The unstable character of the rule of the ten kings, and the impoverishment of their kingdoms, would lead them, as a matter of diplomacy, to hand over their authority to him.
Roman Emperor, despite the passing away of the actual Empire itself, then the dominions which were under the rule of these later monarchs may yet be found incorporated in the Empire, and so form parts of the ten kingdoms.
And out of His mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God.
In South and Central America, only a third of the people enjoyed democratic rulein 1976.
The King began to show himself more and more in his true colours--as one who had thoroughly made up his mind to rule as an absolute monarch and to reclaim the kingdom to Popery.
Then her spirit fired, and with a firm voice she declared that no king but Christ should rule over her kirk or conscience--to which she boldly added that she had attended conventicles, and would do so again!
I own the Word of God as the rule of faith and manners.
It has been the invariable rule of Congress, and that of all its officers, to treat prisoners with the greatest humanity, and to pay all due deference to rank.
The result is, "that in the kingdom of England, according to the common rule of the Church, we constitute and decree that there be restored the hierarchy of ordinary bishops.
This great rule of criminal law has doubtless operated as a great indirect encouragement to duelling; but how is this difficulty to be encountered?
Gainst foreign rule and Roman bull He'll fight, and surely win.
He wants the proper rule to direct his observations, and can hardly attain any but confused and superficial ideas of the meaning of what he sees around him.
Such is not the doctrine taught by Sismondi, and by those who, with him, impugn the title of political economy to be considered as the great paramount rule of social existence.
Which air is no doubt partly due to the non-existence of a rule in favor of evening dress (never again shall I gird against the rule in Europe!
You Spartan women are the only ones who rule over men," said a stranger to Gorgo, wife of Leonidas.
Even in the instances of the best and noblest men of whom we have record this rule will hold.
The seclusion of Athenian girls and the careful rearing which they received at the hands of mothers and nurses were such as to fit them to rule the home.
This rule is illustrated by its one historical exception In the case of King Anaxandrides, who, says Herodotus, when the royal Heraclidaean line of Eurystheus was in danger of becoming extinct, married his niece, who bore him no children.
There has never been a universal rule of feminine depravity in any age.
And the result is the same, he adds, "whether women ruleor the rulers are ruled by women.
Only one instance is recounted where this rule was broken.
But his ambition soared higher, and he endeavored to organize a movement to reconquer and embrace under his exclusive rule the whole extent of the empire of Alexander.
Colonies to Italy, to Africa, to the regions about the Black Sea, were sent at her command; she sanctioned laws; she taught Lycurgus that the best laws were those which obliged rulers to rule well and subjects to obey well.
As the Trust grows stronger and absorbs a larger and larger proportion of the total supply for the market, the reduction of employment will as a rule continue.
Though as a rule machinery tends to take over the heavier forms of muscular work, it also tends to multiply the minor calls upon the muscles, until the total strain is not much less than before.
Chapter 49 - The End of the French Rule in America Braddock's campaign was a complete disaster.
Of course, the people of Massachusetts fought against this as hard as they could, but their struggle was useless, and a royal Governor was appointed to rule the colony.
Then one day by a terrible accident hisrule was brought to a sudden end.
But now the colonies which had wrung themselves free from the ruleof Britain were not altogether happy.
The haughty Cavalier left his country manor house and came back to rule at Jamestown once more, as Governor and Captain General of Virginia.
The Dutch rule had been autocratic, the people having little say in the government.
The settlers revolt and Carolina becomes a royal province, 1719 They had never liked the rule of the Lords Proprietor; now they were heartily tired of it and they refused to stand it longer.
One Governor was supposed torule both states, but sometimes each had a governor.
Over the whole colony there was a Governor who was as a rule autocratic and sometimes dishonest, and there was a good deal of unrest in the colony.
And Berkeley, a fervent Royalist, wrote to his brother Royalists at home asking them to come out to Virginia, there to find new homes far from the rule of the hated "usurper" Cromwell.
Under his stern yet righteousrule the colony prospered.
If the settlers' lot had been hard under the rule of other governors, it was still harder under that of Stuyvesant.
Then the following summer Montreal surrendered to the British, and French rule in America was completely at an end.
Without their aid the carpet- bag government could not stand, and the white men of the South once more began to rule in the South.
Many nineteenth century poets made it a rule never to call a thing by its proper name, but by some epithet containing a metaphor.
Yet the Greeks, who make inspiration the source of art, never let the passions so rulethat utter chaos resulted in the poet's creation.
A plea for adherence to the principles of a political party, a speech about an economic problem, is not as a rule poetry.
The heart and the head, the emotions and the mind, rule in writing.
The verse writer as a rule tries to depict emotions from the start.
It is claimed that here there are always temptations to digress and become trivial; hence we get the interminable novels and stupendous treatises which as a rule we do not have in verse.
If this be so, the ruleworks the other way around.
In the region about Sorrento one may be said to have found the land where beauty is the rule and not the exception.
The monks in his time lounged in all the sunny places of the convent like so many loose sacks of meal, enjoying to the full the dolce far niente which seems to be the universal rule of Southern climates.
Her rule in the Convent was even and serene; but those who came to her flock from the real world, from the trials and temptations of a real experience, were always enigmas to her, and she could scarcely comprehend or aid them.
But the rule is clear, that violent and curbless lives will spend themselves faster than the lives of the gentle, the loving, the law-abiding and the innocent.
Moses, like David, was "following the ewes great with young," when summoned by God to rule His people Israel.
Appetites, greeds, resentments do not regard their objects in this broad and colourless way; they grant the general proposition, but add that every rulehas its exceptions.
Yet a Divine sanction, such as rests upon the parental rule of fallible human creatures, hallows also national law.
This was not a case for the stern rule, eye for eye and tooth for tooth,--for how could that rule be applied to it?
And therefore the same ruleis laid down which the Church of England has carried on for the same reasons into the Communion feast--that all must be consumed.
It is a pitiless mandate, and illustrates the fact, very natural though often forgotten, that men as a rule cannot lose sight of the religious value of their fellow-men, and continue to respect or pity them as before.
In such a conception of the universe, incantations give place to prayers, and prayer does not seek to disturb, but to carry forward and to consummate, the orderly rule of Love.
All are called upon to rule for God "over a few things," to establish a kingdom of God within, and thus to receive a crown of life, and to sit with Jesus upon His throne.
The only safe rule is to be sure that our conception of God is high and real and intimate; to be habitually humble and trustful in our attitude toward Him; and then to speak sincerely and frankly, as then we shall not fail to do.
To-day, England, Germany, and the United States rule over about six hundred millions of the population of the world.
To-day over three fourths of the Mohammedans of the world live in lands which they do not rule politically.
An I be set to rule a pack of boys, I will rulethem as I list, and not according to any man's bidding.
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
The churches of the cities where they were located extended their influences over smaller towns in the surrounding territory, and thus the city bishop came to rule over the elders of the lesser churches of a district.
One writer has well said, "The same promise of the Spirit which renders the New Testament an unerring and sufficient rule of faith renders it also an unerring and sufficient rule of practise for the church in all places and times.
It was foretold that this kingdom should "bear rule over all the earth"; it was the main boast of Alexander that he had subdued the whole world.
According to the prophecy, God's true saints will die to ecclesiasticism by forsaking the sect system, but the rule of human churchly power will go right on until the end of time.
According to that relic of the papal church, authority and rule is vested in the clerical corporation and is by them conferred upon other individuals by the act of ordination.
Only by division and by holding the grasp of ecclesiastical rule can sects survive.
The system that limited local church government to a one-man rule originated in the apostasy, after the gifts of the Spirit had died out.
And another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear ruleover all the earth.
The reason is clear: whenever men grasp the reins of government and assume those prerogatives which belong to God alone, the rule of the Spirit ends.
Home-rule for Ireland would be a millennium in comparison.
It holds up improvement as at least possible; whereas determinism assures us that our whole notion of possibility is born of human ignorance, and that necessity and impossibility between them rulethe destinies of the world.
I am sure it would contribute to clearness if in these lectures we should break this rule and mention it, and I accordingly feel free to do so.
Such a view would only follow the rule that has proved elsewhere so fertile, of assuming the vast and remote to conform to the laws of formation that we can observe at work in the small and near.
As a rule Steel was not a man to be pumped, but after some reflection he concluded that it was just as well to use a sprat to catch a mackerel.
As a rule a ride in a hansom would have been a joy to Master Benker, but he was too much afraid of the meeting with his mother to take any pleasure in the treat.
I rule this Troezen; while the son Of Phaedra has in Crete a rich domain.
Live, suffer not this son of Scythia, Crushing your children 'neath his odious sway, To rule the noble offspring of the gods, The purest blood of Greece.
His shall be the pow'r I cannot keep; and he shall teach my son How to rule men.
The general rule is to carry jemmies down the leg of the trousers or up the sleeve; whilst other tools are smuggled into long pockets of the "rabbit" pattern, such as used by the old-time poachers.
The rule regarding other presents was curious: jewellery, etc.
Fleet prison] a while, and thereby their pride and courage somewhat assuaged, they began to range themselves in order, and to understand that they had a prince who would rule his subjects by his law and obedience.
It was a kind of maxim among the puritans, that scripture was so much the exclusive rule of human actions, that whatever, in matters at least concerning religion, could not be found to have its authority, was unlawful.
The regiment of England is not a mere monarchy, as some for lack of consideration think, nor a mere oligarchy nor democracy, but a rule mixed of all these, wherein each one of these have or should have like authority.
But it is also a rule of human policy to favour the more efficient and determined, which may not always be the more numerous party.
The Commons sent up another bill to the same effect, which the upper house rejected without discussion, by a rule then perhaps first established, that the same bill could not be proposed twice in one session.
The monastic rule of life being thus abrogated, as neither conformable to pure religion nor to policy, it is to be considered, to what uses these immense endowments ought to have been applied.
If mistakes were committed while he was absent exploring Cuba, they were made by his brothers and by those whom he himself had selected to rule in his absence.
While Columbus had not been a successful ruler, it must be borne in mind that the men he was expected to rule were a most ungovernable lot.
That is still the rule to-day; the trained man sees in the untrained only a servant.
Occasionally the lights of a car shone in his face, as its infuriated occupant broke every rule of the Somme roads by double banking; that is, trying to pass the vehicles in front.
Then, as the invariablerule of war, there came the hundredth time when the unexpected happened.
The base materialist with the foot rule will inform you of the mundane details.
Now as a general rule the Sappers do not live in the trenches, but go up there each day and most nights, the remainder of the time being spent in dwellings of dubious sanitation and indubitable draughtiness a mile or so in rear.
Of course, I, too, will act on the golden ruleof doing to others what I wish others to do unto me.
I consider this as the most important rule for the regulation of the intellect and the affections, as the only means of preventing the passions from turning reason into a hired advocate.
But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
To him that made great lights: For his mercy endureth for ever: The sun to rule by day: For his mercy endureth for ever: The moon and stars to rule by night: For his mercy endureth for ever.
Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
And God made two great lights; the greater light torule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
