I have received from heaven the sceptre of this vast empire.
Here Cromwell, in 1653, wearing the royal purple, and holding a goldsceptre in one hand and a Bible in the other, was saluted as Lord Protector.
Such a golden product of evolution is Wall Street; therefore the sceptre which Wall Street stretches forth over the prostrate Western world should be obeyed and upheld by the voice and hand of the American people.
His sceptre was the bow of Ulysses, not to be bent by a weaker hand.
Ancient art regains her long-abdicated throne, and wields her sceptre over the worshippers of the Parthenon and the admirers of Aeschylus and Thucydides.
To a government thus strong in concentrated power and intelligence stands opposed the mass of nations subject to the Austrian sceptre whose natural antipathies have been artfully fostered and strengthened.
Night's leadensceptre seals my drowsy eyes, Then cease, my song, till fair Aurora rise.
O may yoursceptre num'rous nations sway, And all with love and readiness obey!
But the sceptre which had thus been struck from their grasp, found no other hand strong enough to seize it; and from the first deposition of Hisham II.
The sceptre of feeble reed speaks of power wielded in gentleness.
The empire, rent into an oligarchy of twelve princes, had been again united under the sceptre of one by the swords of Grecian mercenaries (B.
In the vision he seemed to her to fix his sceptre on the soil, whence it sprouted up into a tree that overshadowed the whole land.
All remained quiet; the sceptre of England passed from the hand of the hero to the hand of the child; and in France no popular movement of any importance showed that the people were awakened to the value of the chances before them.
The hand of God takes from him, during the greater part of life, the power of wielding the sceptrewhich it placed within his grasp.
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and aye: 7 A sceptre of uprightness is thesceptre of thy kingdom.
Where else than in the King whose sceptre was a reed, not an iron rod, has it been fulfilled?
Thus God has exalted Himself by His deeds; and the result of these deeds is that He is greatly exalted by the praise of a world, in which Israel and the "peoples" dwell as one beneath His sceptre and celebrate His name.
His sceptre is not a rod of iron, but "a sceptre of uprightness.
His throne was looked upon as the prop of justice, and his sceptre as the standard of civic peace.
David's resolve was quickly taken, and carried into effect on the same day, for he was most anxious to keep his oath to leave the sceptre to Solomon.
In his left hand the god holds a sceptre, made of all kinds of metals; the bird perched on the tip of the sceptre is an eagle.
In her right hand was the sceptre crowned with the cuckoo, symbol of conjugal fidelity; in her left, the pomegranate.
Again they stand (Imperial noon Lays her red sceptre on the earth), Where golden hangings make a gloom, And far off lutes sing dreamy mirth.
The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion, and thy sceptre an unchanging sceptre of righteousness and truth, and thy dominion shall be an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow unto thee for ever and ever.
Night's sceptre wanes, And in the East the silvery Messenger Gives silent token of the golden dawn.
His sovereign once declared that there was more true nobility in Francis than in any king he had ever read of, and that he regarded his lofty virtue as something far more to be coveted than the throne and sceptre of France.
The powers and honors of the sceptre are portioned among three leaders.
And this, though Constantine and Theodosius had wielded the sceptre of the empire, and SS.
His sceptre and shield, which were of gold, and had been blessed by Leo III.
I have said before that our city is prospering and growing under the benign sceptre of progress.
The Queen then went to the west door of the Abbey wearing her crown, the sceptre with the cross being in the right and the orb in the left hand.
The Queen delivered the sceptre with the dove to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who laid it on the altar.
The Queen delivered the sceptre with the cross to the Lord of the Manor of Worksop (the Duke of Norfolk), and the sceptre with the stone to the Duke of Richmond, to hold during the performance of the ceremony of homage.
Heathendom, Seven hundred years and more Have gone, since first the faithful Thy royal sceptre bore.
Now it is the turn of the fiery Lord of Benevente, who presses forward, and, with words of passion on his lips, rends the sceptre from the hand of the image.
On it is seated a gigantic semblance of the king, wearing the pointed crown of the Goths, the sceptre in one hand and the sword of justice at his side.
Banded together with your friends from Hellas, not for the fleece, but to seize my sceptre and royal power have ye come hither.
He related how an angel had delivered him from imprisonment and commanded him to announce to the king that Amsterdam, Wesel, and Deventer would come under hissceptre if he would send more prophets there.
But now I would have thee leave the temple of Apollo and this thy subsistence of alms, and come with me to the great city of Athens, where thou shalt have great wealth, and in due time this sceptre that I hold.
Under their reign, the language and genius of Persia revived, and the Arabs, three hundred and four years after the death of Mahomet, were deprived of the sceptre of the East.
But a recent discovery [107] has proved that these unhappy princes were the last and lawful heirs of the blood and sceptre of Clovis, and younger branch, from the brother of Dagobert, of the Merovingian house.
The revolution which transferred the sceptre from the Abbassides to the Fatimites was a benefit, rather than an injury, to the Holy Land.
His alarming progress compelled her to give herself and her sceptre to the hand of a soldier; and Romanus Diogenes was invested with the Imperial purple.
He is now no more his sceptre has passed to a woman and a child, and you dare not attack their infancy and weakness.
But when the sceptre devolved to Almamon, the seventh of the Abbassides, he completed the designs of his grandfather, and invited the muses from their ancient seats.
In the West he annihilated the dynasty of the Bowides; and the sceptre of Irak passed from the Persian to the Turkish nation.
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