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#prerogative

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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.


Felix Bloch


#free #guarded #imagination #inestimable #must

The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots.


Joshua A. Norton


#authority #behead #black #boots #commanded

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.


Charles Lamb


#monarchical #prerogatives #sick

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.


Charles Hodge


#christ #claim #claiming #does #earth

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.


Charles Hodge


#call #calls #christ #church #duties

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.


Albert Pike


#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.


John Buchanan Robinson


#army #crime #criminal #disloyalty #felt

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.


Tom Stoppard


#ages #been #eunuch #house #i

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.


William Godwin


#consists #distinguished #earth #eminently #gift

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.


Francis Bacon


#friends #great #his #laughs #loses






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