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  • 3 Scotland Carnegie Steel Company House of Romanov Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Monarchy 253.†   (source)
  • He said this knowing that his own country could not be a choice, as it was not a monarchy.†   (source)
  • Lilly: Well, if you want to tolerate the excesses of the monarchy, you can be my guest, Michael.†   (source)
  • In an illustrated pamphlet called the "Ferris Wheel Souvenir" the company wrote: "Built in the face of every obstacle, it is an achievement which reflects so much credit upon the inventor, that were Mr. Ferris the subject of a Monarchy, instead of a citizen of a great Republic, his honest heart would throb beneath a breast laden with the decorations of royalty."†   (source)
  • Even the appellation "House of Usher" suggests European monarchy and aristocracy—the Houses of Bourbon or Hanover, for instance—rather than an American place or family.†   (source)
  • One is monarchy, or kingship—which means there is only ne head of state.†   (source)
  • All I can guess is that for Morgenstern, the real narrative was not Buttercup and the remarkable things she endures, but, rather, the history of the monarchy and other such stuff.†   (source)
  • On April 19, barely a week before the election, Chief Buthelezi accepted the offer of a constitutional role for the Zulu monarchy and agreed to participate.†   (source)
  • We cannot allow every lord with a measure of troops to believe that he can set himself up as ruler of his own petty monarchy.†   (source)
  • Its monarchy.†   (source)
  • The royalists around Addis Ababa, who believed in the Emperor and the monarchy, had set off bombs in government offices in the capital.†   (source)
  • When he gave his younger brother the uniform he'd outgrown, Cesar felt like a prince accepting a crown without a monarchy.†   (source)
  • Keep us in distinct colonies, and then, some great men in each colony, desiring the monarchy of the whole, they will destroy each others' influence and keep the country in equilibrio.†   (source)
  • The golden bees—earrings the color of honey that were older than the monarchy—and brooches and fibula pins, ruby earrings and gold necklets and bracelets had all been dropped one by one into carefully chosen hands.†   (source)
  • But he died and left the monarchy to his firstborn.†   (source)
  • Coming from an authoritarian monarchy, the minister had a difficult time understanding how the legal maneuvering of a small group of political radicals and an impending hearing by some provincial tribunal could take precedence over the will of the country's chief executive.†   (source)
  • Republics love war as much as monarchies.†   (source)
  • Jalal is from a good family, a family that has been loyal to the monarchy for a long time.†   (source)
  • "I didn't know the Glatun ever had a monarchy," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • Napoleon and de Maurepas would lead the French army to disaster, such a disaster as might well bring down a government, and lead to a curbing of the King's authority, even an expulsion of the monarchy, as the English so wisely did a century and a half before.†   (source)
  • Earth still possessed democracies, monarchies, benevolent dictatorships, communism and capitalism.†   (source)
  • An early attempt was absolute monarchy, passionately defended as the 'divine right of kings.'†   (source)
  • "The Norris fear of the establishment of an absolute monarchy under Wilson is grotesque," said the Lincoln Star.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Afghanistan is no longer a monarchy, Mariam.†   (source)
  • I wondered what he'd say about the monarchy if he was here today.†   (source)
  • Destroying the monarchy is more up the Southern rebels' alley.†   (source)
  • America, you're a Five; I know you've seen your share of people who hate the monarchy."†   (source)
  • The Italian monarchy was even younger than Illea's.†   (source)
  • "We have never desired to take down the monarchy," he said to Maxon.†   (source)
  • They have wanted to end the monarchy for a long time.†   (source)
  • This certainly wouldn't be the last we heard about abolishing the monarchy.†   (source)
  • "They don't want to dump the monarchy right away.†   (source)
  • Monarchy and aristocracy must be annihilated, and the rights of the people firmly established.†   (source)
  • Citizen arms alone might not be powerful enough to defeat a monarchy.†   (source)
  • But consider this—Britain is a wealthy kingdom with an extravagant monarchy.†   (source)
  • I deny an "attachment to monarchy," and I deny that I have "changed my principles since 1776."†   (source)
  • The rebels were gone, but now we were faced with different pockets of people fighting the monarchy.†   (source)
  • In a monarchy, it is a barrier to a king's tyranny.†   (source)
  • You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy.†   (source)
  • The French monarchy was restored under the Comte de Provence, Louis XVIII.†   (source)
  • It doesn't matter if the government is a monarchy, dictatorship, or a democratic republic.†   (source)
  • One politician says the Constitution promotes a monarchy.†   (source)
  • Adams vehemently denied that he favored monarchy.†   (source)
  • In a monarchy, the executive branch is dangerous to liberty.†   (source)
  • To Jefferson, Hamilton was "not only a monarchist, but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption."†   (source)
  • "I am no friend to hereditary limited monarchy in America," Adams wrote explicitly.†   (source)
  • Poland has a bad mixture of aristocracy and monarchy.†   (source)
  • And it has the advantage of a large monarchy in external situations.†   (source)
  • Still, he did not see hereditary monarchy and aristocracy as necessarily contrary to human nature.†   (source)
  • France was an absolute monarchy and Vergennes as stout a monarchist as could be found.†   (source)
  • It combines the advantages of a monarchy with republicanism.†   (source)
  • Since the authors lived in monarchies, they are biased.†   (source)
  • Now it was he who had the deplorable inclination to monarchy.†   (source)
  • Rabbani, Tajik leader of the Jamiat-e-Islami faction, who had taught Islam at Kabul University in the days of the monarchy.†   (source)
  • Lilly asked if I'd mind being the topic for next week's show, titled "The New Monarchy: Royals Who Make a Difference."†   (source)
  • 4 Byzantine Empire Monarchy United States New York and Harlem Railroad Investments Pharaoh Earl of Surrey 11 12 13 166.†   (source)
  • 7 England Monarchy 15 16 142.†   (source)
  • Rockefeller Jr. Sam Walton John Jacob Astor 153.6 151.7 England Monarchy 15 16 142.9 141.4 England United States House of Tudor Standard Oil 17 18 128.0 115.0 United States Germany Wal-Mart American Fur Company Monarchy First Bank of the United States Ptolemaic Inheritance Rensselaerswyck Estate 19 20 Odo of Bayeux 110.2 Stephen Girard 99.5 England France Cleopatra 95.8 Ancient Egypt Stephen Van Rensselaer III 88.8 United States No.†   (source)
  • Those in charge of the Southern rebels have convinced their disciples that the way to get back what they think is theirs is to take it from the monarchy.†   (source)
  • Among many, many others, the following things were definitely not interesting: the pupillary sphincter, mitosis, baroque architecture, jokes that have physics equations as punch lines, the British monarchy, Russian grammar, and the significant rule that salt has played in human history.†   (source)
  • I pulled on my outfit and brushed out my hair, preparing for another day as the future face of the monarchy.†   (source)
  • The French Revolution in the late 1700s wasn't just an uprising of common people overthrowing the monarchy in favor of democracy and republicanism.†   (source)
  • The year 1848 (aptly nicknamed the Year of Revolutions) saw many peasant uprisings throughout Europe and the fall of the monarchy in France, as well as the potato famine in Ireland, and fashion responded to the unrest by requiring women to look as covered up as possible, with "poke" bonnets and skirts that trailed filthily to the floor declared the season's "must-haves."†   (source)
  • He quickly became a radical and a committed enemy of the Jordanian monarchy, which he was determined to topple with force.†   (source)
  • "They're mad at the monarchy, not you.†   (source)
  • "They're rallying to end the monarchy.†   (source)
  • Weeks had passed, he still had no idea how to address the caste issues, and pockets of rioters were calling for the end of the monarchy.†   (source)
  • Each day in the Men's Parlor, I'm translating political science books to him or trying to explain the difference between the absolute monarchy you have here and the constitutional monarchy he grew up with in Swendway.†   (source)
  • Cotton Tufts warned that there were people sowing discord, claiming Adams was all for monarchy and planned to put an English prince on a throne in America.†   (source)
  • In the kingdom of Great Britain, only 7% of the nation's annual expenses support the ostentatious monarchy.†   (source)
  • The people hate and fear the monarchy.†   (source)
  • Written to be understood by everyone, Common Sense attacked the very idea of hereditary monarchy as absurd and evil, and named the "royal brute" George III as the cause of every woe in America.†   (source)
  • He denied still again any "partiality for monarchy" and implied that she was getting even with him for once refusing to give her husband a federal job.†   (source)
  • Someone could say that we can't compare the possible expenses of a republic with the expense of supporting a monarchy.†   (source)
  • Building on this fear, opponents of the Constitution claim the President will be just another form of a monarchy.†   (source)
  • Jefferson insisted that Freneau and his paper were saving the country from monarchy and persuaded Washington that it would be a grave misstep to impede on freedom of the press.†   (source)
  • A hereditary monarchy could be a republic, Adams held, as England demonstrated, and hereditary aristocracies could be usefully employed in balanced governments, as in the House of Lords.†   (source)
  • Britain has the monarchy, the House of Lords (run by the aristocracy), and the House of Commons, (the representative body of the people).†   (source)
  • That Paine had attempted to prove the unlawfulness of monarchy with analogies from the Bible, declaring monarchy to be "one of the sins of the Jews," struck Adams as ridiculous.†   (source)
  • If the monarchy and House of Lords became absolutely inflexible, the government would have been thrown into confusion.†   (source)
  • If we adopt this view of Montesquieu's ideas, we would have to either become a monarchy or split ourselves into an infinity of little, jealous, clashing nations.†   (source)
  • "A hundred years hence, absolute monarchy will probably be rendered necessary in ourcountry by the corruption of our people," wrote the usually optimistic physician.†   (source)
  • Then a constitution was developed that incorporated the internal advantages of a republic and the external force of a monarchy, that is, a CONFEDERATE REPUBLIC.†   (source)
  • "I am a mortal and irreconcilable enemy to monarchy," he would later tell Rush, after Rush expressed worry that Adams had abandoned the ideals of 1776.†   (source)
  • Monarchy vs. Democracy or Republic†   (source)
  • In one summer they have done their business …. they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufacturers.†   (source)
  • The man who had "appeared to be actuated by the principles of integrity" became "beclouded by a partiality for monarchy …. by living long near the splendor of courts and courtiers," and came home enamored by rank, titles, and "all the insignia of arbitrary sway."†   (source)
  • The same answer that should be given to people who tell us that a government, with the whole power in the hands of the elective and periodical servants of the people, is an aristocracy, a monarchy, and a despotism.†   (source)
  • He, Adams, had been held up to ridicule in one newspaper after another for his meanness (the New Haven Gazette had called him an "unprincipled libeler"), his love of monarchy, his antipathy to freedom.†   (source)
  • They stress the advantages or rationalize the evils of monarchies by comparing them to the vice and defects of a republic.†   (source)
  • He greatly regretted that "the indiscretion of a printer" had doubtless offended his "friend Mr. Adams, for whom, as one of the most honest and disinterested men alive, I have cordial esteem," despite "his apostasy to hereditary monarchy."†   (source)
  • Till now the Republicans have indeed beaten the slaves of monarchy in the field of battle, and driven the troops of the King of Great Britain from the shores of our country; but the secret enemies of the American Revolution—her internal, insidious, and indefatigable foes, have never till now been completely discomfitted.†   (source)
  • But Adams adamantly opposed hereditary monarchy and hereditary aristocracy in America, as well as all hereditary titles, honors, or distinctions of any kind—it was why he, like Jefferson and Franklin, strongly opposed the Society of the Cincinnati, the association restricted to Continental Armyofficers, which had a hereditary clause in its rules whereby membership was passed on to eldest sons.†   (source)
  • The people of Massachusetts were to have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, and in an article intended to prevent the formation of a hereditary monarchy, an expanded version of a similar article in the Virginia constitution, Adams wrote: No man, nor corporation or association of men have any other title to obtain advantages or particular and exclusive privileges distinct from those of the community, than what arises from the consideration of services rendered to the…†   (source)
  • "It would make the monarchy stronger than it's been since Tudor times.†   (source)
  • The splendor of the ruined monarchy had no reflection save in those inestimable precious stones.†   (source)
  • You think it inexorable, sir; but what of the whole monarchy, sir?†   (source)
  • But Matilda, though of the royal Saxon blood, was not the heir to the monarchy.†   (source)
  • Oh, your great work on the monarchy of Italy!†   (source)
  • * * "The principle of monarchies is honor seems to me incontestable.†   (source)
  • The monarchy has lapsed, it no longer exists.†   (source)
  • [Footnote a: [As it existed under the constitutional monarchy down to 1848.†   (source)
  • We'll take the cart for the Republic, and leave the Auvergnat for the Monarchy.†   (source)
  • Where he had formerly beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France.†   (source)
  • The whole of the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the gamin.†   (source)
  • The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient days of the monarchy.†   (source)
  • Well, the monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is a stranger.†   (source)
  • Pushed on in France by progress, it pushed on the monarchies, those loiterers in Europe.†   (source)
  • The DAY DREAM it was, Sir Percy Blakeney's yacht, which was ready to take Armand St. Just back to France into the very midst of that seething, bloody Revolution which was overthrowing a monarchy, attacking a religion, destroying a society, in order to try and rebuild upon the ashes of tradition a new Utopia, of which a few men dreamed, but which none had the power to establish.†   (source)
  • Yet there was much to be done before total victory, and great and noble efforts would have to be made by those to whom the light had been passed on, if that day were ever to come when monarchies and religions would at last collapse in those European nations that, truth to tell, had experienced neither an eighteenth century nor a 1789.†   (source)
  • In the general re-christening 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.†   (source)
  • …for the United States; for the churches of the United States; for Congress; for the President; for the officers of the Government; for poor sailors, tossed by stormy seas; for the oppressed millions groaning under the heel of European monarchies and Oriental despotisms; for such as have the light and the good tidings, and yet have not eyes to see nor ears to hear withal; for the heathen in the far islands of the sea; and closed with a supplication that the words he was about to…†   (source)
  • One was compelled, certainly, to see the Church's hierarchy as a force for freedom, since it formed a barrier against absolute monarchy.†   (source)
  • Russia is working feverishly for it, and the arrow of the coalition is pointed at the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, without whose breakup Russia cannot accomplish a single one of its goals.†   (source)
  • His zeal lifted him to the world of high politics; his eye sweeping here and there, he appraised the chances revolutionary republican ideas might have in his own land, in Spain, in Portugal—and claimed to be in contact with persons who stood at the top of the Grand Lodge in that last-named monarchy.†   (source)
  • "I am an admirer of Montesquieu," replied Prince Andrew, "and his idea that le principe des monarchies est l'honneur me parait incontestable.†   (source)
  • The councillor pressing his little cocked hat to his breast repeated his bows, while Tuvache, bent like a bow, also smiled, stammered, tried to say something, protested his devotion to the monarchy and the honour that was being done to Yonville.†   (source)
  • At this stage, therefore, the proletarians do not fight their enemies, but the enemies of their enemies, the remnants of absolute monarchy, the landowners, the non-industrial bourgeois, the petty bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • Go search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.†   (source)
  • …Russian Order of Saint Nicholas of the First Class, of the Turkish Order of the Crescent, First Lord of the Powder Closet and Groom of the Back Stairs, Colonel of the Gaunt or Regent's Own Regiment of Militia, a Trustee of the British Museum, an Elder Brother of the Trinity House, a Governor of the White Friars, and D.C.L.—died after a series of fits brought on, as the papers said, by the shock occasioned to his lordship's sensibilities by the downfall of the ancient French monarchy.†   (source)
  • Under the old French monarchy, to denote by a single expression a low-spirited contemptible fellow, it was usual to say that he had the "soul of a lackey"; the term was enough to convey all that was intended.†   (source)
  • The republican institutions of our country have produced simpler and happier manners than those which prevail in the great monarchies that surround it.†   (source)
  • To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags—that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it.†   (source)
  • This point is more prominent and more discoverable in republics, whilst it is more remote and more carefully concealed in monarchies, but it always exists somewhere.†   (source)
  • The young man was tried and convicted of the crime; but either the circumstantial nature of the evidence, and possibly some lurking doubts in the breast of the executive, or, lastly—an argument of greater weight in a republic than it could have been under a monarchy,—the high respectability and political influence of the criminal's connections, had availed to mitigate his doom from death to perpetual imprisonment.†   (source)
  • The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy, more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history.†   (source)
  • The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.†   (source)
  • The work I speak of is called 'A Treatise on the Possibility of a General Monarchy in Italy,' and will make one large quarto volume."†   (source)
  • In Germany they fight with the bourgeoisie whenever it acts in a revolutionary way, against the absolute monarchy, the feudal squirearchy, and the petty bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • Under the old French monarchy officers were always called by their titles of nobility; they are now always called by the title of their military rank.†   (source)
  • The days when such distinctions were so nicely weighed and considered no longer exist in France, and the first families of the monarchy have intermarried with those of the empire.†   (source)
  • Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man in a State has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.†   (source)
  • When a democratic state turns to absolute monarchy, the activity which was before directed to public and to private affairs is all at once centred upon the latter: the immediate consequence is, for some time, great physical prosperity; but this impulse soon slackens, and the amount of productive industry is checked.†   (source)
  • The fight of the German, and especially, of the Prussian bourgeoisie, against feudal aristocracy and absolute monarchy, in other words, the liberal movement, became more earnest.†   (source)
  • The question would be one of easy solution if we were to attempt to draw a parallel between a democratic republic and an absolute monarchy.†   (source)
  • "To fall," continued King Louis, who at the first glance had sounded the abyss on which the monarchy hung suspended,—"to fall, and learn of that fall by telegraph!†   (source)
  • It is astonishing what imprudent language a public man may sometimes use in free countries, and especially in democratic States, without being compromised; whereas in absolute monarchies a few words dropped by accident are enough to unmask him forever, and ruin him without hope of redemption.†   (source)
  • Skeletons, scarecrows, goblins, pathetic frights, every one; legitimatest possible children of Monarchy by the Grace of God and the Established Church.†   (source)
  • But several of these evils are scarcely prejudicial to a monarchy, and some of them contribute to maintain its existence.†   (source)
  • An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association in the mediaeval commune; here independent urban republic (as in Italy and Germany), there taxable "third estate" of the monarchy (as in France), afterwards, in the period of manufacture proper, serving either the semi-feudal or the absolute monarchy as a counterpoise against the nobility, and, in fact, corner-stone of the great monarchies in general, the bourgeoisie has at last, since the…†   (source)
  • Louis XVIII. made but a faint attempt to parry this unexpected blow; the monarchy he had scarcely reconstructed tottered on its precarious foundation, and at a sign from the emperor the incongruous structure of ancient prejudices and new ideas fell to the ground.†   (source)
  • …republic (as in Italy and Germany), there taxable "third estate" of the monarchy (as in France), afterwards, in the period of manufacture proper, serving either the semi-feudal or the absolute monarchy as a counterpoise against the nobility, and, in fact, corner-stone of the great monarchies in general, the bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of Modern Industry and of the world-market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway.†   (source)
  • This must especially be the case, in those great centralized monarchies in which the number of paid offices is immense, and the tenure of them tolerably secure, so that no one despairs of obtaining a place, and of enjoying it as undisturbedly as a hereditary fortune.†   (source)
  • Whence I am led to conclude that France with its King is nearer akin to a republic than the Union with its President is to a monarchy.†   (source)
  • He had pictured a distinct and perfectly rational and feasible improvement upon constitutional monarchy, but he was too feather-headed to know it, or care anything about it, either.†   (source)
  • Under absolute monarchies tempered by the customs and manners of the country, their spirits are often cheerful and even, because as they have some freedom and a good deal of security, they are exempted from the most important cares of life; but all free peoples are serious, because their minds are habitually absorbed by the contemplation of some dangerous or difficult purpose.†   (source)
  • Observe," said Villefort, smiling, "I do not mean to deny that both these men were revolutionary scoundrels, and that the 9th Thermidor and the 4th of April, in the year 1814, were lucky days for France, worthy of being gratefully remembered by every friend to monarchy and civil order; and that explains how it comes to pass that, fallen, as I trust he is forever, Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.†   (source)
  • Catholicism is like an absolute monarchy; if the sovereign be removed, all the other classes of society are more equal than they are in republics.†   (source)
  • With the monarchy, its several adjuncts died also; wherefore there is no longer a nobility, no longer a privileged class, no longer an Established Church; all men are become exactly equal; they are upon one common level, and religion is free.†   (source)
  • Hence arises the great difficulty which attends the conversion of a democratic republic into a monarchy.†   (source)
  • Arthur's people were of course poor material for a republic, because they had been debased so long by monarchy; and yet even they would have been intelligent enough to make short work of that law which the king had just been administering if it had been submitted to their full and free vote.†   (source)
  • Which is to assert an always self-proven fact: that even the best governed and most free and most enlightened monarchy is still behind the best condition attainable by its people; and that the same is true of kindred governments of lower grades, all the way down to the lowest.†   (source)
  • I have added the salaries attached to the corresponding officers in France under the constitutional monarchy to complete the comparison.†   (source)
  • After the 5th of September, the nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was treated after the 5th of July.†   (source)
  • First, a modified monarchy, till Arthur's days were done, then the destruction of the throne, nobility abolished, every member of it bound out to some useful trade, universal suffrage instituted, and the whole government placed in the hands of the men and women of the nation there to remain.†   (source)
  • At the present day it would be even more difficult for a party to succeed in founding a monarchy in the United States than for a set of men to proclaim that France should henceforward be a republic.†   (source)
  • Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in that case it skimmed the streets.†   (source)
  • The majority of them, when talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between monarchy and revolution; no one hated him.†   (source)
  • It may, however, be foreseen even now, that when the Americans lose their republican institutions they will speedily arrive at a despotic government, without a long interval of limited monarchy.†   (source)
  • Under the ancient monarchy the King was the sole author of the laws, and below the power of the sovereign certain vestiges of provincial institutions, half destroyed, were still distinguishable.†   (source)
  • Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not discouraged by the ancient monarchy.†   (source)
  • ] [Footnote r: [This comparison applied to the Constitutional King of France and to the powers he held under the Charter of 1830, till the overthrow of the monarchy in 1848.†   (source)
  • In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe.†   (source)
  • In these two essential points, therefore, the Union exercises more central authority than the French monarchy possessed, although the Union is only an assemblage of confederate republics.†   (source)
  • It has mingled, though with regret, the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the nation.†   (source)
  • Royalty would not find a system of legislation prepared for it beforehand; and a monarchy would then exist, really surrounded by republican institutions.†   (source)
  • Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows.†   (source)
  • M. Piet, in the Rue Therese, No. 4, was making the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy.†   (source)
  • On the Continent of Europe, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, absolute monarchy had everywhere triumphed over the ruins of the oligarchical and feudal liberties of the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of kings, drew all the kingdoms after it—the fall of force, the defeat of war.†   (source)
  • The colonies still recognized the supremacy of the mother-country; monarchy was still the law of the State; but the republic was already established in every township.†   (source)
  • Religion is much more necessary in the republic which they set forth in glowing colors than in the monarchy which they attack; and it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others.†   (source)
  • The old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the first of January, 1806.†   (source)
  • When I see that the right and the means of absolute command are conferred on a people or upon a king, upon an aristocracy or a democracy, a monarchy or a republic, I recognize the germ of tyranny, and I journey onward to a land of more hopeful institutions.†   (source)
  • Charles X. during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy.†   (source)
  • Fierce Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, for it has been applied by the Republic in America, as well as by the monarchy in Europe.†   (source)
  • I am of opinion that a democratic government tends in the end to increase the real strength of society; but it can never combine, upon a single point and at a given time, so much power as an aristocracy or a monarchy.†   (source)
  • The French of that period were not only friends of the monarchy, but they thought it impossible to put anything in its place; they received it as we receive the rays of the sun and the return of the seasons.†   (source)
  • , that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God.†   (source)
  • To save the transition, to soften the passage, to deaden the shock, to cause the nation to pass insensibly from the monarchy to democracy by the practice of constitutional fictions,—what detestable reasons all those are!†   (source)
  • When a monarchy is being gradually transformed into a republic, the executive power retains the titles, the honors, the etiquette, and even the funds of royalty long after its authority has disappeared.†   (source)
  • Saintonge's regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794.†   (source)
  • The French, under the old monarchy, held it for a maxim (which is still a fundamental principle of the English Constitution) that the King could do no wrong; and if he did do wrong, the blame was imputed to his advisers.†   (source)
  • Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning his teeth, which were charming, while he dictated The Monarchy according to the Charter to M. Pilorge, his secretary.†   (source)
  • It is true that lawyers mainly contributed to the overthrow of the French monarchy in 1789; but it remains to be seen whether they acted thus because they had studied the laws, or because they were prohibited from co-operating in the work of legislation.†   (source)
  • He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over.†   (source)
  • At one time, under the ancient monarchy, the French felt a sort of satisfaction in the sense of their dependence upon the arbitrary pleasure of their king, and they were wont to say with pride, "We are the subjects of the most powerful king in the world."†   (source)
  • Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy in the most barefaced manner.†   (source)
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