I know but of one solid objection to absolute monarchy; the difficulty of finding any man adequate to the office.
Under the Bourbon Kings the government of France was an absolute monarchy tempered by epigrams, and regulated chiefly by priests, soldiers, and the ladies of the Court.
Christianity as an oriental phantom, and of value only as a support of absolute monarchy and an antidote to revolution.
In an absolute monarchy there is no limit to the power of the monarch; his wishes are the laws of the people.
Russia is the only civilized nation whose government is still an absolute monarchy.
Turgot, Bernstorff, Firmian, were admired and imitated as Lewis XIV had been in a former phase of absolute monarchy.
The Queen Mother had no objection on principle to absolute monarchy: she had always favoured it.
The mistress of the place loved open air and movement, as did all the French nobility before an absolute monarchy, in the interest of order and peace, had trained them to rest tranquilly in the salons of Versailles.
Mademoiselle finally passed through the state of apprenticeship to absolute monarchy.
In the treaties of Westphalia he acquired a goodly strip on the Baltic, and he succeeded in creating an absolute monarchy on the model furnished by his contemporary, Louis XIV.
Organized like an absolute monarchy, the Church was in a certain sense far the most powerful state of the Middle Ages.
The people only wished to change an absolute monarchy into a limited, or constitutional, one.
Sidenote: Different attitude of the English and French nations toward absolute monarchy.
It was again necessary for the Czar to interfere, and to explain to the King that France could no longer be an absolute monarchy.
It has long been the fashion, a fashion introduced by Mr. Hume, to describe the English monarchy in the sixteenth century as an absolute monarchy.
If so, this boasted reform must commence in all probability by civil war, and, if consummated, must be consummated by the establishment of absolute monarchy.
It is called an absolute monarchy, because little respect was paid by the Tudors to those institutions which we have been accustomed to consider as the sole checks on the power of the sovereign.
This forgery produced an immense extension of the papal power, it displaced the old system of church government, divesting it of the republican attributes it had possessed, and transforming it into an absolute monarchy.
Explanation of the failure of Catholicism--Political history of the papacy: it was transmuted from a spiritual confederacy into an absolute monarchy.
The story I am about to relate is a narrative of the transformation of a confederacy into an absolute monarchy.
The "social questions" which have been "discussed in our time" increase in importance in the degree that we emerge from the realm of absolute monarchy.
So long as the armies of the Revolution had to deal with peoples bent under the yoke of absolute monarchy, and having no personal ideal to defend, their success was relatively easy.
Thiers regarded the Revolution as the result of several centuries of absolute monarchy, and the Terror as the necessary consequence of foreign invasion.
Extremely royalist, in fact, it thought simply to substitute a constitutional for an absolute monarchy.
Richelieu had prepared for an absolute monarchy by making them dependent upon the King's bounty; he had habituated them to look for gifts.
Nor does it "build up absolute monarchy in the colonies.
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