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... would be selected as the point for invasion, he made it his defensive frontier, while the Detroit River was the offensive front of his campaign. These views he outlined to his staff on the night following the prorogation of the House. ...

— The Story of Isaac Brock - Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 • Walter R. Nursey

... city against Caesar, or else to have acknowledged him as his superior and submitted to him, for Caesar was both his fellow-countryman and his relative. Yet, after having violently objected to the prorogation of Caesar's term of office as consul, he put it in his power to capture Rome itself, and to say to Metellus that he regarded him and all the rest of the ...

— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch

... as Deputy of the Governor for the prorogation of parliament. The name is retained because it appears ...

— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine

... have also been invaded by the ecclesiastical supremacy, declared by a blasphemous law inherent to the crown, which law, though it be not now in force, is yet still kept up in practice by the indiction, prorogation, and dissolution of Assemblies, and prescribing diets and causes of fasting and thanksgiving in the magistrate's name and authority, to which ecclesiastical supremacy, usurped by the magistrate, this ...

— The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and • The Reformed Presbytery

Words linked to "Prorogation" : prorogue, discontinuation, discontinuance