Protectorship

The Sultan agreed to the French guardianship of the Nativity Church and the Holy Manger at Bethlehem, whereupon Russia, who also had treaty rights on behalf of the Orthodox Church, protested strongly, and advanced a new and far-reaching claim to the Protectorship of all Christians in the Ottoman Empire.

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The spirits of Raymond were unbounded; he did not know what to do with his new got power; his head was full of plans; he had as yet decided on none — but he promised himself, his friends, and the world, that the aera of his Protectorship should be signalized by some act of surpassing glory.

The Last Man 2003

He possessed many himself, which he designed to present to the Republic; and, as the edifice was to be the great ornament of his Protectorship, he was very fastidious in his choice of the plan on which it would be built.

The Last Man 2003

“For my part,” said I, “I am too well convinced of the worth of our friend, and the rich harvest of benefits that all England would reap from his Protectorship, to deprive my countrymen of such a blessing, if he consent to bestow it on them.”

The Last Man 2003

Their first demand was to be conducted to the Lord Protector of England, so they called Adrian, though he had long discarded the empty title, as a bitter mockery of the shadow to which the Protectorship was now reduced.

The Last Man 2003

The way in which Adrian had received his project for setting him up as a candidate for the Protectorship, and his replies, had already awakened in his mind, the view of the subject which we were now discussing.

The Last Man 2003

At first, the most we could persuade Eric to do was to assume a Protectorship.

The Hand of Oberon Zelazny, Roger 1976

Protectorship, opened the doors of the prisons, and stopped all further persecutions, both political and religious.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 Various

The Protectorship had been fitly inaugurated by the rational protest of a gentleman, witness to the proceedings at one of the trials, Sir Robert Filmore, in a tract, 'An

The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

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The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams