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  • Most of the "Potentates" that have been elected to office in the close of the last century, and the dawn of this one, where shockingly ignorant of even the basics, let alone the finer points of those "key bits" of understanding.

    Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet 2008

  • Most of the "Potentates" that have been elected to office in the close of the last century, and the dawn of this one, where shockingly ignorant of even the basics, let alone the finer points of those "key bits" of understanding.

    Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet mterry 2008

  • Potentates wanted to chat with a figure they seem to regard as an equal.

    Powell On The Brink 2008

  • Potentates used the fruit in their harems, and Indian religious sects worshipped it in temple rituals.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Potentates used the fruit in their harems, and Indian religious sects worshipped it in temple rituals.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Answer, That the Notion of Deities was a Chimera infused into my Fancy by my Mother, and a customary Education; and that all the World were misled into such Opinions by Priests and Potentates, whose Interest it was to ingage their Inferiors into a Belief of some invisible Powers, thereby to keep them in Subjection.

    Exilius 2008

  • Potentates used the fruit in their harems, and Indian religious sects worshipped it in temple rituals.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • A few days are allotted thee previous to this fatal period; employ them as thou wilt; recline on these heaps of gold; command the Infernal Potentates; range at thy pleasure through these immense subterranean domains; no barrier shall be shut against thee; as for me, I have fulfilled my mission;

    The History of the Caliph Vathek 2004

  • Milde and modest Ladies, for ought I can perceive to the contrary, this day was dedicated to none but Kings, Soldanes, and great Potentates, not in favour of any inferiour or meaner persons.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Christian Potentates made for this Warre, that hee might the better provide for himselfe.

    The Decameron 2004

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