24 Words to use with reigns

Our enemy envies us this position because in his land, stupidity and confusion reign supreme; his own uncivilization and barbarism cannot be rooted out.

Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature and reviving sense; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe; Bid scenick virtue form the rising age, And truth diffuse her radiance from the stage.

From his reign date also the famous Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Anglo-Saxon Gospels; and a few scholars are tempted to class the magnificent 'Beowulf' among the works of this period.

For the last years of Henry's reign disputes raged round these points, and more than once war was only averted by the excitement which swept over Europe at the disastrous news from the Holy Land.

"These Fate reserv'd to grace thy reign divine, Foreseen by me, but ah! withheld from mine!"Pope, Dun., iii, 215. IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

Our God who reign-est up on high,

Nor was this all, for he was that Northumberland whose doings in the next reign fill

During his reign gunpowder was discovered by Roger Bacon, whereby Guy Fawkes was made possible.

Michelet has some charming rural pictures and female portraits in his History of France; Macaulay thinks no custom or economy of a reign insignificant in the great historical aggregate.

An event so miraculously corresponding with the prediction of the witches astonished Macbeth, and he stood wrapt in amazement, unable to make reply to the messengers: and in that point of time swelling hopes arose in his mind, that the prediction of the third witch might in like manner have its accomplishment, and that he should one day reign king in Scotland.

When in the late reign liberty of conscience was unexpectedly given, he gathered his congregation at Bedford, where he mostly lived and had spent most of his life.

They seem to have been transcribed in the shape in which we at present have them in the reign of Assurbanipal, who was a great patron of letters, and in whose reign libraries were formed in the principal cities.

" "Ah, Sire," said the jester, "even in your blessed reign men have died.

In those lands where, instead of syllogisms, visions and dim consciousness reign paramount, criticism finds no room; and this solution gives me rest and relief.

Thou didst his gracious reign prolong, Even in thy saints' and angels' wrong, His fellow-citizens of immortality: For twelve long years of exile borne, Twice twelve we number'd since his blest return: So strictly wert thou just to pay, Even to the driblet of a day.

" Again, of the rainy saint, St. Swithin, we are reminded that: "Against St. Swithin's hastie showers, The lily white reigns queen of the flowers" A festival around which so much curious lore has clustered.

shall th'unpractis'd muse These recent honours of thy reign rehearse!

Who once at such a gentle reign repine, The fall of monarchy itself design: From hate to that their reformations spring, And David not their grievance, but the king.

A.D. 1344, Peter IV. reigned in Arragon, and the chronicles of his reign report that Don Lewis de Cerda, grandson of Don John de Corda, requested his aid to go and conquer the Canary Islands, which had been gifted to him by Pope Clement VI.

According to tradition, the monarch whom he served was Apepi, the last Shepherd King, during whose reign slaves were very numerous.

That clerk wanted to steel that umbreller, to send to HORRIS GREELEY, so the Filosifer could keep the reign storms of Tammany from spatterin' his white cote.

The real interest of his reign centres in his Christian legislation, and in those theological controversies in which he interfered.

And holy Dubric spread his hands and spake: 'Reign ye, and live and love, and make the world Other, and may the Queen be one with thee, And all this Order of thy Table Round Fulfil the boundless purpose of their King!'

In previous reigns chivalry and the old feudal system had practically been banished; now monasticism, the third mediæval institution with its mixed evil and good, received its death-blow in the wholesale suppression of the monasteries and the removal of abbots from the House of Lords.

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