I am determined, in my intercourse with the Indians, to break up the ascendency of the Hudson Bay Company, and permit no authority or sanction to come between the Indians and the officers of this government.
This is the only way to get along, for if we allow those passions I have mentioned to obtain the least ascendency over us, it will render us disagreeable and unhappy.
Beneath a quiet exterior he shows himself to be a man of judgment, forecast, and great reliability, and I could see in my interview with his band the ascendency he possesses over them.
She possessed a great ascendency over the mind of her husband, and could easily deceive him, or induce him to do whatever she pleased.
There would then, they said, be none to interfere with her; but her influence and ascendency over the emperor's mind would be established on a permanent and lasting footing.
At length Poppæa gained so great an ascendency over the mind of the emperor as to seduce him entirely away from his duty to his wife, and she proposed that they should both be divorced and then marry one another.
She soon determined that the wisest and most politic plan after all, would be for her to acquiesce in the fancy of her son, and endeavor to retain her ascendency over him by aiding and countenancing him in his pleasures.
In these cheap forms of pictorial art the photograph continues to gain ascendency not only as a medium for reproduction, but as a substitute for original artistic invention and design.
It is very strange--mysterious even--the kind of ascendency this lady has obtained for herself in so short a time.
Some of the larger German states thought to fortify their position, and to obtain an ascendency in the Diet, by maintaining several of the minor principalities intact, and, in return, commanding their votes.
The indisputable rights of the ascendency are in our days with the sceptre and crown of progress.
Thence sprang a simple and persuasive eloquence, which gave him an ascendency over every one, and caused him to be especially sought after on a thousand occasions that had no immediate connection with his actual position.
He likewise took an active part in the measures by which the persevering efforts of Queen Margaret to regain her ascendency were disconcerted, and Henry VI.
He must not seem to hesitate now when his ascendencyamongst the people was at such a crisis.
The ruling passion triumphed once more, as he anticipated the discomfiture of his rival, and the speedy renewal of his ownascendency amongst his countrymen.
Again there were whispers of poison, but Mariana was still in power, and she lost no time in planning again for Austrian ascendency and an Austrian succession.
So complete was the ascendency of Luna, that it is said on good authority that the king hesitated to go to bed until he had received his favorite's permission.
It was from our ancestors that ascendency received its death-blow.
The lower classes of Irish Nationalists regard an Irish Legislature as an instrument to secure ascendency and plunder.
They have the ascendency which ability and education and industry will always have over incapacity and ignorance and laziness.
Pleasures and pains are unduly magnified; the democracy of the passions prevails; and the ascendency of reason is cast down.
He was simply the high-churchman aiming to secure the ascendency of the spiritual power.
Who shall settle whether spiritual or temporal power should have the ascendency in the Middle Ages?
The contest between Prussia and France was to prevent the ascendency of either of those great States.
Carteret, Lord (afterwards Earl Granville), hisascendency after the fall of Walpole, ii.
Tories, their popularity andascendency in 1710, ii.
On the day of the accession of George the Third, the ascendency of the Whig party terminated; and on that day the purification of the Whig party began.
Her spiritual ascendency extends over the vast countries which lie between the plains of the Missouri and Cape Horn, countries which, a century hence, may not improbably contain a population as large as that which now inhabits Europe.
Both, it was said, had, by eloquence and simulated patriotism, acquired a great ascendency in the House of Commons and in the country.
Nor had he the sagacity to perceive that the strenuous efforts which he made to annihilate all parties tended only to establish the ascendency of one party, and that the basest and most hateful of all.
It was now, on one side, less a contest for the spiritualascendency of the Church of Rome than for the temporal ascendency of the House of Austria.
The emoluments of the Pay Office might induce the defeated statesman to submit in silence to the ascendency of his competitor, but could not satisfy a mind conscious of great powers, and sore from great vexations.
This was expressed in city "trades' unions," or federations of all organized trades in a city, and in its ascendency over the individual trade societies.
The philosophy of the Internationale at the period of its ascendency was based on the economic organization of the working class in trade unions.
Another highly important effect of this conflict was the ascendency in the trade union movement of Samuel Gompers as the foremost leader.
National deliverance and regeneration through the ascendency of the National Guard.
Montalembert, the Count de Falloux, Prince Albert de Broglie, and many others, a younger generation, but not less submissive to the ascendency of a soul where virtue served genius.
And she did not deceive herself in this belief, for the ex-empress had reason upon many occasions to exult in the irresistibleascendency she still exercised over Napoleon.
But the days of the ascendency of the brilliant but terrible virago were nearly numbered.
It had left England in possession of Calais and Boulogne, and confirmed theascendency of Charles V.
With wise insight she realized the hopelessness of endeavoring to free her husband from the ensnaring power of Diana, and so she artfully made his favorite her friend, and seemingly acquiesced in the ascendency of her rival.
This flight, so fatal to the monarchy, irretrievably destroyed the ascendency that Bailly had exercised over the capital.
During the past twenty years the Russian party has gradually got the upper hand; and the result of this ascendency at Pulkova will be looked for with much solicitude by astronomers everywhere.
By this time Dowall had drunk himself into a state of utter recklessness; while encouraged by his friend's praises, and the arguments of his own passions, he fancied that he might dispute ascendency with General Humbert himself.
At this culminating crisis, the antagonism which in Adam was as yet unfelt from the ascendency of nature, was to die out and cease on the absolute triumph of the Spirit.
The triumph of its doctrines would be, not the ascendency of one sect, but the harmony of all.
The closing decades of the seventeenth century were introducing the heyday of the slave trade, and the English were preparing for their finalascendency therein.
These in fact had such an ascendency that when in 1663 Spain revived the asiento by a contract with two Genoese, the contractors must needs procure their slaves by arrangement with Dutch and English who delivered them at Curaçao and Jamaica.
AE] From this period nothing has ever affected their freedom and absolute independence, which they now enjoy in the most unlimited sense, in spite of the repeated efforts of the house of Austria to recover some degree of ascendency over them.
Not one of theascendency party could hope to escape.
The Protestant ascendency party had banded itself together in armed force at the call of Government for the protection of the land.
It secured for mankind the intellectual treasures of Athens, the growth of free institutions, the liberal enlightenment of the Western world, and the gradual ascendency for many ages of the great principles of European civilization.
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