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    1. That is why, so unlike certain other historical Court situations, you as Heir aren't having to face down a single challenge to your ascendency


    2. keep the ascendency of their poor


    3. apart from the fact that God puts it in the heart of the beast to fulfill his purpose (v17), we could also speculate that while the harlot may serve the purposes of the empire in its rise to power, on gaining absolute ascendency the powers of empire may come to resent the meddling of the harlot


    4. Although relating well to a period of American ascendency in the world, this interpretation would be hard to link to attributes such as


    5. It is felt that they do not thoroughly represent them,—that there ought to be more space allowed both at college and in the mission field, certainly for doubt, for undecided opinion, and even for open variation from the ancient creed,—that there ought to be liberty for Missionaries to express abroad, especially in their dealings with the educated men of India and China, ideas which are gaining ascendency over so many able minds at home


    6. Franz was less enthusiastic; but the count exercised over him also the ascendency a strong mind always acquires over a mind less domineering


    7. Schuelerite ascendency within the Church has been steadily increasing for over two hundred years, and the order is clearly the dominant power in the Church hierarchy today


    8. Propensities, tendencies, habits, were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendency


    9. He knew, for example, that however magnetic his ascendency in some respects was over Starbuck, yet that ascendency did not cover the complete spiritual man any more than mere corporeal superiority involves intellectual mastership; for to the purely spiritual, the intellectual but stand in a sort of corporeal relation


    10. According to this account and what was subsequently learned, it seemed that the scaramouch in question had gained a wonderful ascendency over almost everybody in the Jeroboam

    11. He gained his ascendency over her from the first only by encouraging her in her dreams of influence in society and in the ministry, by entering into her plans, by inventing them for her, and working upon her with the grossest flattery


    12. The militia system was the stumbling-block which caused many of the old members to be turned out, and thus the opposite party got the ascendency in one branch of the Legislature of Maryland


    13. Look at the West Indies, where the embargo has a decided ascendency over every other measure you can adopt


    14. By sending out a navy, too, he said, we should volunteer to support the ascendency of the British navy, become the mere jackals of the British lion


    15. Whatever may be the aspect of political opinions and parties now, it is known to you, sir, and a few others on this floor, that to him much is due for the present ascendency of the majority; perhaps to no one more, to the extent of his sphere of action and influence


    16. Whether the law under which a direct tax was collected, was constitutional or not, has it not as equally received the disapprobation of the Republicans of the United States as the sedition law? If then it was the object of the democratic party to rid the country of such a law as much as of the sedition law, I ask whether those who suffered under each law have not equal claims? There can be no legal claim upon the House under either law; but we know that it was the hardy yeomanry who presented a firm phalanx to the irresistible torrent of injurious laws of the Federal Administration, and who gave the present party the ascendency, and many of them have not, as the gentleman from Kentucky has been, compensated for their suffering by a long continuance in an honorable and lucrative office which he enjoys by the confidence of his constituents


    17. Under the ascendency then acquired over them, they had been pent up by subsequent treaties into nooks straitened in their quarters by a blind cupidity, seeking to extinguish their title to immense wildernesses, for which (possessing, as we do already, more land than we can sell or use) we shall not have occasion, for half a century to come


    18. Sir, the demon Avarice, which benumbs every warm emotion of the soul, has not yet gained the ascendency in the South: the love of country animates every breast, and burns with inextinguishable ardor


    19. The committee have recommended such a navy as will give to the United States an ascendency in the American seas, and protect their ports and harbors


    20. While Great Britain waits for this natural, I might say necessary, result of the negotiation, would it not be extremely inexpedient to conclude a treaty with the American Government? Every sort of evidence and experience prove that the Democrats consider their political ascendency in a great measure dependent on the hostile spirit that they can keep alive towards Great Britain, and recent events demonstrate that their conduct will be predicated upon that conviction; it is, therefore, not to be expected that they will meet, with corresponding feelings, a sincere disposition on the part of England to adjust all matters in dispute

    21. The British Government might, for a while, be satisfied with the ascendency thus gained over us, but its pretensions would soon increase


    22. Should the present season not admit of complete success, the progress made will insure, for the next, a naval ascendency, where it is essential to our permanent peace with, and control over, the savages


    23. It is quite possible that at the time when he founded the Abbey, William was partial to Church ascendency, for his celebrated contest with the ecclesiastical power arose out of subsequent events


    24. But for it the Indian war would have been in a great measure prevented or terminated, the ascendency on Lake Erie acquired, and the war pushed perhaps to Montreal


    25. Wounded by the spear of war, what but downright political quackery could prescribe those "restrictive" nostrums, to restore the nation to health and vigor? Are the old chimerical notions of starving the enemy, yet floating in the brains of gentlemen? In despite of experience, do they yet believe that our blessed country alone can produce food for the world? Are the countries of the Baltic and Caspian Seas no longer cultivated? Has the Nile ceased to fructify the fields of Egypt? Have Sicily and the Barbary coasts returned to a barren state of nature? Has France herself agreed to bury her surplus breadstuffs in the earth? Or has England lost that ascendency on the ocean, and forgot all those commercial arts, by which she was wont to procure supplies from all those countries? Seven years of restrictions have in vain been tried


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