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sought to consolidate royal power and by restraining the power of the nobility, he transformed France into a strong, centralized state. In foreign policy...

its statesmen. It crieth out for kings and heroes. It demands a nobility — a nobility that cannot be hired with money, like slaves or beasts of burden...

small brass cannon charged with a little gunpowder had been previously placed, and the deserter was situated in the front part of the cannon; his guards...

Bartolomeo d'Alviano: You think that commanding an army grants you nobility? Nobility comes from fighting besides your soldiers, not kidnapping a woman...

interaction with "new life and new civilizations" is always guided by nobility and morality. Judith Barad, The Ethics of Star Trek, (2000: xi) as qtd...

completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their...

resoluteness), p. 11. The fundamental optimism which is an element of all true nobility … is obviously related to courage since it refuses to be discouraged in...

argument of kings. [Cannon.] Louis XIV ordered this engraved on cannon. Removed by the National Assembly, Aug. 19, 1790. Found on cannon in Mantua. (1613)...

In our real world, it remained the real Aleppo, the Aleppo of history, nobility, and authenticity. And because it is so, its people did not settle for...

me. When we come back, I'll get you all some nice, clean underwear! That cannon shell you don't have to pay much attention to. Those big fellas just make...

His choicest troops, commanded by some of the bravest of the English nobility, had been beaten in many successive engagements, and, finally, had been...

flight as expeditiously as they could... There the flower of the youth and nobility of England covered the ground far and near stained with blood. Orderic...

insult to my intelligence — hear it attributed as a prime perfection and nobility of the natural and integral bodies of the universe that they are invariant...

cannons painted to look like the real thing. Charles, his generals and the Sforzas look stunned] Micheletto Corella: CANNONS, FORWARD! (the "cannons"...

Privy Councillors in response. Fox also gave the toast "may the ancient Nobility of England ever think it their highest honour to support the Rights of...

two reasons: firstly because I have no faith in waging war with guns and cannons, and it is not part of my creed. For ten years I have been fighting a war...

could not avow him in it....for his expressions were sometimes against the nobility, that he hoped to live to see never a nobleman in England, and he loved...

the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian — the humble...

was to Milly a matter of course. Milly was a woman of rare stature and nobility who rejected all that was ugly and mean. She was like a mother to her younger...

privileges... The color of the white man is now, in the South, a title of nobility in his relations as to the negro. John Townsend, The Doom of Slavery in...