Even if these Princes were to abdicate their dynastic pretensions, the Government will remember Bonaparte, and how he destroyed the Republic in 1851, and energetically protest against their return.
It formed part of Lerma's characteristic idea of fortifying the greatness of the Spanish monarchy by a dynastic alliance with the two royal families which were able to threaten it with the greatest danger, those of France and England.
It was not religious conviction and the abhorrence of any other faith, as in Mary Tudor, but her dynastic right and her self-confidence as sovereign that were the active and predominant motives in all the actions of Mary Stuart.
They awoke Henry III's dynastic ambition by promoting the elevation of his brother to be King of the Romans, and destining his younger son Edmund for the crown of Naples and Sicily.
The dynastic ideas with which James had commenced his reign could not but serve to resuscitate the claim of Parliament to the possession of the legislative power.
The inclusion of the German line in this dynastic combination was contemplated.
She even now confirmed neither the treaty of Edinburgh, nor the resolutions of Parliament based on it: but in the first place took possession of her throne, reserving her dynastic rights.
Political and dynastic interests had led to the marriage which had just been concluded.
Mary herself, who always combined the most vividdynastic feelings with her religious inclinations, in her letters and statements does not lay such stress on anything as on the unconditional validity of her claim to inherit the throne.
Was it her real wish that Elizabeth should be killed, her son disinherited notwithstanding her dynastic feelings, and that Philip II should become King of England?
Not merely was a French alliance avoided; the separation from the Church of Rome was to become the basis of the whole dynastic settlement of England.
She was again threatened through the strictdynastic right that she also enjoyed: she needed some other additional support.
At the same time the Emperor proposed the closest dynastic union of the two houses by a double marriage of his two children with a son and a daughter of Francis I.
There is, however, good reason for assuming that in the earliest dynastic times he occupied the position of god and judge of those who had risen from the dead by his help, for already in the IVth dynasty, about B.
Dynastic Tablet places the death of the Babylonian king in B.
Neither does it appear why the kings, Mosiah, Benjamin and Mosiah, were not called by the dynasticname of Nephi, according to the custom which prevailed during the long lifetime of Jacob, and probably afterwards.
Lancashire, and with his consignment to the Tower the dynastic question seemed finally solved in favour of the house of York.
If a modern "nation in arms" is engaged in a purely dynastic quarrel against a professional army of inferior strength, the result will probably be victory for the latter.
Little success attended the emperor's attempt to convert a "nation in arms" into a great dynastic army.
The conscription was still in force, but the citizens served most unwillingly, and substitution produced a professional army, which as usual became a dynastic tool.
Other powers rapidly followed the lead of France, for the defects of enlisted troops had become very clear, and the possession of an army always ready for war was an obvious advantage in dynastic politics.
A careful register of the dates was kept, divided into reigns, from which dynastic lists were afterwards compiled, giving the duration of each king's reign as well as that of the several dynasties.
A fragment of an early dynastic chronicle from Nippur[24] gives a list of the kings of the dynasties of Ur and Isin.
Two of these dynastic compilations have been discovered, unfortunately in an imperfect state.
Stone as well as clay and glass were employed in the manufacture of vases, and vases of hard stone have been disinterred at Tello similar to those of the early dynastic period of Egypt.
Antioch, Antony married Cleopatra with all the dynasticceremonies of Egypt, and that thereupon Antony became King of Egypt, although he did not dare assume the title.
At first this movement seemed to possess no importance for the Russians, and was regarded as one of those dynastic squabbles that had become too ordinary an occurrence to occasion any surprise.
It is necessary to premise, that the most renowned of the Singhalese books is the Mahawanso, a metrical chronicle, containing a dynastic history of the island for twenty-three centuries from B.
You should have heard about a dozen of us quarrelling some time ago over hair-splitting theories on a much less human subject, one belonging to pre-dynastic times!
Our victory would only mean a strengthening of the dynastic principle of arbitrary power all along the line.
But his dynastic position and dislike of Henry's policy drove the Marquis into the ranks of the discontented.
The objection to female sovereigns was grounded not so much on male disbelief in their personal qualifications, as upon the inevitable consequence of matrimonial and dynastic problems.
This work, which is popularly known as The Mirror of History, and is quite independent of the dynastic histories, fills thirty-three of our large bound-up volumes.
These are the dynastic histories of China, in a uniform edition published in the year 1747, under the auspices of the famous Emperor Ch'ien Lung, who himself contributed a Preface.
To the Chinese it is, and always has been, a priceless treasure; so much so that every succeedingDynastic History has been modelled pretty much upon the same lines.
One of the Dynastic Histories was partly written by a woman.
In addition to theDynastic History proper, a custom has grown up of compiling what is called the "Veritable Record" of the life of the reigning Emperor.
Biography, as we have already seen, is to some extent provided for under the dynastic histories.
As head of their own national or dynastic churches they insisted upon being "Christ's Vice-Regents" within the limit of their own territory.
Meanwhile the mass of the people were still thinking in terms of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and clinging to the old notions of the state as a dynastic or political organisation.
The dynastic system of the highly centralised states which had been developed after the great religious wars of the seventeenth century had reached the height of its power.
The dynastic dispute, whilst ostensibly healed at its head, still affected the limbs of the Duchy.
The security of Francesco's rule depended entirely upon the suppression of dynastic intrigues.
In a country where dynasticquarrels were frequent and the younger sons of Rajas had a precarious tenure of life, such reasons can be easily imagined.
On the other hand, there was a dynastic change in Khotan about 60 A.
There seems however to have been a dynastic revolution about 60 A.
All such bodies are under the ban of the Government, for they have always been suspected with more or less justice of favouring anti-social or anti-dynastic ideas.
Throughout the historical period the pre-eminence both in individual kings and dynastic strength rested with the Burmese but their contests with the Shans and Talaings form an intricate story which can be related here only in outline.
Though it is true that the majority of anti-dynastic political sects had a Buddhist colour, the most prominent and influential Buddhists never failed in loyalty.
From Mycalae onward Persia sank into a confusion ofdynastic troubles.
In the dynastic disputes that followed the death of Xerxes, a band of ten thousand Greek mercenaries played a part under the leadership of Xenophon.
In this modern Europe since the sixteenth century the dynastic changes are unimportant, and the interest of history lies in the wide and increasing variety of experiments in political and social organization.
And in another direction Ivan had with his own hand fatally shattered, in a fit of unrestrained passion, the dynastic hopes and strivings which had been advanced and safeguarded with such ruthless severities.
With Sweden a prolongation of the truce for four years was effected in December 1585; the Krimskie khanate was weakened by civil war and dynastic revolutions, and little was to be feared from that quarter.
Dynastic interests and impatient ambitions, however, completely subverted this momentous step towards a satisfactory solution of the Eastern Question.
Intercourse with western Europe was restricted by distance, and, owing to dynastic reasons, diplomatic relations were altogether suspended for several years between this country and Serbia.
The great captains of the industry, like Sigvaldi, Thorkel Haraldson, Sigurd Kapa, and Vagn Akason, turned their holdings to the service of the dynastic politics which were then engaging the attention of the northern countries.
It may be that the working classes will go forward along the line of the socialistic ideals and enforce a new deal, in which there shall be no economic class discrepancies, no international animosity, no dynastic politics.
It is, or at least it was, strongly averse to international jealousy and patriotic animosity, and has taken a stand against armaments, wars, and dynastic aggrandisement.
At that time few of the German princes were conscious of any German national feeling; they were the representatives of narrow-minded dynastic interests.
The earliest Royal Standard bore but the three lions of England, and we shall see presently that in different reigns various modifications of its blazonry arose, either the result of conquest or of dynastic possessions.
