The Princess possessed an admirable admixture of grace and beauty, wit being allied to great affability and good-nature; to all these natural gifts she added a capacity and intelligence such as one might desire sovereigns to possess.
If the Queen of England was his friend and ally, all other sovereigns must welcome him into their royal fraternity in spite of his political crimes, which were universally detested.
The burdens of absolute government, disappointments, the alienation of friends, and the bitter experiences which all sovereigns must learn soured his temper, which was naturally amiable, and made him a prey to terror and despondency.
This title was retained by all Bulgarian sovereigns until the conquest of their country by the Turks.
We are told that Egyptian sovereigns assumed the masks of lions, bulls, and serpents as symbols of power (Diodorus Siculus, i.
In this array they marched till they met on a common, where the trains of the two mimic sovereigns engaged in a mock battle.
Continuing, the Premier said, that within the boundaries of the Empire his late Majesty, by his broad and elastic sympathies, had won a degree of loyalty and affectionate confidence which few Sovereigns had ever enjoyed.
Four future Sovereigns were present on the occasion, the Prince of Wales, the Crown Prince of Prussia, the Czarewitch of Russia and the Crown Prince of Denmark.
The train to Windsor contained a funeral car upholstered in purple and white silk with a catafalque on which the casket was placed and around it were grouped the near members of the Royal Family and eightSovereigns of Foreign States.
His Royal Mother had known many Sovereigns and seen many Kings and statesmen come and go; he had also met and known many of them more intimately than she could possibly do in the semi-seclusion of her quiet Court.
I'm very sorry, but I seem fairly cleaned out this quarter--only a few sovereigns left to keep the mill going.
The Switzer's sword was first to smite the King of France, the foreign sovereigns afterward.
And when do the allied sovereignsexpect to be in Paris?
He again accompanied the allied sovereigns to Paris in 1815, returning to Copenhagen the same year.
It is even said that some of these Sovereigns have been honoured by him with the grand star and broad riband of the Order of His Iron Crown of the Kingdom of Italy.
Four other agents of inferior petty German Princes have also been arrested for offering the Orders of their Sovereigns for sale.
The more legitimate Sovereigns descend from their true dignity, and a liberal policy, the nearer they approach the baseness of usurpation and the Machiavellism of rebellion.
The Government placed the great Assembly-rooms at his disposal, and enabled the composer to gratify a harmless humour by sending invitations in his own name to each of the Sovereigns and grandees then in Vienna.
A meeting of sovereignsand Ministers was accordingly arranged, and at the end of October the Emperor of Austria received the Czar and King Frederick William in the little town of Troppau, in Moravia.
A manifesto, addressed to the world at large, declared that the sovereigns of the five great States had no other object in their union than the maintenance of peace on the basis of existing treaties.
Yielding to their pressure, Napoleon, on the 3rd of April, drew up an act of abdication in favour of his infant son, and sent it by Caulaincourt to the allied sovereigns at Paris.
The Sovereign who was about to be attacked by Napoleon, and the Sovereigns who sent their troops to Napoleon's support, perfectly well understood one another's position.
The sovereigns of Russia and Austria had met at Münchengrätz in Bohemia in the previous autumn, and, in concert with Prussia, had resolved upon common principles of action if their intervention should be required against disturbers of order.
Napoleon himself quitted Paris on the 9th of May, and received the homage of the Austrian and Prussian Sovereigns at Dresden.
The Sovereigns of Europe had no more claim, as a body, to interfere with Naples than they had to interfere with Spain.
He reasoned as a man whom the sovereigns of Europe had felt it their duty to restore without any request from himself.
The most liberal in theory among the Sovereigns of 1815 was the Emperor Alexander.
Duke to believe that if Louis did not regain his throne before the arrival of the sovereigns he might never regain it at all.
Changes of real value were accomplished with a sparing employment of revolutionary means, and, in the more important cases, through the friendly co-operation of the sovereigns with their subjects.
On the 25th of June the two sovereignsmet one another on the raft of Tilsit, in the midstream of the river Niemen.
The women are as ferocious as the men; and as the Salic law is either unknown, or neglected, there have from time to time been female sovereigns renowned for their military prowess.
Amongst the sovereigns who opposed the invincible Macedonian, was Cleophes, Queen of Massaga, whose capital city was said to have been impregnable.
Three weeks afterwards the allied sovereigns entered Paris once more, and Louis Dix-huit returned in their wake.
Grandmamma, the city is as quiet as if the allied sovereigns had only come to pay us a visit of ceremony,” said Emile.
He is merely denouncing the sovereignsand the aristocracy.
They proposed to undermine the power of the sovereigns by a continued course of agitation, to arm a burgher guard throughout Germany, as a countercheck to the troops, and, wherever it is possible, to seduce the latter from their allegiance.
War between the two sovereigns seemed inevitable, and how it was averted does not very clearly appear.
Jerusalem, had received the principality of Edessa, was now called to the vacant throne, and proved himself one of the wisest and most valiant of the Latin sovereigns of Judea.
Dukes of Burgundy, sovereigns in their own dominions, and exciting much terror of rivalry in the minds of the kings of France themselves.
There was a rival pope, and there weresovereigns who were his enemies.
Sidenote: Reasons for Irrevocable Vow] The vow to crusade was irrevocable, and sovereigns took it to obtain pardon, to secure glory, and propitiate favor.
Of all the congratulatory letters written to the King of the French by foreign sovereigns on the occasion of the attempt of July 28, the most cordial was that of the King of the Netherlands.
The Corporal had spoken of finding two of the three sovereigns under the soil.
At the end of an hour's labour he had added two guinea-pieces and nine sovereigns to his collection.
Nicky-Nan slid a hand into his trouser-pocket, where his fingers met the reassuring touch of half-a-dozen sovereigns he carried there for earnest of his good fortune.
And here," said he, "be two sovereignspicked up in addition to the one you dropped this mornin'.
When I tell you that the man walked into my bar, three days since, an' scatteredsovereigns all over my floor!
Tell me how manysovereigns you've seen in your life, and how many guineas?
That would account for the sovereigns being so many and the guineas by comparison so few.
There are a great many independent states in Germany, whose sovereigns have various titles, and are possessed of various prerogatives and powers.
In fact, there are two different modes by which sovereigns in all ages and countries endeavor to neutralize the opposition of popular leaders.
According to him, the interview took place on the 18th, the day when the city of London gave its great banquet to the allied sovereigns at Guildhall.
The power of England was supreme in Europe, and whatever irritation the continental sovereigns may have felt under the extravagant maritime pretensions of Great Britain, not one of them ventured to lisp a word of remonstrance.
Then,' said I, with a movement of impatience and an angry tone, 'it is a good point to admit the British as the sovereigns and protectors of our Indians.
At the end of a thick avenue rose to view a capacious dome of blue and green enamel, resting upon four columns of solid gold, each pillar exceeding in value the treasures of the sovereigns of Persia and Greece.
The sage exclaimed, "What have such as we to do, my son, with the daughters of sovereigns or of others?
Have you forgotten that your father was one of the poorest tailors in the capital, and that I am of no better extraction; and do not you know that sultans never marry their daughters but to princes, sons of sovereigns like themselves?
Louis was unquestionably one of the most conscientious and upright sovereigns who ever sat upon a throne.
He spent a year in visiting the other courts of Europe, hoping to induce some of the sovereigns to purchase his necklace, but in vain.
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