I suppose I must have mistaken another man for Barting, and that man's cold greeting was merely a stranger's
civil acknowledgment of my own.
Elinor was prevented from making any reply to this
civil triumph, by the door's being thrown open, the servant's announcing Mr.
I received a most
civil answer, thanking me for my courtesy, and complimenting me on the extraordinary aptitude with which I profited by the most incomplete and elementary instruction.
The laws are not accustomed to relaxations, in favor of military exigencies; the civil state remains in full vigor, neither corrupted, nor confounded with the principles or propensities of the other state.
The military state becomes elevated above the civil.
Even in Great Britain, where the principles of political and
civil liberty have been most discussed, and where we hear most of the rights of the Constitution, it is maintained that the authority of the Parliament is transcendent and uncontrollable, as well with regard to the Constitution, as the ordinary objects of legislative provision.
He killed all the malcontents who were able to injure him, and strengthened himself with new
civil and military ordinances, in such a way that, in the year during which he held the principality, not only was he secure in the city of Fermo, but he had become formidable to all his neighbours.
He confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds, to common sense and reason, to justice and lenity, to the speedy determination of civil and criminal causes; with some other obvious topics, which are not worth considering.
As to the decision of civil causes, or proceedings against criminals, their precedents are so few, that they have little reason to boast of any extraordinary skill in either.
Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said Alice angrily.
It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited,' said the March Hare.
There is a
civil governor, appointed by the King of Portugal, and also a military governor, who can assume supreme control and suspend the
civil government at his pleasure.
