The effects of my rule are still to be perceived in some of the provinces of Russia, and decrees I made more than two hundred years ago are in force in many villages along the eastern side of the Volga.

"Pavia should be my capital, but the beneficent influence of my rule should move southward.

His disposition was lively and strongly inclined to humor, and he early felt the necessity of having this natural trait of character subjected to the rule of heavenly wisdom.

Chiefely that rule whose weaknes, apt to feares, And bad deserts of all men makes them know There's none but is in heart what hee's accused.

Sometime there liu'd a Duke not far from hence, Mightie in fame and vertues excellence; Subiects he had as readie to obey As he to rule, beloued eueryway; But that which most of all he gloried in (Hope of his age and comfort of his kin) Was the fruition of one onely sonne, A gallant youth, inferior vnto none For vertue shape or excellence of wit, That after him vpon his throne might sit.

I told ye you should finde a man of her, Or else my rule did very strangely erre. Asca.

I made a rule throughout my professional life to note my cases with the greatest care.

He it was, who, abandoning the traditionary rule which loosened canvas only to a wind dead aft or well on the quarter, learned to brace up sharp on a wind and to baffle the adverse airs.

Here you have a random bestowal of names which seems to defy all analysis of the rule of their bestowal.

I have applied the rule to as many as a dozen different birds, and the result has been the same.

The general rule then is, that mothers should nurse their own children.

Many lay it down, as an invariable rule, that no system can be pursued with a child till it is six months old; and it must be admitted by all, that for several months after birth there are serious difficulties in the way of determining, with any degree of precision, how often a child should be nursed or fed.

But to nurse them too frequently is in opposition to this rule, and therefore of evil tendency.

For reasons which may be seen by the last rule, there should be regular seasons for nursing, and these should be adhered to, especially by night.

And if we never depart from the general rule, already laid down, not to give the infant anything but its mother's milk, we shall escape the evils incident to variety.

Having laid down the general rule, that until the appearance of teeth, the sole food of an infant should be the milk of its own mother, I proceed to speak of some of the more common exceptions to it.

I have already stated the general rule for preparing this substitute for the mother's milk.

EXCEPTION 2.The second striking exception to the general rule that has been laid down, is when the mother is unable to nurse her own child from positive ill health, or when circumstances exist which render it obviously improper that she should do it.

There is another evil which sometimes results from the too common neglect of this rule, which is, that it endangers the deterioration of the quality of the milk.

VARIETY OF CADENCES is the best Rule; the greatest help to the Actors, and refreshment to the Audience.

It is enough, he makes it his general rule.

'Tis a 'Rule and Line' by which he keeps his building compact and even; which, otherwise, lawless Imagination would raise, either irregularly or loosely.

So that if any will be pleased to impose the rule of measuring things to be the best, by being nearest Nature; it is granted, by consequence, that which is most remote from the thing supposed, must needs be most improper: and, therefore, I may justly say, that both I and the question were equally mistaken.

Occasionally the police had some trouble with wandering tramps, but Chief Waller's strong point seemed to lie in that direction, and as a rule hoboes gave Bloomsbury a wide berth.

Perhaps they still felt as secure in the immemorial freedom of the city from military rule as the English Parliament did before Cromwell's coup d'état.