But the constitution was made in the age of the heroic monarchies and was derived from a dual heroic kingship by the introduction of slight alterations.
One might further appeal to the fact that in unlimited monarchies (in Russia, for instance) the law is based solely on the will of one man, who is not himself subject to it.
Later all the countries of the Continent went through the same evolution: they overthrew their absolute monarchies and flung themselves into the arms of parliamentarism.
In monarchies great things can be done with little virtue, for in them there is another moving principle, which is honor.
In most of the monarchies of Europe the government is limited, because the prince, who has the first two powers, leaves the third to others; he makes laws and executes them, but he appoints other men to act as judges in his place.
It is humiliating to record the readiness of these old monarchies to sell themselves and their armies to any cause which would pay the price demanded.
At Berlin they groaned all the more at seeing Christian monarchies undertake so ardently the defense of the Crescent.
Whilst the monarchies subsisted, this unprincipled cession was what the influence of the elder branch of the house of Bourbon never dared to attempt on the younger: but cannibal terror has been more powerful than family influence.
That liberty was found, under monarchies styled absolute, in a degree unknown to the ancient commonwealths.
Hence the origin of the representation of burghs in the states-general of all greatmonarchies in Europe.
This monarch, who was one of the shrewdest princes of his time, had always been deeply sensible of the importance of consolidating the scattered monarchies of Spain under one head.
In persons, however, intrusted with the degree of power exercised by sovereigns of even the most limited monarchies of this period, a weak man may be deemed more mischievous to the state over which he presides than a wicked one.
A spirit of conquest gradually inherited by the Egyptian kings, is directed principally against Asia: hence the formation of a navy, and wars with the great rising monarchies of Asia.
Contemporary in inner Asia: monarchies of the Assyrians, Medes, and the Babylonians.
No one can question that monarchies like the United Kingdom and Germany enjoy a larger diffusion of civil liberty than they.
The Papacy, becoming a prize of the leading Roman families, played a varying game as between the two monarchies of the south and their partisans in the north; and the minor cities, like the greater, underwent chronic revolutions.
European monarchies originated spontaneously in the desire of the kings for support against the barons.
The idea of imperialism revived in the empire of Charlemagne, and later in the Holy Roman Empire, and, cropping out again and again in the monarchies of new nations, has not become extinct to this day.
This can never be {427} properly determined, because we know not what would have taken place in these monarchies had republicanism never prevailed anywhere.
Following this idea, all of the ancient monarchies and empires were based on the ethnic group or race.
Our difference of government, participation in commerce, improvement in policy, and magnitude of power, can be no favourite objects of attention to the Monarchies and Sovereignties of Europe.
In absolute monarchies it is an illusion to think that the sovereign, though apparently an autocrat, acts in accordance with his own views.
There were three Monarchies in Europe, the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian Empires, and the fact that they were divided into two groups necessarily led to war.
The annihilation of the Polish nationality has probably done more to endanger the monarchies of Europe than any one political act accomplished since the monarchies of Europe were first founded.
But it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that nationalism became a real force in Europe, an idea for which men died and in whose name monarchies were overthrown.
Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states are atheists in their very fame.
I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit Those rudiments, and see before thine eyes The monarchies of the earth.
The dissolution of the Roman Empire and the barbarian invasions are followed by the Middle Ages, in which Dante plays the part of Homer; and the modern period with its strong monarchies corresponds to the Roman Empire.
In the Eastern monarchies the king was the centre of all, and the royal records afforded the elements of history from a remote date.
The life of such settlements, under the monarchies into which Alexander's empire broke up, could not be animated by the spirit of the Greek commonwealths in the old days of political freedom.
The monarchies of the North still lay in barbarous darkness and obscurity, or only just began to acquire form and strength, and were as yet unrecognized in the political system of Europe.
Ancient defeated empires are sounds and emptiness; therefore the Assyrian and Persian monarchies become, in his limbo of vanities, a heap of positive bladders.
Mighty monarchies reduced to actual bladders, which, little too as they were, contained big sounds.
There seems to be such a singular connexion in regard to the periods of the commencement of the firstMonarchies of Israel and Tyrus; for, by tracing the causes of the former, a conclusion may be arrived at for the latter.
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