After much litigation it has now been established that this provision does not give the council an absolute property in the soil of the street, but merely such a qualified property in the surfaces as enables them to exercise control.
The special levies or "tallages" imposed at times of need on the towns in the king's demesne appear to have been a doubtful exercise of the royal prerogative, but scientifically they belong to the same class as the Danegeld and scutage.
Though Henry in some degree checked the exercise of papal authority in England, appeals to Rome without his sanction were frequent towards the end of his reign.
The configuration of England, while sufficiently pronounced to allow of the division of the country into natural regions, is not strongly enough marked to exercise any very great influence upon lines of communication.
Bishops and archdeacons were no longer to exercise their spiritual jurisdiction in secular courts, as had been the custom, but in ecclesiastical courts and according to canon law.
The county council exercise their powers through a visiting committee, consisting of not less than seven members, or, in the case of a combination, of a number of members appointed by each council in agreed proportions.
A district council may appoint committees consisting wholly or partly of members of their own body for theexercise of any powers which in their opinion can properly be exercised by such committees.
You wished to visit my castle illegally, and to exercisein it an authority contrary to the rights of the Provençal nobility.
Approaching him, he found him in that condition of torpor and melancholy into which he always sank when not in the exercise of his painful tasks.
Well, then, exercise the will and go to the armoury of grace for thine arms.
Well, then, exercise the will you have, your weak will, and go and kneel in humility at the source of power, and receive the promised gift.
That is to say, conscious exercise makes unconscious habit.
Having obtained the strength we must ceaselessly exercise it in the practice of our wills.
May we exercise our senses in discernment, that so we may be led into the deeper secrets of Thy truth.
Our consciousexercise forces the body into attitudes which persist as habits when we are doing something else.
Well, then, having received the gift of power, exercise thy will in stubborn and invincible resistance.
Let your imagination exercise itself again in the larger orbit, and think of some modern prophet standing up in London with this message upon his lips;--"The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost parts of Russia.
Greek had already begun to make its way as an attainable subject at Paris, and Erasmus was beginning to feel the charm which this, the choicest vehicle of human expression, was to exercise upon his whole life.
Its study leaves one with an unpleasant sense of powers diverted for the time from their most profitable exercise into issues which did not tell with any great effect upon the final result of the scholar's life.
They express rather a state of the personal constitution than any exercise of its faculties.
By the supremacy of conscience is meant its right to exercise moral control.
It involves both the subjective capacity to choose and a realm for its exercisein diverse possibilities.
It presents no sphere for the exerciseof election--even though the faculty of election should exist.
He finds himself in exercise and use of it every day and every hour.
This justifies the conclusion that moral character belongs to the exercise of the will as it does not to any other activity of our moral nature.
I then told her the whole story: she was ready to die with laughing; and, parting very good friends, she assured me my rival might exercise horses as long as he pleased, but that he should not set his foot within her doors that night.
The traitor chose rather to exercise his courage against another.
To reach this position he had to have courage, be truthful, exercise sound and practical business judgment, and at the same time have a vision looking to the betterment of the condition of his fellow-man.
When in Columbus his form of exercise is walking, and younger men of sedentary pursuits find that he can tire them.
Unless you have a home of your own you will not be able to exercise the best rewarded of all the graces.
My advice to you in your home is to exercise to the very last possibility of your nature the law of forbearance.
Every exercise of nature or of art is good in its place; and the uses of this logical inference are manifold.
I have been speaking of investigation, not of inquiry; it is quite true that inquiry is inconsistent with assent, but inquiry is something more than the mere exercise of inference.
Even the ordinary matters of life are an exercise of conscientiousness; and where conscience is, fear must be.
Besides, to believe frankly what it is told, is in the young an exercise of teachableness and humility.
It is a simple and primary truth with us, if any truth is such; to believe it is as legitimate an exercise of assent, as there are legitimate exercises of doubt or of opinion.
They do not go by rule, though to a certain point their exercise may be analyzed, and may take the shape of an art or method.
But how is an exercise of mind, which is for the most part occupied with notions, not things, competent to deal with things, except partially and indirectly?
This the state considers as an unconstitutional exercise of power, highly injurious and oppressive to her and the other staple states, and has accordingly, met it with the most determined resistance.
That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion.
It is of the last importance that, in the exercise of these duties he should observe the utmost fairness.
Even a sudden desire for exercise seemed an inadequate explanation in view of the frigid temperature of the uncarpeted rooms.
Whatever small portion of his spirits he had recovered by exercise and success at his traps, always disappeared again on his return down Big Squaw Creek.
The relics of Madame de Sevigne, who once lived in this beautiful house, are not very numerous; but they exercise their spell.
And even in London we must brace ourselves to find such waiters as there are: we must indulge in heroic feats of patience, and, once the waiter comes into view, exercisemost of the vocal organs to attract his notice and obtain his suffrages.
As he has to recite without a book this involves a great exercise of the memory.
He must exercise no judgment but accept all that is revealed.
It is true that men must exercise their reason, but they must not do so with regard to the divine attributes.
The Arab love for poetry facilitated the exercise of this faculty.
They had not the habitude of swimming within the lagoons, as at Hawaii; it was not with them an exercise or luxury, but a part of their every-day activities in fishing and canoeing.
But simply to exercise and strengthen the intellect--to give the mind a habit of attention and of investigation.
The bee last described may be said to exercise the trade of a clothier.
We cannot better exercise the reasoning powers and faculties with which he has endowed us, than by copying his example.
All women are capable of enjoying the healthful exercise of horseback riding excepting those who may be suffering from disease.
As hereafter stated, trotting in a circle to the right will be found an excellent exercise to teach one this bearing.
After exercise that causes the horse to perspire freely, the saddle should not be removed until he has become cool; this will prevent him from having a sore back, from which he often suffers when this precaution is neglected.
The lady who wears tight corsets can never become a thorough rider, nor will the exercise of riding give her either pleasure or health.
To become a complete horsewoman it is not necessary to begin the exercise in childhood.
The groom should exercise the horse daily, in a gentle and regular manner; an hour or two of walking, varied occasionally by a short trot, will generally be found sufficient.
Thinking is as needful an exercise for the mind as work is for the body, and the only plausible ground on which you can seek to suppress thinking about Christianity is the fear that it will not be good for Christianity.
But casuistry of this kind has never prospered indefinitely, and few historians will doubt that this temporal development led directly to that degradation of the Papacy which rendered it unfit to exercise moral influence on Europe.
If only the daylight would last longer in these latitudes, whereexercise is only possible after sundown!
But I could not see whom she could possibly know of all the inhabitants of the place that could thus exercise her spirit.
Sleek and pampered priests in yellow robes were met at every turn, a class who exercise a certain influence over the people through their superstition, but who command no personal respect.
Among the dense population of the country there must be ample occasion for the exercise of such charities.
And such an act, on its passage, would open the whole subject, and leave the Congress called on to pass it free to exercise its own discretion, entirely uncontrolled by any declaration found in the statute-book.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
He did, however, believe that Congress had the right to exclude slavery from the Territories, and ought to exercise it.
Dennis almost scorned to confute it; but, when he did get at it, he settled it by a magnificent exercise of inventive genius.
This actual exerciseof jurisdiction is the very class or quality of evidence we want.
Judd: he was supposed to exercise unbounded influence over the new President; and with him, therefore, the detective opened communications.
Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it.
His boyish form was middle size, For feat of strength or exercise Shaped in proportion fair; And hazel was his eagle eye, And auburn of the darkest dye His short and curling hair.
Upon this, Mr. Pitt Page 221 moved for a committee to examine and report upon such precedents as might be found of proceedings in cases of the interruption, from any cause, of the personal exercise of the royal authority.
He grew better, ma'am, and hoped by exerciseto prevent a serious fit.
Sir Lucas Pepys still persisting that exercise and air were absolutely necessary to save me from illness, I have continued my walks, varying my gardens from Richmond to Kew, according to the accounts I received of the movements of the king.
He comes to tell me that he never pities me for sitting here, whatever is going forward, as the sitting must be rest; and, indeed, it seems as if my coming hither was as much to rest my frame as to exercise my mind.
Sir Lucas declared my confinement menaced my health, and charged me to walk out, and take air and exercise very sedulously, if I would avoid an illness.
