devisable

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The rights of men in society, are neither devisable or transferable, nor annihilable, but are descendable only, and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the descent.

From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man by Conway, Moncure Daniel

True liberty is not to be virtually secured by any framework of rules and limitations, devisable only by statecraft.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

Stolberg offers him the favorablest terms devisable: "Withdraw freely, with all your honors, all your properties; only withdraw!"

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas

Would to Heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy any kind of sieve, wind-fanners, or ne-plus-ultra of machinery, devisable by man, that would do it!

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

Would to heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy 135any kind of sieve, wind-fanners, or ne plus ultra of machinery, devisable by man that would do it!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various