The British Constitution is the work of ages, the slow growth of many centuries, and if it could be transplanted to countries so totally unprepared for its reception, and there made to take root, it would be as great a miracle as if we were to take a mature plant and set it to grow on a stone pavement, or a great wooden stick, and plant it in a fertile soil, there to bear fruit.

After mature reflection she sent for Rámdá, who had known her from infancy.

We may grow to include some of them among the trivial incidents of childhooda broken toy, a promise made to us which was not kept, a harsh, heart-piercing wordbut these, too, as well as the bitter experiences and disappointments of mature years, are the tragedies of life.

And even Cicero at first consented to it, and allowed himself to be nominated with Servilius and three other senators, all of consular rank, but on more mature reflection he was convinced that he had been guilty of a blunder, and that the object of Antonius and his friends was only to gain time for Ventidius to join him with his three legions.

These essays on rhetoric were composed by Cicero when he was about one and twenty years of age, and he mentions them afterwards in his more elaborate treatise De Oratore, (Lib. i. c. 2,) as unworthy of his more mature age, and more extended experiences.

If there be any principle upon which our form of government is founded, and wherein it is different from aristocracies, monarchies, and despotisms, that principle is this: Every human being of mature powers, not disqualified by ignorance, vice or crime, is the equal of and is entitled to all the rights and privileges which belong to any other such human being under the law.

The discussion has passed so far that among intelligent people who believe in the republican formthat is, free governmentall mature men and women have under the same circumstance and conditions the same rights to defend, the same grievances to redress, and, therefore, the same necessity for the exercise of this great fundamental right, of all human beings in free society.

Then why disfranchise the 7,500,000, the other half, as to whom your objection, even if valid as to any, does not apply at all; and these, too, as a class the most mature and therefore the best qualified to vote of any of their sex?

What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the Poke!

We shall to-night mature a plan for a systematic search for him.

It seems amazing how anything so brilliant can mature in such a darkness.

But men of that age were, quite a lot of them, mature enough to flirt with the girls in Buol's.

He has a definite scheme, and (but for the fault of creating more characters than he can conveniently manage) tells his simple tale with a mature ease remarkable in a first novel.

Its responsibility has been assumed after the most mature deliberation and reflection as necessary to preserve the morals of the people, the freedom of the press, and the purity of the elective franchise, without which all will unite in saying that the blood and treasure expended by our forefathers in the establishment of our happy system of government will have been vain and fruitless.

The children are never shielded from the sun, although its rays are supposed to be fatal to full grown and mature persons.

The front seats were filled by children of various agesthe rear, of adults, rising above these tiny choristers, and softening the shrillness of their notes by the deeper tones of mature age.

Law-making is a formal, deliberate act, performed by persons of mature age, embodying the intelligence, wisdom, justice and humanity, of the community; performed, too, at leisure, after full opportunity had for a comprehensive survey of all the relations to be affected, after careful investigation and protracted discussion.

These little cheeses, when they have been allowed to mature in a wrapping of vine or plane leaf, are among the best made.

The proper establishment of the troops which may be deemed indispensable will be entitled to mature consideration.

I was just thinking I had never seen Mathilde looking so well, in her rather more mature and subtle vein.

Careful statistical inquiries have yet to be made into the family antecedents of public servants of mature age in connection with their place in examination lists at the earlier age when they first gained their appointments.

In his own house he was surrounded by friends and adherents who would have rendered such an attempt useless; and after mature deliberation it was accordingly agreed that he must be made prisoner in the Louvre.

To this end, Richelieu, after mature deliberation, selected as the new favourite a page named Cinq-Mars, whose extraordinarily handsome person and exuberant spirits could not fail, as he rightly imagined, to attract the fancy and enliven the leisure of the moody sovereign.

Are there not fruits, which, while unripe, are not to be tasted or endured, that mature into the richest taste and fragrance?

As soon as the young artist has acquired the grammar of his profession, he should be sent forth to study directly from Nature and to mature his invention unfettered by authoritative academic system, which more frequently fosters conventionalism and imposes trammels upon talent than endows it with strength and freedom.