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Example sentences for "dissentions"

Lexicographically close words:
dissenters; dissentient; dissentients; dissenting; dissention; dissentious; dissents; dissepiments; dissertation; dissertationes
  1. Cabinet of Washington, dissentions in, in 1790, iii.

  2. This was the beginning of those dissentions in his cabinet which afterward gave the president so much trouble.

  3. Mr. Jefferson answered Washington, that no one regretted the dissentions in the cabinet more than himself.

  4. Indeed, they soon became decided political antagonists, and Washington was greatly disturbed by party dissentions in his cabinet and in Congress.

  5. I wish it still devoutly, as well on public as on private accounts; for dissentions of this sort will have an unhappy effect among the friends of government, while it will be sweet consolation to the French partisans, and food for their pride.

  6. This inclination produced some dissentions in his cabinet, when the jealous irritability of his temper, and his egotistical reliance upon his own judgment, made him resolve to change the order of the major-generals.

  7. While these things were perplexing Washington's cabinet, the dissentions in that cabinet were more perplexing to the president.

  8. A man so good that only would uphold Man in his native noblesse, from whose fall All our dissentions arise," &c.

  9. Reuben, whose internal dissentions issued in a shameful neutrality, a circumstance deeply perplexing and vexatious to their brethren.

  10. There is, however, too frequent occasion to deplore the dissentions of families, whose religious profession induces us to expect the prevalence of peace and harmony.

  11. This worthy man did not allow domestic dissentions to interrupt his religious duties.

  12. These dissentions do not expire when the candidates are elected.

  13. And God grant that these dissentions may cease, that political peace and harmony may become perfect, and our government may stand immoveable on its basis, like the rock that remains unshaken by the furious storms that agitate the ocean.

  14. The fifth, Don Diego Fernandez, solely relates to the dissentions and civil wars among the Spanish conquerors.

  15. We conclude that family dissentions connected with the disinheritance of Francis Plowden, must have tended to facilitate Charles II.

  16. The unhappy match, betwixt Henry Darnley and his sovereign, led to new dissentions on the border.


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