Salisbury, where the magnates of England, both lay and clerical, met in 1164 under Henry II.
The Lanercost chronicler says Edward desired to detach a body to intercept the Scots, and with the rest to carry on the siege; but his magnates would not hear of it.
Again, however, the Pope intervened, and on November 29, Edward granted full powers to four of his magnates to treat in his name for a truce.
In view of the crusade, it was essential that Edward should also enjoy peace at home; and, on April 20, the Pope wrote to the chief magnates urging them to support their King with counsel and with help.
The Piccolomini with the consent of the other magnates (excepting only Giovanni di Agnolino Salimbeni) began the rising, and the popolo minuto on the following day rose in arms at their call.
It has been said that I kept a small account with Hobson Brothers, to whose bank I went, and entered the parlour with that trepidation which most poor men feel on presenting themselves before City magnates and capitalists.
Strange to say, they did not realize at first the surpassing importance of a new world, but thought of it mainly as an impediment to the journey to the land of the "Great Cham" and other supposed magnates of the Orient.
Without the shadow of a doubt there had been considerable jockeying on the part of the railway magnatesin the preliminary arrangements of the Pataha Creek extension.
Included in the great toll of human lives exacted by this catastrophe, was that of Charles Melville Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railways and one of the foremost railroad magnates of his generation.
Holt and several others who later on took a front place among the railway magnates and financial leaders of Canada.
But since Ramses enjoined on them patience, and did not attack the rabble, the magnates began to take counsel with the adherents of the priesthood.
The priests and magnates in the chamber were dumb when they heard this prescription.
Evidently magnates and king's sons need flesh, just as lions and eagles do; but earth-tillers grass, like an ox.
There is a crowd of magnates and dignitaries of Egypt before the entrance, and at the head of them the heir himself, with the evident intention of giving thee homage.
The City magnates as usual had gathered at Child's Bank, from which they went to Temple Bar.
These City magnates appeared at the Palace to pay their homage to her Majesty.
The financial magnates who had ruled at Johannesburg and Kimberley ceased to interest themselves politically in the management of the affairs of the Government.
It is impossible to create real politicians and sound ones at the same rapid pace as financial magnates sprang up at the Cape as well as in the Transvaal.
Had Rhodes remained alive he would have proved the one great obstacle which the magnates of the Rand would have to take into consideration, the disturbing element in a situation that required calm and quiet.
The Boers attributed to the millionaires of the Rand all the misfortunes which had fallen upon them, and consequently the magnates were bitterly hated by the Boers.
In reality themagnates of the Rand spent huge sums in the relief of their poorer brethren in misfortune.
These magnateswere reasonable people after all, quite content, after they had taken the cream, to allow others to drink.
As events turned out, by a just retribution of Providence, the magnates who had let greedy ambition master them lost most of the advantages which they had been able to snatch from President Kruger.
These were owned by the magnates of the place, who were wont to bow their recognitions across the nave.
Leslie, at least, forced the Marquis of Newcastle to a retreat, and a movement of Montrose on Dumfries was paralysed by the cowardice or imbecility of the Scottish magnates on the western Border.
King Bodopaya is not the only "captain of industry" who has attempted to "acquire merit" by constructing monumental buildings with the labor of others, but he was not so successful as some of our trust magnates have been.
I fear that our money magnates would be at a loss to find words to express their indignation if any such restriction were suggested in America, and yet is it not a just and reasonable restriction?
The throne which the latter won by fratricide and the aid of the foreigner, he could only hold by fresh concessions to his magnates which fatally reduced the royal power.
The great bulk of our political magnates have no sense of humour, but they are irresistibly funny nevertheless.
Therefore when the chairman, followed by Leicester and the leading magnates of the town, came upon the platform, the meeting rose en masse, and shouted until they were hoarse.
The Glorious Revolution favored the capitalists and the commercialmagnates even though it had been started by the landed families, with whom they now intermarried.
In the Bay State campaign I had learned the personal cost of antagonizing the "System"; the copper magnates showed me that they had terrors at command which might make even "Standard Oil" jealous.
Certain great railroad magnates and bankers were at each other's throats; two greedy corporations had quarrelled ferociously over the control of a railway line.
Under such circumstances, dissatisfied and insubordinate Catharan magnates had ample opportunity to produce confusion.
Nearly all his magnates did so, but Stephen Vukcic was a conspicuous exception, and the common people were not so easily moved.
There was no royal power capable of enforcing order, and the magnates were engaged in tearing each other to pieces.
It is quite possible, indeed, that, as the persecution became more dreadful, some of them may have felt that the surest mode of bringing on a crisis was to involve the magnates of the land.
On Christmas Day, 1419, he came to Bruenn, and thither flocked themagnates and representatives of the cities to tender their allegiance.
Turks as treating the peasants kindly, promising them freedom, and thus winning them over, and he adds that the magnates cannot defend their castles when thus abandoned by the peasants.
I might parade before you regiment upon regiment of pompous local magnatesand political nobodies all drilled and disciplined by your offensive methods, and all of them as absurd and preposterous as they can be made.
She shared all the sorrows and humiliations inflicted upon him by the haughty magnates of the realm and especially by the German Pope Hildebrand, Gregory VII.
There weremagnates both of our own country and of foreign nations present that autumn at Rosenbad.
The moon had long been high in the heavens and was shining through the coloured windows of the Seraglio when the magnates withdrew and Mahmud remained alone.
The people whose darling he had become were accustomed to regard him as their go-between in their petty affairs, the host trembled before him, and the magnates fawned upon him for favour.
At last you see the beginning of the end, the dawn of the glorious future, the rise of labor against capital, and your friends the magnates have the option of ruin or surrender.
I will introduce you to the chiefmagnates of the county; and so you will be acquiring knowledge of one kind, if not of another.
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