"Self-dependent" Quotes from Famous Books
... empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away: While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and ... — Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell
... death of Elector Charles Theodore; also to give up the district seized, if Prussia will promise to resign the succession of the Margraves of Anspach and Baireuth, and let them remain independent principalities, governed by self-dependent sovereigns." ... — Old Fritz and the New Era • Louise Muhlbach |