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1. To arrogate its
2. The sincere service of God and the loyal service of Caesar do not conflict unless Caesar should presume to arrogate to himself that homage which alone can be claimed by Deity
3. "And who are you, then, that arrogate to yourself this tyrannical right over free and rational
4. It was consoling, under the hovering terror of to-morrow's separation, to feel that he really recognized her now as his wife Tess, and did not cast her off, even if in that recognition he went so far as to arrogate to himself the right of harming her
5. "Oh no! Far be it from me to arrogate to myself the attributes of the Deity
6. “The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted
7. No individual could arrogate it to himself; and, when any individual pressed himself upon the Legislature, it was a question whether this experiment was worthy to be made; whether the invention promised any possible good worthy of this experiment
1. Since the time of Theodore Roosevelt, the national government has arrogated to itself any power that is not specifically prohibited by the Constitution, effectively turning the Tenth Amendment on its head
2. The war was declared because Great Britain arrogated to herself the pretension of regulating foreign trade, under the delusive name of retaliatory Orders in Council—a pretension by which she undertook to proclaim to American enterprise, "Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther
1. But, sir, how have those orders at last been repealed? Great Britain, it is true, has intimated a willingness to suspend their practical operation, but she still arrogates to herself the right to revive them upon certain contingencies, of which she constitutes herself the sole judge
1. We have a President who apologizes all over the world for America"s supposed transgressions, while simultaneously arrogating domestic power to himself and his minions
2. Instead of rejoicing that he has been made the instrument of God's will, Jonah is angry, and condemns God for the mercy shown the Ninevites, arrogating to himself alone the exercise of reason and goodness
3. The mad ambition, the lust of power, and commercial avarice of Great Britain, arrogating to herself the complete dominion of the ocean, and exercising over it an unbounded and lawless tyranny, have left to neutral nations an alternative only between the base surrender of their rights, and a manly vindication of them