"Constitution" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in a sermon on the marvels of man's constitution to enforce his conceptions by speaking of the instantaneousness with which a message flashed to the brain through the nervous system is heeded and acted upon. He said that the touch of red-hot iron upon a finger-tip makes a disturbance which is instantly reported ...
— Understanding the Scriptures • Francis McConnell
... quietly old, the changes meant very little. The coastguards, being bound by one of the articles of the British Constitution, came to church on Sunday mornings with exemplary regularity, and each man at fixed intervals brought a baby to be christened and a woman to be churched. Otherwise they hardly affected Mr. Conneally's life. The great officials who visited Carrowkeel to survey the benignant activities ...
— Hyacinth - 1906 • George A. Birmingham
... to-day no contribution To discuss the Constitution And the Spanish war's forgot For a new Utopian spot; And the very latest phase ...
— The Conquest of the Old Southwest • Archibald Henderson
... Accordingly, they all combined to oppose the imperial mandate in the Diet, but without being able to procure its revocation. The Emperor and the Roman Catholic Estates took their ground on the Compact and the Bohemian Constitution; in which nothing appeared in favour of a religion which had not then obtained the voice of the country. Since that time, how completely had affairs changed! What then formed but an inconsiderable opinion, ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... loved the East. The climate had no grudge against his English constitution, and had been kind to him. He enjoyed the freedom of the life, India's great spaces; and the lurking risks made existence a great and continued adventure. In England it would be monotonous and ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
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