"Do away with" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... well as long as their organist or vicar is not too ambitious in his choice of music. There is a fatal tendency in many places to do away with the old hymns, which every one has known from a boy, and substitute the very inferior modern ones now to be found in our books. This is the greatest mistake, if I may say so. A man is far more likely to sing, and feel deeply ...
— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs
... Should there be a conflict between a rule of International Law and a rule of Municipal Law, a Municipal Court can only apply the rule of Municipal Law, leaving it to the legislature of its State to do away with the conflict by altering ...
— The Panama Canal Conflict between Great Britain and the United States of America - A Study • Lassa Oppenheim
... senate, by re-appointing their magistrates, you yourselves also wish it to be violated, lest ye should yield to the populace in rashness; as if to possess greater power in the state consisted in having more of inconstancy and irregularity; for it is certainly more inconstant and greater folly, to do away with one's own decrees and resolutions, than those of others. Imitate, conscript fathers, the inconsiderate multitude; and ye, who should be an example to others, transgress by the example of others, rather than others should act correctly by yours, provided ...
— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius
... just an awfully good scheme. But if you work your argument backward it will prove that as evil exists there isn't any good God. But if it's true that sin and disease have no real existence, we'll do away with hanging and electrocution, as they call it, and just send for Miss Bowyer to convince a murderer that murder is an evil, and so it can't have any real independent existence in a universe made by ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston
... this, Lactu!" said a man near the end of the group. "We have important business to conduct. Take this foolish boy out and do away with him!" ...
— The Revolt on Venus • Carey Rockwell
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