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Henceforth the Medes and Persians are spoken of as virtually one nation, similar in religion and customs, and furnishing equally the best cavalry in the world. Under Cyrus they became the ascendent power in Asia, and maintained their ascendency until their conquest by Alexander.
Before his day, no prime minister could govern against the will of the sovereign. After George IV., as in France under Louis Philippe, "the king reigned, but did not govern." The chief of the ascendent political party was the real ruler. When William IV. ascended the throne the Tories were still in power, and were hostile to reform.
"That's a lie!" she flung out, rage for the moment in ascendent. "Open that door or I'll " Swiftly his hand shot forward and caught her wrist. "What'll you do?" he asked, and triumph rode in his eyes. She screamed. One of his hands clamped down over her mouth, the other went round her waist and drew the slim body to him.
The whole force employed in the construction has an upward tendency, and the spire is the completion of the edifice; for to the spire its countless soaring lines lines not of stationary strength, but of ascendent growth converge. All this the Italians were slow to comprehend. The campanile, for example, never became an integral part of their buildings.
Actuated by that zeal which belongs to innovators, and by the courage which enthusiasm inspires, they hazarded the utmost indignation of their sovereign, and employing all their industry to be elected into parliament, a matter not difficult while a seat was rather regarded as a burden than an advantage they first acquired a majority in that assembly, and then obtained an ascendent over the church and monarchy.
"And whose 'linked sweetness long drawn out' is that?" asked the visitor. "Hear her!" cried Edgar Goodfellow who was in the ascendent for the first time in many a long day. "Hear her! Just as if her vain little heart didn't tell her it's herself!" But the moment of playfulness was a rarity, and all the more enjoyed for that.
In the fifth century before Christ the first century of democracy great orators arose, for without the power and the opportunity of defending himself against accusation no man could hold an ascendent position. Socrates insisted upon the gift of oratory for a general in the army as well as for a leader in political life.
Ever since, this has been the aim as well as the duty of a chancellor of the exchequer whatever party has been in the ascendent. From this time onward Mr. Gladstone was a pronounced free-trader of the Manchester school. His conscientious studies into the mutual relations of taxation, production, and commerce had convinced him that national prosperity lay along the line of freedom of endeavor.
Only war would have put them on their feet again; and Adams, with true patriotism, while ready for necessary combat, was opposed to a foreign war for purposes of domestic policy. Yet the ambitious statesman did not wish to be dethroned. He loved office dearly, and hence he did not yield gracefully to the triumph of the ascendent party, which grew stronger every day.
There have been but two Chief Justices of the United States for wellnigh sixty-four years, though it is well known that Chief-Justice Marshall was as odious to the Jeffersonians of the early part of the century as Chief-Justice Taney is to the ascendent party of the last four years.
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