How ready was Paul to acknowledge in others any kind of precedency!. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
The order of precedency in England is strictly adhered to, and. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Every efficient cause hath at least the precedency of its effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference
Obama has hardly any political experience prior to his precedency. From Wordnik.com. [McCain to vote against Sotomayor] Reference
Nithisdale, and restored to the Lordship of Maxwell; with precedency, as. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
There is no precedency in a French assembly except amongst the Military. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
And again, among men he gives the precedency not to the learned or the great, but the fool. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Folly] Reference
Neither does He show Himself unmercifully just; for His goodness, no doubt, goes on before, and takes precedency. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
Female officers arrange the crowd of his wives and slaves with the strictest attention to the order of precedency. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829] Reference
The precedency must have been regulated by some other laws, rules, or usage than are presented by the Act of 31 Hen. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850] Reference
For those advocates who had begun the quarrel, by setting first on foot the dispute of precedency, talked so loud of coming to a battle, that. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of the Books] Reference
This has been spoken unto already, and the necessity of its precedency unto the orderly proposal and receiving of evangelical righteousness unto justification demonstrated. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference
An anecdote is told of a captain in the service, since dead, that whilst carrying out a British ambassador to his station abroad, a quarrel arose on the subject of precedency. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829] Reference
And then he goes on to give precedency to Knights of the Garter, Privy. From Wordnik.com. [The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3)] Reference
No Minister, for instance, of the second class, would dispute precedency with a. From Wordnik.com. [The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII] Reference
The order of precedency, therefore, between poets and moralists, as laid down by. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
I believe there is some tremendous question respecting the precedency of this lady. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
There was no disputing a precedency which he had risen from his death-bed to vindicate. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
He was treated as an officer of the highest rank, and awarded the first place in precedency. From Wordnik.com. [Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers] Reference
Chesterfield for life, as also that her daughters should enjoy precedency as earl's daughters. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Parliament and Council and general precedence: -- Thus far for avoiding contention about precedency in. From Wordnik.com. [The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3)] Reference
In a dispute of precedency between the two factions, his partial judgment inclined in favor of the greens. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference
The precedency which the queen assumed, may seem to betray her unequal alliance with the stranger of Pontus. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
Respecting ceremonies and ordinances, the kingdom of love must have the precedency and govern, and not tyranny. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther] Reference
Germanicus, Britannicus, Dalmaticus, &c. (which may be viewed as peerages,) the privilege of precedency, the privilege of wearing. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference
TWO ladies disputed for precedency, one the daughter of a wealthy brewer, the other the daughter of a gentleman of small fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings] Reference
The memorable quarrel as to precedency between the French and Spanish delegates had given some hopes of a different determination. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Arran, who was in 1698 made Duke of Hamilton, with the same precedency of the original creation of 1643, as if he had succeeded thereto. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
Council, &c. Now, they that desire to know the places and precedency of the nobility and subjects of the realm, as well men as women, and of their children. From Wordnik.com. [The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3)] Reference
Such a natural superiority certainly takes precedency of a merely artificial superiority; and, therefore, it entitles those who possess it to a special consideration. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference
This dispute has left the matter of precedency among Ministers of the same class, much at loose here, where indeed they are not much troubled about etiquette of any sort. From Wordnik.com. [The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII] Reference
And in a function so exceedingly humble, philosophically considered, how could he pretend to precedency in respect of anybody, unless it were the amen clerk, or the sexton?. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
They were Whigs -- for 'radicalism' was not yet invented -- but Whigs of the left wing; accepting the aristocratic precedency, but looking askance at the aristocratic prejudices. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
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