Hughes sat on the couch, breathing heavily, staring at the floor, perhaps passing his own ignorance in review, perhaps wondering if he had always been right in prescribing this or that.

But Aulus Gellius, who mentions this remedy, seems to administer it in a very different manner, by prescribing to the flute-player a soft and gentle strain, si modulis lenibus says he, tibicen incinet: for the Phrygian mode was remarkably vehement and furious.

The following subtle argument is to be found in some schoolbooks on Mohammedan law: The law of Moses was exceedingly benevolent to males by permitting them to have an unlimited number of wives; then came the law of Jesus, extreme on the other side by prescribing monogamy; at last Mohammed restored the equilibrium by conceding one wife to each of the four humours which make up the male's constitution.

The Spanish commander required the English captains to depart, but they, thinking that resistance necessary, which they knew to be useless, gave the Spaniards the right of prescribing terms of capitulation.

for this is a principal matter of contention between them; some confining all things within certain limits, others prescribing none.

Far from prescribing us any limits in that direction, he would tell us sometimes: "Drink, my children; health consists in the pliability and moisture of the parts.

Prescribing when They are pleasd to be commaunded and for what.

It should always be remembered that there is no hard and fast rule prescribing how a patrol of three, five, or any number of men should march.

And prescribing for a god is more difficult.

There is a third contract, under date June 1, about the same work intrusted to the same two craftsmen, prescribing details with more exactitude.

When he wrote from Cilicia to his more youthful friend Caelius, urging him to stick to the city, in words that are almost pathetic, it never occurred to him that he was prescribing exactly that course of treatment which had done himself much damage.

Keeps a recipe-book, and is fond of prescribing for colds and tooth-aches.

These verses contain the general rule prescribing the method in which cities were to be summoned to surrender.

The party prescribing must have the right to construe his own rule, otherwise there would be as many laws as there are individual consciences.

The 10th and 11th verses contain the general rule prescribing the method in which cities were to be summoned to surrender.

She would go to see them in their rooms, enact the physician, and insist on prescribing powerful doses for them out of her own traveling medicine-chest, which she constantly took with her in her carriage; her attempted cures, as may be supposed, either succeeding or failing as chance happened to direct.

An example occurred in the case of Rhame vs. Ferguson and Dangerfield, decided by the South Carolina Court of Appeals in 1839 in connection with a statute enacted by the legislature of that state in 1800 restricting manumissions and prescribing that any slaves illegally set free might be seized by any person as derelicts.

Our replies varied according to the civility of our natures, but the mere attempt to raise the question shows, I think, how widespread among the editorial, paragraph-writing, opinion-making sort of people is this notion of prescribing a definite length and a definite form for the novel.

It was the function of the President to treat with foreign powers, and yet the House was now considering action which was in effect "prescribing the terms of treaty, and restraining the constitutional power from treating on any other terms."

While the right continues in full force under the guarantees of the Constitution, and cannot be divested or alienated by an act of Congress, it necessarily remains a barren and a worthless right, unless sustained, protected, and enforced by appropriate police regulations and local legislation, prescribing adequate remedies for its violation.

A Spanish and Roman army, under the orders of Don Raymond of Cardone, rested motionless at some distance from the Po, waiting for events and for orders prescribing the part they were to take.

But she presented the singular anomaly of a strong-minded woman, already successful in taking care of herself, advocating woman's subordination to man, and prescribing for her efforts at self-help limits so narrow that only the few favored as she was could venture within them.

Aguinaldo's methods in establishing his republic are shown by his order that "any person who fights for his country has absolute power to kill any one not friendly to our cause" and the further order prescribing that twelve lashes should be given to a soldier who lost even a single cartridge, while if he continued to waste ammunition he should be severely punished.

Her health was never good, yet, as she survived thirty-five of her prescribing physicians, her vitality must have been great.

"Liberty in prophesying, without prescribing authoritatively to other men's consciences, and becoming lords and masters of their faitha necessity derived from the consideration of the difficulty of Scripture in questions controverted, and the uncertainty of any internal medium of interpretation.