Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.
The word of God has provided nine explanatory designations of the heavenly beings. . . the first group is forever around God and is said to be permanently united with Him ahead of any of the others and with no intermediary. Here there are the most holy 'thrones' and the orders said to possess many eyes and many wings, called in Hebrew the 'cherubim' and 'seraphim'. . . The second group. . . is made up of 'authorities,' 'dominions,' and 'powers. ' And the third, at the end of the heavenly hierarchies, is the group of 'angels,' 'archangels,' and 'principalities. '
It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions.
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
