The contest between Gluck and Piccini, or rather the cabalswho adopted the two musicians as their figure-heads, was brought to an end by the death of the former.
The company thus organized at length gives its first representation, after a month of cabals and intrigues, which furnish conversation for the town.
Had Marlborough been of a proud and vindictive nature he might have been provoked into raising another quarrel in the royal family, and into forming new cabals in the army.
I well remember you foretold the storm, When first the brothers did their factions form: When each, by cursed cabals of women, strove To draw the indulgent king to partial love.
His virtues were better calculated for private than for public life; and by his want of penetration and firmness, he was ill fitted to extricate himself from those cabals and violences to which that age was so much addicted.
Hence the cabals by which attempts were made to recall me indirectly to the city.
The simple and uniform life of a nun, and the little cabals and gossipings of their parlor, were not adapted to a mind vigorous and active, which, every day forming new systems, had occasions for liberty to attempt their completion.
I know that cabals have been got up in the Parliament, that seditious preachers have been set on.
Clothed with authority in his own republic, he had no reason to fear either secret design or cabals to displace him from a post which he filled to the satisfaction of his masters, and in which he conducted himself with moderation.
I learn from a good quarter that there are great cabals forming against the authority of M.
We seemed he said too much to fearcabals in appointments by a number, and to have too much confidence in those of single persons.
Some appointments made by them, proved that every thing ought to be apprehended from the cabals practised on such occasions.
It was needed in France, to restrain the rapacity and curtail the overgrown power of feudal nobles, whose cabals and treasons were fatal to the interests of law and order.
Is it not a mistake, in short, to form parties and cabals in order to bring in a bill to repeal the act of occasional conformity?
Cabals were immediately formed at Eome by the French faction against the Spanish and Imperial interest.
Several cabals had been formed, and these produced clashing and competitions, which affected the crown, as stirring up discontent in those who held the principal posts of the state.
By the election of a King of the Romans, the views of Princes who may have formed designs, are prevented; and the coronation once over, will suppress all cabals and intrigues about being head of the empire.
It was not very easy to point out wherein this book was to be found fault with; but religious cabals were then in fashion.
Behind his back they discussed his death and the succession, formed cabals of supporters, wrangled for influence and power.
There was Fouche to be cajoled and bribed with promises, if only the police would repress the cabals forming everywhere like mushrooms.
On this the people were again ready to mutiny, and resumed their murmurs and cabals against him.
This synod did afterwards, for more convenience, divide themselves into many lesser cabals or companies; and Oates was employed to carry notes and letters from one to another, all tending to the same end, of murdering the king.
Immediately he entered into all the cabals of the country party; and discovered to them, perhaps magnified, the arbitrary designs of the court, in which he himself had borne so deep a share.
His circumstances are none of the best at present, since his opera, owing to the cabals of his opponents, was performed but seldom, and therefore yielded him nothing.
It was not by intrigues merely, nor by cabals usual among the nobles, but by this right hand, I procured for myself three consulships, and the highest eulogies.
The boy believed in the cabals and things, believed in the peculiar line, believed, to be brief, in the Master.
The Swedes were uneasy to see so great a Share of Authority vested in a Foreigner; and therefore form'd Parties and Cabals to strip him of it; but they durst not discover their Designs.
His Wisdom got the better of all Opposition; and he had the advantage of triumphing over the Intrigues and Cabals of the Primate.
The cabals of men of letters, he wrote to Voltaire, seemed to him the lowest depth of degradation.
His correspondence during his residence at Berlin attests in every page of it how bitterly he resented the cabals of ignoble men of letters, and the insolence of ignoble men of authority.
Ah, monsieur le duc, I understand you now; yet it seems a bad augury to have to begin my reign by cabals and intrigues.
There were continual plots hatched against the stern rule of Richelieu, cabals and conspiracies without number were entered upon, but none of them resulted in anything.
At the expiration of three years, peace had come to France after a fashion, the cabals were not so frequent and the rivalry between the factions not so bitter.
These little intrigues and cabals of the court were silenced by the account which came from all quarters, of the vast preparations made by the Spaniards for the invasion of England, and for the entire conquest of that kingdom.
The first had discovered, as far as his understanding was capable of perceiving anything, that he had been the dupe of more crafty men in the cabals against Richard Cromwell, whose complete fall from power he had neither designed nor foreseen.
He may justly be suspected of having been the chief promoter of the dangerous cabals with Barillon; nor could any tool of Charles's court be more sedulous in representing the aggressions of Louis XIV.
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