What ascendancy and influence hath the dust itself, through the sacredness and potency of that blood, exercised over the bodies and souls of men!
How then could the ascendancy of the sovereignty of these Lamps be explained?
In these days, praise be to God, the power of His Word hath obtained such ascendancy over men, that they dare breathe no word.
It augurs ill for the cause of Greece that this master-spirit should have been withdrawn from their assistance just as he was obtaining a complete ascendancy over their counsels.
But to acquire ascendancy over Anne was not much of an achievement.
The habit of loyalty to them was so established by this long ascendancy of the Whig party, that Englishmen forgot that such things could be;--forgot that it was possible to infringe upon the sacred liberties of the people.
The nobles had now established a ruinous ascendancy in the state, and so abject had the King become, that Robert III.
The struggle resolved itself into one between the advocates of these rival forms of Protestantism, each striving to obtain ascendancy in the kingdom, and control of the King.
Lauderdale's ascendancy in Scotland and the failure of the attempts at compromise in Scottish church affairs eventually led Burnet to settle in England.
There is no person in the world whose character is more easy than yours to become acquainted with; but it is precisely because you shew yourself without disguise that mystery and reserve have a pleasing ascendancy over you.
That which gave Lord Nelville, as will be seen in the sequel, so great an ascendancy over the heart of his mistress, was the unexpected contrasts which gave a peculiar charm to his manners.
It is the advantage of us men that women think as you do--we have thus more ascendancy over you; but your superiority must not be lost, it must be serviceable to you.
At the close of Sigismund's reign Protestantism was definitively broken up; and the Jesuit ascendancypermitted even of frequent persecutions of heresy.
It was by the play of its own elements of strife that its ascendancy was undermined.
The seeds of measles and scarlatina had long existed beside the seeds of smallpox, but the ascendancy of each of the two former had to wait events.
That rise in the probability of life corresponded to the substitution of measles for smallpox, and in part depended upon the ascendancy of the milder infection.
Some require constant encouragement; some you must never beat; whilst, to gain the required ascendancy over others, the whip must be occasionally employed.
The first great era in the history is the ascendancy of the Hindus, and that breaks up into three periods--a period of Buddhism, a period of aggressive Sivaism, and a period of apparent compromise.
Late Gothic art could not withstand its bewitchment, and in the XVI century, European art yielded almost without reserve to the ascendancy of the Renaissance style.
In the latter part of the XV century, the Renaissance spread from Italy into the northern countries, and, in the XVI century, accomplished a triumphant ascendancy over the late Gothic style.
Paul's jealousy of the Spanish ascendancy in Italian affairs caused him to waver between the Papal and Imperial, Guelf and Ghibelline, parties.
Nor were ecclesiastical authorities dissatisfied with this attitude during the ascendancy of humanistic culture.
Yet he hated the Spanish ascendancy with a hatred far more fierce and bitter than that of Paul III.
From the day that old Malone entered the gaol, his ascendancy was at once acknowledged.
If this was indeed the case, it would furnish another proof of the ascendancy of a strong will over merely physical hindrances.
Referring to the ascendancy which she had over Pericles, she was called Dejanira, the wife of Hercules; Hera, the queen of the gods and wife of the Olympian Jove.
This powerful and remarkable ascendancy of the woman over the man, among the Goths, could hardly be more strikingly displayed than in the instance of Hermanric.
Notwithstanding all this, he gained considerable ascendancy over the natives, which, if it had been well directed, might have produced very useful results in the development of civilization and the progress of religion.
As his best chance of securing his ascendancy against such a rival, Le Vaisseau proposed marriage to the Bêgam, and was accepted.
The founder and he seemed to be growing firm friends, though Mace with pain saw that the visitor was gaining an ascendancy over her father's actions that augured no future good.
Ah, Brother Francis, I'm afraid that I resemble the unjust steward, and am making friends with such as thou against the days when thy party has the ascendancy once more, and we Protestants are of small account.
