We need men who have the true idea of liberty and will set nations nominally Christian on the way of fulfilling their mission to the world.
The old town of Shechem situated in the beautiful valley between Ebal and Gerizim had long been a centre of Baal worship and of Canaanite intrigue, though nominally one of the cities of refuge and therefore specially sacred.
Or, perhaps, it has been, though nominally inspired by an oracle, all too human, weak through human pride.
The state of affairs in the third week in July may therefore be summed up as follows: The Government still nominally ruled and administered the three Vilayets of Monastir, Salonica, and Kosovo, but its authority had been reduced to impotence.
But the Camarilla still remained to exercise its mischievous power until the very end, though apparently it dared not interfere with one still nominally under the protection of England; for Kiamil did not disappear mysteriously.
So Abdul Hamid was left on the throne of Othman, nominally ruling, to outward seeming popular with the people, who cheered him enthusiastically whenever he appeared in public.
Conservative clerical forces established a theocratic system of government with ultimate political authority nominally vested in a learned religious scholar.
It continued to rule through a succession of nominally civilian administrations until 1987, when international pressure finally forced a democratic election.
As Shendy was held by a small force of Egyptians, and Metemmeh nominally by the Jaalin for us, frequent visits were made to those posts.
No doubt it may be said that the latter represents the New York Herald to which he is nominally accredited.
I had moved into my new house, but prudently had not sent for my family, nominally on the ground of waiting until the season was further advanced, but really because of the storm that was lowering heavy on the political horizon.
Nominally addressing a deity, but in fact preaching to his audience, he announced that, even for the veriest infant on a lorry, there was no escape from the eternal fires save by complete immersion in the blood.
The one important work which Beddoes actually completed, Death's Jest-Book, is nominally a drama in five acts.
All the rest of his work, except a few lyrics and occasional poems, is also nominally dramatic.
General La Marmora had orders to quell the insurrection at Genoa, the motive of which was not nominally a change of government, but the continuance of the war at all costs.
Real control slipped from the hands that nominally wielded it.
Consequently the nations that forced their way into Southern Gaul, and over the Pyrenees into Spain, were, nominallyat least, Christians of the Arian persuasion.
Though nominally Moslem, they still kept their Jewish or Pagan rites.
The town of Avignon, although nominally belonging to the sovereign pontiff, is the capital of Provence, and has always been subject to your rule.
Hence, if the fund remain nominally the same, it yet suffers a practical annual decrease.
He was a man of wealth, married, and nominally living with his wife in Lexington.
There are thirty-one wards in Chicago this election, and all but eight of them are nominally Democratic.
Nominally a republic based on a system of trade-guilds, Florence was practically in the hands of the Medici, who, while they left the outward form of the constitution intact, kept the government in the hands of their partisans.
Mahometanism thus nominally driven from the Peninsula, it was natural that the Spaniards should cast their eyes across the narrow channel which divided them from Africa.
France, in short, nominally under the control of a closely centralised monarchy, was suffering from that worst form of anarchy which comes of a bureaucracy when it has become disorganised.
Though still nominally a member of the Empire the Confederation enjoyed practical independence, which was finally recognised at the peace of Westphalia, 1648.
At times of crisis the Signoria would summon a Parlamento nominally of the whole citizens, but generally only of party adherents, who granted exceptional powers (Balia) to a certain number of citizens.
This was administered by four Supreme Courts formed of judges elected out of its own members by the Great Council, who held office nominally for one year, but were usually re-elected.
In Castile, the Cortes nominallyenjoyed deliberative powers; no edict could constitutionally be issued except on their petition, and no tax levied except by their consent.
The government during his absence was nominally left to the Council of State.
The jurisdiction of this consistory was nominally confined to morals, and the regulation of Church matters.
This terrible tribunal was nominallycomposed of twelve judges.
It was somewhat more adapted to modern needs, but it retained much of the rigidity of the Catholic marriage without its sacramental character, and it never made any attempt to become more than nominally contractive.
She was independent of her husband (more especially as she came to him with her own dowry) and only nominally dependent on her family.
It is nominally restricted to the admission of French women who have been domiciled for a year in Paris, but, in practice, it appears that women from all parts of France are received.
Such a taking off would have been but nominally impressive, no matter how well acted.
As one anxious for this victory, I have often speculated on the situation when all America is nominally dry, at the behest of the American farmer, the American preacher, and the American woman.
Where the Great Wall crosses the town of Chan-kia-kow it is kept in good repair, and has a good solid arch with a gate which is closed nominally at sunset.
Then followed a new situation in the house of the Count de Gouvon, where, nominally a footman, I was soon treated more as a pupil or even as a favourite.
It will perhaps always be doubtful whether he was nominally married to her secretly; the evidence is on the whole against the existence of such a bond.
The laborers are native Indians, nominally free, but, by the customs of the country, pretty closely held in subjection to their employers.
In the interval, the country had become nominally Christian.
Six days later an envoy arrived from Frederick William, nominally to degrade York, in reality to conclude a treaty of alliance with Russia.
But as Prussia had held off in his hour of need, leaving Napoleon untrammeled, so now he let Prussia drink of the same cup, and remained nominally neutral.
General Vincent had been despatched from Vienna nominally to explain away at Erfurt the Austrian armaments; in reality, to observe what was going on.
But the English commerce with the peninsula was slender in comparison with what she carried on with the Baltic and with Holland through the connivance of governments which were nominally her foes.
On October fifth Lauriston was despatched to Kutusoff's camp, nominally to secure an exchange of prisoners.
Footnote 1: This ruin, now, is nominally in territory under the jurisdiction of an American provost-marshal.
They united their forces and sailed to the island of St. Kitts, nominally in the hands of Spain, but then inhabited only by Caribs.
They speak French still; they are nominally Catholics still; and the tags and rags of the gold lace of French civilisation continue to cling about their institutions.
