Even here it was decidedly Separatist, and therefore Japanese in character; a glorification of Siberia and Siberian efforts, completely ignoring the efforts of other Russians in the different parts of their Empire.

The British Empire doubtless, like Topsy, "growed"!

Regarding Koszta as still his subject, and claiming a right to seize him within the limits of the Turkish Empire, he has demanded of this Government its consent to the surrender of the prisoner, a disavowal of the acts of its agents, and satisfaction for the alleged outrage.

The condition of China at this time renders it probable that some important changes will occur in that vast Empire which will lead to a more unrestricted intercourse with it.

The commissioner to that country who has been recently appointed is instructed to avail himself of all occasions to open and extend our commercial relations, not only with the Empire of China, but with other Asiatic nations.

In 1852 an expedition was sent to Japan, under the command of Commodore Perry, for the purpose of opening commercial intercourse with that Empire.

Retreat followed retreat, until the fate of Napoleon's empire depended on the capture of the bridge of Montereau.

In its minute but glittering shops, its tiny palaces, its baths, its forum, its theatre, its circusin the energy yet corruption, in the refinement yet the vice, of its people, you beheld a model of the whole Roman Empire.

The Empire of Charlemagne VII.

Formation of the German Empire XVII.

There was no nation known as Germany; the land which is in the present German empire was then divided among some thirty or thirty-five different rulers.

The Republic of France, as we now know it, dates back only to 1871; the Empire of Germany and the United Kingdom of Italy to about the same time.

The city of Rome (at first a republic, afterwards an empire) spread its rule over all of Italy, over all the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and finally over all the countries of Europe south and west of the rivers Danube and Rhine.

It is a matter of history that during the twelve hundred years from the first building of Rome to the end of the Roman Empire, the temple of Janus was closed on but three occasions and then only for a short time.

To the north and east of the Roman Empire dwelt a people who were to become the leaders of the new nations of Europe.

They finally broke over the Rhine-Danube boundary and poured across the Roman Empire in wave after wave.

The Roman Empire went to pieces under their savage attacks.

Why did the German tribes invade the Roman empire? Chapter III.

The best examples, however, are to be found in the invasions of the Roman Empire by the Germanic tribes to which we have referred above.

One hundred and sixty years later, a small army of well-equipped Macedonian Greeks, led by that wonderful general, Alexander the Great, defeated nearly forty times its number of Persians in a great battle in Asia and conquered a vast empire.

But until lately it was impossible to determine with any degree of probability who of the competitors for that Empire would be ultimately fixed in the supreme power.

It is fortunate for mankind that the empire of talents has its limitations, and that it is not in the power of ingenuity to subvert the distinctions of right and wrong.

This is the empire that man exercises over man.

In addition to Madame de Luynes, Anne of Austria had adopted as her especial favourites the intriguing Princesse de Conti and Mademoiselle de Verneuil, the natural sister of the King; and while Louis was absorbed by visions of absolute empire, and meditating the destruction of his Protestant subjects, the private circle of the Queen was loud with revelry, and indulging in amusement to the very verge of impropriety.

© 10Feb27; B732798. Peter B. Kyne (A); 26Oct54; R138017. Tide of empire.

Frank Holden was chosen as referee and umpire, and all of the contestants prepared for the struggle.

'Honour, sole judge and umpire of itself.' Act iv.

In the first place, Ambrose refused to take part in a religious disputation held in the palace of his enemy,in any palace where a monarch sat as umpire.

The Church was the true place for a religious controversy, and the umpire, if such were needed, should be a priest and not a layman.

These three matchesand I could mention many othersshow how important it is to play hard right up to the last stroke of the match, letting nothing put you off, never losing your temper, taking umpire's bad decisions and all the little annoyances that may disturb you in a sportsmanlike mannerkeeping your whole attention, in fact, absolutely concentrated on the game.

Pursued by the Furies, he takes refuge in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, and then, still Fury-haunted, goes to Athens, where Pallas Athene, the warrior-maiden, the tutelary goddess of Athens, bids him refer his cause to the Areopagus, the highest court of Athens, Apollo acting as his advocate, and she sitting as umpire in the midst.

The umpire, however, who was a particular friend of Gordon, called them both balls.

"No; a baseball umpire.

"One strike!" called the umpire.

"Three strikesbatter out!" called the umpire, sharply.

The umpire called a ball.

"Three strikes and out!" called the umpire.

"One strike!" called the umpire.

Having made up his mind to this, Frank sent a swift straight one directly over, and, as he had expected, the batter let it pass, which caused the umpire to call a strike.

The Yale rooters tried to rattle Peck, but they succeeded in rattling the batter instead, and, to their unutterable dismay and horror, he fanned at a third one, missed it, and "Batter is out!" cried the umpire.

There was short preliminary practice, and then at exactly three o'clock the umpire walked down behind the home plate and called: "Play ball!" CHAPTER XXXIV.

Merriwell went into the box, and the umpire broke open a pasteboard box, brought out a ball that was wrapped in tin foil, removed the covering, and tossed the snowy sphere to the freshman pitcher Yale had so audaciously stacked up against Harvard.

"Safe home!" rang the voice of the umpire.

His eldest son, Tomour old friend the keepergenerally stands umpire; he is not so useful to his side as village umpires usually are, because he hasn't got the moral courage to give his side "in" when he knows perfectly well they are "out."

as Tom Peregrine pronounced it, standing umpire in an enormous wideawake hat and a white coat reaching down to his knees, and smoking a bad cigar.

And run we did, for the umpire forgot to call "lost ball," and we should have been running still but for the ingenuity of one of our opponents; for, whilst all were busily engaged in searching among the grass, a red-faced yokel stole up unawares, with an innocent expression on his face, raced poor "Podder" down the pitch, produced the ball from his trouser pocket, and knocked off the bails in the nick of time.

The winning-post is opposite the stand, the umpire is there with a deal board in his hand, a whack on the side of the stand "summons to horse," and another summons to "start."

And Mr. Punch (Umpire-in-Chief) to JOHN (Paymaster), cries, "You'll have to test the truth of this before the need arise For our lads away to go.

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We that to the judgment of the umpire.