"Prescribed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rites prescribed for unmarried daughters, and dashed the bowl and walked by the coffin, as she gave way to ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... revolution; and long before the popes from their high watch-tower of the Vatican had hurled on these secret gatherings the anathema of condemnation, they were interdicted in England by the Government of Queen Elizabeth; they were checked in France by Louis XV. (1729); they were prescribed in Holland in 1735, and successively in Flanders, in Sweden, in Poland, in Spain, in Portugal, in Hungary, and in Switzerland. In Vienna, in 1743, a lodge was burst into by soldiers. The Freemasons had to give up their swords and were conducted ...
— Alvira: the Heroine of Vesuvius • A. J. O'Reilly
... submit to you whether it would not be wise, without delay, to enact a law authorizing the governor of Georgia to convene the members originally elected to the legislature, requiring each member to take the oath prescribed by the reconstruction acts, and none to be admitted who are ineligible under the third clause of ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Ulysses S. Grant • Ulysses S. Grant
... Before they entered the Holy Place in their ordinary ministry, and before Aaron, on the great Day of Atonement, proceeded to the Most Holy Place, with blood, not his own, it was needful to conform to the prescribed ablutions. "He shall bathe his flesh in water" (Lev. ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer
... generally, no climax to be achieved. The various steps are usually spontaneous, not predetermined, and are subject to individual caprice. In games, on the contrary, as in Blind Man's Buff, Prisoners' Base, or Football, there are prescribed acts subject to rules, generally penalties for defeat or the infringement of rules, and the action proceeds in a regular evolution until it culminates in a given climax, which usually consists in a victory of skill, speed or strength. In a strictly scientific sense, games do not always involve ...
— Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium • Jessie H. Bancroft
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