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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...t The herald of the ill in splendour hid! Thou echo of the hollow heart Of monarchy, bear me to thine abode _955 When... ...g heart shared a portion of the burthen, The careful weight, of this great monarchy. There, gentlemen, between the sovereign’s pleasure And that which... ...s— To the world present and the world to come Sole pattern of extinguished monarchy? Not if thou dost as I would have thee do. KING: KING: KING: KING:...

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The Essays or Counsels, Civil

By: Viscount St. Albans

...rst as a portion of an es tate, then as a condition of particular persons. A monarchy, where there is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and absolute ... ...n were not; but superstition dis mounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy, in the minds of men. Therefore theism did never perturb states;... ...s; and the one of them said, That to be a secretary, in the declination of a monarchy, was a ticklish thing, and that he did not affect it: the other ... ...ds, that he had no reason to desire to be secretary, in the declination of a monarchy. The first man took hold of it, and found means it was told the ... ...t, and found means it was told the Queen; who, hearing of a declination of a monarchy, took it so ill, as she would never after hear of the other’s su... ...y all means it is to be procured, that the trunk of Nebuchadnezzar’s tree of monarchy, be great enough to bear the branches and the boughs; that is, t... ...ns. Therefore it sorted with them accordingly; for they grew to the greatest monarchy. Their manner was to grant natural ization (which they called ... ... space of six score years. To be master of the sea, is an abridgment of a monarchy. Cicero, writing to Atticus of Pompey his preparation against Ca...

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...inds human stuff. The great savage Baresark: he could write no euphemistic Monarchy of Man; did not speak, did not work with glib regularity; had no s...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

...d be out of place here. The author must, however, add that un- der the old monarchy it was not an unknown thing to find a “T rempe-la-Soupe” enslaved ... ... jealously keeping the reins of the State in their feeble hands, while the monarchy could have been saved by their retirement and the accession of thi... ...d singers; she has even given, in the olden time, two quasi- queens to the monarchy. Who can grasp such a Proteus? She is all woman, less than woman, ...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... peace for a distracted nation in 1647, on terms which seemed fatal to the monarchy; peace for the same nation under the prospect of war rising up aga... ...Gothic, Hunnish, and Avar monarchies.’ But, on consider- ation, the Gothic monarchy embosomed the germs of a noble civilization; whereas the Saracens ...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...uart. But the desire of the country being unquestionably for an hereditary monarchy, Esmond thought an English king out of St. Germains was bet- ter a... ...ual to him, think you, as good—ay, as good? God save the King! and, if the monarchy fails us, God save the British Republic!” He filled another great ...

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