For some moments the three men stood looking at the body in something like bewilderment, scarcely realizing that so terrible a tragedy had been enacted in that place, amid those surroundings.

But those laws which are gradually enacted for the interests of the whole body of the people,for the rich and poor, the powerful and feeble alike,have generally been the result of great and diverse experiences, running through centuries, the work of wise men under constitutional forms of government.

Still more terrible and treacherous were the tragedies enacted at Cawnpore, a city situated on the Ganges about fifty-five miles to the southwest of Lucknow.

In the meantime, however, while the boat was on its way to the buoy, a pulsing scene had been enacted on board.

Nothing but pride of power can blind the Government of India to the scene that is being enacted before it.

The king possessed sixty-eight forests, thirteen chases, and seven hundred and eighty-one parks, in different parts of England [p]; and considering the extreme passion of the English and Normans for hunting, these were so many snares laid for the people, by which they were allured into trespasses, and brought within the reach of arbitrary and rigorous laws, which the king had thought proper to enact by his own authority.

New laws were continually being enacted against them, and especially against those in which dice were used, though with little avail.

But the great tragedy of Sciencethe slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly factwhich is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers, was played, almost immediately, for the benefit of Buffon and Needham.

Such as have been well concerted may afford useful hints, though they ought not to be enacted with indispensable obligations.

There is now no way in which the author of a foolish or dangerous bill which has been enacted into law by a majority of the legislature, can be held to account and due responsibility imposed upon him, but the case would be very different if a mayor, a governor or the President of the United States made himself responsible for a law or a series of laws, by offering them for action in his own name.

"The scene your son Kurt enacted to-day in front of Apollonie's cottage with his crowd of miscellaneous friends can only be called a vulgar noise.

He made no sign, he sent no excuse; he simply continued to absent himself; and it was Undine who, in due course, had to make way for Mrs. Lipscomb's caller, and sit upstairs with a novel while the drawing-room below was given up to the enacting of an actual love-story.

A great Convocation assembled in the theatre, about a proposed grant for Physiology, opposed by many (I was one) who wish restrictions to be enacted as to the practice of vivisection for research.

Nor, so far as our national system is concerned has there yet appeared any reason to suppose that suitable laws to meet the new conditions cannot be enacted without either overriding or amending the constitution.

Very different are the diurnal scenes enacted from those which passed before my eyes at the ice-closed post of Mackinack last winter.

The following are the most remarkable laws enacted during this reign.

Some cast their votes in consideration of the law enacted about punishing the culprits, and others in consideration of the arms of Caesar.

It seems dreadful and almost incredibledoes it not?to think that such scenes can be enacted within a few miles of our peaceful home.

Yes, the thing she had feared so horribly was being enacted like a ghastly nightmare above her.

[Illustration: %Results of the COMPROMISE of 1850%] No sooner was this law enacted than the slave owners began to use it, and during the autumn of 1850 a host of "slave catchers" and "man hunters," as they were called, invaded the North, and negroes who had escaped twenty or thirty years before were hunted up and dragged back to slavery by the marshals of the United States.

Next provide that all laws shall be printed and published by a State publisher and the authenticity of all revisions be duly guaranteed by their being submitted to the legislature and re-enacted en bloc, as is our practice with revisions in Massachusetts and some as other States.

Some strange drama was being enacted between two young men, more interesting even than the caprices of Fortune.

His bed was still unruffled, showing that he had not occupied it during the night, and when she saw the same letter she had brought to him, its writing blurred and tear-stained, lying open upon the dresser, and noted the red and swollen eyes and woe-begone expression of Joe's face, her motherly heart quickly surmised the pitiful drama that had been enacted behind the closed door of the room.

The ancient summary of his laws contained in the Textus Roffensis is entitled "What William, King of the English, with his Princes enacted after the Conquest of England"; and the same form is preserved in the tradition of his confirming the ancient laws reported to him by the representatives of the shires.

Studied in my yard full of birds, as with a condensing-glass of the world, she can be seen enacting among them the dramas of history.