Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.
...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you...
This time as we ascend, I watch the world sinking below us. I watch the way the city fades into sand that gets washed by the ocean.
If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.
Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them.
The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.
We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
To ascend you must rise above, and I believe in the idea of keeping your “feet in the clouds and your head in the stars”.
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.
Leaving the age of materialism and duality behind us, we now seek to become Masters of the Spiritual Kingdom ~ moving into the penthouse of ourselves, the crown chakra, as it were. Herein lays all our joy, our progress and our discovery of our superi...
Self-realization or self-knowing or awakening is about knowing/ becoming conscious of our true nature and living in harmony with the universe in an ever ascending order.
