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Example sentences for "monarch"

Lexicographically close words:
monacho; monachorum; monachus; monad; monads; monarchial; monarchic; monarchical; monarchie; monarchies
  1. The Monarch Corliss Engine] In large central plants where low cost of operation is always of first importance, it is common practice to use the best class of compound condensing engines of moderate or low speed.

  2. I feel a king, As I look around me on this martial ring; There I see the sinews that support a state, There I see the strength that makes a monarch great.

  3. Now they took advantage of a monarch who was more suited for the cloister than the Court to revive old pretensions to independent power.

  4. English, as Sir Robert Walpole was of conversing in French, the monarch and his minister held discourse with each other in Latin.

  5. The acquisitions of that monarch at Aix-la-Chapelle and Nimeguen had been comparatively trifling, and seem hardly enough to justify the dread that Europe felt of his aggressions.

  6. The infatuated monarch was irritated by that which he should have taken as a terrible warning, this resistance to his will from the university of Oxford.

  7. They procured for him the likenesses of many princesses, but the one he preferred was Princess Darling, daughter of a powerful monarch and heiress to several kingdoms.

  8. What such want could possibly happen to the heir of the powerful monarch of Nomansland?

  9. Daring for the sake of plunder has been found in every robber, every pirate, and too often in all the lower grade of warriors, from the savage plunderer of a besieged town up to the reckless monarch making war to feed his own ambition.

  10. According to the old Hungarian customs, the choir door was closed--the burghers were within, and would not open till the new monarch should have taken the great coronation oath to respect the Hungarian liberties and laws.

  11. Let Phyllis be mine, and but ever be kind, I could to a desart with her be confined, And envy no monarch his reign.

  12. Advise, or aid, but do not pity me: No monarch born can fall to that degree.

  13. A monarch never can in private move, But still is haunted with officious love.

  14. In clear weather, Mont Blanc appears the venerable monarch of the Alps.

  15. At first their mild effulgence was only seen on the hoary head of the monarch of the Alps: but as I gazed, summit after summit caught the silvery lustre, till all above and below me was enveloped in the same glorious light.

  16. The curiosity of the monarch was so greatly excited to know what this wonderful thing could be, that he eagerly asked her what it was.

  17. I wish," said the fellow one day, "you could make your words good, I should then be the greatest monarch in the world.

  18. Footnote: This monarch seems, in reality, to have had a relish for the peculiar excellence of his favourite poet, whom he considered as the brightest ornament of his court.

  19. The influence which the government of this monarch had on the manners and spirit of the time, and the natural reaction against the principles previously dominant, are sufficiently well known.

  20. As the Puritans had brought republican principles and religious zeal into universal odium, so this light-minded monarch seemed expressly born to sport away all respect for the kingly dignity.

  21. The falsehood and selfishness of the monarch speak in the style of a manifesto.

  22. His business was to invent all manner of pleasant entertainments for the court, and to provoke "the greatest monarch of the world" to laughter, by way of relaxation from his state affairs or warlike undertakings.

  23. When in the case of an absolute despotism the ruler attaches to his edicts the threat of penalty or the promise of reward, the meaning is that the monarch himself will be bound by the regulation which he has ordained.

  24. The older "autocratic" method merely decreed social changes upon the authority of the monarch or the ruling class.

  25. While all Paganism represents a few pre-eminent families, the founders of dynasties or ancestors of races, as of kin with the gods, Christianity makes every pedigree end in Deity, makes monarch and slave the children of one God.

  26. And only a universal monarch can be impartial enough for this, since kings of limited territories would always be liable to the temptation of private ends.

  27. But as in all societies questions must arise, so there is need of a monarch for supreme arbiter.

  28. With the internal policy of municipalities, commonwealths, and kingdoms, the monarch would have nothing to do, only interfering when there was danger of an infraction of the general peace.

  29. Strange to say, this was done, and thus the Monarch became the messenger of peace, not of destruction.

  30. Apparently, Calonne and his principal Vergennes were afraid to take this manly and direct course, as indeed the ministers of an arbitrary monarch can rarely be supposed willing to call in the aid of a body of popular representatives.

  31. In the meanwhile, the revolutionary tribunal was proceeding against the friends and partisans of the deposed monarch with no lack, one would have thought, of zeal or animosity.

  32. In the meantime, they took care to divest the monarch of whatever protection he might have received from an intermediate senate, or chamber, placed betwixt the King and the National Assembly.

  33. In short, the monarch partook the influence of public opinion along with his subjects, and there seemed just reason to hope, that, had times remained moderate, the monarchy of France might have been reformed instead of being destroyed.

  34. The monarch had been too powerful for the liberties of the subject--they now bound him as a slave at the feet of the legislative authority.

  35. Grates on my ear, I should have died with shame, To see my King before his subjects stand, And at their bar hold up his royal hand; At their command to hear the monarch plead, By their decrees to see that monarch bleed.

  36. The prince next in succession by blood might, at the death of the sovereign, be called king, but he was not really a monarch until elected by the Witan and formally consecrated.

  37. Neither he nor the king, nor any other man, can force a foreign monarch upon free England.

  38. They were, moreover, gratified by the confidence that he had shown in coming among them, and in seeing for the first time in the memory of man a monarch of England in Northumbria.

  39. So had England accepted Canute the Dane as her king, and he had ruled as an English monarch wisely and well.

  40. He thought that what was not blamed in a gray-headed monarch might be well excused in a young man of private station.

  41. Yet it was in this moment, so pregnant with danger, that the infatuated monarch determined to leave his kingdom.

  42. During the short reign of this monarch he proved himself a wise and generous friend to the Swiss, whose privileges he confirmed.

  43. The unhappy monarch expired a few minutes after in the arms of a passing peasant woman.

  44. The Montenegrin monarch was enraged at this and, after Radović had resigned, one after another all the Montenegrins of any standing withdrew from Nikita, who was openly working against the Serbs.

  45. The revolutions of Poland were not solely attributable to the elective system in general, but to the fact that the elected monarch was the sovereign of a powerful kingdom.

  46. When an absolute monarch has the right of trying offences by his representatives, the fate of the prisoner is, as it were, decided beforehand.

  47. I am, in like manner, inclined to believe that a monarch will always be able to convert legal practitioners into the most serviceable instruments of his authority.

  48. By some nations the monarch has been regarded as a personification of the country; and the fervor of patriotism being converted into the fervor of loyalty, they took a sympathetic pride in his conquests, and gloried in his power.

  49. Now the prince Hassan sank to his knees and touched the marble with his forehead, and, guessing that they were in the presence of the mighty monarch Saladin, the brethren saluted in their western fashion.

  50. As well might two Saracens hope to snatch the queen of England from her palace at Westminster, as they to drag the princess of Baalbec out of the power of a monarch more absolute than any king of England.

  51. Far away in the East a mighty monarch had turned his thoughts towards this English home and the maid of his royal blood who dwelt there, and who was mingled with his visions of conquest and of the triumph of his faith.

  52. He admitted that he had not been a model monarch in his time, but then, physically and intellectually, he was not fit for so exalted a position.

  53. But with the advent of the present monarch things were entirely different.

  54. It was because his character and turn of mind coincided with the national desires at the moment of his ascending the throne, that this great monarch was enabled to achieve this marvellous transformation.

  55. He was not a monarch of the most brilliant, nor a general of the most daring kind.

  56. No monarch ever knew better the magical influence of intellectual strength on general thought, or felt more strongly the expedience of enlisting it on the side of authority.

  57. Equally with the popular party in the present day, they regarded society as a pyramid, of which the multitude formed the base, and the monarch the head.

  58. It was irresistible, and speedily brought the monarch to the gates of Amsterdam.


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