He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.

As our philosopher makes use of the idea of the world-harmony to support theism and the theodicy, so, further, he derives the content of morality from it, thus giving ethics a natural basis independent of self-interest and conventional fancies.

All claim of divine right, or hereditary right independent of the law, was formally put an end to by the election of William and Mary.

Hahn lauds their conjugal attachment independent of fleshly love."

Zschokke does not seem to have been able to manifest time-clairvoyance independent of the presence of the person concernedhe needs the associated link, or loose end of the psychic ball of yarn.

If Lord Salisbury will consent to introduce some measure of Irish self-government, the problem will be fundamentally altered, and the same will happen if the general election produces a Liberal majority independent of both Irish and Conservatives; and Mr. Morley describes as underlying all his calculations 'the irresistible attraction for him of all the grand and eternal commonplaces of liberty and self-government' (p. 260).

The wife was entitled to protection and support from her husband, and she retained her property independent of him.

[Pompey] if he persisted in error; that he commanded an army independent of Pompey, so that besides his authority, he had strength to compel; and if he did so, all men would be indebted to him for the quiet of Italy, the peace of the provinces, and the preservation of the empire."

He therefore tempted the Independents with promises of ample [Footnote 1: Journals, vii.