He began by founding the Order of the Immaculate Conception, consisting of 72 young noblemen who swore a special oath of allegiance to the crown, and were to form the nucleus of a patriotic movement antagonistic to the constant usurpations of the diet, but the sejm promptly intervened and quashed the attempt. [Please select]
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”[128] The kings had always sought to put a curb on these usurpations,[129] and perhaps it was a similar attempt which cost Servius Tullius his life. [Please select]
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The public domain, encroached upon by usurpations or by the colonies of Sylla, had almost disappeared. [Please select]
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What a monstrous expediency,--worse than all the combined usurpations of the popes. [Please select]
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His resolve to oppose the king's usurpations in the spiritual realm caused the bitter quarrel already described, which ended in a compromise. [Please select]
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It was this reduction of clerical usurpations and privileges which is the main feature in the legislation of Henry VIII. [Please select]
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The intendant wrote dispatches of wearisome length, rehearsing the governor's usurpations, insults, and incompetence. [Please select]
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It favored the various usurpations of the popes, and strengthened the bonds of spiritual despotism. [Please select]
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It denounced the reform of Luther, and confirmed the various ecclesiastical usurpations which had rendered the reformation necessary. [Please select]
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The three inglorious years of his reign were a succession of encroachments and usurpations. [Please select]
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The nobility had already usurped all the sovereign authority; they now in their zeal to confirm their usurpations, introduced the ambiguous clause, which was afterwards to be perverted to their own ruin. [Please select]
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