But at the touch of Hume and Voltaire the noble or hideous visitations which had haunted the mind since Agamemnon's blood cried out for vengeance, disappeared altogether or took tawdry refuge among the gaslights of melodrama.

She took refuge on a tongue of land extending into a gully, crouched at the base of a thorn tree, and waited for them to come up.

David took refuge from Absalom's forces beyond the Jordan River.

During this period Agamemnon and his brother, Menelaus, took refuge with Tyndareus, King of Sparta.

The contemporary ecclesiastics recorded with wonder many instances of the Visigoths ' clemency: Christian churches saved from ravage ; protection granted to vast multitudes both of pagans and Christians who took refuge therein ; vessels of gold and silver which were found in a private dwelling, spared because they " belonged to St. Peter "; at least one case in which a beautiful Roman matron appealed, not in vain, to the better feelings of the Gothic soldier who attempted her dishonor.

He was, however, dispossessed of both Macedon and Epirus by Demetrius II of Macedon, the son of Antigonus II ; upon which he took refuge amongst the Acarnanians.

However, when the time came, Anna quickly and surreptitiously mobilized the remainder of the family and took refuge in the Hagia Sophia.

At the emperor's further insistence, and for their own protection they took refuge at the convent of Petrion, where eventually they were joined by Irene Doukaina's mother, Maria of Bulgaria.

He then took refuge in the church of Hagia Sophia and from there appealed to the populace.

They took refuge on an island at Thorney, on the Hertfordshire Colne, where they were blockaded and were ultimately forced to submit.

He took refuge with King Amalric I of Jerusalem, whose favour he gained, and who invested him with the Lordship of Beirut.

Isaac killed Hagiochristophorites and took refuge in the church of Hagia Sophia.

On one occasion he was separated from Ursicinus and took refuge in Amida during the siege of the city, which was then attacked by the Sassanid king Shapur II ; he barely escaped with his life.

He then took refuge at the altar in the orchestra of the Theater of Dionysus.

The term can trace its origin to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan when millions of Afghans took refuge in neighboring Pakistan and Iran.

After the death of his master the school of Syria was dispersed, and Aedesius seems to have modified his doctrines out of fear of Constantine, and took refuge in divination.

The terrified local Thracians took refuge with their families and animal herds on the slopes of Mons Donuca, the highest mountain in Thrace ( Mt.

As the neighbouring " city " is not mentioned in any other context than during the Danish attack as a place where people took refuge, it probably meant a near-by fortress.

The republic was restored, and Bokassa, who took refuge in Côte d ' Ivoire and France, was sentenced to death in absentia for various crimes, including cannibalism.

After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War ( 19 July 1870 ), Monet took refuge in England in September 1870, where he studied the works of John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner, both of whose landscapes would serve to inspire Monet's innovations in the study of color.

Of all the Nahuas, only Tlatelolcas remained loyal, and the surviving Tenochcas looked for refuge in Tlatelolco, where even women took part in the battle.

Egypt is identified in the Bible as the place of refuge that the Holy Family sought in its flight from Judea: " When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod the Great, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt I called My Son " ( Matthew 2: 12 – 23 ).

He later took refuge in Jezzine's grotto, closely followed by Koujak who eventually caught up with him and his family.

See List of people who took refuge in a diplomatic mission for a list of some notable cases.

* List of people who took refuge in a diplomatic mission

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According to William Seale, he took several slaves with him to Washington to serve at the White House from 1817 to 1825.

Cheonoquet took part in Indian treaties in 1807, 1815, 1825 and 1837.

In 1825, Count Mazzara took him to Rome for vocal and musical studies and introduced him to Luigi Cherubini.

He made powerful onslaughts on the Church in connection with the Bell and Lancaster controversy, and took a part in the discussions that led to the foundation of the University of London in 1825.

As late as September 1825, Maine and Massachusetts Land Agents issued deeds, sold timber permits, took censuses, and recorded births, deaths, and marriages in the contested area of the Saint John River valley and its tributaries.

Auguste Vestris's son, Auguste Armand Vestris ( 1788 – 1825 ), husband of Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, who took to the same profession, made his debut at the opera in 1800, but left Paris for Italy and Vienna and never reappeared in France.

During 1825 and 1826, Ashmun took steps to lease, annex, or buy tribal lands along the coast and along major rivers leading inland.

Cofresí's last successful assault took place on March 5, 1825, when he commanded the hijacking of a boat property of Vicente Antoneti in Salinas, Puerto Rico.

Utagawa Toyokuni ( 1769, Edo-February 24, 1825, Edo ) ( Japanese: 歌川豐國 ), also often referred to as Toyokuni I, to distinguish him from the members of his school who took over his gō ( art-name ) after he died, was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his Kabuki actor prints.

The first celebration of the anniversary of the supposed adoption of the Mecklenburg Declaration took place in Charlotte on May 20, 1825.

As early as 1825 his name was mentioned as a possible candidate for the throne of Greece, and in February 1831 he was nominated king of the Belgians, but international considerations deterred Louis-Philippe from accepting the honour for his son, who was accompanying the French army that entered Belgium to support the new kingdom in its separation from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ; there he took part in the siege of Antwerp.

Guadalupe Victoria took office as interim president from 10 October 1824 to 31 March 1825.

Victoria also facilitated the activities of the Lancasterian Society, which was dedicated to education, and he created the Naval Force that enabled his greatest achievement: the complete independence of Mexico, when on 18 November 1825, general Miguel Barragán took the last Spanish stronghold, the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa in Veracruz.

Cole took a steamship up the Hudson in the autumn of 1825, the same year the Erie Canal opened, stopping first at West Point, then at Catskill landing where he ventured west high up into the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York State to paint the first landscapes of the area.

Under her successor, Mother Aimee de Jesus ( Elodie Dullaert, b. 1825, d. 1907 ), the Sisters of Notre Dame, at the request of Léopold II of Belgium, took charge of the girls ' schools in the Jesuit missions of the Congo Free State, where three houses were established.

After two years of residence in Cambridge, Scoresby took his degree ( 1825 ) and became the curate of Bessingby, Yorkshire.

The pagoda was built by two generations of carpenters and took 30 years to complete in 1825.

He continued his active support of ultra-royalist views until his death, which took place in Paris on 17 January 1825.

He subsequently served as British Ambassador to Russia where he took part in negotiations leading to the 1825 Treaty of Saint Petersburg and as British Ambassador to the Netherlands where he was involved in negotiations leading to the establishment of Belgium in 1831.

The first exhibitions took place in May 1825 and were held annually from then on.

At this time most professorships were in the gift of the town council, resulting in such uninspiring teachers as the Professor of Anatomy, Alexander Monro tertius who put off many of his students ( including the young Charles Darwin who took the course 1825 – 1827 ).

He was called to the bar in 1824 and took orders in Church of England in 1825, but did not practice either profession because the death of his father left him with sufficient wealth to pursue his scientific interests.

In 1822 he took the degree of doctor of philosophy at Berlin, and in 1825 became extraordinary professor.

One further attempt to build a ship canal took place in 1825, when a canal capable of taking vessels of 200 tons, with a draught of was proposed.