This seems to have been the first intercourse which that empire had with any of the western potentates of Europe.
I wish the princes and potentates of Christendom to have had a meet place to have seen it.
He imagined, therefore, that the ministers of France, convinced of the impracticability of their scheme, would at last embrace pacific views, and would abandon an enterprise so obnoxious to all the potentates of Europe.
On the 31st October, accordingly, the States-General agreed to go into the league with England and France; "in order to resist the enterprises and ambitious designs of the King of Spain against all the princes and potentates of Christendom.
It was to the commonwealth of the Netherlands, to the northern potentates and to the Calvinist and Lutheran princes of Germany, that the king and queen could alone appeal in their designs against Philip of Spain.
The Ulster potentatesfalling out among themselves, the north also was easily subdued, and Brian became the actual lord paramount of Ireland.
All chance of conciliating the more powerful and distant potentates was thus taken away.
Urban Communities Alongside of these secular and spiritual potentates stood the urban communities.
For the rest, the character of the humanists whom the potentates fostered is admittedly illaudable in nearly every case.
Certain historians allege that from the outset Iyeyasu shared Hideyoshi's misgivings about the real designs of Christian potentates and Christian propagandists.
Besides, I should be apprehensive lest the same Arts which are to enable him to negotiate between Potentates might a little infect his ordinary behaviour between Man and Man.
If his rank in this world is the lowest, many potentates may envy him his state elsewhere.
Tell potentates they live Acting by others actions; Not lov'd unlesse they give, Not strong but by their factions; If potentates reply, Give potentates the lye.
They actually subjugated and put in chains, like the commonest peasants, native [196] potentates at whose very names even the warriorhood of their tribes had been wont to blench.
And whereas the reigns of otherpotentates are signalised by bloodshed and war, the time of the Prince will be glorified by cooking and good cheer.
His skill to experience, what potentates ran-- The Pope, the Grand Llama, the King of Japan!
The embassadors of various foreign potentates were present, each bearing their appropriate insignia.
Several of the princes and potentates of Europe applied for her hand.
But now these two great potentates were in open opposition, and a deadly warfare was at hand.
Under this impulsion and the restless energy of Rainerio no time was lost in extending the institution in every direction save where Ghibelline potentates such as Ezzelin and Uberto prevented its introduction.
Still there was at first no appearance of any hearty support from either the spiritual or temporal potentates of Germany, and without this the business of persecution could only languish.
Princes and potentates were there in person or by their representatives, and crowds of every rank in life, from the noble to the juggler.
What if I be greater than the kings of the earth, and higher than many of the countless potentates of heaven?
Away he went, at the word, and in the meanwhile, Lucifer and his potentates arose in terror, and exceeding consternation, and caused the boldest bands of the black angels to be assembled.
I was astonished to hear him call the princess thus, and the greatest potentates thieves of the first water.
When these were marshalled, he put himself at the head of his own peculiar band, and marched forth to quell the insurrection, whilst the potentates went other ways with their legions.
Oriental potentates have a pride in that sort of simplicity, when they can contrast it with the exhibition of power, and this the Pasha was able to do, for the lower end of the hall was filled with his officers.
He thinks, I believe, that I have not been altogether weaned of the potentates and powers I abjured when I crossed the water to become a member of his family.
Therefore it is that potentatesare reluctant to draw the sword, and rather bear the ills they have than fly to other evils inevitably worse still.
On Wilhelm's right was his handsome and princely son; to right and to left stood potentates and princes and the leaders of the hosts of United Germany.
But let that pass--the domestic affairs of these mighty potentates of the earth should not be too narrowly scrutinised.
Moreover, the French bishops were not as a body great secular potentates like the German bishops.
It was impressed upon all secular potentates from highest to lowest that it was their business to obey the behests of the Church in the extirpation of heresy.
Finally and most especially, since these imperial prospects made the German King the first among the monarchs of Western Europe, a victory over him would carry a prestige which lesser potentates would be bound to acknowledge.
On all occasions of state his eloquence made him indispensable to the Signory, while the lists of his writings include numerous speeches upon varied topics addressed to potentates and princes throughout Italy.
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