After resigning the sovereignty of Anatolia, he fell a victim to the perfidy of his ministers, and the superior ascendant of his brother Mahomet.
Under his discipline, the swords of the French mercenaries were the most effectual instruments of his conquests, and their desertion from the service of their country was at once a symptom and a cause of the rising ascendant of the Greeks.
In a state of society, in which policy is rude and valor is universal, the ascendant of one man must be founded on his power and resolution to punish his enemies and recompense his friends.
It is also to be noted that in some cases the friendly aspect of the dead has been lost sight of, and, like the síd-folk, they are popularly connected with evil powers which are in the ascendant on Samhain eve.
The powers of light and growth are in the ascendant in summer; they seem to die in winter.
But the worst of it was that it convinced the emperor and his advisers that they could hold their own against Europeans, and that it placed the extreme party once more in the ascendant at Pekin.
Curiously enough, there was peace and ostensible goodwill along the coast and at the other treaty ports, while war and national animosity were in the ascendant at Canton.
For the most part they arose in the second century, flourished during the third, and were suppressed in the fourth or fifth, by the prevalence of more fashionable controversies, and by the superior ascendant of the reigning power.
As a yet stronger measure, they ordered back from Marseilles the gay Father Aubany, who had someascendant over the nuns.
As Director of the Seminary for Chaplains, Girard began, through his seeming sternness and his real dexterity, to win for the Jesuits an ascendant over monks thus compromised, and over parish-priests of very vulgar manners and scanty learning.
The war party was in the ascendant in each country.
No doubt, had Daneff yielded he would have been voted out of office by the opposition, for the military party was in the ascendant at Sofia also.
As an Englishman I do not want to be ascendant over any one.
But it makes me very ill when any one tries to be ascendant over me.
The house of the sun is Leo, its ascendant is Aries and its descendant Aquarius.
Venus's house is Taurus, its ascendant Pisces, its descendant Libra and its sinister aspects Aries and Scorpio.
Jupiter's house is Pisces and Sagittarius, its ascendant Cancer, its descendant Capricorn and its sinister aspects Gemini and Leo.
Mercury's house is Gemini and Virgo, its ascendant Virgo, its descendant Pisces and its sinister aspect Taurus.
Saturn's house is Capricorn and Aquarius, itsascendant Libra, its descendant Aries and its sinister aspects Cancer and Leo.
Mars's house is Aries and Scorpio, its ascendant Capricorn, its descendant Cancer and its sinister aspect Libra.
The moon's house is Cancer, itsascendant Taurus, its descendant Scorpio and its sinister aspect Capricorn.
The words quoted by my father should be "the mobility of the land was an ascendant idea.
Contains some proofs by what swift degrees the passions gain an ascendant over the mind, and grow up in proportion with our reason.
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We are like little figures, dots ascendant upon a vast hillside; I take up our intimacy for an instant and hold it under a lens for you.
Properly, "the star that is in the ascendant at the moment of a person's birth, from which the nativity is calculated.
If he refused the see the clear danger to his whole structure--and their ownascendant position at the center of it--it was their clear duty to protect him nonetheless.
He wants only that he and his shall be ascendant at the center of things, the inevitable, the only possible goal of the non-science mind.
How much of the statement rationalizes to suit man's purpose that he and his shall be ascendant at the center of things?
The chairman of the board rationalized it masterfully, without once mentioning that their real concern was to remain ascendant at the center of things at all costs, and thereby maintained the tradition of all non-science endeavors.
And men fought wars over these differing symbols, each side determined to make its symbol ascendant over the other.
I suspect that one has to be graduated beyond the desire to make me-and-mine ascendant over others before he can absorb this knowledge.
It is no wonder that the me-and-mine-ascendant concept has dominated all our thought, and does still.
To be ascendant at the center of things, to remain ascendant, meant that all things of lesser importance, outside the center, must be made subservient to him, else that ascendancy was lost.
The one invariable pattern persisting from the cave man dressed in furs to diplomat in striped pants, the only pattern possible while me-and-mine ascendant is the aim and goal.
He constantly sallied out to clear villages, and demolish any within the vicinity of our post; he maintained a mounted dak service to the rear, and in every way endeavoured to keep as much in the ascendant as was possible in the circumstances.
Now there seemed a probability that, with the fall of the Russian influence at Copenhagen, France, the enemy of England, would again be in the ascendant there.
The Queen's influence and ascendant would then have been too great, and she herself would not have been subject to that of others.
English influence was decidedly in the ascendant at Copenhagen, but the envoy's desired alliance of England, Russia and Denmark against the designs of France and Sweden did not advance rapidly.
Failing to see her own influence in the ascendant at the Danish court, England would prefer to see that of Russia.
So long as the French party was in the ascendant all went well with her, but during the last year Russia had grown in power and influence at the Danish court.
The party in the ascendant was that of Holck, or rather of Bernstorff, for Holck took no part in politics.
But he came in upon the ascendantdirected unto the trine of Sol and antiscion of Jupiter.
The year I bought it, I had my ascendant directed into a Trine of Jupiter first, and in the same year into the Cauda Draconis--my fortune into a quadrant of Mercury.
The star of Napoleon was now in the ascendantand while all Europe submitted to his conquering hand, England still stoutly maintained the combat by sea.
But a still deeper and more abiding influence from the literature of the past was by this time ascendantin Rossetti’s mind.
