Even Vigilius is admitted to have emancipated himself from the thraldom of Theodora; and Eugenius, forced upon the Romans by the tyranny of Constans II.
A hundred years later Pope Gelasius under Arian thraldom had maintained to the emperor Anastasius the essential independence of the spiritual power, and the defence in spiritual things due to it from emperors.
However, a new generation, no longer under the thraldom of the ideas of the great inventor, was enabled to make the change, gradually, but in the end effectively.
Then there came a time--no one dare guess how many thousands of years later--when man learned to cover his body with the skin of an animal, and thus to become in a measure freed from the thraldom of the weather.
But even with his thraldom heavy on his soul the prospect of leaving Joan filled him with pain and panic.
I left Thraldomat home, and thraldom meets me here.
Sail down the lake to Lucerne, there inquire, How Austria's thraldom weighs the Cantons down.
Besides, he had led such an uncomfortable life at the doctor's, being subjected to the intolerable thraldom of early hours, that he was delighted at the prospect of having a house to himself, even though it should be a haunted one.
We are here placed in a mere scene of spiritual thraldom and restraint.
While continental artists avoided nothing so much as that which might seem to approach nature, the English, revolting from the thraldom of theory, gathered subjects for their pictures from actual life.
When Courbet appeared the grand painting stood in thraldomto the beaute supreme, and the aesthetic conceptions of the time affected the treatment of contemporary subjects.
The gigantic power of Lord Byron's genius could not tamely endure the thraldom of being confined to certain modes of narrow-minded faith.
If the people do but prove true to themselves, nothing can now prevent their emancipation from the thraldom of that overgrown power, by which they have cruelly been enslaved.
By emancipating themselves from the thraldom of Greece and the servility of Rome our dramatists have occasioned later critics to separate our own from the classical drama of antiquity.
But the king considered that he was dishonoured, and that he was held in thraldom by his ministers, whence he soon made fresh efforts to deliver himself.
The fugitives were pursued and beleaguered by the earl of Morton and Lord Hume, who declared their purpose to rescue the queen from the thraldom of her husband.
At other times, wishing to tighten the bonds of my thraldom that she might the better work her evil end, proving herself a powerful devil, she would rouse my jealousy by some sign of strong admiration of Edmund.
He could have been in no thraldom to an apprehensive imagination; for what man, with a brooding terror couched in him, would, in the middle of the night, let in the moon?
But it is not in man's nature to submit to such galling thraldom as this, without at least an attempt at retaliation.
While yet a victim to the thraldomof Blimber, I adored Miss Dombey.
We were then within less than fourteen miles of Glasgow, where General Dalziel lay with the King's forces, keeping in thraldom the godly of that pious city and its neighbourhood.
Bless us so much, that lords of London are, That those three ladies, born and bred with us, May by our suits release of thraldom find.
A thorough and unstinted employment of the means above indicated will accomplish much towards the emancipation of our helots from that thraldom of ignorance which gives to the more galling thraldom of caste its sole raison d'etre.
But, with a sense of most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the universe, I confess that I am not under that state of tyrannical thraldom and inhuman captivity to which so many of my brethren are doomed.
Hath not a Saviour's dying hour Made e'en the yoke of thraldom light?
It indeed seems to be wonderful that nature has these two aspects at one and the same time, and so antithetical--one being of thraldom and the other of freedom.
When Buddha mentioned upon the way of realising mankind from the grip of misery he came to this truth: that when man attains his highest end by merging the individual in the universal, he becomes free from the thraldom of pain.
It is not that we desire freedom alone, we want thraldom as well.
This illusion will not hold thee in thraldom for ever.
I can scarcely imagine a more pitiable and abject creature than a man (once sane and sensible) in thraldom to such a tantalizing semblance of a woman.
To one of his temperament such beauty as he had just witnessed, controlled by, and ministering to, some of the meanest and pettiest of human vices, was like Mary Magdalene when held in thraldom by seven devils.
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The fugitives were pursued and beleaguered by the Earl of Morton and Lord Hume, who declared their purpose to rescue the Queen from the thraldom of her husband.
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