But, lastly, it shows itself in its full and most frightful energy in the reckless and unsparing lust of conquest, and in the unsatiable thirst of absolute dominion which stimulates the conquering despot.
The tree of life was given to him entirely and without reserve, as also dominion over the earth, whose first-made living creatures the Lord subjected to his dominion, bringing them before him to call and to name them.
Man is formed of the dust of the earth, and therefore shortly after invested with the dominion of the whole earthly globe as the deputy and vicegerent of Him from whom cometh all lordship and authority.
And even at the divine renewal of the human race, the same anathema was again pronounced upon the natural tree of an earthly life, condemning it to wither still more and more under the baneful dominion of death.
When Italy passed from the dominion of the Goths to that of the Longobards, the arts, which invariably follow in the train of fortune, transferred their primary seat from Ravenna to Milan, to Monza, and to Pavia.
Such was the state of the art in Parma about the middle of the sixteenth century, at which period the Farnese family acquired dominion there, and greatly contributed to promote the interest of that school.
Since the feeble attempts of Vedriani, and of other writers, more eager than sagacious, the pictoric history of the entire dominion has been recently illustrated, as I observed at the commencement, by a distinguished historian.
Still that tribute was a return to the doctrine that God had made man in his own image and had given him dominion over the works of his hand.
The atheist must admit that man has the dominion, but the believer holds that man has the dominion because he has the birthright.
The divine dominion over motive is strongly asserted.
A rebellion was now excited against the sacrilegious Edwy; and the whole north of England, having rebelled, was placed under the dominion of his brother, a boy of thirteen years of age.
Edred was an inactive prince, but greatly under thedominion of religious prejudices; and Dunstan, being introduced to him, found him an apt subject for his machinations.
God therefore at length created Adam, the first of men, crowning him with glory and honour, and giving him dominion over all other earthly beings.
The remains of Roman aqueducts, of great extent and massiveness, occur in various parts of Europe, over which the Roman dominion once extended.
To whom be praise, dominion and glory, now and forever.
And unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever.
To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to govern; to manage.
A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.
Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominionof a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government.
I am glad it goes all over the States, the Dominion of Canada, and is in goodly demand in Great Britain.
But to auoyde all suspition, I durst here make no mention of the dominion which the Kyng of Portugale had in the most parte of that ocean, and of the gulfes of the Redde Sea and Persia.
That all goods exported from countries under the dominion of the Porte should pay 12 per cent.
That all merchandise imported by British subjects from countries not under the dominion of the Porte should likewise pay but 5 per cent.
At Vyasa's command Yudishthira offered a sacrifice of horses, and then obtained the dominion over the whole earth.
The dominion of the Persians cannot have exercised any deep influence on the life of the Aryas on the right bank of the Indus, and still less on the nations beyond the river.
The marvels with which the Buddhists surrounded his youth are easily explained from the effort to bring into prominence the lofty vocation of the founder of the dominion of the Mauryas.
They followed him; he fought with success against the viceroys, including, no doubt, Mophis of Takshacila, and after expelling them he gained the dominion over the whole land of the Indus.
As a fact the land of the Indus as well as the Panjab was at that time under the dominion of the Greek princes of Bactria.
But the liberation which Sandrakottos obtained for the Indians was soon changed into slavery; he subjugated to his own power the nation he had set free from the dominion of strangers.
Whether the Persian kings maintained their dominion on the western bank of the Indus down to the fall of the kingdom, is not certain.
But even when born again as a god, man was still under the dominion of desire; as we have seen, Indra only held the rank of a Crotaapanna.
Chandragupta did what had never been done before; he united under his dominion all the regions of India from the Panjab to the mouth of the Ganges, from the Himalayas to the Vindhyas.
Hence the dominion of Acoka extended from Kandahar, Ghazna, and the Hindu Kush, as far as the mouth of the Ganges, from Cashmere down to the upper and lower course of the Godavari.
Later, the Agent-General said he had letters to write, and Penfentenyou invented a Cabinet crisis in his adored Dominion which would keep him busy with codes and cables all the forenoon.
He answered: "Attend to them now that the good things of this life are in thy hands; for wealth and dominion are passing from one hand into another.
At last he was free to complete the policy of his predecessors by conquering Egypt, which alone remained to threaten Assyrian dominion in the West.
He selected Freiburg in the Breisgau, as a city which was still in the dominion of the emperor, and was free from religious dissension.
From here the Dominion Range also looks as if it were a nunatak.
I have just taken six photographs of the Dominion Range.
We made towards the only place where it seemed possible to cross the mass of pressure ice caused by the junction of the plateau with the glacier, and congested between the nunatak [Buckley Island] and the Dominion Range.
There also seems to be a big series of ice-falls between Buckley Island and the Dominion Range, for the centre of which Scott is going to-morrow.
And to the end that no part of either dominion might be left without being present at those happy nuptials, at the Ponte a S.
Tetricus might reign for a while over the West, and even Zenobia might preserve the dominion of the East.
The limits of Armenia were extended as far as the fortress of Sintha in Media, and this increase of dominionwas not so much an act of liberality as of justice.
The policy of the emperors was directed only to preserve the peaceful dominion of that sea, and to protect the commerce of their subjects.
This accomplished woman gave her hand to Odenathus, who, from a private station, raised himself to the dominion of the East.
Whilst the Gallic provinces enjoyed as much happiness as the condition of the times was capable of receiving, Italy and Africa groaned under the dominion of a tyrant, as contemptible as he was odious.
The invader found every place hostile, fortified, and inaccessible; and though he forced his way as far as Narni, within sixty miles of Rome, his dominion in Italy was confined to the narrow limits of his camp.
The vitax, or eighteen most powerful satraps, were permitted to assume the regal title; and the vain pride of the monarch was delighted with a nominal dominionover so many vassal kings.
We may say the same of the South Sea Islands, which are mostly only under the nominal dominion of the white races.
This dominion is of course nominal; still, it is enough, at any rate at present, to protect the continent from foreign attack.
What it cannot purchase it terrorizes; and the small residue which it cannot terrorize it seeks to cajole: all this to the end that its dominion may be universal and everlasting.
From this time forth hisdominion is felt in the world as a governing force.
The high contracting parties to the treaty had thought that they could dispose of the small Italian states as they pleased, and return them to the dominion of their Grand Dukes and Princes by a stroke of the pen.
Meantime the Roman question was as far from being settled as ever; Napoleon, protesting that he was the friend of Italian independence, yet in the same breath insisting on the temporal dominion of the Pope, proving an insurmountable obstacle.
