THE JOURNALISTS ABDICATE XXIV

<Relinquish, waive, renounce, surrender, forego, resign, abdicate.

The King seemed still in perplexity, and said he should prefer to abdicate.

Some urged the King to abdicate in favor of the Comte de Paris; others vigorously opposed such a relinquishment of power in presence of the insurrection.

March 15Czar Nicholas of Russia abdicates.

June 12King Constantino of Greece abdicates.

November 9Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates and crown prince renounces throne.

November 9-Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates and crown prince renounces throne.

King of Bavaria abdicates.

Emperor Charles of Austria abdicates.

Therefore I made it a point to abdicate when the skies were clear.

He is afraid of itthis one characteristic that differentiates him from the lower animalsso he abdicates and turns his divine birthright over to a syndicate.

No sensible person would say that a girl is superior to her brother because she has a greater aptness for mathematics than he, but because she excels in the queen-like attributes and virtues and duties peculiar to her own sex and belonging to her own sphere,that sphere so beautiful, that when she abdicates it, it is like being expelled from Paradise; for, once lost, it can never be regained.

Clear thinking makes clear writing, and he who has shown himself so eminently capable of it in one case is not to be supposed to abdicate intentionally in others.

She abdicates!

Every day after that he lost in form, in spite of himself, and the coach had finally to make him abdicate the throne; and Punk, who had worked in his usual slow and conservative fashion, seemed the fittest man to succeed him.

And yet did the things the years had made one ever really abdicate?

He is sent back to Denmark, with all his men, without ransom, but abdicates, and Sweden is erected into a separate kingdom.

"'Tis the latest from the Club des Enragésthe King abdicates to-morrow!"

Reason, as it cannot create experience, so it cannot take its place and be its substitute; but what reason can do is to say within what limits experience is paramount as a teacher; and reason abdicates its functions if it declines to do so, for it was given us to work upon and turn to account the unmeaning and brute materials which experience gives us in the rough.

An excrescence of this theory is the foolish story that "Bishop" Heliodorus, being called upon by a provincial synod either to destroy his erotic books or to abdicate his position, preferred the latter alternative.

This challenge, not being allowed to be accepted by either party, is followed, in a day or two, by the abdication of the old queen; she leads out the swarm, and her successor is liberated by her keepers, who, in her turn, abdicates in favor of the next younger.

It was usual for kings, at a certain time of life, to abdicate the throne in favour of the heir-apparent, and pass the remainder of their days in seclusion.

Ferdinand conspires to dethrone his father, the people become excited, riots take place, Godoy's residence in Aranguez is attacked by the mob, and the king abdicates in favor of his son.

ESPARTERO, a celebrated Spanish general and statesman, born at Granatula; supported, against the Carlist faction, the claims of Isabella to the throne of Spain; was for his services made Duke of Vittoria, and in 1841 elected regent; compelled to abdicate, he fled to England, but afterwards returned for a time to the head of affairs; an able man, but wanting in the requisite astuteness and tact for such a post (1793-1879).