Only the death of Stephen, the great hospodar of Moldavia, enabled Poland still to hold her own on the Danube River ; while the liberality of Pope Julius II, who issued no fewer than 29 bulls in favor of Poland and granted Alexander Peter's Pence and other financial help, enabled him to restrain somewhat the arrogance of the Teutonic Order.

Yet despite his apparent liberality, Antonio López was a dictator who held Paraguayans on a tight leash.

In opposition to the Senate, in his pronouncements and iconography, Commodus had always laid stress on his unique status as a source of god-like power, liberality and physical prowess.

His Book V of Nicomachean Ethics, after an outline of positive characteristics ( e. g., " liberality ," " noble-mindedness ," " wit ") encouraged in humans, sketched some characters based on their possession or lack of these characteristics.

Hence the reward of congruous merit always depends in great measure on the kindness and liberality of the giver, though not purely and simply on his good will.

This had evidently made a deep impression on John's mind, and, now that he had the opportunity of exercising benevolence on a large scale, he soon became widely known all over the East for his liberality towards the poor.

* David A. Holgate, Prodigality, liberality and meanness in the parable of the prodigal son: a Greco-Roman perspective on Luke 15. 11-32, Continuum, 1999, ISBN 1-84127-025-3.

There were extensive gardens and a lot of money was spent on them: The house itself consists of sixty rooms, and the sum of, we understand £ 20, 000 in round numbers, has been expended so far upon the building ,-Upon entering the grand hall, through the massive oaken doorway, replete with medieval decorations, the visitor finds that ‘ The Priory ’ has been erected in a style of magnificence not very generally met with – it is floored en mosaique, in walnut and oak ; the peculiar grotesque spirit of the Gothic style is not permitted to run riot through the rich oak carving, while that more beautiful element, tracery enters largely into the interior ornamentation – the oak painted ceiling richly stuccoed and the polished armour shields an banners that hang around with the erect figures in full suits of armour ; the wide staircase in massive oak – the great doorways leading to the drawing – room at one side and to the library at the other – the rich and mellow light that comes through the beautiful stained glass window that forms the upper portion of the Gothic entrance, and through the lancet shaped sashes – all this bespeak a profuse liberality and taste of order.

If one wants to be, in one's own person, ' chosen of God ' ... then every other principle of selection, for example on the basis of integrity, manliness and pride, beauty and liberality of heart, is simply ' world ' — evil as such .."

On a canvass for his brother on one occasion his liberality in distributing claret and his vigour in consuming his own share carried the election.

Founded in 1853 through the liberality of Mrs. Eliza Garrett, Garrett-Evangelical is on the campus of Northwestern University and continues many associations with the university.

From 1867 to 1874 the Carpetbagger Republicans in the Texas State Legislature " looted the State and imposed heavy taxes on its people to pay for the liberality ".

Leo's lively interest in art and literature, to say nothing of his natural liberality, his alleged nepotism, his political ambitions and necessities, and his immoderate personal luxury, exhausted within two years the hard savings of Julius II, and precipitated a financial crisis from which he never emerged and which was a direct cause of most of what, from a papal point of view, were calamities of his pontificate.

It was true that he was also the only one who gave no evidence of political sagacity, military skill, or even ordinary intelligence ...", and elaborated in a later book, " He was gracious, benign, affable, courteous, the soul of liberality and generosity.

Immediately after the death of Tiberius ( 37 AD ), Caligula made over to Herod Agrippa, at that time a prisoner in Rome, the tetrarchy of Philip and the tetrarchy of Lysanias, while Claudius, upon his accession ( 41 ), not only confirmed the liberality of his predecessor towards Herod Agrippa, but added all that portion of Judaea and Samaria which had belonged to the kingdom of his grandfather Herod the Great, together ( says Josephus ) with Abila, which had appertained to Lysanias, and the adjoining region of Libanus.

So long as Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov remained in power, Elizabeth was treated with liberality and distinction by the government of her adolescent half-nephew Peter II.

The British government granted this concession, which had been previously promised by Lord Grey, and a constitution was established in 1854 of almost unprecedented liberality.

Through the liberality of Tooke's friends, Tooke's last days were freed from the pressure of poverty, and Tooke was enabled to place his illegitimate son in a position which soon brought him wealth, and to leave a competency to his two illegitimate daughters.

" The mayor of Chillicothe, Ohio expressed " thanks to these young colored people for their liberality in giving the proceeds of last evening ’ s concert to our relief fund for the Chicago sufferers.

He became within a few years, not only a leading business man, but the wealthiest citizen of the Cowanesque valley, maintaining at the same time a well-deserved reputation for liberality, enterprise, and public spirit.

In Rome he remained four years in the receipt of a pension due to the liberality of the chancellor.

There he remained for seven years, being finally released by the liberality of James II.

As the President of the Free Economic Society, he was also their most prominent advocate in the great commission of 1767, though he aimed primarily at pleasing the empress, who affected great liberality in her earlier years.

The lavish use of presents had been effective in expanding the Indian trade of New France and Louisiana in the previous century, and the change in liberality aroused resentment in the minds of the red men.

Yet, even after all these stratagems, the conscience of Christian liberality is still not laid to rest, any more than is the conscience of Harvard University for having done the abject penance for its rejection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Divinity School Address of naming its hall of philosophy after him.

But Parker as the ultra-liberal minister within the pale of a church which had proclaimed itself the repository of liberality poses a different problem, which is not to be resolved by holding him up as the champion of freedom.

However this liberality eventually led to dissent as John Thomas developed in his personal beliefs and started to question mainstream orthodox Christian beliefs.

Show me any one person who by that Gospel has been reclaimed from drunkenness to sobriety, from fury and passion to meekness, from avarice to liberality, from reviling to well-speaking, from wantonness to modesty.

From 1881 Abbott was editor-in-chief of The Christian Union, renamed The Outlook in 1893 ; this periodical reflected his efforts toward social reform, and, in theology, a liberality, humanitarian and nearly unitarian.

The bard Iolo Goch (" Red Iolo "), himself a Welsh lord, visited him in the 1390s and wrote a number of odes to Owain, praising Owain's liberality, and writing of Sycharth, " Rare was it there / to see a latch or a lock.

*" It can't be true what the girls at the Rectory said, that her mother was an opera-dancer —"" A person can't help their birth ," Rosalind replied with great liberality.

Her husband gives her leave to do Messer Ansaldo's pleasure: he, being apprised of her husband's liberality, releases her from her promise ; and the necromancer releases Messer Ansaldo from his bond, and will take nought of his.

Perhaps it was in part its scientific liberality that made Nature a longer-lasting success than its predecessors.

Finding, as he said, that the liberality of former kings had left the Crown " no estates except the high roads of Portugal ," he determined to crush the feudal nobility and seize its territories.

On the invitation of Zerubbabel, the governor, who showed them a remarkable example of liberality by contributing personally 1, 000 golden darics, besides other gifts, the people poured their gifts into the sacred treasury with great enthusiasm.

By him this earth was perfectly governed ," and of him it is said :-" No other king shall ever equal Kartavirya in regard to sacrifices, liberality, austerities, courtesy, and self-restraint.

* He discourages liberality and favors niggardliness to guarantee support from the people.

Yet Machiavelli is keenly aware of the fact that an earlier pro-republican coup had been thwarted by the people's inaction that itself stemmed from the prince's liberality.

" The church at Hustonville having no suitable house of worship, Logan Williams raised a sufficient fund -- six thousand dollars -- to build the present commodious edifice, which stands to-day as a monument to his energy and liberality.

By the liberality of Burke and his other friends, Barry in the latter part of 1765 was enabled to go abroad.

He was buried in Rochester Cathedral, and is described in the Annales monastici as a man of liberality and great worldly learning, ever ready in his assistance to the religious orders.

Quinault was educated by the liberality of François Tristan l ' Hermite, the author of Marianne.

Muretus, however, who about 1576 had taken holy orders, was induced by the liberality of Gregory XIII to remain in Rome, where he died.

Wyttenbach, influenced at once by the reputation of the university, and by the liberality of the Oxonians in tendering him assistance of different kinds, declined the offer of the Bipontine Society — very fortunately, since their press was soon destroyed by the French.

The pope treated Mantegna with less liberality than he had been used to at the Mantuan court ; but all things considered their connection, which ceased in 1500, was not unsatisfactory to either party.

About the same time, Gennadius ' liberality, penetration, and desire for order was observed in his appointment of Marcian, a Novatianist who had come over to the Orthodox church, the chancellor of the goods of the church of Constantinople.

A certain sexual liberality in films was popularly summarized in the expression Con Fraga hasta la braga (" With Fraga can see even the panties ").

The garrison was treated with great liberality ; and, though there was much property and money in the place, the Killadar was allowed to have whatever he claimed as his own.