But such was the condition of affairs that something must be done to quiet the malcontent people, restore peace between the quarrelling classes, and reimburse the empty state treasury.
Barneveld and the States remaining firm, however, and giving him a formal communication of their decision in writing, Neyen had nothing for it but to wend his way back rather malcontent to Brussels.
The Portuguese were still moremalcontent than the Spaniards.
It was the malcontent and ambitious who subsequently demanded it, and not the leading Revolutionists.
The belief that a malcontent armed with freedom of speech, a newspaper, a vote and a rifle is less dangerous than a malcontent with a still tongue in his head, empty hands and under police surveillance was abandoned, but all too late.
Round the arch malcontent were a score of other harpies almost as wicked if less dangerous than himself.
He was to be taken to a certain little rise on the outskirts of the village, where the Police had shot a notorious malcontent and murderer some years before, and there he was, in his turn, to be executed.
It was now obvious that, unless some decisive steps were taken, the malcontent cause must continually gain new strength, and the connexion of the colonies with the mother country become seriously endangered.
At once the streets became the scene of a furious fight; furious but unequal; for Buonaparte's cannon tore away the heads of the malcontent columns.
The Convention, terrified at the thought of a general election, which might send up a malcontent or royalist majority, decided to impose itself on France for at least two years longer.
Unable or unwilling to encourage national resistance, he consoled himself, as a weak malcontent will, by setting one power against another, pin-pricking the stronger and blustering to the weaker.
The first and most famous of the malcontent leaders was Count Imre Tokoli (q.
Augustus Pelham, the fourth lieutenant of the Young America, was almost the only malcontent among the officers; the only one who persistently declined to be reconciled to the new regulation.
Wilton, Sanborn, and Adler were in the watch with Shuffles, and the malcontent lost not a moment in pushing forward the scheme he had matured.
In the cabin he had used some language reflecting upon the principal, and he was now regarded as a malcontent by the captain, and by those who still sustained the discipline of the ship.
After the discovery and defeat of the plot laid by the malcontent lords in the beginning of January (1400), he first employed himself in making preparations to repress the threatened aggressions of his northern neighbours.
This dastardly plan commended itself to the malcontent lords and petty kings to whom the wizard proposed it, and they resolved to carry it into effect.
My colleague was puzzled till late one evening he observed the man coming out of the house of one of these rich malcontents, the rich malcontent himself accompanying him.
Therefore their prayer,[34] though laden with blunders of fact and reasoning, fairly expressed malcontent Republicanism.
His successor was the general whose name led the list of those malcontent critics whom he had desired to displace, and was also the same who had once stigmatized McClellan as "a baby.
But if an actor were even capable of catching these shades in the character, the pit and the gallery would be malcontent at their exhibition.
The prince may visit you on Wednesday just as well as the leaders of the opposition who want our places, or the malcontent Radicals who they say are going to turn us out.
The village malcontent was in great form, making certain of success, and was delighted when the Vicar apparently gave up bidding as if beaten.
It was not easy to discover the qualifications of all the members from an educational point of view; some at least represented the village malcontent section, now getting rather nervous as to School Board rates.
It was considered as a blow aimed directly at the malcontent princes of the blood, who were at that moment plotting their first levy of arms against the Queen.
Pretoria gave me, through Colonel Lanyon, the following estimate of the strength of parties in the malcontent camp.
But parties had now begun to be split; the Jacobite tories voting with the malcontent whigs.
But a similar motive, concurring with the efforts of a powerful malcontent party, caused its rejection by the Commons.
He was new come from the Scottish south-west, for the Duke was eager to know if the malcontent moorland Whigs were about to fling their blue bonnets for King James.
The count was betrayed into the hands of his rival by some malcontent nobles.
The malcontent nobles, not being prepared to meet the royal forces in the field, submitted for a time.
He had long been sensible of the advantage to be reaped from a malcontent party in England.
In addition to them he discovered the intrigues of the French ambassadors with his malcontent Commons.
Another Salthill malcontent said:--"An English visitor sneeringly asked me how it was that the Irish could not trust one another.
The convergence of Ulster opinion reminds me of an old line, which fitly illustrates the position of the Irish malcontent party-- Heu mihi!
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