"Proclamation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... knowing of what great consequence it might be if the great persons in those parts, though the rumour were false, should be said to join with him, had commanded George earl of Shrewsbury, Thomas Manners earl of Rutland, and George Hastings earl of Huntingdon, to make a proclamation to the Lincolnshire-men, summoning and commanding them on their allegiance and peril of their lives to return; which, as it much disheartened them, so many stole ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin
... Stockton appointed Captain Fremont Governor of the Territory into which, by the proclamation of Commodore Sloat, the Province had been transformed; while Captain Gillespie was left, with nineteen men, in possession of Los Angeles; Lieutenant Talbot, of the Topographical Engineers, with nine men, was left ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne
... between two opposing principles—the principle of might and the principle of right. The first instituted the duel between equals and condemned the impotent to slavery; the second ordained the courts of civil justice and signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The principle of might licensed despotism and degraded the many in the service of the few; the principle of right proclaimed democracy and consecrated the few to the service of the many. Thus in ...
— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association
... Reggio, approached Amsterdam, to lay siege to that city and thereby compel the king to yield, Louis determined rather to descend from his throne than to submit to the unjust demands of France. He, therefore, issued a proclamation to his people, in which he told them that he, convinced that he could do nothing more to promote their welfare, and, on the contrary, believing that he was an obstacle in the way of the restoration of friendly relations between his brother and Holland, had determined to abdicate ...
— Queen Hortense - A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era • L. Muhlbach
... thing which the Cabinet does not intend to do is to authorise the proclamation of marital law. It would engage far too many ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 4th, 1920 • Various
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