"Assertor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he soon shook off his able but too aspiring colleague, the earl of Southampton, and disgraced, by the imposition of a fine for some alleged embezzlement of public money, the earl of Arundel, also a known assertor of the ancient faith, finally, having observed how closely the principles of protestantism, which Edward had derived from instructors equally learned and zealous, had interwoven themselves with the whole texture and fabric of his mind, he resolved to merit the lasting attachment of the ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin
... brave assertor of his country's liberty against the Roman invasions, who cut to pieces three legions commanded by Quintilius Varus in the ...
— Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 • Edward Ziegler Davis
... am ignorant of his relation to the emperor of that name) was great domestic, a firm assertor of the Greek creed, and a brother of the queen of Servia, whom he visited with the character of ambassador, (Syropulus, p. 37, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon |
