Word: sovereign
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...royal residence on the site having been the hunting-lodge erected by Louis XIII. This was added to by his son, who used it for a similar purpose, and who had the architect, Le Vau, add largely to the accommodations and change it into a residence worthy of the sovereign of a rich and powerful nation. Later Mansart set to work in his turn, and increased the size and splendor of Versailles around which, in the meantime, the king had caused a city to rise. The superb gardens and park, with their wealth of statuary, first in stone and lead...
...monarchical government tempered by law and the influence of the aristocracy, and, feeling that this system tended toward despotism, he tried to place kings and governments under the influence of the Pope, in whom he recognized the right to disengage a people from the duty of obedience to their sovereign...
...legitimate expectations of college life were the delightful membership, the share of knowledge, the method of inquiry into the vast compound life, the privilege of sitting under great teachers, but most of all the realization of a constant and solemn relation to this universe. Christianity is simply the sovereign mood--man at his best. The good name of the University is bound up in the willingness of the new men to perpetuate and enrich and make commanding that service here which makes the sovereign mood...
...from boyhood know her sovereign away...
...this condition. That conquest did not make Porto Rico a part of the United States is clear from the decision of the court in Fleming vs. Page (9 Howard). The court said in regard to Tampica, a conquest by the United States: 'It was undoubtedly under the sovereign dominion of the United States.' But yet it was not a part of the Union. That the treaty of cession did not bring Porto Rico within our boundaries is clear from the wording of the treaty itself, and secondly, from the uniform construction put upon such treaties by Congress, and thirdly, from...