"Provisional" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mediaeval Church. The work, which extends from the time of Gregory the Great to 1520, when Luther, having been extruded from those churches that adhered to the communion of the Pope, established a provisional form of government, and opened a fresh era in the history of Europe, is distinguished by the same diligent research and conscientious acknowledgment of authorities which procured for Mr. Hardwick's ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853 • Various
... the northwest coast had been diligently prosecuted. The agent sent by him to St. Petersburg, to negotiate in his name as president of the American Fur Company, had, under sanction of the Russian government, made a provisional agreement ...
— Astoria - Or, Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains • Washington Irving
... Apennines and lead his army back to Liguria. He was greatly distressed to see his force breaking down, because he was not given enough supplies to support it, and he died two weeks after he had made me an officer. My father, who was now the most senior divisional general, was made provisional commander-in-chief of the army of Italy, whose headquarters were at Nice. He therefore went there and immediately sent back to Provence the few remaining cavalry, as there was no longer any fodder in Liguria. So the 1st Hussars ...
— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot
... provisional committee be adopted, and that this meeting joyfully accepts, and gratefully acknowledges, the gift of five acres of land referred to in ...
— Speeches: Literary and Social • Charles Dickens
... Relating to Other Public Bills.*—The second fundamental stipulation is that any other public bill (except one to confirm a provisional order or one to extend the maximum duration of Parliament beyond five years) which is passed by the House of Commons in three successive sessions, whether or not of the same parliament, and which, having been sent up to the House of ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg
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