After some minor engagements a pitched battle was fought between the two confederacies (A.D. 19) in which the loss on each side was equal, but Maroboduus confessed the ascendency of his antagonist by avoiding a renewal of the engagement and by imploring the intervention of the Romans in his defence.

And I confess, my lords, that were the Austrians about to attain unlimited power by the conquest or inheritance of France and Spain, it would be no less proper to form confederacies against them.

You think I find not out Your close confederacies: yes, I do, no doubt.

Were homilies on fraternal concessions the things to heal this breach, the South is the fitting place for their delivery; but mouth-glue, however useful to stick slight matters together, is not the cement with which confederacies are bound to a common centre.

Marry, when somebody persuaded Cervantes that he meant only fun, and put him upon writing that unfortunate Second Part with the confederacies of that unworthy duke and most contemptible duchess, Cervantes sacrificed his instinct to his understanding.

In a paper written by him, and which it is proposed to annex as a preface to the Debates, he traces the formation of confederacies and of the Articles of Confederation, its defects which caused and the steps which led to the Convention, his reasons for taking the debates and the manner in which he executed the task, and his opinion of the framers of the Constitution.

A lesser evil than this would be to form four new confederacies out of the fragments of the old.

'Most friendships are formed by caprice or by chance, mere confederacies in vice or leagues in folly,' iv.

THE APPALACHIAN CONFEDERACIES, 1765-1775.

They were divided into five lax confederacies: the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.

Thus the boundary lines between the confederacies were ever shifting.

To the west of the Cherokees, on the banks of the Mississippi, were the Chickasaws, the smallest of the southern nations, numbering at the outside but four thousand souls; but they were also the bravest and most warlike, and of all these tribal confederacies theirs was the only one which was at all closely knit together.

The Wars of the Backwoodsmen The backwoodsmen pressed in on the line of least resistance, first taking possession of the debatable hunting-grounds lying between the Algonquins of the north and the Appalachian confederacies of the south.

The Floridas were shielded by the great Indian confederacies of the Creeks and Choctaws, whose strength was as yet unbroken.

They were warned that when they thus added to their empire, they merely rendered it unwieldy and assured its being split into two or more confederacies at no distant day.

The difficulty of forming confederacies 50.

"Confederacies difficult; why.

Confederacies in learningevery great work the work of one.

If confederacies were easyuseless;many oppresses many.

Fame is soon found to be a sound, and love a dream; avarice and ambition may be justly suspected of privy confederacies with idleness; for, when they have for a while protected their votaries, they often deliver them up to end their lives under her dominion.

The preamble to an act passed in 1425, during the reign of Henry VI., just five centuries after the meeting at York, states that, "by the yearly congregations and confederacies made by the Masons in their general assemblies, the good course and effect of the statute of laborers were openly violated and broken."

This is the deplorable alternativethe extirpation of the seceding member, or the never-ceasing struggle of two rival confederacies, ultimately bending the neck of both under the yoke of foreign domination, or the despotic sovereignty of a conqueror at home.

While these changes were made in the Covenanted Church's organic law some of the most popular and influential ministerstheological professors, were publicly transgressing our covenants by joining in affinity with divers confederacies for moral reform.

About the same time when we were ensnared in these unscriptural confederacies, occasional hearing naturally became developed in a sabbath-school, which for a short time was conducted jointly by three denominations in PittsburghCovenanters, Seceders and Associate Reformed, violating our covenanted unity and erecting an unauthorized agency for spiritual instruction.

And next week would see them, hidden singly or in lurking confederacies, by mountain and marsh and forest, or the wrecked habitations of menwhere?