Through the necessity of guarding against him the mildest governments are becoming despotic, the most despotic more despotic.
But in so far as government is not despotic it is not government.
He pictured all the passions of the earth since the Fall, from the devouring amorousness of Time's Revenges to the despotic fantasy of Instans Tyrannus; but he remained himself an Englishman of the middle class.
King Victor and King Charles, which followed it, is a political play, the study of a despotic instinct much meaner than that of Strafford.
Despotic government is repugnant to enlightened men: hence, in rejecting it for themselves, they repudiate it as a form of rule for all others.
The possession of despotic power is thus admitted not to be a crime, even when it extends over millions of men, and subjects their lives as well as their property and services to the will of an individual.
This, as a general rule, is no doubt true, and establishes the inexpediency of all despotic governments, whether for the state or the family.
We have said that the more popular belief, in reference to the moral character of slavery, now prevailing throughout the world, ranks it as identical in principle with despotic forms of government.
That it is a great civil and social evil, resulting from ignorance and degradation, like despotic systems of government, and may be tolerated until its subjects are sufficiently enlightened to render it safe to grant them equal rights.
Channing's argument of any force, it must be shown that Paul not only enjoined obedience to a despotic monarch, but that he recognized Nero as a Christian.
In like manner the great duty of despotic governments is not the immediate granting of free institutions, but the constant and assiduous cultivation of the best interests (knowledge, virtue, and happiness) of the people.
The fact that Paul enjoins obedience under a despotic government, is a valid argument to prove, not that he sanctioned the conduct of the reigning Roman emperor, but that he did not consider the possession of despotic power a crime.
It may be legitimate or revolutionary, despotic or constitutional, just or unjust, so long as it exists it is to be recognized and obeyed within its proper sphere.
But however guilty, still let it be tried, condemned, and executed according to law, and not extinguished by a despotic and lawless power more terrific than itself.
From the offences of mankind arise despotic restrictions and penal laws of every kind.
But the piecemeal destruction of many hundreds of thousands of manuscripts was no trifling task, even for a despotic caliph.
Americans, greater than AEolus, more despotic than Sans-Culotte.
Perhaps the writer should have no despotic power over his creations, however slight they are.
On the investment of the great city, King William removed his headquarters to the historic palace of Versailles, setting up his homely camp-bed in the same apartments from which Lois XIV had once issued his despotic edicts and commands.
This despotic army was an outgrowth of the Franco-Prussian war.
Ferdinand, delivered by foreign armies, remounted his throne, forgot all his pledges, and reigned on the most despotic principles, committing the most atrocious cruelties.
It was in San Rufino that this beautiful young girl, named Clara Scifi, daughter of the powerful Count Favorini Scifi, as despotic as he was powerful, heard the new preacher.
It was from Piazza Monte Sole that the despotic Abbot Monmaggiore fled along the covered way he had made to connect his citadel of Monte Sole with his palaces at Porta San Antonio.
Then Canning writing on the 20th records the end of the revolution which re-established the authority of the Sultan in a position as absolute and despotic as it had been in the days of Mohammed II.
Then followed a fresh period of repression, in the course of which the constitution of 1812 was again set aside, and throughout the remaining decade of the reign the government of the kingdom was both despotic and utterly unprogressive.
When Casimir's son, John Albert, succeeded to the throne in 1492, Filippo became his chief minister and adviser, and is said to have counselled the King to resist the nobles and aim at despotic power.
A doctrine like this would be scouted even in despotic countries.
Let us rather attend to our own character than that of any despotic nation upon earth.
It is not wanted to gratify family pride, or to raise a monument of despotic power and slavish submission.
To take sides with a Catholic and despoticpower which had been a deadly foe to the colonists ten or twenty years before, during the days of the French and Indian wars, was to his mind a measure at once unpatriotic and indiscreet.
I look upon the alliance with this Catholic anddespotic power as more of an act of treason than the total surrender of our armies to King George.
Better to accept the overtures of our kinsmen than to cast our lot with that Catholic and despotic power.
The nemesis of a despotic system is that, however well-intentioned it may be, its officials are not controlled by an alert public opinion and yet must be trusted by their master.
In London the will, indeed, was not wanting, for the Stuart kings, Charles II and James H, were not less despotic in spirit than Louis XIV.
He cherished, however, the Roman Catholic faith and the despotic ideals of his Bourbon mother.
Fourth, the reigning legislative opinion of the day has never, at any rate during the nineteenth century, exerted absolute or despotic authority.
It is therefore on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and the most military governments as well as to the most free and popular.
For the free governments, for the point of their space, and the moment of their duration, have felt more confusion, and committed more flagrant acts of tyranny, than the most perfect despotic governments which we have ever known.
Those despotic governments which are founded on the passions of men, and principally upon the passion of fear, keep their chief as much as may be from the public eye.
And when Hilda appeared as the bearer of this missive, it was really quite a matter of course, under a despotic government, that she should be detained.
Catharine's son and successor, was infinitely more despotic than Catharine, and infinitely less restrained by public opinion.
And next this is an index of despotic hate,--for the Polish sceptre is broken and flung aside.
He begged the Government to assume despotic power till the issue was decided.
As Cavour remarked, "Franklin sought the help of the most despotic monarch in Europe," and the analogies in recent history do not require to be recalled.
When he was gone, they compared notes about his face, his unhappiness, and his despotic power over millions.
The Governor constantly charged the patriot leader with being an incendiary, and the latter replied in a manner to convict Governor Bernard of despotic usages and a spirit hostile to American liberty.
It could hardly be supposed that our fathers would tamely submit to such an odious and despotic procedure.
A despotic minister will always endeavor to dazzle his prince with high-flown ideas of the prerogative and honor of the crown, which the minister will make a parade of firmly maintaining.
And over and above all, this despoticlegislation was in direct conflict with the Charter of Massachusetts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "despotic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
