Read full poem →To see their judgments hang upon thy voice;
From morn to night, at senate, rolls, and hall,
Plead much, read more, dine late, or not at all.
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In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.
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. senatecommittee senatesenate statessenate statesenate roman
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Poetry examples for “senate”
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Read full poem →The living virtue now had shone approved,
The senate heard him, and his country loved.
Yet softer honours, and less noisy fame
Read full poem →How Church and State should be obliged to thee!
At Senate, and at Bar, how welcome would'st thou be!
Read full poem →And greatly falling with a falling state.
While Cato gives his little senate laws,
What bosom beats not in his country's cause?
Read full poem →And greatly falling with a falling state.
While Cato gives his little senate laws,
What bosom beats not in his country's cause?
Read full poem →Right Romane poverty and gratitude.
Poor Poet thou, and grateful Senate they,
Who thy last Reckoning did so largely pay.
Read full poem →suppose it spoke of Nero by one who knew he would be at once deserted
by ihe senate and army, and given up to the fury of the people.
Read full poem →berty ? — who better knew, than they, that the free-
dom of the theatre (next to that of the senate) was the
Read full poem →CLAUSE 8. Every order, resolution, or vote to which
the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives’
may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment)
Read full poem →certify and transmit sealed to the seat of the government
of the United States, directed to the president of the Senate;
— the president of the Senate shall, in the presence of the