Polignac and her set of intriguers succeeded in estranging them and usurping all the favors of the queen.
While England needed to keep her gaze on Boulogne, the intriguers thought only of the death or lunacy of the King, the accession of the Prince and the apportionment of the spoils of office.
We may therefore conclude that the wealth and defencelessness of the Dutch Netherlands lured on the enthusiasts and intriguers of Paris to an enterprise the terrible results of which were unsuspected by them.
In a few years hence, when the present generation of turbulent intriguers shall have been swept away, the task will be comparatively easy.
The intriguershad now discovered what manner of man they had to deal with.
But his combination of vigour and self-restraint, and his complete hold over his Bohemian subjects, had prevented the intriguers from making any head during his lifetime.
Indeed the Vrs̆ovici are represented by some historians as acting in this reign rather the part of patriotic opponents of a tyrant than of selfish intriguers for power.
To the unscrupulous intriguers who were plotting against their power, John and the Archbishop of Mainz were unfortunately soon to supply some just causes of complaint.
To the great intriguers every little detail, every commonplace insignificance is used--and must be used by them alone--to further their dark causes.
Père Vincent lacked the requisites of the courtier; he was artless, and straightforward, and intriguers found it easy to make him appear ridiculous in the eyes of the Queen.
Around these chiefs of the Court buzzed a swarm of ambitious rivals and whispering intriguers all animated by one purpose, to effect the discomfiture of Richelieu.
Mr. Benton deemed it just to discriminate this honest mass from the intriguers who worked only in their own interest, and at any cost of war and dishonor, and even disunion to our own country.
This puts it in the power of the minority to govern the majority, and enables a few veteran intriguers to manage as they please.
The scheme of these intriguers required the exclusion of all independent and disinterested men from his councils and confidence--a thing easily effected by representing all such men as his enemies, and themselves as his exclusive friends.
And I, who hate intrigue, and love the Union, can only speak of intriguers and disunionists with warmth and indignation.
The intriguers were successful in their appeal, and a decree soon arrived in New Spain announcing that the viceroy should thenceforth do nothing without the previous sanction of the Audiencia.
All who were in power, in that nation of jealous politicians and wily intriguers would be eager to shun the last responsibility.
The court intriguers could do nothing without the Emperor, and Constantius was occupied first with the Persian war, then with the civil war against Magnentius.
The victory seemed won when the last great enemy was driven into the desert, and the intriguers hasted to the spoil.
But for thirty years theintriguers found it their interest to profess conservatism.
Stephen's crime had discredited the whole gang of Eastern court intriguers who had made the quarrel.
Intriguers of this kind found it better to unsettle the Nicene decisions, on behalf of conservatism forsooth, than to maintain them in the name of truth.
He was therefore able to convince the Vice- President after a brief discussion that the easiest way out of the ring of intriguers and plotters in which Yuan Shih-kai was rapidly surrounding him in Wuchang was to go voluntarily to the capital.
But family influences and the voice of the intriguers proved too strong for him, and in the end he gave his reluctant consent to a further step.
It is true that I dislike female intriguers above all things.
Even as early as the time when Napoleon was in Egypt, these intriguers first tried to lay snares for the unsuspicious and magnanimous Josephine, and various scandals were originated and reported to the absent Bonaparte.
Yet, when Mr. Gladstone did resign the leadership, no one named any of these intriguers as his possible successor; and it may be noted here that none of the intriguers has even yet secured the reward he coveted.
The look he turned on the intriguers of the Palace was repellent; he reserved for Sharif a moody, threatening glance, and the desperate hakim shrank back confounded from it.
This fellow, instead, advises the intriguersin Lisbon.
There is so much vexation, so much hindrance from these pestilential intriguers here in Lisbon, that I have thought it as well to come in person and speak plainly to the gentlemen of the Council of Regency.
He expressed the opinion, accordingly, that James would do better in obeying only the promptings of his own superior wisdom, rather than the suggestions of the intriguers about him.
It was obvious that they were the invention of Spanish intriguers who wished to help that nation to universal monarchy.
Amongst the crowd of discredited and dishonest intriguers none was more vile or contemptible than he.
He was thwarted by a crowd of jealous intriguers at home, and his intentions and directions as to foreign politics were often set aside by such an agent as Downing.
In spite of his exile, he understood the temper of the nation better than any of the paltry intriguers round him; to study that temper was not a process that commended itself to their impatient ambitions.
But the rancour of the intriguers was none the less vigorous, and it required all his courage and steadfastness to maintain the load of public care that hung upon him while he saw his influence undermined by secret slander.
He was therefore able to convince the Vice-President after a brief discussion that the easiest way out of the ring of intriguers and plotters in which Yuan Shih-kai was rapidly surrounding him in Wuchang was to go voluntarily to the capital.
It was carried unanimously, the infamous minority of intriguers in league with the president not daring to come out in the open by voting against.
The intriguers rose in mass to adopt this address to the French.
McDowell sacrificed to the Yanitschars; he is the scapegoat and the victim to popular fallacy, to the imbecility of the press, and, above all, to the intriguers and to the conspiracy of the mutinous pets of McClellan.
And the traitors, the imbeciles, and the intriguers sing hallelujah to McClellan, and daily throw their slime at Stanton.
Such is the case with the true, confiding people in the country; but here, contractors, martinets, and intriguers are the blowers of that worship.
Numerous political intriguerssurrounding McClellan are busily laying tracks for him to the White House.
The intriguers and imbeciles claim the Western victories as the illustration of McClellan's great strategy.
And Lincoln, Seward, Blair, and all the tail of intriguers and imbeciles, still admire him.
But traitors, imbeciles and intriguersrend the air and the skies with their praises of the great strategy and of the brilliant generalship.
Seward and Blair, and of the whole herd of intriguers and imbeciles.
The Senator cannot be classed among traitors and intriguers supporting the great strategian.
Our intriguers may have deluded his understanding, but our traitors would never have been able to seduce or shake his fidelity.
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