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  • 'Tis true, said the Duchess; but if it pleases your Majesty, we will go into that part of the World whence I came to wait on your Majesty, and there you shall see as powerful a Monarch as the Grand Signior; for though his Dominions are not of so large extent, yet they are much stronger, his Laws are easie and safe, and he governs so justly and wisely, that his Subjects are the happiest people of all the Nations or parts of that World.

    The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668

  • Were they in the Streets someone could very well be DEAD (like those killed in these WARS of Empire) just like the various sentences these powerbrokers impose on their "Subjects" here in the Land of the Corporate Serfs!

    MN GOP calls Franken-Lieberman incident an 'embarrassment' 2009

  • This is, I confess, a question not altogether easy to answer; but I have had a try at an answer in the list of Subjects which is given in Chapter I, which can be adapted to special conditions of time or place.

    The Making of Arguments J. H. Gardiner

  • It is, however, an easier task for savage kings to sign concessions than to ensure that such concessions will be respected by their subjects, especially when those 'Subjects' are warriors by nature, tradition, and practice, as in the present case, and organised into regiments, kept from year to year in perfect efficiency and readiness for attack.

    The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

  • They got to be royals and rich by exploiting people for centuries, and the UK "Subjects"

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "Subjects" was obliterated, expunged from the record.

    In a strange land 2010

  • "Subjects" is an archaic term, perhaps still used by some who are trying to sever the country's heritage.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • I want them to know we are not involved in a "police action" against a few extremist idiots, but are, indeed, involved in the fact of a religion which plans to the world by making us all either "Subjects", or Islamic extremists, just like them!

    Pekin Prattles 2008

  • [Footnote ll: Communications are effected by means of spirits sent forth from societies of spirits and angels to other societies, and these emissary spirits are called Subjects, nos.

    Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • In Early Draft, Jefferson Referred To Americans As 'Subjects'

    KTVZ.com - Local Headlines 2010

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