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Clarke's desire to learn more and more regarding the Catholic church, and to account for his rather too easy concession to the arguments of Paul, we think it right to state that he had lately become a member of a literary and religious society established in his native city, under the presidentship of a minister of an Episcopal church.
The King hesitated, but the Princess made him accept it, and the corregidor of Madrid, Ronquillo, a man of obscure origin, was nominated to the presidentship.
When the most notorious of the clubs met in the town-house under the presidentship of Gavin Ogilvy, who was no better than a poacher, and was troubled in his mind because writers called Pope a poet, there was frequently a wrangle over the question, Is literature necessarily immoral?
The reason assigned was, that he had not an officer to whom he could trust so important a charge. He himself had good reason for thinking so, as he had obtained the presidentship by rebelling while in charge of this same fortress. After we left South America, he paid the penalty in the usual manner, by being conquered, taken prisoner, and shot.
Was ever painter so fêted and glorified! And then he had been, on the death of West, in 1820, elected to the presidentship of the Academy.
Cloud Blucher in Napoleon's cabinet My prisoner become my protector Blucher and the innkeeper's dog My daughter's marriage contract Rigid etiquette My appointment to the Presidentship of the Electoral College of the Yonne My interview with Fouche My audience of the King His Majesty made acquainted with my conversation with Fouche The Duke of Otranto's disgrace Carnot deceived by Bonaparte My election as deputy My colleague, M. Raudot My return to Paris Regret caused by the sacrifice of Ney Noble conduct of Macdonald A drive with Rapp in the Bois de Boulogne Rapp's interview with Bonaparte in 1815 The Due de Berri and Rapp My nomination to the office of Minister of State My name inscribed by the hand of Louis XVIII. Conclusion.
The nation elected its chief, exercised the legislative power in the Champs de Mars under the presidentship of the king, and the judicial power in the courts under the direction of one of his officers. Under the feudal regime, this royal democracy gave way to a royal aristocracy. Absolute power ascended higher, the nobles stripped the people of it, as the prince afterwards despoiled the nobles.
The committee met under the presidentship of Hernando de Talavera, the prior of the monastery of Santa Maria del Prado, near Valladolid, a pious ecclesiastic, who had the rare quality of honesty, and who was therefore a favourite with Queen Isabella; she afterwards created him Archbishop of Granada.
Braving the displeasure of the assembly, he mounted the tribune, resigned the Presidentship, renounced his seat as a deputy, and threw aside his robes. Just as Lucien left the Council I entered. Bonaparte, who was well informed of all that was passing, Then the first entry of the soldiers with Napoleon would be illegal.
The medium of constitutional monarchy or hereditary presidentship recommends itself under existing circumstances to the more advanced peoples, and with good reason; we nowhere find a prevalence of those manly virtues, disinterestedness and self-sacrifice to the "respublica," which rendered the endurance of ancient republics possible.
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