Not seldom gushed the hot tears down her now rosy cheeks, when she looked upon Kitty, who, as she grew older, appeared to feel more and more deeply the many renunciations which the want of sight inflicted upon her.
To appreciate an ideal, to love and serve it in the full light of science and reason, would require a high intelligence, and, what is rarer still, noble affinities and renunciations which are not to be looked for in an undisciplined people.
The English, little accustomed to such maxims, proposed that the States-General should assemble in order to give weight to the renunciations to be made.
The renunciationswere ready, towards the middle of March, and were agreed upon.
But now that the Dauphin had three sons, the second of whom could be called to the throne of Spain, the renunciations of the Queen became of no import.
The renunciations were then read; and by these the King of Spain and his posterity gave up all claim to the throne of France, and M.
As to the first obstacle, these politicians were of opinion that the renunciations made by Maria Theresa held good only as far as they applied to the object for which they were made.
The King of Spain had made his renunciations with all the solidity and solemnity which could be desired from the laws, customs, and usages of Spain.
Maria Theresa, upon her marriage with our King, had solemnly renounced all claim to the Spanish throne, and these renunciations had been repeated at the Peace of the Pyrenees.
Who can tell the renunciations made by the Frenchman in his endeavour to wrest the enigma of personality from its abysmal depths?
The temperament suggested is impetuous, controlled by a strong will; it has been fined down by study and the enforced renunciations of poverty-haunted youth.
The result was that the renunciations were never made, and so the essential condition of the original settlement remained unfulfilled.
Troubles followed the release of the French king and the expiration of the year during which the two parties were to yield up the ceded territory and effect the renunciations of their respective claims.
These religions substitute offerings of the heart, renunciations of the inner self, for all those vain oblations.
The lives of saints are a history of successive renunciations of complication, one form of contact with the outer life being dropped after another, to save the purity of inner tone.
We are compelled to sign renunciations of our privileges, and give our assent to one and the same taxation, as if the nobles had not already done so.
The courts there declared the renunciations extracted from me in my misery and frenzy when I was starving and homeless to be invalid.
It is certain, the faith of princes is so frequently subservient to their ambition, that renunciations have little validity, otherwise than from the powers and parties whose interest it is to support them.
The French renunciations were now arrived at Utrecht, and it was agreed, that those, as well as that of the King of Spain, should be inserted at length in every treaty, by which means the whole confederacy would become guaranties of them.
If renunciations were of any value, the Dauphin and his posterity were excluded from the Spanish succession; and, if renunciations were of no value, it was idle to offer England and Holland a renunciation as a guarantee against a great danger.
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