Dermod Mac Murchad , sovereign Prince of Hy-Kinsellagh , banished by Roderick O Connor , King of Ireland , for his various and high State Crimes, sought Sanctuary and Redress in the Court of England ; where, in the Absence of Henry , then in Normandy , diverse adventurous Normans , Flemings , Saxons , and old Britons , (being themselves unsettled, and unestablished) acceded to the Fate and Fortunes of Dermod , under the Conduct of Strongbow , Earl of Pembroke ; whose casual Success in Ireland , against Roderick (owing more to the general Defection, at that fatal Period, of the Irish Chiefs against their lawful Sovereign, than to any superior Valour or Address of those Adventurers) induced Henry to a deliberate and grand Invasion of a Kingdom, to which he could lay no Claim on the Score of Nature, Reason, or Right, and whither his pretended Mission, on the Score of collecting St. Peter 's Dues, (which St. Peter himself — from An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland by Henry Brooke
a day and get it out
"Mis' Timothy Toplady was over in behind the counter picking out her butter, and she whirled around from sampling the jars, and she says to Mis' Sykes and me:— "'Ladies,' she says, 'le's us propose it to the editor that seems to have such a hard job, that us members of Sodality take a hold of his paper for a day and get it out for him and put some news in it, and sell it to everybody, subscribers and all, that one night, for ten cents.' — from Mothers to Men by Zona Gale
are described as Gnostical in origin
Some of the most typical of these early Christian romances are described as Gnostical in origin, with something of the germs of Manichæan dualism which were held in the rich and complex matrix of Gnosticism, while the spirit of these romances is also largely Montanist, with the combined chastity and ardor, the pronounced feminine tone due to its origin in Asia Minor, which marked Montanism. — from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6
Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
and demolish a government in order
He was ever ready to break a pane of glass, tear up the paving-stones, and demolish a government, in order to see the effect; he was a student in his eleventh year. — from Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius by Victor Hugo
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