Very commonly the affection supervenes as the sequel to the unhindered repetition of a once voluntary purposive act, a repetition become tyrannical through volitional debility.
Alarmed enough already at his tics, the parents are terror-stricken by the tyrannical caprices of this big baby, who outvies the worst of spoilt children in his behaviour.
The Mercury did not know whether most to admire the tyrannicalspirit or the consummate vanity of the Canadians, and of No.
Mortal enemy of laws and of liberty, what has it ever produced except tyrannicalpower and the oppression of the people?
It must be owned that the Roman law was, for a long time, tyrannical in the extreme with regard to women.
One of these tyrannical decrees was just published; a tribune of the people, a man of heart and taste, undertook to have it repealed.
This feeling always rankles in his oppressor's bosom, and makes the tyrannical superior hate, and the more oppress his slave.
They have signed addresses, applauding everythingtyrannical and inhuman.
She gave no sign of it that any one, either foe or friend, could read, but she was conscious that these emotions which she had ridiculed in others could become the dominant forces and tyrannical preoccupation even of her own thoughts and life.
It is to France alone, I know, that the United States of America owe that support which enabled them to shake off the unjust andtyrannical yoke of Britain.
Of the various miracles which God enabled him to perform, I shall here mention only a few: I shall first advert to that concerning an iniquitous and tyrannical king, named Benlli.
To him succeeded Enniaunus, his brother, who took a contrary course, and in the sixth year of his reign was deposed, for having preferred a tyrannical to a just and legal administration.
With the exception of liberty to go and come, pure air, and the light of the blessed day, they might as well have dragged out their existence in a subterraneous keep belonging to some tyrannical old baron of the feudal ages.
The emperor, therefore, declared his intention of giving battle to Frederick, that he might at one stroke free Bohemia from the presence of a tyrannical and merciless enemy.
Have you not often told me so, when the empress was humbling me with some of her tyrannical condescension?
Others contended that he had made her life so wretched by his jealous and tyrannical conduct, that remorse had driven him to banish, if possible, every reminder of the woman whom he had almost murdered.
Tell the archduchess not to fear her brother's opposition; for her mother, once resolved to return to her people, will see that her own daughters are not made wretched by a tyrannical brother.
I look upon this daily exhibition as a tyrannical custom, which must be abolished.
With their tyrannical commercial edicts, they have dealt injury to friends as well as foes.
God in His justice, because power hath been abused, hath thrown it out of their hands: and I may confidently say that God's controversy with the kings of the earth is for their arbitrary and tyrannical government.
The people, though they saw that this magistrate was created against themselves, yet as they had got the right of appeal by his brother's law, dreaded nothing oppressive or tyrannical from that family.
If the privileges and majesty of the crown are to be held sacred, the law must be their guardian; and here there are no good grounds for preventing a rebellion by a tyrannical and arbitrary slaughter.
Is it not enough that my own tyrannical kinsman and his understrappers must torture me in my own house, and threaten me, covertly, with the despotic kingly power?
A striking example of the way in which this power could be abused was seen in the career of the notorious Jeffreys, the pliant judicial tool of the cruel and tyrannical James II.
But after it had accomplished its original purpose and the tyrannical power of the King had been overthrown, it was found to be serviceable in warding off attacks from another direction.
The benefit of its provisions, while not limited to the nobility, extended, however, only to those classes without whose aid and support the tyrannical power of the King could not be successfully opposed.
Unjust governments and tyrannical distinctions have made most of the villains that ever existed.
With this command of cash, the Jews very justly compensated themselves for the injuries they suffered from the tyrannical laws which existed against them.
There hav been bad clergymen and tyrannical hierarkies in the world; but the error lies in separating the civil from the ecclesiastical government.
Brutus would hav been a tyrannical demagogue, or hiz zeel to restore the commonwelth would hav protracted the civil war and factions which raged in Rome and which finally must hav subsided in monarky.
To this source may be traced the most unjust and tyrannical laws that ever disgraced a popular assembly, and a perseverance in executing them, which can proceed only from obstinate ignorance and dishonest views.
In his youth, it is said, he had received five hundred lashes by order of a tyrannical British officer, and had come away alive and defiant.
Upon the great continent which she had so lately won from the French champions of despotism, we see her vainly seeking to establish a tyrannical regime no better than that which but yesterday it had been her glory to overthrow.
Roman Catholic priest with his crucifix and gibbet, assisting George in enforcing his tyrannical system of civil and religious government.
In both cases the charter was annulled, and a military governor appointed; and in both cases the liberties of all the colonies were openly threatened by the tyrannical scheme.
Here was an enormity, an exercise of tyrannical power exceeding all bounds, a travesty on popular government.
Suppose the United States should refuse to trade with Russia because, from our republican point of view, we regarded her government as tyrannical and oppressive?
Our principal domestic, in dignity and station, was Mrs Primmins, who was waiting gentlewoman, housekeeper, and tyrannical dictatrix of the whole establishment.
