1 Now time lay between: the oils of ordination would never anoint his body.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 2 I informed my superiors that I did not feel myself sufficiently prepared for ordination, and at my request the ceremony was postponed for a year.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS 3 And as the Roman ordinances with regard to it were productive of much good, so the want of them in Florence has bred much mischief.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII. 4 For every religion has its root in certain fundamental ordinances peculiar to itself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII. 5 And contriving, in this way to make his designs tally with the auspices, he joined battle, without the army knowing that the ordinances of religion had in any degree been disregarded.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV. 6 And this was possible through the prudence of the English king and the wise ordinances of his kingdom, which never in time of peace relaxes its warlike discipline.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI. 7 When these ordinances are duly observed, a city will live long in freedom, but when they are neglected, it must soon come to ruin.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV. 8 We find, accordingly, that while the dictatorship was conferred in conformity with public ordinances, and not through personal influence, it was constantly beneficial to the city.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV. 9 But because, as I have said elsewhere, there is in everything a latent evil peculiar to it, giving rise to new mischances, it becomes necessary to provide against these by new ordinances.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI. 10 For common punishments are not imputed to the prince, but to the laws and ordinances which he has to administer.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: Chapter XXII.—That the severity of Manlius Torquatus and ... 11 Such commands are useful in a republic, as restoring its ordinances to their original efficacy and excellence.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: Chapter XXII.—That the severity of Manlius Torquatus and ... 12 But a pusillanimous spirit, occasioned by the defects of her ordinances in so far as they relate to war, caused her to lose at once her courage and her dominions.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI. 13 And nothing honours a man more than to establish new laws and new ordinances when he himself was newly risen.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXVI — AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE ... 14 de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by a coup d'etat, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could not succeed in becoming one himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 15 This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the ordinances of July.