But, though neither Wilmot nor Percy were estimable characters, Goring was no better, and the result of these drastic measures was only to render the state of Court and {156} Army more confused and more factious than ever.
Neither Hertford nor Herbert (with whom Rupert had clashed as President of Wales) had any love for the Prince, but they were both too loyal to increase the King's difficulties by factious action.
Rupert was determined now to go to the West Indies, and, in order to prevent factious opposition, he sent his secretary on board each ship in turn to require the opinion of each officer, in writing, as to what it would be best to do.
To Herbert the Prince wrote at greater length, giving an account of the wreck of the Admiral, and of the factious opposition he had encountered among his officers.
Probably Henrietta and her favourite cared little whether the creditors were paid or not; but more than a mere question of debts was at stake, the exiled Court was as factious as ever.
The factious course pursued by the English Opposition was much less excusable than the line of the Anglo-Irish leaders.
It was but the other day that that pert factious fellow, the Duke of Lancaster, presumed to fly in the face of his liege lord, our gracious sovereign--presumed to go to law with the king.
In their domestic policy the states threatened to become the prey of a factious radical democracy, and their relations one to another were by way of being constantly embroiled.
The crown, with the aid of a succession of able ministers, suppressed a factious nobility at home, and gradually made France the dominant European Power.
Both the domestic and the foreign policies of the Republic have of late years been weakened by the persistence of a factious and anti-national spirit among radical French democrats.
On the contrary it gains enormously from a wide variety of individual differences,--but with the essential condition that such differences do not become factious in spirit and hostile to the utmost freedom of intercourse.
Who did not exclaim earnestly that men, factious and infamous, who had torn the republic by their tumults, were slain justly?
In Corinth the spirit of discord had taken a factious form.
They made the gospel of Christ subservient to factious designs.
You will have seen by Sir James' speech, the very complete triumph his firmness and energy have obtained over the factious cabal of their most contemptible assembly.
I leave the question to be answered by those, who pretend, that the revolution of the 20th of March obtained the assent only of a handful of factious persons.
She had the impudence to tell my 'august leader' that they had no need of him down there,--that the county was too poor to waste its energies in factious squabbles.
It is plain that this is not a question between democracy and oligarchy, but between two oligarchical parties, the one of which succeeded in purchasing the factious agency of the Spartan admiral.
The fruits of hisfactious manœuvres will be seen in the subsequent dekadarchies, or oligarchies of Ten, after the complete subjugation of Athens.
Now was felt the full influence of those factious correspondences and intrigues which Lysander had established with all of them, for indirectly working out the perpetuity of his own command.
In Ireland, the departure of Lord Buckingham was followed by a revival of the factious intemperance his energy had for a season suppressed.
The disasters of the Duke of Brunswick reanimated the factious spirit which the vigorous measures of the Government had previously succeeded in subduing.
It was meant only to operate against factious and bad men, who abuse the liberty allowed to them of residing in this country, and these all must see the necessity of attending to.
Until this was done, the factious would doubtless have cause of complaint.
If the House say they will throw their petition under the table, would not such treatment give the factious some ground of clamor by which to sow dissension?
I would have knocked thefactious dogs on the head, to be sure; but I was not VEXED.
He talked with regret and indignation of the factious opposition to Government at this time, and imputed it in a great measure to the Revolution.
But, ordinarily, they were regarded, as a party of mad fellows, more ornamental than useful, and entirely too clannish and factious to be entrusted with power.
His "Thoughts on Government," factious use made of, 280.
Instead of snatching at occasions to ally himself with O'Connell, who was in opposition to every Government, and to embarrass the Whigs in a factious party-spirit, he showed a marked respect for principle.
It was a question of principle, though it was raised in a factious way, and subsequent history showed that the mover, after his tactical victory of the moment, could not effect any practical solution.
Three or four years ago, a bitter factious attack was made in the House of Commons upon Mr. Stansfeld, then holding office in the Liberal government, because of his open and avowed friendship for, and intimacy with Mazzini.
William, King of Scotland, had also entered into this great confederacy; and a plan was concerted for a general invasion on different parts of the king's extensive and factious dominions.
The fierce Muley Abul Hassan would have willingly carried fire and sword into this factiousquarter of the capital, but he dared not confide in his new and uncertain popularity.
These factious murmurs soon reached the ears of Boabdil, and he apprehended another of his customary reverses.
He turned furiously upon those whose factious conduct had deterred him from sallying upon the foe: some he punished by confiscations, others by banishment, others by death.
They abstained from all factious proceedings, and merely stated that they had been driven from the city by the wealthy classes.
Many even besought him to put down the malignity of his personal enemies, sweep away laws, decrees, and other pernicious nonsense, and carry on the government without fear of a factious opposition.
