1 In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they made, there was sovereignty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 2 One morning it drew itself up before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, of the citizen to liberty.
3 Revolutionary agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular sovereignty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 4 This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any other; but, even when led astray, it remains great.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 5 That which universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty cannot be undone by the street.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 6 From a political point of view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over himself.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O... 7 This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O... 8 Each sovereignty concedes a certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O... 9 I was somewhat afflicted," he said, "to see the grief of the Queen of Love and Beauty, whose sovereignty of a day this event has changed into mourning.
10 Athelstane, it is true, was vain enough, and loved to have his ears tickled with tales of his high descent, and of his right by inheritance to homage and sovereignty.
11 And now to my boon," said the King, "which I ask not with one jot the less confidence, that thou hast refused to acknowledge my lawful sovereignty.
12 Their banter was not new to him and now it flattered his mild proud sovereignty.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 13 It has its divine right of sovereignty.
14 In fact, everybody in the room bore on his head this characteristic emblem of man's sovereignty; whether it were felt hat, palm-leaf, greasy beaver, or fine new chapeau, there it reposed with true republican independence.
15 But he who reaches sovereignty by popular favour finds himself alone, and has none around him, or few, who are not prepared to obey him.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER IX — CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY