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Thus speaking, the Duke took a large sheet of foolscap paper, and wrote rapidly for a moment or two. "There," he said, pushing the paper over to the President, "is the decree." "The decree, sir?" "I think three weeks afford ample space," said Duke Deodonato. "Three weeks, sir?" "For every man over twenty-one years of age in this Duchy to find himself a wife." "Your Highness," observed Dr.
The decrees of the Confederation of Leipzig were annulled by a proclamation, the Convention itself suppressed by an imperial decree, and all the refractory states threatened with the fate of Magdeburg. As the executor of this imperial mandate, Tilly immediately ordered troops to march against the Bishop of Bremen, who was a member of the Confederacy, and had himself enlisted soldiers.
The interior police of the palace was regulated thereby, as well as that of the empire: "We do will and decree that none of those who serve in our palace shall take leave to receive therein any man who seeketh refuge there and cometh to hide there, by reason of theft, homicide, adultery, or any other crime.
In number small, but great our confidence In a just God's decree; When His own angels build our sure defence, Vain is hell's strategy. No quarter give, but strike the fatal blow, Dear let your life-blood be; Ask not for mercy, and to none bestow, For death makes all men free. This whole scene is based on facts, for which I am indebted to personal communications from the Countess Ahlefeldt.
I shall be round here on Saturday the meet's in the woods. I'll call then, and you can decide meanwhile. I don't mind whether she comes or not at present. Later on, if I can't get on without her, I can no doubt persuade her to come again. But if you say divorce, I'll fetch her at once, and marry her as soon as you've got your decree. Damn you, Marston! Can't you speak?
Hence he promulgated the decree by which he assumed the dictatorship of Sicily in the name of Victor Emmanuel. The Neapolitan army numbered from 120,000 to 130,000 men; of these 30,000 were actually in Sicily at the time the Thousand landed at Marsala, 18,000 being in and about Palermo, and the rest distributed over the island.
Dress all your Looks, and be as gay As Virgins in the Month of May; Deck up that Face where Sorrow grows, And let your Smiles adorn your brows; Recal your wonted Sweetness home, And let your Eyes all Love become: For what the Gods have willed and said, Thou hast no power to evade. What they decree none can withstand, You must obey what they command. Enter Pisaro. Pis.
Guilt weighs you down, remorse preys upon you, and you are confounded with shame." "Your sentence, already written in heaven," resumed Bohetzad, "is about to be executed on earth. On the scaffold where my son was to suffer let these ten wretches finish their days, and let the public criers announce this decree to the people." The order was instantly executed.
NOW THESE were nobles, you know, by decree of the King! these precious old infants. But they did not realize it; they could not be called conscious of it; it was an abstraction, a phantom; to them it had no substance; their minds could not take hold of it. No, they did not bother about their nobility; they lived in their horses.
For behold, this is a land which is choice above all other lands; wherefore he that doth possess it shall serve God or shall be swept off; for it is the everlasting decree of God. And it is not until the fulness of iniquity among the children of the land, that they are swept off.
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