester fight?

I saw him on the day of Naseby Fight To which he came at twice seven years, Under the discipline of the Lord Ashley, His uncle by the mother's side, Who gave his early principles a bent Quite from the politics of his father's house.

The imagination, indeed, has nothing to do with the elements of grammar; but in the exercise of composition, young fancy may spread her wings as soon as they are fledged; and for this exercise the previous course of discipline will have furnished both language and taste, as well as sentiment.

The discipline of our schools can never approach perfection, till those who conduct, and those who frequent them, are strongly actuated by that disposition of mind, which generously aspires to all attainable excellence.

The course of nature cannot be controlled; and fortune does not permit us to prescribe the same course of discipline for all.

But his presence there destroyed the discipline of the other children.

One summer morning this poor wretch, who had left the world a young man of three-and-twenty, found himself thrust out again from the grey simplicity of toil and discipline, that had become his life, into a dazzling freedom.