Step into Plunkett House, that hospitable headquarters of the Organization Society, and if you have been nurtured in legends about inextinguishable class and creed antipathies, which are supposed to render Home Rule impossible and the eternal "umpirage" of. From Wordnik.com. [The Framework of Home Rule] Reference
We should be most unwise, indeed, were we to cast away the singular blessings of the position in which nature has placed us, the opportunity she has endowed us with of pursuing, at a distance from foreign contentions, the paths of industry, peace, and happiness, of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
D. and that an umpirage was made by the faid E.F. on or before the faid feventeenth day of March. From Wordnik.com. [Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench, beginning Michaelmas term, 25 Geo. 2. ending Trinity term, 29 & 30 Geo. 2. [1751-1756]] Reference
These difficulties, however, may be overcome by resort to the umpirage provided for by the treaty. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address] Reference
Yet it were best to leave an American reference open for audit and umpirage to the stanch E.P. Clark of the New. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.] Reference
Yet it were best to leave an American reference open for audit and umpirage to the stanch E.P. Clark of the New England Bank. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II]
The question depending between the United States and Great Britain respecting the construction of the first article of the treaty of Ghent has been referred by both Governments to the decision of the Emperor of Russia, who has accepted the umpirage. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address] Reference
SifbatD. practice be made in the court where the rule is made for fubmiffion to fuch arbitration or umpirage, before the lait day of the next term after fuch arbi - tration or umpirage made and publifhed to the parties •, any thing in this act contained to the contrary notwithftanding. From Wordnik.com. [The law of a justice of peace and parish officer: containing all the acts of Parliament at large concerning them, and the cases determined on those acts in the Court of King's Bench. To which is added, a collection of precedents revised and settled by persons of eminence in the law; comprising a greater variety than any other work of this kind extant] Reference
For if any one by force takes away the established legislative of any society, and the laws by them made, pursuant to their trust, he thereby takes away the umpirage which every one had consented to for a peaceable decision of all their controversies, and a bar to the state of war amongst them. From Wordnik.com. [Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II] Reference
Civil society being a state of peace, amongst those who are of it, from whom the state of war is excluded by the umpirage, which they have provided in their legislative, for the ending all differences that may arise amongst any of them, it is in their legislative, that the members of a commonwealth are united, and combined together into one coherent living body. From Wordnik.com. [Second Treatise of Government] Reference
We should be most unwise, indeed, were we to cast away the singular blessings of the position in which nature has placed us, the opportunity she has endowed us with of pursuing, at a distance from foreign contentions, the paths of industry, peace, and happiness; of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force. From Wordnik.com. [Addresses, Messages, and Replies] Reference
When the legislative is altered, civil society being a state of peace amongst those who are of it, from whom the state of war is excluded by the umpirage which they have provided in their legislative for the ending all differences that may arise amongst any of them; it is in their legislative that the members of a commonwealth are united and combined together into one coherent living body. From Wordnik.com. [Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II] Reference
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him: every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him: and, no man having a natural right to be the judge between himself and another, it is his natural duty to submit to the umpirage of an impartial third. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference
In both the fore-mentioned cases, when either the legislative is changed, or the legislators act contrary to the end for which they were constituted; those who are guilty are guilty of rebellion: for if any one by force takes away the established legislative of any society, and the laws by them made, pursuant to their trust, he thereby takes away the umpirage, which every one had consented to, for a peaceable decision of all their controversies, and a bar to the state of war amongst them. From Wordnik.com. [Second Treatise of Government] Reference
Even if this aleatory proceeding were a proper device in the umpirage of private claims, it is strongly inconsistent with the solemnity which belongs to the present question. ". From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
I decline her umpirage. From Wordnik.com. [Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845] Reference
Russia, who has accepted the umpirage. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
263. it is laid down; that arbitrators may choofe an umpire before the tinxe allowed for their makuig an award is. expired; and that; an umpirage made by the umpire, fp chofcA is gooQ, in cafe the arbitrators do not make an award within th? it time. From Wordnik.com. [Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench, beginning Michaelmas term, 25 Geo. 2. ending Trinity term, 29 & 30 Geo. 2. [1751-1756]] Reference
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