Like other Legislatures, Congress has power to abate nuisancesto remove or tear down unsafe buildingsto destroy infected cargoesto lay injunctions upon manufactories injurious to the public healthand thus to "provide for the common defence and general welfare" by destroying individual property, when it puts in jeopardy the public weal.

Besides, if we interpret the words destroy, consume, overthrow, &c., to mean personal destruction, what meaning shall we give to the expressions, "drive out before thee;" "cast out before thee;" "expel," "put out," "dispossess," &c., which are used in the same passages?

Thus wak'd to rage, by musick's dreadful pow'r, He bids the sword destroy, the flame devour.

" "The states, changed by you, Changed like the world's great scene, when without noise, The rising sun night's vulgar lights destroys.

Yet women pardon force, because they find The violence of love is still most kind: Just like the plots of well built comedies, Which then please most, when most they do surprise: But yet constraint love's noblest end destroys, Whose highest joy is in another's joys: Where passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

Morn builds the heap which eve destroys; Yet can they have one sure delight

With pleasing grief and mournful joy, My spirit now is filled That I should such a life destroy, Yet live by Him I killed.

In answer to congratulations he wrote (Letters, ix. 364):'What has happened destroys my tranquillity....

And bearing children all our grace destroys.

Few know what care an husband's peace destroys, His real griefs, and his dissembled joys.

" Making penalties too drastic destroys the effect meant to be produced.

but he Love any woman for her Constancie To her dead lover, which she needs must end Before she can allow him for her friend, And he himself must needs the cause destroy, For which he loves, before he can enjoy?

Learning to sing well is the best possible means of learning to speak well, and the exquisite precision which music gives to kindergarten play destroys all rudeness, and does not in the least rob it of its fun or merriment.

What plash, what plunge the liquid glass destroys?

What they would spare, our fiercer art destroys, Surpassing storms in terror and in noise.

Which, sent from heaven, like lightning make no stay; Their palling taste the journey's length destroys, Or grief, sent post, o'ertakes them on the way.

What little measure of sleep the mosquitoes, the sand flies and the stifling nights have left us, this relentless parasite destroys.