The persecution did not last long nor extend to other districts but it created great indignation among the Burmese and was perhaps one of the reasons why the Shan dynasty of Ava was overthrown in 1555.
They were overthrown by King Thadominpaya who is believed to have been a Shan.
I am not two but one, and yet am I in the sight of the Lord as certainly another man than I was before grace found me, as this young shoot, which has grown from the roots of an overthrown palmtree is another tree than the rotten trunk.
A sand-storm has darkened the eyes of the men of the desert and they are saying that Khaled is a Shiyah, a Persian and a robber, and that he must be overthrown and a man of our own people made king in his stead.
Neither is overthrown until a central practical judgment is discredited, and either could remain true through a very considerable alteration of logical definition; but neither is on this account exempt from theoretical responsibility.
My religion is overthrown if I am convinced that I have misconceived the situation and mistaken what I should do to be saved.
An important theory then current, that large animals require a luxuriant vegetation, was overthrown at the same time, for there was every reason to believe that the sterility of the surrounding country was no new thing.
In a building of any considerable length, the points most easily overthrown by lateral pressure would naturally be found in the middle portions of the longer walls.
Two hundred and eighty houses were overthrown by subsequent shocks.
So sudden was the calamity that many of those buried supposed only their own houses were overthrown and wondered why their neighbors were so slow to aid them.
Here we have a city of magnificent cathedrals, public edifices, and other lofty buildings, which have not in three centuries been overthrown by an earthquake.
The latter could not be overthrown so long as the former maintained its sway over the masses.
The place seemed to their imagination protected by more than mortal powers, otherwise how was it possible that a few half-starved fishermen could already have so triumphantly overthrown the time-honoured legions of Spain.
By whom and for what cause it wasoverthrown never transpired.
It was overthrownand broken about 1846, but was restored by the late Sir Ralph Lopes.
Neither precipice nor deep river could check their advance: their headlong speed would haveoverthrown all barriers.
My calamities forthwith arose; they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves.
An old aristocracy had been overthrown by Northern invaders--field enough for romance.
We paint life as it is, The hideous side of it, with careful pains Making a god of the dull Commonplace, For have we not the old godsoverthrown And set up strangest idols?
They kept their promise well, for Jarmerik, having overthrown Gotar by their help, gained Sweden.
But report had given out among the Danes that Hildiger had overthrown Halfdan.
The baronial leaders could not be wholly overthrown by force, and Edward was compelled to make them fresh concessions.
By throwing off the rule of German princes, and achieving independence of the former French dynasty, an order of things began that was not overthrown until our own day.
Pg310] Later, William the Conqueror and his knights are resting and feasting and bragging of their deeds, there where Harold's standards were overthrown and the banner of the Three Lions of Normandy waves in the cool night wind.
AND overthrownat MAINE Tinchebrai by his (who won the brother Henry).
Once King Henry was overthrown by the thrust of a Cotentin lance, and sprang up quickly to show himself to his men.
Gupta empire (see GUPTA), which survived till it was overthrown by the Ephthalites (q.
Chase, and Abraham Lincoln, that slavery was to be overthrown under the constitution and in the Union, by forbidding its growth and trusting to an awakened conscience, enforced by an enlightened self-interest.
In 1852 the Liberal cabinet was overthrown and a ministry of conciliation was formed.
Some say that he was killed while bunting, overthrown by a wild boar.
I should have overthrown the Turkish empire, and founded a great empire at Constantinople, which would have fixed my place in history higher than Constantine and Mohammed II.
The campaign by which Maxtla wasoverthrown and the imperial power wrested from the hands of the Tepanecs, lasted over a hundred days.
A revolt followed, by which the Toltec power in that province was temporarily overthrown by the aboriginal inhabitants, whoever they may have been.
White society in places like New Orleans may one day be overthrown unless it can live for ideals and reform its institutions.
He accepted the view that a powerful capitalist class must be developed and perform its indispensable historical rôle, to be challenged and overthrown in its turn by the proletariat.
The democracy of Russia has overthrownthe century-old despotism of the Czars and enters your ranks as a rightful member and as a powerful force in the battle for our common liberation.
After lunch I went up to the scene of the tragedy and my faith in Pietro's innocence was considerably shaken although notoverthrown by my talk with Mrs. Casey.
Of course this sentence would have been overthrown in any higher court, but the man had no money.
Now that the discovery of the Californian placers has overthrown all classes of society, who knows with whom we may have to deal?
It surprised the world, who saw the most important subject depending on a mere curious argument, which, like all political theories, was liable to be overthrown by writers of opposite principles.
Decker alludes here to the bastard of Burgundy, who considered himself unmatchable, till he was overthrown in Smithfield by Woodville, Earl Rivers.
The enormous roots of these trees, and the condition of the coal-swamps, must have exempted them from the danger of being overthrown by violence.
It had been arranged that he should return to Zurich and be married to Johanna Rahn, but the plan was overthrown by a commercial disaster which affected the fortunes of the Rahn family.
Feudalism, as the antithesis of this orderly treatment, had to be overthrown before national finance could become established.
The maxim of Simonides, that poetry is a kind of articulate painting, and painting a kind of mute poetry, was vaguely accepted until the days of Lessing, and firstoverthrown by the famous treatise of that writer on the Laocoon.
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