"Enter upon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Majesty's High Commissioners the names of one or more persons to be appointed by them to fill the place or places thus vacated. The decision of the said Sub-Commissioners, or of a majority of them, will be final. The said Sub-Commissioners will enter upon and perform their duties with all convenient speed. They will, before taking evidence or ordering evidence to be taken in respect of any claim, decide whether such claim can be entertained at all under the rules laid down in the next succeeding Article. In regard ...
— Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce
... spirits, and not at all like a man meditating an exit from the world. You can't imagine what a sensation the publication of these letters produced. In a moment the storm was up, and certainly Silas did meet it bravely—yes, with great courage and ability. What a pity he did not early enter upon some career of ambition! Well, well, it is idle regretting. He suggested that the letters were forgeries. He alleged that Charke was in the habit of boasting, and telling enormous falsehoods about his gambling transactions, especially in his letters. He reminded the world how ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... do you credit, Sanders," said the minister; "but I hope you do not enter upon the blessed state of matrimony without full consideration of its responsibilities. It is a serious ...
— Auld Licht Idyls • J.M. Barrie
... hour in rehearsing all the vices to which youth have been ever too much addicted, and shewn us that he was possessed of them all—Ut qui impudicus, adulter, ganeo, alea, manu, ventre, pene, bona patria laceraverat, he began to enter upon politics: ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding
... believers will do to a creed that they can not understand. So when the question was broached he was not very angry (for he did more than justice to the chaplain's sense of duty), but he stubbornly declined to enter upon it at all. Mr. Fullarton was so provoked that he was goaded into a taunt that he ought to have been ...
— Sword and Gown - A Novel • George A. Lawrence
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