My only point was just that maybe the concept of tyranny existed before the English word, in the French word "tyrannie", or Latin, or Greek (where it ultimately came from). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mornarch [sic]: And (for his tyrannie, and terrour in warre) was tearmed, The Scourge of God. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Howbeit he, after he had once attained vnto the kingdome, neglecting the commaundement of his lord, vsurped the gouernment with great tyrannie, committing many heinous crimes, and so he reigned very disorderly for the space of three yeeres. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Pilote for feare of death did, and so by that meanes they were defended from present death, and from the tyrannie of those ❋ Unknown (2003)
Frenchmen, and their Kings for a spectacle throwen out to wild beasts, he held France it selfe as subiect vnto him: and hauing happily deliuered the Italians from the tyrannie of Maxentius, he preferred three of his mothers vncles, all Britaines, namely, ❋ Unknown (2003)
These things being thus finished, Godredus returned vnto Man, and began to exercise tyrannie, disinheriting certaine of his nobles, of whome one called ❋ Unknown (2003)
In the analytical index to the Encyclopédie, the entry for despotisme runs to sixty-one lines; that for tyrannie, to twenty-eight. ❋ MELVIN RICHTER (1968)
«Une nouvelle tyrannie-celle des bas fonds-s'agite dans les ténèbres, et on croit entendre son grondement lointain. » ❋ Unknown (1953)
Cardinall, bot of the just abolisching of all that tyrannie quhilk that Romane Antechryst hes usurpit above us, of the suppressing of idolatrie, and of the reformatioun of the haill religioun, by that verming of schavelingis utterlie corruptit. ❋ John Knox (N/A)
The newes of whose imprisonment was anon bruted through the realme, wherewith the Nobles fretted, and the commons curssed: finallie all men detested such tyrannie in the chancellour. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
Yff ye tender trew religioun, ye see how hir Grace beiris hir [self] plane ennemy thairto, and mentenis the tyrannie of thair idill bellies, the ❋ John Knox (N/A)
Prince, that he gave _himself to obey the tyrannie of those bloodie beasts_, and he _made a solemne vow_. ❋ John Knox (N/A)
For after that the Danes had thus slaine that blessed man, they conquered all the countrie, & wasted it, so that through their tyrannie it remained without anie gouernor by the space of nine yeares, and then they ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
Papistical tyrannie shall onely be changed into the tyrannie of the lord and laird. ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)
Here there is a superiority without tyrannie, for no minister hath a papall or monarchicall jurisdiction over his own flock, far lesse over other pastors and over all the congregations of a large dioces. ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)
* - "Je suis las de la portion de tyrannie que j'exerce." ❋ An English Lady (N/A)
Constantine after this was called into Italie, to deliuer the Romans and Italians from the tyrannie of Maxentius, which occasion so offered, Constantine gladlie accepting, passed into Italie, and after certeine victories got against Maxentius, at length slue him. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
Let not I beséech thée, the Neronian or Domitian tyrannie anie more preuaile vpon me, or (to saie truth) vpon thée, but let them rather serue thée, whose heauie oppression thou hast borne withall ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
