Of these they were dispossessed and when they felt that with the taking away of these parishes all their ills had ended, they received fresh, ruder shocks which renewed and inflamed the wound.
Church of England ministers were dispossessed in favour of Nonconformists, Puritanism became the established faith, Catholicism remained proscribed.
He contended that he was not subject to the provision of the statute directing sales of confiscated estates which provided that tenants could not be dispossessed without being paid for improvements.
Why, foolish questioner, for the rudiments of an existence; do you not know that the world's dispossessed must pay heavily for the privilege of living?
Many of these were destitute Irish who, after having been plundered and dispossessed by the absentee landlords and the capitalists of their own country, were induced to pay their last farthing to the shippers for passage to America.
It may be added, that the visitors restored the married clergy who had been dispossessed in the preceding reign; which would of course considerably augment the number of sufferers for popery.
Words are of no avail,” exclaimed her husband: “the habits of forty years are not to he dispossessed by the ties of a day.
Of course these two tribes were the first who were dispossessed of their lands by the Europeans.
Eastward the dispossessed ruler of Algiers took his course, and very soon discovered that which he sought--allies to assist him against the revolted Venalcadi and the recalcitrant Hassan.
They answered, And what should ail us that we should not fight for the religion of God, seeing we are dispossessed of our habitations, and deprived of our children?
She brought him as her dowry the City of Imola, and in addition to this he received from his Holiness the City of Forli, to which end the Ordelaffi were dispossessed of it.
Albuquerque proposed immediately to have dispossessed them by means of his troops; but the king and governor found other means of expelling these men from the city, who to the number of 700 men went to Persia.
Next day the dispossessed prince of Pisang was reinstated with much ceremony, being made tributary to the king of Portugal, and a fort was erected at his capital, as at other places, to keep him under subjection.
The dispossessed men carried to America an undying hatred of England which had much to say to the American revolution, and that again reacted on Ireland.
The dispossessed Protestants escaped by sea or flocked into Ulster, where a gallant stand was made.
Wherever they came they dispossessed the original inhabitants, as they were men of superior courage, extraordinary stature, fierce in aspect, barbarous in their manners, and prone to emigration.
From this period the senate was dispossessed of its power; and Rome henceforward was never without master.
Lucius refused to acquiesce; and being at the head of more than six legions, mostly composed of such as were dispossessed of their lands, he resolved to compel Augustus to accept of whatever terms he should offer.
Isaac Comnenus and his friends took arms, and dispossessed the aged Michael of his throne with little difficulty.
No one in Western Europe was ignorant of his tale, and he survives as the prototype of the dispossessed sovereigns of fifty legends of chivalry.
It was soon evident that there would be a trial of strength between the two Greek emperors who claimed to succeed to the rights of the dispossessed Angeli.
The refusal of the government itself to move the dispossessed men was dictated by the political exigencies of the moment.
They answered, And what should ail us that we should not fight for the religion of GOD, seeing we are dispossessed of our habitations, and deprived of our children?
Thus we dispossessed them thereof; and we gave the same for an inheritance unto another people.
Every territory in Greece, except Attica and Arcadia, had been seized by conquerors who dispossessed or enslaved the prior inhabitants.
When Mrs. Rogers found herself forcibly dispossessed she appealed to the law, and judgment was given against Henry.
As a good soldier and a loyal knight who hangs his hopes upon a woman's smile, he perseveringly followed the dangerous path till he was utterly dispossessed of castle and patrimony, feudatory and vassal.
As early as 1670, in the celebrated Bates case, the English court held that a teacher could not be dispossessed from his school for teaching without the Bishop's license, if he were the nominee of the founder or patron.
The State had definitely dispossessed the Church as the controlling agency in education, and had definitely taken over the school as an instrument for its own ends.
When O'Donovan, or the narrative which he quotes, says that the dispossessed king was of the Fir Bolg stock, he uses the term Fir Bolg in its late and wide application.
Brythons or Britons, who in turn dispossessed the Gaels, at all events as far as England and Wales are concerned.
The few who guessed his romance were puzzled to understand his cause: for if he dispossessed Philip, Guida must also be dispossessed.
This deed, countersigned by the Powers that dispossessed his father, secures to him the duchy when he is old enough to govern.
A year ago you dispossessedhis father from the duchy.
He was never so much worth respect as when, a dispossessed sovereign with an empty title, discountenanced by his order, disbarred his profession, he held himself ready to take whatever penalty now came.
As Tubby stared with round eyes he saw a monstrous wildcat crouching there, looking this way and that, as if tempted to give battle to its human enemies, by whom it had been dispossessed from the scene of its royal feast.
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