In the language of the vulgar, the one faction would be called 'swindlers,' and the other 'highwaymen.
Of the former body I am esteemed no uninfluential member; of the latter faction Mr. Bags is justly considered the most shining ornament.
It can hardly be controverted that, whatever Mary's faults may have been, the Morton-Moray faction had already treated her dishonourably and unjustly.
At home Sir William Wyndham seconded their efforts by building up a Jacobite faction out of the wreck of the Tory party.
The king's aim in his sudden change of front was not only to meet the change in the national spirit, but to secure a momentary lull in English faction which would suffer him to strike at the rebellion in Ireland.
The failure of the Queen's health made the succession the real question of the day, and it was a question which turned all politics into faction and intrigue.
In the absence of a strong opposition and of great impulses to enthusiasm a party breaks readily into factions; and the weakness of the Tories joined with the stagnation of public affairs to breed faction among the Whigs.
The evil spirit extended to the military; and each faction had its partizans among the soldiers.
That is the rock against which the two nationalities have rushed in foaming breakers, lashed into fury by the storms of faction and bigotry.
But the despots did not pacify Italy, though they to some extent set up local stability by checking faction feuds.
They could not master the science of their problem, could not rise above the plane of primary tribal or local passion and jealousy; though within each city were faction hatreds as bitter as those between the cities as wholes.
Always their one principle of union remained negative--animal hatred of city to city, of faction to faction.
Exiled for faction by the other faction, he foreshadows the doom of Florence.
Footnote 596: Study suffered in Florence particularly from the faction troubles.
Out of the faction strife came the religious, under the fanning of Farel; and in this case the anti-democratic leaning of the Savoyards kept the rich pro-Catholic, while the common people declared for Protestantism.
The same may be said of the sister kingdoms, all alike being torn and drained by innumerable strifes of faction and wars with each other.
Lord Granville and his faction persist in persuading the King, that it is an affair of no consequence; and for the Duke of Newcastle, he is glad when the rebels make any progress, in order to confute Lord Granville's assertions.
The ranger smiled, remembering that he had about fourteen hours to live, if the Megales faction triumphed.
The thing that he had done would bear a plain name if the Megales faction won the day--and the punishment for it would be easy to guess.
The Megales faction had melted into mist, and all over the city a happy people was shouting for Valdez.
Against him were arrayed the greater portion of the Catholic nobles, the whole faction of the Guises and the Holy League, supported by Philip of Spain.
The enemies of the 'new learning' had raised a faction against it.
He affirmed, moreover, the main contention of the silver faction that a reopening of the government mints of the world to silver would bring it up to its old relation with gold.
There was also a diversion of forces to the silverfaction which had a substantial support in the silver mine owners of the West.
The anger of the silver faction knew no bounds, and the leaders made ready for the approaching presidential campaign.
Thereupon the silver faction pressed through Congress in 1886 a bill providing for the issue of paper certificates based on the silver accumulated in the Treasury.
When he repented of his attempted resistance and treated with Pompey for peace, his followers threw themselves into Jerusalem, and, when the faction of Hyrcanus resolved to open the gates, into the Temple.
The pro-Syrian faction of the Palestinian Jews found their opportunity in this emergency and informed the governor of Coele-Syria that the treasury in Jerusalem contained untold sums of money.
This act of oppression presumably strengthened the Syrian faction of the Jews and led to the transference of the nation's allegiance.
Pollio the Pharisee and Sameas his disciple were in special honour with him, Josephus says, when he re-entered Jerusalem and put to death the leaders of the faction of Antigonus.
The Green faction received them with contempt, by the Blue faction they were kindly entreated, so Theodora favoured that colour ever after.
It is said that the faction of St. John Chrysostom set fire to this building during one of those religious disturbances which, more than elsewhere in the world, unsettled the minds of men and caused them to overlook the greater truths.
The Green faction employed one Acacius as keeper of the wild beasts for their games; he was Theodora's father.
The characteristic Greek tendency to factions was threatening to rend the Corinthian Church, and each faction was swearing by a favourite teacher.
Party spirit and faction were the curses of Greek civic life, and they had crept into at least one of the Greek churches--that in the luxurious and powerful city of Corinth.
This measure seems to have united a large party of Jews, who were equally hostile to the dominant faction within the city, and to the ally whom they had called to their aid.
In 1506, Reuchlin, though himself persecuted by a large faction in the Church for advanced views, refers to Hebrew as "spoken by the mouth of God.
St. Cyril was the representative of an illiterate and unscrupulous faction that had come into the possession of power through intrigues with the females of the imperial court, and bribery of eunuchs and parasites.
Nestorius was very quickly plunged by the intrigues of a disappointed faction of that city into disputes with the populace.
It matters not whether the influence be exerted by a life of splendor or an existence of miserable privation,--money is power, and the only power that every faction acknowledges and bows down to.
To be plain, the suspected plan was neither more nor less than a union of the royalist with the republican faction to overthrow the Bonapartists.
My factionif thou strengthen with thy friends, I will most thankful be; and thanks to men Of noble minds is honourable meed.
Traitor, if Rome have law or we have power, Thou and thy faction shall repent this rape.
St. Paul, by appealing to his Pharisee principles, enlisted the members of that faction in his favour when brought before Ananias.
In Brazil, however, during the ensuing years party faction produced nearly as much turmoil as attended the struggle for independence in Chili and the other Spanish, colonies.
The northern provinces, including Bahia, Maranham, and Para, were ruled by the Portuguese faction and held by Portuguese troops.
The leaders of the Portuguese faction reigned, and by them Lord Cochrane continued to be treated with every possible indignity and insult.
The Portuguese faction had the supremacy, and there were special causes of animosity and misconduct among the members of the opposite party of native Brazilians.
No resentment was to be expected from the civilians, as even those most hearty in their adherence to the Portuguese faction in Brazil would not dare to offer direct opposition to the sentiments of the majority.
It gives memorable evidence of the treatment to which he was subjected by the Portuguese faction in Brazil.
Attached, heart and soul, to that faction and its essential interests, she steered it through all the shoals and quicksands which encircled it with incomparable skill and vigour.
It is a knotty point of history altogether; but the fact is clear that the Duke was the centre of the faction opposed to the Princess, and that around him were banded those with whom she had either clashed or whom she had overcome.
The known facts of the case were these:--Capeluche had distinguished himself in the massacres which followed the triumph of the Burgundian faction in 1418.
