In his first major speech after he had lost his seat in the 1918 general election, Asquith said: " That is the purpose and the spirit of Liberalism, as I learned it as a student in my young days, as I was taught it both by the precept and the example of the great Liberal statesman Mr Gladstone ... that remains the same today.

At the time, it was seen as provocation on a grand scale: crowning a Manhattan skyscraper with a shape echoing a historical wardrobe top defied every precept of the modernist aesthetic: historical pattern had been effectively outlawed among architects for years.

A Russian tactical precept coined by Russian General Alexander Suvorov was " The Bullet is foolish, the Bayonet wise ".

This precept, from one of Bacchylides ' extant fragments, was considered by his modern editor, Richard Claverhouse Jebb, to be typical of the poet's temperament: " If the utterances scattered throughout the poems warrant a conjecture, Bacchylides was of placid temper ; amiably tolerant ; satisfied with a modest lot ; not free from some tinge of that pensive melancholy which was peculiarly Ionian ; but with good sense ..."

Maimonides wrote that it was only permitted to enter the site to fulfill a religious precept.

Antisthenes was a pupil of Socrates, from whom he imbibed the fundamental ethical precept that virtue, not pleasure, is the end of existence.

There was, however, during the Middle Ages no definite rule regulating the number of crosses, nor was there any precept determining their colour.

The most important influence, however, was the first precept, which states, in Descartes words ," never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ".

An attempt to attack before his men were in perfect alignment was contrary to every precept that the officers had learnt back in England, and it was only when the dressing had been completed to his satisfaction did Scarlett order his trumpeter, Trumpet Major Monks, to sound the charge.

Young himself reinforced his reputation as a pioneer of romanticism by precept as well as by example ; in 1759, at the age of 76, he published a piece of critical prose under the title of Conjectures on Original Composition which put forward the vital doctrine of the superiority of " genius ," of innate originality being more valuable than classic indoctrination or imitation, and suggested that modern writers might dare to rival or even surpass the " ancients " of Greece and Rome … The Conjectures was a declaration of independence against the tyranny of classicism and was at once acclaimed as such becoming a milestone in the history of English, and European, literary criticism.

He stated that it was important to balance training for self-defense with " training the mind, or cultivating the precept karate-do ni sente nashi (' there is no first strike in karate ')"; he also emphasized the importance of " cultivating intellect before strength ".

Cooper was a stout controversialist ; he defended the practice and precept of the Church of England against the Roman Catholics on the one hand and against the Martin Marprelate writings and the Puritans on the other.

The ambiguous precept of " democratic centralism " — power emanating from the people but bound by the authority of higher organs — was made a formal part of constitutional law.

Meadow's Law was a precept much in use until recently in the field of child protection, specifically by those investigating cases of multiple cot or crib death — SIDS — within a single family.

The precept was published in the United States by DiMaio and DiMaio in 1989, without mention of Meadow.

Their rapport finally terminated when Kūkai harshly condemned Saichō ’ s approach to Mikkyō as a transgression of the esoteric precept of samaya promise to keep the oral / esoteric teachings private, and Saichō retorted by denouncing Kūkai ’ s manner of instruction " Thus it was Mikkyō that brought Saichō and Kūkai together ; it was also Mikkyō that drove them apart.

" Rabbi Hirsch's fight was not for balance and not for reconcilement, nor for synthesis and certainly not for parallel power, but for domination – for the true and absolute domination of the divine precept over the new tendencies " ( Isaac Breuer, Hirsch's grandson ).

He was extremely edified by his reply: “ Forgive my error, and please instruct me, for I did not know that the precept of obedience took precedence over that of charity.

On the one hand, the seventeenth century divine, John Cosin, held that episcopal authority is jure divino, but that it stemmed from " apostolic practice and the customs of the Church ... absolute precept that either Christ or His Apostles gave about it " ( a view maintained also by Hooker ).

On 9 July 1568, Pope Pius V, the successor of the Pope who closed the Council of Trent, promulgated an edition, known as the Roman Breviary, with his Apostolic Constitution Quod a nobis, imposing it in the same way in which, two years later, he imposed his Roman Missal and using language very similar to that in the bull Quo primum with which he promulgated the Missal, regarding, for instance, the perpetual force of its provisions, the obligation to use the promulgated text in all places, and the total prohibition of adding or omitting anything, declaring in fact: " No one whosoever is permitted to alter this letter or heedlessly to venture to go contrary to this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept, grant, indult declaration, will decree and prohibition.

He later confessed that, " I was disillusioned, because there was a lot of difference between precept and practice where the Church was concerned.

It forms an introductory volume to the Berlin Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, the excellence of which is largely due to the precept and example of Ritschl, though he had no hand in the later volumes.

On 9 July 1568 Pope Pius V promulgated an edition, known as the Roman Breviary, with his Apostolic Constitution Quod a nobis, imposing it in the same way in which he imposed his Roman Missal two years later and using language very similar to that in the bull Quo primum with which he promulgated the Missal, regarding, for instance, the perpetual force of its provisions, the obligation to use the promulgated text in all places, and the total prohibition of adding or omitting anything, declaring in fact: " No one whosoever is permitted to alter this letter or heedlessly to venture to go contrary to this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept, grant, indult declaration, will decree and prohibition.

On 9 July 1568, Pope ( Saint ) Pius V, the successor to Pius IV who closed the Council of Trent, promulgated an edition, known as the Roman Breviary, with his Apostolic Constitution Quod a nobis, imposing it in the same way in which, two years later, he imposed his Roman Missal and using language very similar to that in the bull Quo primum with which he promulgated the Missal, regarding ; for instance, the perpetual force of its provisions, the obligation to use the promulgated text in all places, and the total prohibition of adding or omitting anything, declaring in fact: " No one whosoever is permitted to alter this letter or heedlessly to venture to go contrary to this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept, grant, indult declaration, will decree and prohibition.

Despite the fact that the Statuto Albertino did not make any reference to the equality or inequality between the sexes, the precept of the wife's subordination to the husband-one having ancient antecedents-was prevalent in the basic legal system ( the legislative meaning ).

Anonymous charity has long been a widespread and durable moral precept of many ethical and religious systems, as well as being in practice a widespread human activity.

" The precept is in full force today, as it was in the past, and so it will be in the future also, and always, because it is not a simple human whim, but the expression of a natural and divine law.

# the whole body of sacred tradition or what is remembered by human teachers ( in contradistinction to Śruti or what is directly heard or revealed to the Rishis ; in its widest acceptation this use of the term Smṛti includes the 6 Vedangas, the Sūtras both Śrauta and Grhya, the Manusmṛti, the Itihāsas ( e. g., the Mahābhārata and Ramayana ), the Puranas and the Nītiśāstras, " according to such and such a traditional precept or legal text ";

The secular power over riches and worldly goods which the clergy possesses in contradiction to Christ ’ s precept, to the prejudice of its office and to the detriment of the secular arm, shall be taken and withdrawn from it, and the clergy itself shall be brought back to the evangelical rule and an apostolic life such as that which Christ and his apostles led.

The Apostolic constitutions which go back to about the year 400, attribute to the precept of using holy water to Apostle Matthew.

Another Sienese, Giovanni Colombini, founder of the order of Jesuati, preached poverty by precept and example, going back to the religious idea of St Francis of Assisi.

: The proposed answer lies in a wave that originating in the thalamus, sweeps the brain from front to back, 40 times per second, drawing different neuronal circuits into synch with the precept, and thereby bringing the precept into the attentional foreground.

The parish council is responsible for some local issues, and sets an annual precept ( local rate ) to cover its council ’ s operating costs.

In actual practice, in a great many cases they will also teach some portions of the program, supervise clinical rotations of paramedics, and in some cases, even precept their initial field practice, prior to formal certification or licensing.

This includes violence against religious institutions, persons, objects, or when the violence is motivated to some degree by some religious aspect of the target or precept of the attacker.

The parish council, which has 15 members who are elected for four years, is responsible for local issues, including setting an annual precept ( local rate ) to cover the council ’ s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny.

The latter has caused controversies and political conflicts, because in the view of several instances is in conflict with a precept of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States that stipulates that no state governor may hold power for more than six years.

Internet Mail 2000 is an Internet mail architecture proposed by Daniel J. Bernstein ( and in subsequent years separately proposed by several others ), designed with the precept that the initial storage of mail messages be the responsibility of the sender, and not of the recipient as it is with the SMTP-based Internet mail architecture.

( iv ) In choosing lay trustees only those members of the congregation have a voice, who, being twenty-one years of age, have fulfilled the paschal precept, have paid for a seat in the church during the past year, have sent their children to Catholic schools and belong to no prohibited society.

Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating an enigmatic precept, " we must cultivate our garden ", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, " all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds ".

Generally speaking, this precept requires that " weapons remain pure that they are employed only in self-defence and against innocent civilians and defenceless people ".

The primary precept of this new aeon is the charge to " Do what thou wilt ".

In contrast, the speech of Dr Chasuble and Miss Prism is distinguished by " pedantic precept " and " idiosyncratic diversion ".

A man may be devout as a Christian … but if as a citizen he claims rights for himself he refuses to confer upon others, he fails to fulfill the precept of Christ ".

Generally speaking, this precept requires that " weapons remain pure that they are employed only in self-defence and against innocent civilians and defenceless people ".

Nietzsche singles out the Stoic precept of " living according to nature " (§ 9 ) as showing how philosophy " creates the world in its own image " by trying to regiment nature " according to the Stoa ".

It is customary to refer to one's own tonsure Master as " Gracious Master ", precept Master as " Root Master " and Dharma transmission Master as " Venerable Master ".

Typical of Pali Canon discourses, the Dhammika Sutta ( Sn 2. 14 ) includes a more explicit correlate to this precept when the Buddha enjoins a follower to " observe celibacy or at least do not have sex with another's wife ".

A superior ( e. g., a heritor ) might authorise his agent or factor to give possession of his property to someone else through a document known as a " precept of sasine ".

He then established a ten precept ordination lineage for women, " Siladhara ".

King Henry III repeated his earlier but ineffective instructions: he ordered Henry de Loundres, Archbishop of Dublin and new Justiciar of Ireland, to restore to Donnchadh " the remaining part of the land given to him by King John in Ireland, unless anyone held it by his father's own precept ".

In the Ngagpa tradition of Nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism – and particularly in the Aro gTer sect – the Pancasila is wholly presented from the point of view of Dzogchen ; as such the fifth precept is re-defined as " to refrain from the intoxication of duality, and to become drunken with primordial wisdom ".