Undeceive yourselves: the author of a discovery has always to contend against those whose interest may be injured, the obstinate partisans of everything old, and finally the envious.
Here is my opinion respecting this victory, in which I have more cause for justification than for glory; my partisans have spoken too favorably of it, and my enemies too severely.
From his earliest years he was the hope of the Jacobites, as the political descendants of the partisans of James II were called.
By the partisans of San Martin this was attributed to the squadron; and at his instigation, as was generally believed, troops were sent to Valparaiso for the purpose of overawing it.
Also, of his having gone to Italy, and fallen into the hands of brigands, or joined the partisans of Mazzini.
Even the thundering voice of their chief could not arouse his yawning partisans to the spirit required for a struggle.
And he had various natural defenders and partisans about the Roman Court.
The wretched Duryodhana, hearing these words of the parting partisans of Yudhishthira, became very much distressed.
The noble Rishi hath also described the divinity of Vasudeva, the rectitude of the sons of Pandu, and the evil practices of the sons and partisans of Dhritarashtra.
The allies and partisans can never exist if the principal be destroyed.
His partisans affirm, with a fair show of reason, that Mr. Krüger never greatly respected the sanctity of the ballot.
A petty civil war between his partisans and opponents was the consequence; several presidents were elected and deposed.
They were frank republicans, and partisans of the Commune.
At Marseilles, the news of the 31st of May had aroused the partisans of the Girondists: Rebecqui repaired thither in haste.
The partisans of monarchy were still as divided as they had been from the opening of the states-general to the 10th of August.
To the partisans of the ancient regime, of the aristocracy and clergy, were now to be added the friends of constitutional monarchy, with whom the fate of Louis XVI.
During the whole night Robespierre prepared his partisansfor the following day.
They had as partisans such members as participated in their ideas, or who hoped to form part of the upper chamber.
Until they become exhausted and fall, all perish indiscriminately, both the enemies and the partisans of reform.
The convention was, however, carried much too far by the partisans of reaction; in its desire to repair all and to punish all, it fell into excesses of justice.
There were not in this assembly, as in the preceding, partisans of absolute power and of privilege.
From that moment the approaches to the hall were thronged with daring sans-culottes, and the partisans of the Jacobins filled the galleries of the convention.
They had driven from the cantons all the Swiss who had shown themselves partisans of the French republic.
The arrival of a British fleet with reinforcements, comprising three fresh regiments from Ireland, enabled Rawdon to despise any attempts, which, with their inferior force, our partisans might make.
He applied to the partisans the epithets "banditti and murderers".
The dragoons, taken by surprise, turned in flight, and, smiting at every step, the partisans pursued them with fatal earnestness.
Within this line ourpartisans continually made incursions, keeping the enemy in constant check and apprehension.
This person had proved invariably true to the American cause; had supplied the partisans secretly with the munitions of war, with cattle and provisions.
What he heard did not impair Marion's activity, but it tended somewhat to subdue those fiercer feelings which ordinarily governed the partisansin that sanguinary warfare.
But rivalry between ships, despite occasional bickerings ashore when their respective partisans wax argumentative, does no harm.
Nevertheless, he seems to have been somewhat stirred by the exciting struggle which took place over Kansas between the Free-Soil forces and the partisans of slavery.
At last the partisans of the federation movement were victorious, and Venezuela adopted a federal constitution, in which the most advanced principles with regard to individual rights were incorporated.
But it must be said that the Governments stopped far short of what their partisans would have had them do.
Policy has adopted that maxim of Machiavel which teaches that it is more prudent to reward {244} partisans than to persecute opponents.
In town and country the Palmyrene and the Roman partisans confronted each other with arms and blazing torches in their hands.
Napoleon’s partisans have tried to shelter him from blame, by alleging the premature rigour of winter as the cause of this wholesale destruction.
Many notables were mixed up in it as partisans of the ungrateful and ambitious Bourbon, Charles de Montpensier, Connetable de France.
The Hollman partisans filled the room, and others were crowding to the doors.
After all, they were as much partisans as they had been before they were issued State rifles.
The Athenians, finding that the Lacedaemonians would lose fewer partisans by such a measure than themselves, and would become masters of the public deliberations, vigorously opposed and defeated the attempt.
And yet the opposers of the new system, in this State, who profess an unlimited admiration for its constitution, are among the most intemperate partisans of a bill of rights.
And yet, think you the partisans of the kinetic theory are adversaries of determinism?
As it is probable in any case that this motion would not be identical with that which the partisans of the old theory presume, we might think ourselves justified in saying that this old theory is dethroned.
Thunderstruck like them, and at their wits' end, the most faithful of their servants and partisans waited for some sign authorizing them to protest against the unparalleled surprise to which France had been subjected.
His power was audaciously used to cripple Bustamante, suppress liberty, gain partisans and benefit himself and his friends.
Meanwhile he employed the Aragonese partisans in the country, and flying expeditions of his own men, to harass the enemy's communications.
It was devastated by the partisans of Marius during the struggle between him and Sulla.
Kilshaw's reputation suffered somewhat in the minds of the scrupulous, but his partisans would hear of no condemnation.
The house of San Bonifacio fared badly at his hands: the castle was dismantled (1243) and stands to this day in ruins; and most of the partisans of that noble house shared grimly in the discomfiture of their chief.
The latter who represented the partisans of Flavius Vespasian, and who aimed at depriving the feeble Emperor Vitellius of his crown, had taken possession of Aquileja, Vicenza, Padua, and Verona.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "partisans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
