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1. But Tragus wants to prove he’s, no despot like his father
2. A more abject picture of pusillanimity could never be painted than of that despot as he passed, cringing and trembling, down the line
3. A despot rules by force and only needs to prove that he is strong enough to remove any opposition
4. It shows that the goodwill of a benevolent despot was sought and received
5. In most respects, Napoleon was an enlightened despot
6. "Do ye shrink from the combat? Shall the despot live? Out on it!"
7. So it almost seems out of place, an anachronism even, to have this happy island nation ruled over by a despot such as Fishmael
8. I couldn’t help myself I burst out laughing, this laughter acted as a release from the pressure of trying to meld a friendly, a semi friendly and an outright belligerent community to the same ends, this to my way of thinking was a task even the gods weren’t equipped for, I contemplated becoming an out and out despot but could not see myself as a tyrant overlord, it was then I thought of Coatl, I hadn’t seen him for some time, his advice would be invaluable, we had to get the city up and running as soon as possible, the flow of people leaving the city had stopped and a lot of the people who, believing the lies spread by the Teoti, and had left in fear were now returning, having found those fears to be unfounded
9. interview him and he was a despot but toady he was in a good mood and
10. I’m still pondering this information when the khaki despot reappears in the doorway
11. While the dynastic compulsions of her mother-in-law put the party’s reins in her husband Rajiv’s hands, the brutal killing of the old despot by her own bodyguards gave her man the reign of the land
12. are nazi spiritualisms: it is what a despot says to the despoiled and disposed
13. King Stanislaw Everhorn was a kind and benevolent despot, of a predictably rotund profile for a monarch of middle years, and he was mightily aggrieved that such a wretched creature might exist among his subjects
14. despot (the Illegitimate Herod family
15. The very insanity of this medieval Asian despot running amuck in a modern Europe with an army of more than 2 million men on a personal crusade to save Slavic freedom; when he himself was a total autocratic authoritarian and oppressed all attempts for ethnic national autonomy within his own huge overblown empire which he had no understanding of and no control over
16. This despot was convinced that
17. arrogant despot to release two million slaves?” There
18. The paragon poet shoulders the world And as an enlightened despot,
19. "But you're out of your mind! Despot!" roared Razumihin; but Raskolnikov did not and perhaps could not answer
20. and from tormenting insects and animals, he became the despot of his brothers,
21. despot of the family; and assuming the new character of a fine lady, she could
22. house climbing down from a rat-tailed nag on which a section of quilting had been They all ran out to the front porch and saw the tall grizzled old despot of Aunt Pitty’s strapped
23. In 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of the Bishop of D— —, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation and a great man on the brink of the abyss
24. That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader
25. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it
26. mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that frail despot
27. There has not been a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, approved, counter-signed, and copied, ne variatur, the partition of Poland
28. his own despot and his slave
29. In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it desires; force is a great weakness
30. Like machines, they dumbly moved about the deck, ever conscious that the old man's despot eye was on them
31. She was a dreadful old despot, this princess; she could not allow equality in anything, not even in friendship of the oldest standing, and she insisted on treating Mrs
32. A half-truth is a despot
33. A despot that has its priests and its slaves, a despot to whom all do homage with love and superstition hitherto inconceivable, before which science itself trembles and cringes in a shameful way
34. It seems a wild idea that this prudent little man, the petty despot of his family, who was, above all things, a sharp man of business and a capitalist, and who was an official too (though he was a Fourierist), should long before have conceived the fantastic project of procuring this passport in case of emergency, that he might escape abroad by means of it if
35. If, sir, the construction which I have taken of the sense of the House and of the Government be not correct, whence comes it that we have such cases before us as that of Daniel Buck? Whence comes it that we hear of Treasury instructions, not issued in the first instance for the purpose of expounding a law touching the clearances of vessels, that uniformity may prevail in the different districts, but supplementary instructions, becoming in practice the actual law of the land? In other words, if my construction be not correct, whence comes it that every principle formerly called federal—every principle of Executive energy and power—has been strained of late to an extent heretofore unparalleled? Whence comes it, that in the archives of this Assembly, we find copies of licenses given by the Executive power of the nation—to do what? To permit one part of this confederacy to supply another part with bread! We have had Executive licenses, graciously permitting that a portion of our citizens should not starve while the rest were revelling in plenty, and suffering for want of a market! Let us suppose, that in the fragments of history of the ancient nations of the earth, of those periods which are most involved in obscurity, we should find an Imperial rescript to this effect, what would be the inevitable conclusion of the historian? That, if the Chief Magistrate of the Government could at pleasure starve one part of the people while another was rioting in plenty, that the individual who held this power was the greatest despot on earth, and the Government a purely unmixed despotism
36. Ere that, however, or the lightening of her widow’s crape, a fresh link was welded from her life, which gave the sad earl a joy in his old age, and a despot to Veynes Court
37. I regret, as much as any one, that such is the state of things, that the question, whether a foreign despot has done a particular act, seems necessarily to be connected with the question concerning the prudence and perspicacity with which our own Chief Magistrate has done another act
38. The decrees revoked! The formal statute act of a despot revoked by the breath of his servile Minister; uttered on conditions not performed by Great Britain, and claiming terms not intended to be performed by us! The fatness of our commerce secure, when every wind of heaven is burdened with the sighs of our suffering seamen, and the coast of the whole continent heaped with the plunder of our merchants! The den of the tiger safe! Yet the tracks of those who enter it are innumerable, and not a trace is to be seen of a returning footstep! The den of the tiger safe! While the cry of the mangled victims are heard through the adamantine walls of his cave; cries, which despair and anguish utter, and which despotism itself cannot stifle!
39. It has been said, a military chieftain, by an easy transition, may become a civil ruler, and that the commander of an army has often become a despot, while no such event could happen from a naval commander, as such an office gave no power on terra firma
40. , have the New England man or old Virginian executed by any despot, limited or unlimited in authority, in order to secure to us the worthless property in the man who is a Christian in Christendom and a Mussulman in Turkey
41. Yes, sir, the Father of his Country too well understood the value of liberty ever to consent that the most obscure individual of his country should be deprived of it by a foreign despot
42. To this they joined the privileges inherent in the title of hereditary despot which was granted to them
