The accession of the house of Hanover, in 1714, was the downfall of Toryism; and Tate was a Tory.

The accession of Gregory VI was the harbinger of an epoch of moral renaissance.

It is no disrespect to that party to say that while scholarship and intelligence are therein well represented by scattered individuals, yet it is cumbered, like most religious movements after they have streamed some distance from their source, with a majority of those whose adhesion has little or no pretence to an intellectual basis; and whose occasional accession to the Catholic Church is almost entirely their own gain.

His very person was a programme and a watchword, and it had long been an open secret that his accession would be the signal for drastic reforms.

Mr. Roosevelt's accession to the Presidential chair has been a great thing for good sportsmanship in this country.

This accession to our territory has been a bloodless achievement.

This makes the total accession of heat received by the steam in the boiler equal to 1115.98°, or say 1116°, which multiplied by 3, as 3 parts of the water are raised into steam, gives us 3348° for the heat in the steam, while the accession of heat received in the boiler by the 1 part of residual brine will be 154.7°, multiplied by 0.85, the specific heat of the brine, or 130.495°; and 3348° divided by 130.495° is about 1/26th.

The recent accession of the important State of North Carolina to the Constitution of the United States (of which official information has been received), the rising credit and respectability of our country, the general and increasing good will toward the Government of the Union, and the concord, peace, and plenty with which we are blessed are circumstances auspicious in an eminent degree to our national prosperity.

He was at first glad to receive this ally and incorporated the troops that Staius led in his own force: subsequently, seeing that the new accession was an active and high-spirited man, he executed him on a charge of treachery.

The accession of the Capetians was a work independent of all foreign influence, and strictly national, in Church as well as in State.