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From this Ceolwulf they take hostages for the payment of yearly tribute to be wrung out of these poor Mercians on pain of dethronement and for the surrender of the kingdom to them on whatever day they would have it back again.

These gardens, however, were the favourite and private walks of the Emperor; it was here that he meditated those schemes of ambition which were destined to shake the established thrones of Europe; it was under the shade of this luxuriant foliage that he formed the plan of all the mighty projects which he had in contemplation; it was in the splendid apartments of this palace that the Councils of France assembled, to revolve on the means of permanently destroying the English power: It was here too, by a most remarkable coincidence, that his destruction was finally accomplished; that the last convention was concluded, by which his second dethronement was completed; and that the victorious arms of England dictated the terms of surrender to his conquered capital.

We ventured, in a former article, to remonstrate against the dethronement of the once powerful God of Love, in his own most especial domain, the novel; and to suggest that, in shunning the ordinary fault of recommending by examples a romantic and uncalculating extravagance of passion, Miss Austin had rather fallen into the opposite extreme of exclusively patronizing what are called prudent matches, and too much disparaging sentimental enthusiasm.

The Parliament of 1604 met in angrier mood than any Parliament which had assembled at Westminster since the dethronement of Richard II. Among the churches non-conformity began more decidedly to assume the form of secession. The key-note of the conflict was struck at Scrooby. Staunch Puritan as he was, Brewster had not hitherto favoured the extreme measures of the Separatists.

He, too, had discussed with his friends the condition of the Coalition, and had come to conclusions rather adverse to Sir Orlando than otherwise. When, therefore, the First Secretary sounded him as to the expediency of some step in the direction of a firmer political combination than that at present existing, by which of course was meant the dethronement of the present Prime Minister, Mr.

At the end of September Frederic William abandoned Lewis to his fate. He had contributed to his dethronement by entering France, and he contributed to his execution by leaving it. He did not feel that he had deserved so prodigious a humiliation. If the Austrians had joined as they promised with 100,000 men, the march upon the capital would have been conceivable with energetic commanders.

After his dethronement, he sought every occasion to deplore the loss of the bays, and of the stipend, which in the increasing infirmity and poverty of his latter days had become important. The fall of James necessarily involved the fall of his Laureate and Historiographer.

Like the Psalmist, he is in haste; he cannot point to a poet who ever hinted the dethronement of love. A choice Hughesean sentence occurs in this connexion. "I very much regret," the preacher says, "that Maud's lover was such a conventional idiot that he should have been guilty of the supreme folly of challenging her brother to a duel." Shade of Lindley Murrey, what a sentence!

The signs of moral downfall, consequent to the dethronement of religion and the enthronement of these usurping idols, are too numerous and too patent for even a superficial observer of the state of present-day society to fail to notice.

Though D'ORLEANS is actively engaged in attempting the dethronement of His Majesty, I do not think the nation will submit to such a Prince, or to any other monarchical government, if the present be decidedly destroyed. "'All these plans, my dear Princess, continued she, 'are mere castles in the air. The mischief is too deeply rooted.