This was his position at the beginning of the present reign in June, 1837.
When we compare education now with what it was even forty years ago, much more with the stupid brutality of the monastic system, we may hail for children, as well as for grown people, the advent of the reign of common sense.
Had sons sprung from that union, the grandson of Godwin, royal alike from Saxon and Dane, would reign on the throne of the isle.
Robespierre, the people needed breathing space; hence the Regency at the opening of the century and the Directory at its close, each reign of terror ending in a Saturnalia.
The ancestors of Earl Romney, and Lord Dudley and Ward, were goldsmiths and jewelers; and Lord Dacres was a banker in the reign of Charles I, as Lord Overstone is in that of Queen Victoria.
But the desire aroused by Usselinx for a Swedish colonial empire was revived in the reign of his infant daughter, Christina, by the celebrated Swedish Chancellor, Oxenstierna.
He became still more bound when one of the first acts of the new King's reign was the release of a great number of people who had been imprisoned for their religion, among them thirteen hundred Quakers.
They might be called the first martyrs to foreshadow the English Revolution of 1688 which ended forever the despoticreign of the Stuarts.
It must, indeed, be admitted that at that period the reign of decorum had not made nearly so great a progress as it has at present.
Her father, Sir Harry Oswald, was obliged to fly, you know, for one of those sad affairs in the reign of Charles the Second, and his estates and effects were sold.
Footnote: It may be interesting to the reader to know that the whole of this scene, even to a great part of the dialogue, actually took place in the beginning of the reign of William III.
I have heard it asserted by a very clever man, that there was nothing of the kind known in England before the commencement of the reign of George III.
For instance, that the Simplon Pass has contributed as surely to Napoleon's immortality as the numerous works done in the reign of the Emperor Francis will fail to add to his.
With which he decorated the Louvre, and the bronze with which he clothed the column of the Place Vendome,--in my opinion the finest monument of his reign and the most beautiful one in Paris.
The Comte de Chaban, being obliged to cross France during the Reign of Terror, was compelled to assume a disguise.
These words brought to my recollection what I had read in a work by one Gabriel Naude, who wrote during the reign of Louis XIII.
It was not one of the least singular traits in Napoleon's character that during the first year of his reign he retained the fete of the 14th of July.
Stael he said, "The reign of anarchy is at au end.
The long reign of this wise and good prince was the most remarkable, and the most happy period of time Rome ever knew from her foundation to her dissolution.
The colonies settled during the peaceful reign of James the first, laid the foundation of our present extensive commerce.
Under the reign of those two kings happened the mortal blow, which subverted the very foundation of their constitution.
Aristotle and Plutarch fix it under the reign of Theopompus and Polydorus, and attribute the institution expressly to the former of those princes about one hundred and thirty years after the death of Lycurgus.
I do believe there is no king who would not rather be deposed than endure every day of his reign all the ceremonies of his coronation.
One would think he were of the opinion of the Millenaries, and hoped for so long a reign upon earth.
Their first institution, therefore, could not be in the reign of Baldwin I.
Philip Augustus was too deeply engaged in those vast and magnificent schemes which, however impeded by the prejudices of the day, rendered his reign a great epoch in the history of nations.
The most important treatise on his reign is the work of Rigord, who was at once monk, physician, and historiographer at the court of Philip.
Of the reign of Charlemagne we have not so many authentic accounts as we have romances, founded upon the fame of that illustrious monarch.
In what precise year the Hospitallers first appeared in arms is not very clearly ascertained; but it is a matter of no moment, and it is certain that they became a military body during the reign of Baldwin du Bourg.
In Germany the reign of the Emperor Maximilian was the last in which Chivalry can be said to have existed.
After a reign of thirteen years he left the kingdom to his son, entire, indeed, but neither more extended in territory, nor more consolidated in power, than when he received it.
He also wrote a bombastic poem on the reign of his patron, which, however exaggerated and absurd, is useful as an historical document, and a painting of the manners and customs of the time.
Among our historians, Heylin, in his History of the Reformation, has apportioned a distinct division of his narrative to "The Reign of Queen Jane.
The custom of Serjeants-at-law presenting rings on their creation was used in (and probably before) the reign of Henry VI.
Later still, in the Reign of Terror, the grottoes may have harboured priests and nobles hiding for their lives.
But it was at one time the haunt of an outlaw named Poole, in the reign of Henry IV.
In the reign of Hakon, Athelstan's foster son, horseflesh formed the sacrificial meal of the Norseman.
Until the end of the reign of Louis XVI the principal burying-ground of Paris had been the Cemetery of the Innocents.
Mr. Stevenson writes relative to the pits before the entrance doors of refuges: "Some years ago I had a part in exploring the Norman Keep of Scarborough Castle, erected early in the reign of Henry II.
During the Revolution and Reignof Terror they were occupied by priests and Royalists.
During his reign almost every trace of the destruction wrought by Charles the Bold disappeared.
The same fate overtook the inmates of many monasteries and convents at Bruges in the reign of Joseph II.
Austrian Netherlands,' was a period of considerable improvement, Ypres never recovered its position, not even during the peaceful reign of the Empress Maria Theresa.
A trifling dispute with which hisreign began was the prelude to very serious events.
The annals of his time are full of merrymaking, the accounts of which enable us, perhaps better than graver histories do, to understand the Court of the Austrian Netherlands in the long reign of Maria Theresa.
They understood not the Scriptures because their minds were completely hardened and dominated by the fixed idea that Christ should reign as a temporal king.
You did not become Christians with the prospect of reigning here on earth, as the Jews fancy they shall reign and be established.
The very fact that we may be reckoned dead unto sins means they may no longer live and reign in us.
In God's kingdom God alone is to speak, reign and act.
Particularly must we not impatiently murmur and rage against God; we must also show meekness toward our fellowmen, to the end that wrath everywhere may be quelled and subdued, and only patience and meekness reign among Christians.
There we read of Jeremiah's conflict with "Hananiah the son of Azzur the prophet," in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah.
During the greater part of Hezekiah's reign Isaiah had received only moderate support.
At the end of his life he appears to have wished to undo, at least in some measure, the evil he had laboured throughout his reign to establish and make strong.
The reign of only one king of Israel, Josiah, promised its realisation.
D is the author of Deuteronomy, who wrote, it is supposed, in the reign of Manasseh, perhaps about 670 B.
The national god was conceived of mainly as a greater and more powerful man, full of the energetic self-assertion without which it would be impossible for any man to reign over an Eastern community.
Though he had the gods of the great battalions on his side, he was dimly afraid of the power of ideas; and, so far as faithful men were concerned, he instituted a "reign of terror.
In all probability, it was disregard of this axiomatic truth which made Solomon's reign so burdensome to the people and tore the kingdom asunder under Rehoboam.
The whole of Hezekiah's reign was filled with more or less convulsive efforts to maintain the independence of Judah.
In the reign of Louis the Fourteenth a Prince of Monaco was sent as ambassador to Rome, and entered that city with horses shod in silver, the shoes held by one nail only, so that they might drop the sooner.
Act, which was rendered perpetual by another made in the seventh year of the reign of Queen Anne, all our proceedings on this head are at this day grounded.
By an Act also passed in the reign of King William, persons who counterfeit any stamp which by its mark relates to the Revenue, shall be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy, and upon this also there have been some executions.
His father was of the number of those unhappy people who went over to Darien when the Scots made their settlement there in the reign of the late King William, his son Thomas being left under the care of his mother then a widow.
And a general notion of the history of France, from the conquest of that country by the Franks, to the reign of Louis the Eleventh, is sufficient for use, consequently sufficient for you.
In later times, memoirs, from those of Philip de Commines, down to the innumerble ones in the reign of Louis the Fourteenth, have been of great use, and thrown great light upon particular parts of history.
He has not paid due homage to several of the great writers that adorned the reign of Louis XIV.
The Persian empire lasted but for the short period of two hundred and twenty years, from its foundation by Cyrus to the reign of the last Darius, whose personal character and fate leave such an affecting and tragical impression on our minds.
In the most brilliant period of Spanish history her religious despotism was prophetic of her premature decay, and each succeedingreign verifying the prophecy, she now tottered on the verge of ruin.
The subtile poison of Catholicism was instilled into the French government under the reign of Clovis, the Great, who succeeded his father Childeric, King of the Franks, in 481.
They will reverently bow to a priest without thinking it is possible that under the guise of his chaste and holy profession, avarice, lust and murder may reign supreme.
His inhuman and impolitic course having led his minister to intimate that he was depopulating his kingdom by his frequent massacres, he replied: "Better be without subjects than to reign over heretics.
Jealous of the rights of sovereignty, and determined to transmit them unimpaired to his successor, his reign was, in consequence, a perpetual contest with the intrigues of the clergy.
Lambert, a school teacher, for denying the real presence At intervals during his reign he rigorously persecuted the Protestants.
By the same disgraceful and impertinent intrigues the reign of Queen Elizabeth was perpetually disturbed with efforts to overthrow her government.
Catholicism was introduced into Spain in 586, under thereign of Reccared I.
This policy is illustrated in the schemes of papal policy and intrigue concocted under the reign of King John, youngest son of Henry II.
By the same disastrous intermeddling the reign of Queen Ann was disturbed with efforts to restore the succession to James the Pretender, the pope's tool for the recovery of England; under that of George I.
Confusion, disorder, pillage reign even among the inhabitants, for the English make examples of severity every day.
The leaden plate was inscribed as follows: "Year 1749, in the reign of Louis Fifteenth, King of France.
It was a sparkling fragment of the reign of Louis XV.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reign" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
