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If, in addition to this immense advantage, the ambition of the members should be stimulated by the separate and independent possession of military forces, it would afford too strong a temptation and too great a facility to them to make enterprises upon, and finally to subvert, the constitutional authority of the Union.

So to the coast of Jordan he directs His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles, Where he might likeliest find this new-declared, This man of men, attested Son of God, Temptation and all guile on him to try-- So to subvert whom he suspected raised To end his reign on Earth so long enjoyed: But, contrary, unweeting he fulfilled The purposed counsel, pre-ordained and fixed, Of the Most High, who, in full frequence bright Of Angels, thus to Gabriel smiling spake:-- "Gabriel, this day, by proof, thou shalt behold, Thou and all Angels conversant on Earth With Man or men's affairs, how I begin To verify that solemn message late, On which I sent thee to the Virgin pure In Galilee, that she should bear a son, Great in renown, and called the Son of God.

But then it is a bitter trial to behold him, on his return, doing his utmost to subvert my labours and transform my innocent, affectionate, tractable darling into a selfish, disobedient, and mischievous boy; thereby preparing the soil for those vices he has so successfully cultivated in his own perverted nature.

In the island of Cos, for instance, the democracy was subverted by the wickedness of the demagogues, for the nobles entered into a combination with each other.

WE HAVE seen the necessity of the Union, as our bulwark against foreign danger, as the conservator of peace among ourselves, as the guardian of our commerce and other common interests, as the only substitute for those military establishments which have subverted the liberties of the Old World, and as the proper antidote for the diseases of faction, which have proved fatal to other popular governments, and of which alarming symptoms have been betrayed by our own.

Hitherto the various strata of rock had exhibited a gentle elevation toward the southwest, but here everything appeared to have been subverted, and thrown out of place.

Jury trials, and the rule of law itself, would become a farce if every jury could subvert the law at will--because the standard of justice can only be truth, not error or hypocrisy.

Lewis and reaffirmed by Fish, but here the diverse contemporaries of a radically individual poet who "begins with shared beliefs, only to use them as a basis to subvert others" (36).

Tom Cusick, president of the Fifth Avenue Association, said that the government's signing was a vote to preserve the "face" of Fifth Avenue for the scores of tourists that visit each year, and to subvert the city's underground economy.

Earlier in the book, he writes, "The Irancontra affair involved various attempts to evade or subvert laws, established procedures, and intragovernmental traditions (thin reeds, these) of civility.' But which laws?

Manama: July 14 (BNA): Information Affairs Minister Ali bin Mohammed Al-Romaihi cautioned against social media accounts run from abroad, which are seeking to undermine national unity, drive wedges, threaten civic peace and social fabric and subvert security and stability in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

We must confront any attempt to subvert Bahrain's security or harm the homeland," he said.