Under the rule of Charles III and his ministers – Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache and José Moñino, Count of Floridablanca – Spain embarked on a program of enlightened despotism that brought Spain a new prosperity in the middle of the 18th century.

Macquarie ruled the colony as an enlightened despot, breaking the power of the Army officers such as John Macarthur, who had been the colony's de facto ruler since Bligh's overthrow.

Veteran MP Timothy Michael Healy was the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State ( 1922 – 1928 ), an enlightened choice to bridge the gap between the old order and the new generation of Cumann na nGaedheal politicians, although highly partisan ( his nephew was Minister for Justice Kevin O ' Higgins ; Healy made a public attack on Fianna Fáil and Éamon de Valera, which led to republican calls for his resignation ).

The case raised questions about England's status as an " enlightened " nation — Voltaire used the case in his brief essay Singularités de la nature to describe how the Protestant English were still influenced by an ignorant Church.

Many of the attendees would later go on to write more about these subjects, including Teresa González de Fanning, who founded an enlightened women's movement.

René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou ( 25 February 1714 – 29 July 1792 ) was a French politician, chancellor of France, whose attempts at fiscal reform signalled the failure of enlightened despotism in France.

The enlightened cleric Jacques de Vitry called lords who imposed heriots " vultures that prey upon death ... worms feeding upon the corpse.

In 1781, he was appointed a member of the Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del Pais ( Royal Basque Society of Friends to the Country ), an enlightened institution thanks to which he started teaching as professor of mineralogy and metallurgics in Bergara, the seat of both the Vascongada Society and the University of Vergara ( nowadays merged within the University of the Basque Country ).

Reinterpreting Classical and Renaissance evocation of the Golden Age in mankind's early history, Court de Gébelin asserted that the primitive worldwide civilization had been advanced and enlightened.

In 1905, his style of work formally evolved and already evident was that which his enemies most used to attack him —" Planism "— commonly known as " defectos de factura " ( carefree or enlightened, because the painting was to be agreeable to the sight, the pictorial qualities flattering to the senses ).

Throughout his life he was an enlightened patron of letters and art, and it was at his orders that the Château de Gaillon near Rouen was built.

The Residencia de Estudiantes was one of the most important institutions of the time because it allowed the great thinkers of the time to come together and fulfil their enlightened ideas.

Col. Henri Garvier was one of New Orleans' most important and enlightened slave owners.

Canova had obtained letters of introduction to the Venetian ambassador, the Cavaliere Zulian, and enlightened and generous protector of the arts, and was received in the most hospitable manner.

Frederick the Great ( 1712 – 1786 ) was one of Europe's enlightened monarch s.

When, during his discourses, he recounts his experiences as a young aspirant, he regularly uses the phrase " When I was an unenlightened bodhisatta ..." The term therefore connotes a being who is " bound for enlightenment ", in other words, a person whose aim is to become fully enlightened.

The capitol, the metropole, was the source of ostensibly enlightened policies imposed throughout the distant colonies.

However, after a long political career and with a very conservative reputation, in 1989 he placed himself at the head of verligte (" enlightened ") forces within the governing party, with the result that he was elected head of the National Party in February 1989, and finally State President in September 1989 to replace then president P. W.

He was both an admirer and a critic of Rudyard Kipling, praising Kipling as a gifted writer and a " good bad poet " whose work is " spurious " and " morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting ," but undeniably seductive and able to speak to certain aspects of reality more effectively than more enlightened authors.

From 1763, against resistance from the nobility and citizenry, an " enlightened absolutism " was established in Prussia and Austria, according to which the ruler governed according to the best precepts of the philosophers.

Although the conditions were ripe for industrial unrest — Communist influence in the union movement was then at its peak, and the right-wing faction in Cabinet was openly agitating for a showdown with the unions — the combination of strong economic growth and Holt's enlightened approach to industrial relations saw the number of working hours lost to strikes fall dramatically, from over two million in 1949 to just 439, 000 in 1958.

By this time, Lewis was held by the Mackenzies of Kintail, ( later the Earls of Seaforth ), who pursued a more enlightened approach, investing in fishing in particular.

Jainism was established by a lineage of 24 enlightened beings culminating with Parsva ( 9th century BCE ) and Mahavira ( 6th century BCE ).

Clerical and secular scholars from Europe turned their eyes to Iberian Peninsula as the arts and sciences prospered in an early Spanish " renaissance " under the patronage of Alfonso X, who was continuing the tradition of ( relatively ) enlightened and tolerant convivencia established by the Muslim emirate several centuries earlier.

:: Poland was indeed blind before, knowing nothing about the true God or the principles of the Catholic faith, but thanks to the enlightenment of Mieszko the country also had become enlightened, because when he adopted the faith, the Polish nation was saved from death and destruction.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Siddharta Gautama ( 563 – 483 BCE ), who renounced his royalty to lead an ascetic life and came to be known as the Buddha (" the enlightened one ") was born to the Shakya king Sudhodhana.

The influence of this code, the embodiment of Feuerbach's enlightened views, was immense.

After this storyline, Vulcans began a cultural transformation that was presumably a turn toward the more enlightened Vulcans of Trek series set further in the future.

By the standards of the time, Venice's stewardship of its mainland territories was relatively enlightened and the citizens of such towns as Bergamo, Brescia and Verona rallied to the defence of Venetian sovereignty when it was threatened by invaders.

He was the most faithful and enlightened steward there has ever been of our national finance.

Later the city's name was changed to Madīnat an-Nabiy ( " city of the prophet ") or Al-Madīnat ( u ) ' l-Munawwarah ( " the enlightened city " or " the radiant city ").

However, there was a gradual introduction of enlightened reforms, and this process culminated at the end of the century when even non-Catholics were granted the right to study.

Caroline was orphaned at a young age and moved to the enlightened court of her guardian, Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, consort of Frederick I of Prussia.

He was an actual ruler rather than a constitutional monarch ( see enlightened absolutism ).

Although there may be exceptions, it is thought by many international academics that most states enter into legal commitments with other states out of enlightened self-interest rather than adherence to a body of law that is higher than their own.

This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent ; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion ; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him / her to make an understanding and enlightened decision.

The heart of the American Legal Realist movement was an effort to define and discredit Classical legal thought, and to offer in its place a more philosophically and politically enlightened jurisprudence.

These highly educated immigrants were also responsible for educational reform and the enlightened, revolutionary spirit that developed in Aarau.

He realised how important it was for UMNO to continue to be in the hands of a responsible and enlightened leader.

We are tempted to blame others for our problems rather than look them straight in the face and realize they are of our own making and possible of solution only by ourselves with the help of desperately needed, enlightened, competent leaders.

Also as Salieri aged he moved slowly away from his more liberal political stances as he saw the enlightened reform of Joseph II's reign, and the hoped for reforms of the French revolution, replaced with more radical revolutionary ideas.

In Buddhism, a bodhisattva ( bodhisattva ; bodhisatta ) is either an enlightened ( bodhi ) existence ( sattva ) or an enlightenment-being or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, " heroic-minded one ( satva ) for enlightenment ( bodhi ).

It assumes people act for the purpose of enlightened self-interest.

A government of young men led by Mehdi Frasheri, an enlightened Bektashi administrator, won a commitment from Italy to fulfill financial promises that Mussolini had made to Albania and to grant new loans for harbor improvements at Durrës and other projects that kept the Albanian government afloat.

His name has become a byword for a wealthy, generous and enlightened patron of the arts.

Therefore Furet suggests that ideology played the crucial role in the rise of the Reign of Terror because " man's regeneration " became a central theme for the Committee of Public Safety as they were trying to instil ideals of free will and enlightened government in the public.

The motivation in it is the bodhicitta mind of enlightenment — an altruistic intention to become enlightened for the sake of all sentient beings.

By this time, the recreational or ' fun ' aspects of sexual behavior were being discussed more openly than ever before, and this more ' enlightened ' outlook resulted not just from the publication of such new books as these, but from a more pervasive Sexual Revolution that had already been well underway for some time.

Also he became eager to be seen as an enlightened international statesman, able to mediate in international conflicts and to gain international respect for Romania.

During the Meiji Restoration, when Shinto was declared an independent state religion separate from Buddhism, Shugendō was banned as a superstition not fit for a new, enlightened Japan.

While there is general providence for all, special providence only extends to those whose reason has been enlightened ;

Of course some privateers behaved no better than common pirates, but Hein was a strict disciplinarian who discouraged unruly conduct among his crews and had for the day rather enlightened views about " Indian " tribes, slaves and members of other religions.

Later, he becomes a Middlesex magistrate and is considered ' enlightened ' for his day.

Here and subsequently at the newly created Broadmoor Hospital, Dadd was cared for ( and encouraged to continue painting ) by the likes of Drs William Wood and Sir W. Charles Hood, in an enlightened manner.

Upon his death, in 2004, the Ramblers Association praised the 11th Duke for his enlightened championing of open access, as well as his apologies for the attitude of the 10th Duke, who had restricted access to much estate land.

In the same literature yoginī is the term used for female practitioners as well as divine goddesses and enlightened mothers, all revered as aspects of the Divine Mother Devi, without whom there would be no yogis.

When it was brought to Numa he declared that Egeria had enlightened him that this was a token of safeguard from Jupiter, for which he organized due measures of recognition, thus bringing the plague at an immediate end.

Early settlers of the Danebod colony ( located on the south side of Tyler ) founded a residential school in the Danish tradition of Folk High Schools and fostered the concept of " learning for living " by which individuals sought to become enlightened and thoughtful citizens.

This had gradually brought a more enlightened atmosphere to Prague, and by 1861 Smetana was seeing prospects of a better future for Czech nationalism and culture.