The age of Lincoln had been succeeded by the age of the robber baron; Adams intended to reveal the lucrative trade in favorsthat enabled men like Jay Gould and Jim Fisk to establish their ascendancies. ❋ MICHAEL KNOX BERAN (2007)
The Swiss production and others like it deliberately omit the presence of cultural ascendancies and politics at play in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. ❋ Unknown (2006)
She had a quiet pain, in the infrequent moments when she allowed herself the full realization of her love for Kendal, in the knowledge that she, of her own motion, had disturbed its unities and its ascendancies. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
_If you think that these two boys have both perished, not in some noble common cause but one against the other in a struggle of dynasties and boundaries and trade routes and tyrannous ascendancies, then it seems to me that you must feel as I feel that this war is the most tragic and dreadful thing that has ever happened to mankind. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The forces of transit that permitted the Roman imperialism and its partial successors to establish wide ascendancies, were not sufficient to carry the resultant unity beyond the political stage. ❋ Unknown (1906)
In Canada much the same misconceptions prevailed, and promoted the acceptance of the Act by the supporters of the old ascendancies. ❋ Erskine Childers (1896)
During these fifty-six years, which correspond in Irish history to a period dating from the middle of Grattan's Parliament down to the great Famine, ascendancies, with the symptoms of disease which always attended ascendancies, grew up in Canada, as they had in Ireland, in spite of conditions which were far more favourable in Canada to healthy political growth. ❋ Erskine Childers (1896)
Your aspects, dignities, ascendancies, Your partite quartiles, and your plastic trines, And all your heavenly houses and effects, Shall meet no more devout expounders here. ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)
During various liberal ascendancies, the federal spider has woven a web of dependencies. ❋ George F. Will (2011)
Yet, without even knowing of their similar stories, their ascendancies to the top of Div. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Both have their ascendancies, and then are reined in by America's vast, pragmatic middle. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Their ascendancies may provide context for what Michael Grant Ignatieff is putting before Canadians today: a book with the ultracorny title of ❋ Unknown (2009)
