He spent the remaining twenty years of his life in trying to maintain his rights as king of Germany and Italy against his rebellious subjects on both sides of the Alps.
This and other attacks upon the rights of his subjects roused Parliament.
Undoubtedly a great majority of Elizabeth's subjects would have been satisfied to have had her return to the policy of her father, Henry VIII.
The revival of the Roman Empire in the West made no difference in Charlemagne's system of government, except that he required all his subjects above twelve years of age to take a new oath of fidelity to him as emperor.
Napoleon argued that one of the chief aims of education should be the formation of loyal subjects who would be faithful to the emperor and his successors.
If the king were good and wise, his subjects should thank the Lord; if he proved foolish, cruel, or perverse, they must accept their evil ruler as a punishment which God had sent them for their sins.
This was followed by the excommunication of Elizabeth by the pope, who at the same time absolved her subjects from their allegiance to their heretical ruler.
It is certain that she later married Bothwell and that her indignant subjects thereupon deposed her as a murderess.
The insurrection spread among the other Christian subjectsof the Sultan, especially those in Bulgaria.
In the mediæval universities, logic, theology, and the interpretation of Aristotle were the chiefsubjects of study.
The pope, who regarded Sicily as his fief, had freed the emperor's Norman subjects from their oath of fidelity to him.
The Turkish subjectsin Bosnia and Herzegovina naturally envied the happier lot of the neighboring Servians, who had escaped from the bondage of the Turks.
The painters and sculptors continued, it is true, to depict the same religious subjects which their mediæval predecessors had chosen.
Its provisions are still in force in many of the states of Europe to-day, and it is one of the subjects of study in our American universities.
Footnote 2: On what principle does this minister dispense the ordinance of baptism to subjects in their minority?
This Count de S-----tz was one of the most extravagant and profligate subjects that Russia had acquired by the partition of Poland.
Though art must be founded on nature, art and nature are distinctly different things; in a certain class of subjects probability may, indeed must, be violated, provided the violation is not disagreeable.
I want little subjects that will paint off at once.
Its contents are substantially what have been included in a course of lectures on the psychology of the elementary school subjects given by the author for some years to students of elementary education at Teachers College.
The use of real household and shop problems will be easy only when the school program includes the household arts and industrial education, and when these subjects themselves are taught so as to improve the functions used by real life.
McKnight ['07] found with boys and girls in grades 7 and 8 of certain American cities that arithmetic was liked better than any of the school subjects except gymnastics and manual training.
On the other important subjects depending between the United States and the Government no progress has been made from which an early and satisfactory result can be relied on.
The views of the French Government on the subjects which have been so long committed to negotiation have received no elucidation since the close of your late session.
The kindred subjects are the other events on the scholastic programmes.
All of which serves to illustrate the folly of making assertions concerning subjects about which we are ignorant.
I should advise you, sir, to read hard for another twelvemonths, and endeavour to master those subjects in which you have now failed.
Many officers who have had a late blooming as experts in the field of electronics and supersonic speeds had lived out successful careers before thesesubjects first saw daylight.
An officer's ability to talk effectively on these or other subjects to his men can be no better than his information, irrespective of his zeal or of his own firm belief in the ideals of his country and service.
In order to have a reason, in the eyes of his subjects and of other powers, for removing certain objectionable persons from his way.
Granted that she be a paragon of virtue, do you suppose that the will of an obscure lady-in-waiting will endure long as an obstacle to the desires of a Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, whose power over his subjects is absolute?
Sometimes the conversation rose far out of the ken of ordinary shepherds, and invaded such subjects as philosophy and religion, sentiment and the passions, art and letters, music and the drama.
Tis your kind heart makes you wish to save the life of a hunted man, but perhaps many lives of loyal subjects depend on his capture.
Juana, who had exhausted in vain all her subjects of conversation, was with her.
There the King was, and he was one of the subjects of the King.
Of all the subjects before us the hardest "nut to crack" was, "What is a sea-bean?
It declared firmly and solemnly that as British subjects the people of the colonies owed no allegiance to Parliament, in which they had no representatives; that their own legislatures alone had the right to lay taxes.
He found the great gates wide open; and no one prevented his entering, as it happened to be a day on which the King received petitions from those of his subjects who wished to present any.
Of two particulars in the conduct of the Executive your memorialists would make mention, not merely as matters of evidence but as specific subjects of complaint in addition to the more general ones already stated.
The Cherokees to restore to liberty all prisoners citizens of the United States or subjects of their allies; also, all negroes and other property taken from citizens during the late war.
In this book I give on many subjects only hints; otherwise I should have to write also a large volume of wonders and signs which happened, while I was trying in that year President Pierce and members of the cabinet and the congress.
II-18] Enthusiasm, which abandons its subjects but too soon, as well as the itch for novelty, had contributed much to the formation of this society.
He dictated to the pupils something on subjects of natural history, which they wrote with great rapidity on large slates.
The queen had alighted, and all her subjects gathered around her.
It took me a long time, however, to find out how learned you were, and what deep subjects are required to interest you.
Amy then returned to the sitting-room, whither she was soon followed by Maggie, and after some further light and laughing talk the conversation naturally drifted toward those subjectsin which the family was practically interested.
As there is no indication of relationship between the subjects of the two vignettes, it may be inferred that Te-Bok was a second wife of Amen-em-ha.
Chou dynasty went wrong, and those who were doubly subjects began to wield power; astrologers ceased to keep reckoning of seasons; the princes no longer proclaimed the first day of each moon.
Moreover, all chapters and all subjects converge on one general focus.
The last surviving member of that branch of the CH'ÊN family who traced his descent to previous dynasties has still left his spirit in the land of Ts'i, though the representatives of the family are nominally subjects of Ts'i.
Thus, though the Emperor faces south towards the sun, and his subjects in turn face north in his honour, those subjects face their other protector in whatever direction he may lie, supposing the Emperor's protection to be inadequate.
This lack of interest is seen among high-school students in the selection of subjects for commencement essays; goodsubjects are difficult to find because interests are so rare.
Their subjects are determined for them; it is the history, for example, of a given period, the grammar of the English language, the geography of the earth.
Manual training and a few kindred branches recognize the actual using of ideas as their endpoint; but no one will assert that they are regarded as types of other subjects in that respect.
Shall the teacher willingly increase the amount by neglecting possible associations within those four subjects, and also by requiring much memorizing of literature and facts in other subjects that cannot be appreciated at the time?
Indeed, it is one of the common subjects of complaint among teachers in the elementary school, in the high school, and in the college.
On the other hand, if children's native capacity for taking initiative has been carefully developed, well-selected subjects of study need make no excessive demands upon them.
But the presence of the last group of subjectssignifies that this study is to culminate in the use of knowledge; and there's the rub.
But, as before, these subjects to some extent form an exception to the general rule.
Such subjects as physics, fine art, and biology cannot help but impart much information that relates to man; but that relationship has generally been the last part reached in the treatment of each topic, and the part most neglected.
Certainly authors are, as a rule, more mature and far better informed upon the subjects that they discuss than he, otherwise he would not be pursuing them.
The actual mastery of subjects is perhaps never complete; it is only relative.
Long before the school age is reached a child has had much practice in picking out the logical subjects of sentences, inasmuch as he has learned to comprehend statements made to him.
His subjects were well behaved, but they had one sad fault: they were too fond of pies and tarts.
He was wise, and saw very plainly that a monarch without subjects would be but a sorry king.
When their pains were cured, little by little, through fasting alone, and his subjects pronounced these trembling words, "We are hungry!
Some very fine old icebergs were discovered which were of interest to the two geologists and made good subjects for Harrisson's sketches.
After debating long what I should do, and realizing fully that there was no one obvious plan to pursue, I determined to finish my course, committing the requiredsubjects mechanically.
The only subjects for which I cared somewhat, were geometry and physics.
For my part--and I believe that all of us have had the same experience-- I have never been successful in mastering those subjects which have not interested me.
In the two universities in which I studied, subjects might be taken only by halves, which would have been ridiculous enough in any branch, but it was even more preposterous in medicine.
The Caid of Mechuar in Morocco favoured his subjects in some such fashion several years since, but the Moors, being men of spirit, fell on him one day, and left him at death's door on a dung heap.
I am only afraid that my freedom from state affairs would be of short duration; my subjects appear to be able to do so little without me.
I do not mean to particularize the subjectsfor examination given by Dr.
The subjects for examination had already been given out, and those who had any interest at stake had already commissioned Maister Dunn for candles, and begun to rise early and sit late, or as late us was allowed, at their various studies.
It is not the language of British subjects to talk of terms with the Crown, or capitulate about their fidelity and allegiance.
His interest in all subjects of scientific or moral importance was always lively; and it was impossible to be in his company without deriving some accession of knowledge and incentive to good.
We have quoted enough from this volume to show how varied and stirring are the subjects with which Mr. Bancroft here deals.
Thus she maintained her sway by the aid of pleasure and devotion, a twofold cord her subjects never broke.
The rumor of the conspiracy that embittered the closing months of his life and reign, though it had reached his ears and troubled his repose, did not appear to him any reason for depriving his subjects of their annual visit to their sovereign.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subjects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.