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...ne, Catherine, forced to combat heresy which was seeking to annihilate the monarchy, without friends, aware of treachery among the leaders of the Cath... ...man when, on hearing of her death, he exclaimed: “It is not a woman, it is monarchy itself that has died!” Catherine had, in the highest degree, the s... ...d, which was wholly composed of French men and women, for, by a law of the monarchy, the execution of which the Pope saw with great satisfaction, Cath... ...g constitution of the provinces. There lay the remedy for the evils of the monarchy; thence should have come the voting on taxes, the regulation of th... ... them, and a slow approval of reforms that were necessary to the system of monarchy. The first act of Henri II. was to give his confidence to the Conn... ... He had the blue eyes and the curved nose of the house of Navarre, and the Spanish cut of the marked features which were in after days the type of the...

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...other, Anne of Austria—a pi- ous and well-meaning, but proud and ignorant, Spanish Prin- cess—who pinned her faith upon Mazarin with helpless and excl... ...ets. 6 Stray Pearls The Queen-Regent was enraged through all her despotic Spanish haughtiness at such resistance. She tried to step in by the arrest ... ...Pearls And yet he could not but shudder as he spoke. When they had asked a Spanish prisoner how many there had been in the army, ‘Count the dead,’ he ... ...nswered. Nor could my husband abstain from tears as he told me how the old Spanish guards were all lying as they stood, slain all together, with their... ...y well at home.’ ‘Or here before I married,’ added Queen Henrietta. ‘Since Spanish etiquette has come in, we have all been on our good behaviour.’ ‘Ha... ...ion, as they called our Church, was dead; that the Presbyterians and Fifth Monarchy men and all their rabble had stifled the last remnant of life that...

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...story, Nelson, then Vice-Admiral Sir Horatio, being with the fleet off the Spanish coast, was directed by the Admiral in command to shift his pennant ... ...under the Directory of the craft originally forming the navy of the French monarchy, the St. Louis line-of-battle ship was named the Atheiste. Such a ...

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... Greek, Latin, and the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; ... ...little European congress on her recep- tion-night. Prussians and Cossacks, Spanish and English—all the world was at Paris during this famous winter: t... ...oned to his lordship’s sensibilities by the downfall of the ancient French monarchy. An eloquent catalogue appeared in a weekly print, describ- ing hi...

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...a so exactly it is amazing. Every major migration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a ... ...ectonic plates arrived in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely n... ...r mirrored pile of the accumulation which created it. In South America, the Spanish not only robbed, pillaged, murdered, killed, and raped the nati... ..., Ethiopia, Nigeria. The Germans tested their own new-fangled weapons in the Spanish rebellion. Because then Spain was the poorest and most defense... ... profit than the English did. Except most of it was funnelled into the Royal Spanish coffers. Their centralized aristocracy and religion used the ... ...ness was a girl trying blindly to live. Under crushing pressures of an entire Monarchy and mass and the whole world expecting her to be perfect in a... ...izenship recreated again in France? How was the greatest and oldest absolute Monarchy in Europe transformed from the most corrupt Monarchy in Europ... ...“L’etat c’est moi” “The people are not the state; I am the state”. Absolute Monarchy: absolute power over the world. Was this level of megalomani...

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...s not reinstated in the Commissariat till 1823, when he was needed for the Spanish war. In 1830 he took office as the fourth wheel of the coach, at th... ...ans. War is coming to an end, my dear made- moiselle; it went out with the Monarchy. This is the age of triumph for commerce, and industry, and middle...

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... that he was pleased to see people point him out to one another. He wore a Spanish cloak, the capa, and he flung the red and green velvet of its lini... ...e fancy, and they were very restful. The names of the streets recalled the monarchy that passed away in bloodshed, and in poudre de riz . The very pl... ...ore 1291 that copies of Zohar began to 50 TheMagician be circulated by a Spanish Jew named Moses de Leon, who claimed to possess an autograph manusc... ...e an object of contempt to the world, because I shall be the King, and the Monarchy will be mine.’ Dr Porhoët closed the book. ‘Did you ever hear such... ... in the Saint Anne had the airless leth argy of some damasked chapel in a Spanish nunnery, and over the landscapes brooded a wan spirit of evil that ... ...elf was quite Parisian. As they drove along, she flirted a little with her Spanish fan and stole a glance at herself in the glass. Her gloves were so ...

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...cayed woollen. One or two strokes of a spade upturned the blade of a large Spanish knife, and, as we dug farther, three or four loose pieces of gold a... ...ticle of silver. All was gold of antique date and of great variety—French, Spanish, and German money, with a few English guineas, and some counters, o... ...his father Antiochus, and became immediately the residence of the Syr- ian monarchy. In the flourishing times of the Roman Empire, it was the ordinary... ...woman. Could not make out what was said, but be- lieved the language to be Spanish. The state of the room and of the bodies was described by this witn... ..., and ‘might have distinguished some words had he been acquainted with the Spanish.’ The Dutchman maintains it to have been that of a Frenchman; but w... ...n somewhat over-curious, but this wood would have every, characteristic of Spanish oak, if Span- ish oak were distended by any unnatural means. In rea...

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...made that at no very remote period the Government would terminate in virtual monarchy. It INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 8... ...iters upon that species of mixed government which in modern Europe is termed monarchy in contradistinc tion to despotism is correct, there was wantin... ...n aristocracy. The tendencies of all such governments in their decline is to monarchy, and the antagonist principle to liberty there is the spirit of ... ...ation was a patriotic celebration of the successes of the recently concluded Spanish Ameri can War. The new Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, was a... ...hange a proper policy in this regard. The policy of the United States in the Spanish war and since has given it a position of influence among the nati...

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...head, and began smell- ing her bouquet. After supper, where were plenty of Spanish and Rhine wines, soups a la bisque and au lait d’amandes*, puddings... ...t and dangled for a moment over the silk. They were talking of a troupe of Spanish dancers who were expected shortly at the Rouen theatre. “ Are you g... ...o smiled, stammered, tried to say something, protested his devotion to the monarchy and the honour that was being done to Yonville. Hippolyte, the gro... ...stage under the velvet hangings a man appeared in a black cloak. His large Spanish hat fell at a gesture he made, and imme- diately the instruments an... ... bills representing four scenes from the “T our de Nesle,” with a motto in Spanish and French at the bot- tom. Through the sash-window a patch of dark... ...adows on the sand, the jasmines per- fumed the air, the heavens were blue, Spanish flies buzzed round the lilies in bloom, and Charles was suffocating...

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...y parsonage house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixmarte of Hircania, in folio, which he read quite th... ... with that generous warmth which dictated the lines in his London, against Spanish encroachment. I expressed my opinion of my friend Derrick as but a ... ...my Jour- nal; for General Paoli, after Corsica had been overpowered by the monarchy of France, was now no longer at the head of his brave country- men... ...emember that the Emperour Charles V, when he read upon the tomb-stone of a Spanish nobleman, “Here lies one who never knew fear,” wittily said, “Then ... ...our of unques- tionable superiority. ‘Sir, (said he,) you are for making a monarchy of what should be a republick.’ He was still more mortified, when ... ...to observe; his power of contrasting one mode of life with another. As the Spanish prov- erb says, “He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies,... ... 610 Boswell’s Life of Johnson languages, Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Arabick, and Armenian, he said, he thought it unnecessary...

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...e placed ourselves on the side of democratic revolution against autocratic monarchy, and we cannot afford to go on shilly-shallying with that choice. ... ...icu- lar it is manifest now by a hundred signs that they dread the fall of monarchy in Germany and Austria. Far rather would they make the most abject... ... THE FUTURE OF MONAR THE FUTURE OF MONAR THE FUTURE OF MONAR THE FUTURE OF MONARCHY CHY CHY CHY CHY FROM THE VERY OUTSET of this war it was manifest t... ...ents of the nineteenth century into monarchical channels. Italy was made a monarchy; Greece, the mother- land of republics, was handed over to a needy... ...th Year remember that such a clash must never recur. But in justice to our monarchy we must remember that after the death of Queen Victoria, the spiri... ... not an inch of the rock anywhere that is not within five miles or less of Spanish land, and that there is rather more than a semicircle of hills roun...

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...liar char- acteristic of the Spaniard. The slightest approxi- mation, in a Spanish prince, to the obnoxious tenets of Luther and Calvin, would have al... ...subjects, and a defection from the Pope would have cost him the kingdom. A Spanish prince had no alter- native but orthodoxy or abdication. The same r... ...se general considerations, which must have been equally weighty with every Spanish mon- arch, were, in the particular case of Charles V., still furthe... ...which, in cooler moments, he would have sunk exhausted. The terrors of the Spanish Inquisition, and the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s, procured for th... ...en- gaged in a bloody conflict with the Flemings. By it, the flower of the Spanish troops were drawn to the confines of Germany. With what ease might ... ...arians Matthias had not hesitated to com- ply. For Hungary was an elective monarchy, and the republican constitution of the country jus- tified to him... ... hand alone their united power could be rendered available. The formidable monarchy which Charles V. and his son had unnaturally constructed of the Ne... ...rnal splendour concealed the inward wounds at which the life-blood of this monarchy was oozing; and the belief of its strength sur- vived, because it ... ... them to maintain their independence in a bloody war against the Span- ish monarchy. Aware how much they owed their own liberty to foreign support, th...

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...s. Some nations could not, except by foreign conquest, be made to endure a monarchy; others are equally averse to a republic. The hindrance often amou... ... the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent could not subsist, but unavoidably... ..., would generally be best also in an absolute monar chy, only an absolute monarchy is not so likely to practice it. The laws of property, for example... ...atively insignificant Oriental people—the Jews. They, too, had an absolute monarchy and a hierarchy, and their organized in stitutions were as obviou... ... a common form of speech, that if a good despot could be insured, despotic monarchy would be the best form of government. I look upon this as a radica... ...c tions struggled for the chief place itself, they would certainly, as in Spanish America, keep the country in a state of chronic revolution and civi... ...ey, and does the most it can to protect the natives against them. Even the Spanish government did this, sin cerely and earnestly, though ineffectuall... ..., as is known to ev ery reader of Mr. Helps’ instructive history. Had the Spanish government been directly accountable to Spanish opinion, we may que... ...s fair to make up rapidly the ground they have lost. No one can doubt what Spanish in tellect and energy are capable of; and their faults as a people...

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...e author of his own disease. CHAPTER IV CORPUS CHRISTI—MEXICAN SMUG- GLING—SPANISH RULE IN MEXICO— SUPPLYING TRANSPORTATION EARLY IN SEPTEMBER the reg... ...but the majority accomplished the object of their youthful ambition. Under Spanish rule Mexico was prohibited from produc- ing anything that the mothe... ...public opinion—spread more rapidly and universally than good ones, and the Spanish colonists adopted the use of to- bacco almost as generally as the n... ...vered from the fire of the enemy. But the streets leading to the plaza—all Spanish or Spanish-American towns have near their centres a square called a... ...he door who, while extremely polite, declined to admit us. With the little Spanish then at my command, I explained to him that he might save property ... ...ese nations seized upon Mexico as a foot- hold for establishing a European monarchy upon our conti- nent, thus threatening our peace at home. I, mysel... ...nited States. I did not blame France for her part in the scheme to erect a monarchy upon the ruins of the Mexican Republic. That was the scheme of one...

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...would have expressed them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorte... ... the Most High, If he opposed; and with ambitious aim Against the throne and monarchy of God Raised impious war in heav’n and battle proud With vain a...

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...eel seriously alarmed at the notion that a French prince should occupy the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly attached to the Emperor of Germ... ...they marched from Scotland to Lon- don, and from a republic at once into a monarchy. Since that period, Brock had been always with the army, he had ha...

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...iers out of Saudi Arabia.The long, disjointed document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with th... ...in Afghanistan had earned him celebrity and respect, proposed to the Saudi monarchy that he summon mujahideen for a jihad to retake Kuwait. He was reb... ...ike the Sudanese, would eventually hear warnings, including from the Saudi monarchy. 72 Though Bin Ladin had promised Taliban leaders that he would be... ...as a Sunni religious/nationalist opposition to the British-backed Egyptian monarchy , spread throughout the Arab world in the mid–twentieth century . ... ...nt press reports to the contrary, there is no convincing evidence that the Spanish al Qaeda cell, led by Imad Barkat Yarkas and al Qaeda European fina... ...sociate Mamoun Darkazanli—see, e.g., FBI letterhead memorandum,Y arkas and Spanish Cell investigation, Jan. 8, 2003—but there is no evidence that Zoua... ...ed evidence that anyone met with Atta or Binalshibh in Spain in July 2001, Spanish investigators contend that members of the Spanish al Qaeda cell wer... ... meet- ing and were connected to the 9/11 attacks. In an indictment of the Spanish cell members dated September 17, 2003, the Spanish government relie... ...deotaped a number of U.S. landmarks, including the W orld Trade Center.The Spanish indictment alleges that an al Qaeda courier was in Ghalyoun’s town ...