1 I voted for the death of that tyrant.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 2 That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 3 I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 4 Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Caesar, Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant.
5 Although Plutarch says: the tyrant never grows old, Rome, under Sylla as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO 6 They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not after the fashion of the tyrant, but after the fashion of the tiger.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 7 , so well named that poor tyrant.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE 8 The granite solidity of such and such a celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 9 Under Claudius and under Domitian, there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the repulsiveness of the tyrant.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 10 Driving out the tyrant or driving out the English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE 11 Ask that demagogue of a Marius if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 12 All become its bitter enemies who, drawing their support from the wealth of the tyrant, flourished under his government.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI. 13 So that he who sets up as a tyrant and slays not Brutus, and he who creates a free government and slays not the sons of Brutus, can never maintain himself long.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III. 14 Against this humour no tyrant can guard, except by laying down his tyranny; which as none will do, few escape an unhappy end.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 15 And all three recognizing the danger in which they stood, resolved to be beforehand with the tyrant, and losing no time, murdered him that very night.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.