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Again, let the right of choosing them be, as before the conversion of kings, in the Church, for so it was in the time of the Apostles themselves (as hath been shown already in this chapter); even so also the right will be in the civil sovereign,
Leviathan 2007
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There was another celebrated piece, enacted some years since, upon the subject of Queen Caroline, where our late adored sovereign,
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Not George's parents, Harry and Bess, who had eventually sanctioned the unusual marriage, not their sovereign,
The Frozen Heart Cassidy, Laura 1995
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The envoys of great Powers flocked to its court, and vied with each other in the magnificence of the display and the prodigality of the gifts with which they sought to attract the superb graces of its sovereign,
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier
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Gentlemen, there is no analogy between the position of our sovereign,
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THE ENGLISH REFORMATION, 1533-1658 A.D. HENRY VIII, KING, 1509-1547 A.D. The Reformation in Germany and Switzerland started as a national and popular movement; in England it began as the act of a despotic sovereign,
Early European History Hutton Webster
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The submission of the Emperor of China to our arms, is an event calculated of itself to distinguish the reign of our glorious sovereign,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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[We] have seen the stone to the mother of the Hsia [dynasty] sovereign,
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From the royal domains, the lands of which the king was landlord as well as sovereign,
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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According to usage on the accession of a new sovereign,
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914
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