I want you to go down to Mere Guillardeau's and tell her Andre is dead, and the seignior will be here in five days.
Is there an ambassador of France who, when he is presented to the grand seignior for an audience, will seriously say to himself, his sublime highness will infallibly burn to all eternity for having submitted to be circumcised?
If he really thought that the grand seignior was a mortal enemy to God, and the object of divine vengeance, could he converse with such a person; nay, indeed, ought he to be sent to him?
Mustafa replied: "The Grand Seignior permits you to help your comrades in Hungary.
The Grand Seignior gave him his own daughter to wife, and loaded him with every favour.
The Grand Seignior had always made a particular favourite of Feriz, and he now addressed him in a gentle, fatherly voice.
The Grand Seignior greets his servants, and will be gracious to them if they will help him to win back Hungary.
The Grand Seignior has also sworn that the ancient rights of Transylvania should never be infringed.
His Highness, Michael Apafi, they said, and all the estates of Transylvania, were ready to draw their swords for the glory of the Grand Seignior and invade Hungary.
Another section is devoted to an account of the governor's difficulties with the religious orders in "subduing the religious to the understanding that your Majesty alone is their natural seignior; and the seignior of the said islands.
However, I shall do all that in me lies to get the poor old seignior out of the hands of the rogues.
Disconcerted by the liveliness of the retort, the great seignior did not utter one word in reply.
Do you think, Sir, That your friend, Seignior Piso, will be constant Unto my Lady?
In the hall or great room of the manor house was usually an enormous table used both as court of justice by the seignior and festive board.
The feudal seignior now has his coat of arms emblazoned on the church pew where he worships, on his coach door, and on the stone entrance to his mansion.
The Grand Seignior formed an alliance with the disaffected Poles, arrested the Russian embassador at Constantinople, and mustered his hosts for war.
The Grand Seignior was also goaded to the most desperate exertions, for the empress had formed the design, and the report was universally promulgated, of placing her second grandchild, Constantine, on the throne of Constantinople.
Immense tracts of land, lying on the Euxine, were ceded to Russia, and the Grand Seignior also paid Catharine a large sum of money to defray the expenses of the war.
It was then that Bonaparte sent Joubert with a letter in his own handwriting, to be delivered into the hands of the Grand Seignior himself.
In December of the same year he went with the same Ministers to the Congress at Sistova, where, in May, 1791, he signed the Treaty of Peace between the Grand Seigniorand the Emperor of Germany.
The blood," he added, in a still more cautious tone, "of Seignior David.
The Letters ofSeignior Philiberto of Virle, to Mistresse Zelia of Montcall.
Seignior Philiberto then mooued wyth that Religious Superstition, made no Conscience at al to speake vnto hir wythin the Church.
Bonaparte was much pleased with General Sebastiani's conduct when he was sent to Constantinople, after the peace of Amiens, to induce the Grand Seignior to renew amicable relations with France.
He promised to support him against the Grand Seignior, at the very moment when he was assuring the Egyptians that he would support the Grand Seignior against the beys.
A seignior could sell his land, and still draw rent from the very peasant who had bought it of him in the shape of seignioral dues.
Is there no defendant of the haughty Seignior of Beauport, Rob.
The first seignior of Beauport had two daughters who married two brothers, Juchereau, the ancestors of the Duchesnays; and the manor has been in the possession of, and occupied by, the Duchesnays for more than two hundred years.
Her mother was a daughter of Isaac Phineas, for a long time agent at Maskinonge, of Seignior Pothier’s estate, and who was an intimate friend of the Hart family of Three Rivers.
In the first place, this kind of declarations are not at all in use in Turkey: the orders of the grand seignior always being issued privately, and executed with secresy.
Norberg seems to have known very little of the Turkish government, when he says, that 'the grand seignior was obliged to keep fair with Baltagi Mahomet, that vizier having rendered himself formidable.
The grand seignior was on the point of declaring war against the czar, but was prevented by the courts of Vienna and Paris.
The account this chaplain gives of the demands of the grand seignior is equally false and puerile.
The chaplain Norberg, pretends, that, immediately after the battle of Narva, the Grand Seignior wrote a letter of congratulation to the king of Sweden, in these terms.
It has also been said that a cousin of the king, [117] who isseignior of five kingdoms, is making war on him, and that many Japanese are following him.
