How To Use Viceroy In A Sentence
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Viceroy's voice was still a monotonous drone, and I wanted to slap him just to see that he could still talk and/or yell with emotion.
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The poverty-stricken viceroyalty of Sardinia contributed little, Sicily somewhat more; most of the burden fell on Naples.
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At a time when an upmarket townhouse cost 5,000 florins, a single Viceroy, white striped with purple, changed hands for 3,500 florins.
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We negotiated with Mir Jaffier for the viceroyal throne of his master.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
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In the 16th Century, Raja Wadiyar defeated the viceroy of the Vijayanagar empire, wrested the famed golden throne from him and established the sovereignty of the Mysore kings with Srirangapatna as the capital.
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He chooseth of them whomso He please to make him His viceroy and viceregent over
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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At length this cry became a clamor that shook even the old viceroyal palace in Mexico; while in San Antonio it gave a certain pitch to all conversation, and made men wear their cloaks, and set their beavers, and display their arms, with that demonstrative air of independence they called los Americano.
Remember the Alamo
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Spain quickly established the viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru, claimed all native gold and silver mines, and forced Indians to work them.
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Despite its modest size and the irregular temporal, spatial, and ethnic distribution of the cases, the sample represents more than 70% of spousal murders that occurred in the viceroyalty at the time.
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Like the proconsuls of ancient Rome, the viceroy governed, administered, judged, superintended the royal treasury, was commander in chief of the army, and the vice patron of the church.
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Going one day, according to her custom, to pay her court to the king, who was then in Saragossa, she passed through a village belonging to the Viceroy of Catalonia, who did not quit the frontiers of Perpignan, on account of the wars between the Kings of France and Spain.
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
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The viceroyalty's territory was vast and included what is now Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay and parts of Bolivia, Peru, and Chile.
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On this side were the ex-physician to the viceroy of Egypt, Franz Pruner-Bey, the former Martinique physician Etienne Rufz de Lavison, and the alienist Louis-Jean Delasiauve.
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Since the 16th century the Perrots had lorded it over Pembrokeshire, the grandest of them the giant Sir John, the viceroy of Ireland, said to have been the illegitimate son of Henry VIII.
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In 1776 Argentina was incorporated into the viceroyalty of La Plata, with its capital in Buenos Aires; in addition to Argentina, the viceroyalty of La Plata comprised Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
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With the establishment of the Spanish viceroyalties, the era of European colonization began.
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During the viceroyal period in the New Spain, the building belonged to the Society of Jesus.
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The Viceroy is high Treasurer, notwithstanding that vnder him be three subtreasurers called Teftadars, which bee accomptable to him of the receipts out of Europe, Asia and Africa, saue their yeerely annuitie of lands.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The government of that country, by the ancient constitution of the Mogul empire, besides the numberless individual checks and counter-checks in the inferior officers [offices?], is divided into the viceroyal part and the subahdarry part.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
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Usually a Shire would have an eoldermen, who was the king's ‘viceroy’ in a shire, responsible for administration and justice, for calling out the fyrd and leading its forces in the field.
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Under Philip VI, a system of intendants was established throughout the Indies (176990), which reduced the viceroys 'powers.
B. Administration
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She was the viceroy's mistress; and though the viceroy might be a very agreeable man, he was a Spaniard, and not likely to be easy-going in his love affairs.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 27: Expelled from Spain
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There can be no doubt from the relation sent, as to the attitude of the king of China; for the three greatest magistrates whom he has in the province and dominion of Oquen (to which belongs the province of Chiencho) -- that is, the viceroy, the inspector-general and the eunuch -- write this, each one of them, in two letters, one of which is for the said archbishop and the other for the said governor of these islands.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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She had not spoken to him since the night of the Viceroy's party, when she put her Bohemian head out of the ticca-gharry to wish him good-night, and he walked home alone under the stars, trying to remember
The Path of a Star
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The King was Tian's viceroy on earth and was enthroned or dethroned at his will.
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The year my father was born, 1888, he claimed to have proved that the monarch butterfly is mimicked by the viceroy butterfly.
A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
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The Viceroy of Mexico now remembered the discovery of an excellent port by Viscaino, and resolved to found a "presidio" there.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
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In May 1735, a team of 10 scientists left for the Andean town of Quito, in the viceroyalty of Peru, a Spanish colonial possession that encompassed most of South America.
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Nearly all of them the issue of foreign families, viceroys of one or other of the great powers, our kings do not offer the example of a single individual redeeming by brilliant personal qualities the vice of subalternity, to which his position condemned him; not a single one who has ever evinced any grand national aspiration.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
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In 1713 he had become maestro di cappella to the Marchese Stella, succeeding Alessandro Scarlatti, and organist of the viceroyal chapel.
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Disraeli seized the chance to buy a controlling interest in the Suez canal, he sent the flamboyant Lytton to India as viceroy, and his 1876 Royal Titles Act proclaimed Victoria empress of India.
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In the process, he makes a vigorous case for what he calls the ‘aggressive modernity’ of the Baroque culture of the Spanish-American viceroyalties.
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As the Viceroy was being carried in a sedan chair away from the viewing stand, a Chinese man jumped out of the crowd lining the street, lifted a pistol, fired a single shot into the Viceroy's head.
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The Viceroyalty evolved into a largely ceremonial position.
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That project came to naught in 1869, when Bartholdi's small sculptural models were rejected by the Egyptian khedive, Ismael Pasha, already up to his viceroyal ears in debt.
Liberty as Statue and Symbol
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The English, says the journalist, were besieged, in Fort William, by the troops of the suba, or viceroy of Bengal, anli made prisoners.
The manual of liberty: or, Testimonies in behalf of the rights of mankind; selected from the best authorities, in prose and verse, and methodically arranged
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He probably also knew he had caused some discomfort between Stephens and Lord Linlithgow after Stephens called the viceroy's rejection of Raja ji's request to meet Mahatma Gandhi in jail soon after August 1942 "a mistake".
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
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If the former, lets hope someone has the courage to emulate the Coastguards and clap Emperor José's Viceroy in irons the moment he aor she arrives.
Coastguards Stem New Franco-German Invasion
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These viceroys have in fact twice in the last century exercised their vice-regal powers to dismiss elected governments!
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He was prepared to cancel his plans for civil disobedience and wanted to discuss the matter with the Viceroy.
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It carefully contrived the fantasies of a modern Roman Empire and grafted the passion for unrestricted authority on to the viceroy, governors and administrators who were greeted as proconsuls and centurians.
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Juan de Sousa stood immediately on his defence, and sent advice to the viceroy and the neighbouring commanders of his danger, trusting however to the strength of his defences, and particularly to a pallisade or _bound hedge_, which he had made of the plant named _lechera_ or the _milk plant_, which throws out when cut a milky liquor which is sure to blind any one if it touches their eyes.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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The first viceroy, Mendoza, and many of the subsequent officials of this rank governed Mexico for a period, and were transferred thence to the viceregency of Peru, which latter country had been brought into Spain's colonial possessions by the conquest under Pizarro, in 1532.
Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
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After receiving permission from the duke of Cardona, viceroy of Cataluna, to proceed into Spain, she remained some weeks under the protection of the marquis de los Velez in Zaragoza.
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Instead of accompanying the Viceroy to Allahabad she had gone to Darjeeling, and on her return, anxious to make sketches of the beautiful jungle scenery, she arranged, alas! contrary to the advice of those with her, to spend one night in the _terai_, [4] where she contracted jungle-fever, to which she succumbed ten days after her return to
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
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Ecuador was part of the viceroyalty of Peru, and the Inca Atahualpa had his capital in Quito.
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The name cinchona is derived from that of the wife of a viceroy of Peru, who is said to have taken the drug from South America to Europe in
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
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From 1942 Eden was Churchill's designated successor, but his distaste for party politics made him consider seriously Churchill's offer of the Indian viceroyalty.
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The viceroy's house, now the governor's, is a titanic white imitation of an English-county ducal palace.
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The collapse of the Ottoman Empire following World War I and the dissolution of the British Raj three decades later replaced sultans with presidents and viceroys with prime ministers.
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Moreover the youth was of the blood royal and A quoi bon être prince? as was said by a boy of viceroyal family in Egypt to his tutor who reproached him for unnecessarily shooting down a poor old man.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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But the Deccan was his responsibility; after sending him here eight years ago to overthrow Raja Jhujhar, Emperor Shah Jahan had officially given him the viceroyalty of the Deccan, and Aurangzeb had made Burhanpur his headquarters.
Shadow Princess
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In Naples, these lawyers were often called togati, and the viceroyal administrations fostered them in all the Spanish territories in order to undermine the traditional nobility.
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So saying, he called his secretaries of state and bade them make out Sherkan's patent of investiture to the viceroyalty of Damascus of Syria.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
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The aristocracies of Milan, Naples, and Sicily intrigued against their Spanish viceroys; in Sardinia a viceroy was murdered by dissident nobles.
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Accurately he was only regent of the Winds, viceroy of the gods.
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During the colonial period, in this Spanish American region then called the viceroyalty of New Granada, women suffered repeated verbal and physical abuse, sometimes culminating in murder, at the hands of their spouses.
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During a holiday to India in 1890, Abdul Karim recalls how "as Munshi to the Great Queen Empress, I called on the Viceroy Lord Lansdowne" and was invited to his 'durbar' or court.
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Until 1720 Ecuador was a section of the viceroyalty of Peru; after that date, it was grouped with what is now Colombia in the viceroyalty of New Granada.
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Eikenberry's pique seems to have been tweaked because a Brit, and not Eikenberry, was appointed "viceroy" -- a slight he seems to lay at the feet of a Karzai/McChrystal conspiracy.
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The U.N.-paid and U.N.-sanctioned rulers of both Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina exercise powers akin to erstwhile British viceroys.
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Of course, that's not the same as invading a country, but you get the idea: a viceroy / administrator tries to handle a fiercely resentful community.
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The name Peru was pervasive during the colonial period and was used to denominate the larger sections of the powerful viceroyalty of Lima.
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Having installed various Indian statesmen, religious figures and public benefactors in place of sundry British sovereigns, viceroys and generals, we have cheerfully proceeded to forget them.
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Bosnia Herzegovina, for example, while it has a seat at the United Nations, is also administered by an international viceroy, Lord Paddy Ashdown.
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The viceroyalty established at Lima in 1542 initially had jurisdiction over all of South America except Portuguese Brazil.
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Then came the exposure of the population to the threat of piracy, a scourge which the Spanish tried to counteract throughout their viceroyalties with fortifications.
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Spain ruled Peru as a viceroyalty for nearly 300 years after the conquest and regarded it more or less as a huge mine that existed to fill the crown's coffers.
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Like the proconsuls of ancient Rome, the viceroy governed, administered, judged, superintended the royal treasury, was commander in chief of the army, and the vice patron of the church.
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Like the proconsuls of ancient Rome, the viceroy governed, administered, judged, superintended the royal treasury, was commander in chief of the army, and the vice patron of the church.
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The following May he succeeded Badoglio as governor-general and viceroy in Abyssinia.
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Soon after the revolution which had seated Mir Jaffier on the viceroyal throne, the spirit of the Mogul empire began, as it were, to make one faint struggle before it finally expired.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
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He did a great job, but we wouldn't have wanted a President who thought like a viceroy, that is, like a minor king.
War heroes for President
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The overriding authority, the viceroy, whatever you wish to call him, actually has a considerable control and power, but they must be clear and honest with the local population.
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His ambition was to establish a museum of antiquities in Cairo, and in 1858 Said Pasha the viceroy of the Ottoman emperor agreed to the plans.
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The eolderman was the king's ‘viceroy’ in a shire, responsible for administration and justice, for calling out the fyrd and leading its forces in the field.
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The oldest photographic business in the world, it possesses pictures of a succession of kings, queens, viceroys, vicereines, spiritual leaders, business achievers and society ladies.
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The name Peru was pervasive during the colonial period and was used to denominate the larger sections of the powerful viceroyalty of Lima.
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And Lord Lytton, the conservative viceroy whose elaborately choreographed durbar Cannadine interprets as Britain's homage to India's deeply rooted "feudal order" and to the princes who were both its "expression" and its "apogee," explained the ornateness of that ceremony in pragmatic, rather disdainful terms: "The further East you go, the greater becomes the importance of a bit of bunting.
A Bit of Bunting
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On the fourth day he made ready for wayfare and got together sumptuous presents befitting his elder brother's majesty, and stablished his chief Wazir Viceroy of the land during his absence.
Tehran Winter
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However, when the Spanish authorities realised what was happening, they declared the entire area of what is now Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia as a viceroyalty, and made Buenos Aires the capital.
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Most cases in our sample occurred in the rural areas of Santa Fe / Mariquita and Tunja / Pamplona, the viceroyalty's central and northeastern provinces and two of its most densely populated regions.
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As Tristan de Cunna was now ready to depart for Portugal with the homeward bound ships, the viceroy went along with him to Paniani, a town belonging to Calicut which he proposed to destroy, as it was much frequented by the Moors, who took in loadings of spices at that place under the protection of four ships belonging to the zamorin commanded by
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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Central government remained under the control of the viceroy's Executive Council, but in the provinces a measure of self-government was conceded through the system known as dyarchy.
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He chooseth of them whomso He please to make him His viceroy and viceregent over
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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You need to scroll down until you reach the Viceroy of Redonda's announcement of this year's annual prize, a list of the noblesse of that Kingdom, and the patent for the ennobling of Claudio Magris as the Duke of Seconda Mano.
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More than 21% of all assaults reported in the viceroyalty were cases of wife-beating (58 cases in a sample of 275 crimes).
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Fleets of great armed ships, loaded to the scuppers with silver and other treasures from the Viceroyalties of Peru and New Spain, were assembled and outfitted at Havana.
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Buenos Aires, capital of a viceroyalty established in 1776, came into its own during the 19th century as the centre of music publishing, opera, and concert life in Spanish South America.
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Beginning in the second half of the eighteenth century, the population in the Peruvian viceroyalty began to slowly increase after epidemics brought by the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century had killed thousands of people.
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The authors explain how the Bourbon reforms of the late eighteenth century transformed the viceroyalty of New Spain into one of the most efficient tax regimes in colonial history.
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a hill, years and miles away from literature, music, pictures, politics, existing like a harem on the gossip of the Viceroy's intentions, and depending for amusement on tennis and bumble-puppy, and then consider, you yourself, whether you are the sort of person to be unquestionably happy there.
The Pool in the Desert
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The British named most of them after British kings and queens and viceroys.
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The period of his Viceroyalty was what is generally called uneventful -- that is, it was chiefly given up to such schemes as promoted peace and prosperity, and did not witness any extension of our dominions.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
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Protocol required Cook to seek leave of the Viceroy for his officers and men to come ashore.
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Fray Diego took his passage in the galleon _San Diego_, and having arrived safely in the Viceregal Court of Mexico, he pressed his views on the Viceroy, who declared that he had no orders.
The Philippine Islands
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Incidentally, shortly after the entry kef in the OED comes kehaya 'a Turkish viceroy, deputy, agent, etc; a local governor; a village chief.'
Languagehat.com: KEIF/KAIF
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When the Spanish Colony was established, one of the main objectives of the viceroyal administration was to obtain greater financial resources for the Crown.
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When I say _succeeded_, I wish your Lordships to understand that there is no regular succession in the office of subah or viceroy of the kingdom; but, in general, succession has been considered, and persons have been put in that place upon some principles resembling a regular succession.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
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Obviously, the Viceroy was under instructions not to parley with the half-naked rebel.
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Kipling mocked the place, viceroys and vicereines hated it, but here the British rulers of India spent most of their imperial century.
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We can well imagine what treasures of grace an obsequious viceroy, only too anxious to please a devout king, could bring together by means of the hearsay of ignorant, compliant natives through all the little towns of Portuguese India.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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Apart from issuing a few brief statements, the failed viceroy has yet to face the media to tell his side of the story.
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John Donne the poet, a few years later, uses the ancient language of reason as a 'viceroy', a deputy within us for the sovereignty of God: our confusion and suffering are the result of this sovereignty being compromised through our breaking of relation with God, so that we are left without defence against the destructive powers that imprison our true humanity.
Archbishop - Education based only on reason is incomplete
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His widow, unable to give employment to Iñigo, introduced him to her relative the Duke of Nájera, who was the Viceroy of Navarre, and Iñigo settled as his gentleman-at-arms.
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The viceroyal part takes in all criminal justice and political government.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
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Further studies suggest that some monarchs and some viceroys are palatable, while others are not.
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He knew that I had not approved of Lord Elgin's petulant removal of his viceroyal establishment from Montreal to Toronto, and cunningly resolved to draw me out before witnesses on the matter.
My Life as an Author
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He was on personal terms with every viceroy and vicereine and their staffs in the period between the 1890s and 1930s, and was awarded an Indian knighthood in 1929.
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He requested the title of viceroy and was refused, but received vice-regal powers with direct access to the king and his council.
Champlain's Dream
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Still in use is the old viceroyal mosque, the Mesjid Raya.
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This grandeur was the legacy of the ‘enlightened despotism’ of the viceroyalty.
