Hermes was worshipped as god of eloquence, most probably from the fact that, in his office as ambassador, this faculty was indispensable to the successful issue of the negotiations with which he was intrusted.
After a brief contest negotiationsof a peaceful nature were entered into between Odysseus and his subjects.
Upon this they despatched ambassadors into the enemy's camp; and whilst these were protractingnegotiations during the night, the Thebans, with their wives and children, evacuated the city.
Minister to China, who was away at Taku trying to open negotiations with the Peking Government.
A note was accordingly drawn up requesting the doyen of the Diplomatic Corps to fix a day to receive the Chinese Plenipotentiaries, who "were ready to begin negotiations and had prepared a proposal for discussion," which they enclosed.
The Empress-Dowager herself was well aware that the importance of these Peace Negotiations could not be overestimated.
Court that when O'Conor's telegrams about the whole story were laid before Queen Victoria, she said, "I am very glad that we shall have for our next Minister in China the man who arranged such delicate negotiations as these.
It will not be possible for me to make a success of these negotiations with the French," he exclaimed ruefully, "because whatever I do these two men will find it out and disparage it in every way they can.
Negotiations between the British Legation and the Chinese began immediately.
The details of the subsequent negotiationswould fill pages.
Indeed I can remember, as if it was yesterday, when we worked together before on the Franco-Chinese negotiations in 1885.
But a busy age has little patience with details, however romantic--suffice it to say that negotiations continued by fits and starts.
The Yamên Secretaries were seeking him out three days after the last shot was fired--while he still remained in the Legation--eagerly enquiring what he thought of the possibility of beginning negotiationswith the Powers.
It cost him a few friends among minor officials who thought that negotiations should have passed through their hands rather than his.
He probably little thought that his advice would be taken au pied de la lettre, but within an incredibly short time the barren negotiations at Shanghai were abandoned, and the I.
He was again successful, in so far as he obtained the British Minister's consent to reopen negotiations with the Chinese.
It was really too provoking just as these troublesome negotiations promised to end so well; it meant precious time wasted; it meant unnecessary anxiety and worry.
Our negotiations for transport would pass through the hands of our Russian friends, who were accustomed to deal in such matters.
Thus, when they sell land for building purposes, negotiations have to be entered into for removing the coffins of many forgotten generations.
Were I in your place, I would open negotiations at once with the constable, and represent to him the consequences that are likely to ensue.
No sooner was he gone, than John of Burgundy hastened to profit by his absence, and rapidnegotiations took place between him and his partisans within the walls of Paris.
Even while the negotiations went on, means were taken to open the eyes of the dauphin to the ambition of the Burgundian prince; and John, sans peur, saw himself opposed in the council by one who had long been subservient to his will.
Nay, we would rather hear what you have to propose," said the Count of Clermont, who began to doubt how the negotiations would turn.
A truce is proclaimed, negotiations for reconciliation going on, and you have nothing to do but mount and ride away with me.
Compiegne capitulated to the Armagnacs; Soissons was taken by assault; but Arras held out, and once more negotiations for peace commenced under its walls.
Long negotiations succeeded; and it was agreed that the duchy of Burgundy, freed from its homage to the crown of France, should be erected into an independent kingdom.
Von Neurath participated in the last phase of the negotiations preceding the Munich Pact, but contends that he entered these discussions only to urge Hitler to make every effort to settle the issues by peaceful means.
Parallel with these negotiations were the unsuccessful attempts made by Göring to effect the isolation of Poland by persuading Great Britain not to stand by her pledged word, through the services of one Birger Dahlerus, a Swede.
The OKW Chief attended Hitler’s negotiations with Hacha when the latter surrendered.
Many weeks elapsed after its receipt, and no overtures were made nor was any desire expressed by the Mexican Government to enter into negotiations for peace.
These appropriations were made to facilitate negotiations and as a means to enable the President to accomplish the important objects in view.
They were rejected, and, negotiations being at an end, hostilities were renewed.
Acting upon this selfish policy, he opened negotiations with the Sultan of Egypt, now heir to all Saphadin's dominions by the death of Cohr-Eddin.
Since the fall of Nazareth the Emir of Joppa had opened negotiations with Edward, professing a desire to become a christian convert.
Even De Witt could feel that his resolution of revenge was satisfied, and he allowed the negotiations at Breda to proceed.
Clarendon was sorely perplexed by this unexpected message, which was explained by the negotiations now on foot between the French and English Crowns.
He fought in the Royalist army, and at the close of the war, attempted to carry out some unsuccessful negotiations between the army and the King.
But negotiations could not be confined to them, without discouraging those whose zeal was undoubted.
The negotiations between England and France had failed, and the French Court no longer found themselves compelled to sacrifice courtesy, and even humanity, in order to conciliate a hopeful alliance.
The marriage treaty was arranged in time to be notified to Parliament when it met in May, 1661, and from that time the negotiations proceeded with all the customary diplomatic deliberation.
Under such conditions negotiations became tangled beyond the possibility of repair.
But their intentions were still doubtful, and even when the negotiations opened at Breda, in May, 1667, they absolutely declined a proposal for a cessation of hostilities pending the negotiations.
The wheels of thenegotiations drove heavily, and suspicion clogged the proceedings on both sides; but it became clear that both sides desired peace.
The discussions at the Savoy, the negotiations between the leading Nonconformists and the bishops, and the formulating of proposals on either side, had represented one phase of the discussions, and had led to little result.
Before the negotiations closed, La Bastide took the opportunity of a confidential interview with the Chancellor to broach to him a proposal which, to one of Hyde's character, was nothing but an insult.
I submit for your consideration the expediency of regaining that part of the District and the restoration of the original boundaries thereof through negotiations with the State of Virginia.
In the Matopos, Mr. Cecil Rhodes and Mr. Johan Colenbrander are at the present moment carrying onnegotiations with the insurgent chiefs, which may or may not end in peace.
Can you tell me anything of the negotiations you are conducting with the British Admiralty?
The delusion of a joint protectorate was still clung to by the Queen, although the conduct of France was becoming very ambiguous, and suspicion growing darker as to the ultimate and secret purport of the negotiations in progress.
With regard to England, also, the conduct of Henry and his mother in these negotiations was marked by the same unfathomable duplicity.
The secret negotiations and intrigues, however, by which those external facts were preceded or accompanied rest mainly in dusty archives, and it was therefore necessary to dwell somewhat at length upon them in the preceding pages.
While procuring this assistance in English troops he had been very urgent with the Queen to further the negotiations between the States and France; and Paul Buys was offended with him as a mischief- maker and an intriguer.
A committee was accordingly appointed, and a long series of somewhat concealed negotiations was commenced.
The first covert negotiations between Henry and the States had caused much anxiety among the foreign envoys in France.
For the present, he was casting his keen glances upon the negotiations in progress, and cavilling at the general policy which seemed predominant.
He expressed sincere and unaffected devotion to the Queen on all occasions, and promised that no negotiations should take place, however secret and confidential, that were not laid before her Majesty.
He gave no proof whatever of diplomatic skill in the negotiationsfor the treaty of Frankfort, and it was Bismarck who imposed all the conditions.
But Ottavio would not be put off; he attempted to seize Parma by force, and having failed, entered into negotiations with Gonzaga.
With the collapse of the Royalist cause came a confused period of negotiations between the parliament and the king, between the king and the Scots, and between the Presbyterians and the Independents in and out of parliament.
In these negotiations the New Model Army soon began to take a most active part.
Negotiations were begun; ambassadors went from the town to the camp and from the camp to the town.
Negotiations were soon entered into between them and their persecuted friends of the West; a plan was put forth to combine.
It was offered to Lord Metcalfe subsequently as a country seat, but for reasons which it is unnecessary to enter into, the negotiations fell through.
The French were informed of the negotiations immediately.
A failure by Germany to disarm sufficiently gives the Allies no right to increase the area of their occupation, since the present occupation is specifically laid down in the treaty negotiations as the means of enforcing disarmament.
In 1454 he was practising as an attorney at Tenterden, and was the leading man of law in its negotiations with Rye to resist the union of the two towns into a single corporation.
Caxton constantly on very profitable terms for himself, often sending him to London on business, or to carry on negotiations with the king.
Clemenceau up to the present has not denied that he refused to enter upon negotiations on the basis of the renunciation of the reacquisition of Alsace-Lorraine.
Negotiations about the future of the African colonies of Portugal in certain contingencies had been resumed, and the German Foreign Secretary looked forward to further agreements in the Far East and elsewhere.
The first breach in the determination of our enemies to war has been driven by the peace negotiations with Russia.
On April 7 the Bolshevist Foreign Minister Chicherin signified to the German Government his willingness to open peacenegotiations with the Ukraine.
That these negotiations were stranded by the Bulgarian opposition is known.
His aim in London was to secure concessions for Rumania by negotiations with M.
She understood but too well the nameless horrors which captivity among the savages meant—death was nothing in comparison.
The French are our brothers; Onontio[2] is our father.
The proposal found him ingloriously inactive in Umbria, during the negotiations for release of Clement from S.
After delaying for some weeks at Bologna, to abide the issue of many intricate negotiations which followed upon the Pontiff's release, Lautrec advanced, by the eastern coast, to attack the kingdom of Naples.
Nor were his negotiations with the Pontiff the only sources of irritation which daily accumulated upon the unhappy Francesco Maria.
His negotiations for the next four years embraced the politics of Europe, to which those of Italy were but an episode.
Moreover, during our negotiations at Tien-tsin, they had ample time for a fresh study of the subject, the draft of our treaty being under daily discussion for more than a week before it was signed.
Mr. Foster reminds us that in the negotiations which terminated in the treaty of 1858, ``The British were pushing demands not insisted upon by the other Powers, and they could only be obtained by coercive measures.
A full account of the negotiations would require a separate volume.
Never were negotiations more open and above board.
The negotiations of foreign Powers with the Chinese regarding the payment of indemnity were, as might be expected, protracted and full of difficulties.
He might, it is true, have declared those engagements at an end, but until such a declaration was made, he was not at liberty to enter secretly into any new negotiations practically annulling the old.
It has been questioned whether the negotiationshe was then carrying on with the Ghilzyes and Kuzzilbashes were consistent with his obligations to the Barukzye Sirdars.
There is nothing, indeed, more painful in all this painful history than the progress of the negotiations which resulted in the accomplishment of this treaty.
The Envoy had, in the course of the day, virtually acknowledged that to break off the negotiations then pending with the chiefs would be a breach of good faith.
The negotiations with the Ghilzyes, which had been broken off, were resumed; and every possible effort was made to win over the chiefs to our cause, or to sow dissension among them.
The price of flour in the Herat bazaar was, about this time, one Company’s rupee for less than four Hindostanee seers; and the whole supply from Toorkistan, the markets of which had been opened by our negotiations with Khiva.
