It seems almost incredible that Germany, despite all her culture, should have tolerated the political dictatorship of the Kaiser and of his accomplices.

If a political party opposed the Dictatorship in the Convention, that party must be broken down; if a man seemed likely to become a rival for the Dictatorship, that man must be removed; all who conspired against the Republic must be destroyed as ruthlessly at home as on the battle-field.

Quinctius laid down his dictatorship on the sixteenth day, having been invested with it for six months.

The term of the dictatorship at Rome.] XIX.

He had obtained for himself the title of imperator and the dictatorship for life and the consulship for ten years.

The story of dictatorship from the earliest times till to-day.

How foolish, how stupid, do ye think, those must appear in this man's eyes, who, after performing most important services, abdicated the dictatorship within the twentieth day; or who, being irregularly created, resigned their office?

The nucleus of the Egyptian Empire was a dictatorship by a self-perpetuated elite, headed by lords spiritual and temporal.

When he had obeyed his command, and their meeting had exhibited a striking display of the majesty of the dictatorship before the citizens and allies, who, from its antiquity, had now almost forgotten that authority; a letter arrived from the city, stating that the ships of burden, conveying provisions from Ostia into Spain to the army, had been captured by the Carthaginian fleet off the port of Cossa.

Whatever had been the intercourse between them, Johnson was naturally annoyed when the dignified noble published two articles in the Worlda periodical supported by such polite personages as himself and Horace Walpolein which the need of a dictionary was set forth, and various courtly compliments described Johnson's fitness for a dictatorship over the language.

He had been an opposition, a Republican journalist, before the fall of the Empire, and M. Gambetta, during his virtual dictatorship throughout the latter part of the Franco-German war, was very fond of appointing journalists of that description to office, both in the army and the Civil Service.

It was a great fall for him to tumble from his dictatorship to so small an honor.

There they established a dictatorship under the name of a Triumvirate, and disciplined several thousand soldiers, of whom scarcely one was a native Roman.

The world's opinion has advanced so far that Britain dare not contemplate such dictatorship with equanimity.

The Romans recognized the Dictatorship as the necessary complement of the Republic; and it is worthy of remark that that high office was never abused so long as the people were worthy to be free.