Here, in the old days -- when they had come to see the moon or displays of fireworks -- sat the king and his court while priests, soldiers, and other members of the party lounged in the smaller alcoves between.

In The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemptuously dismissed Steele's reference to his friend at court: `` I suppose by the Style of old Friend, and the like, it must be some Body there of his own Level ; ;

The old woman complained to the deputy governor, who ordered the servant brought before the court.

An early professed empiricist, Thomas Hobbes, known as an eccentric denizen of the court of Charles II of England ( an " old bear "), published in 1651 Leviathan, a political treatise written during the English civil war, containing an early manifesto in English of rationalism.

In the Prose Edda Snorri Sturluson quotes many stanzas attributed to Bragi Boddason the old ( Bragi Boddason inn gamli ), a court poet who served several Swedish kings, Ragnar Lodbrok, Östen Beli and Björn at Hauge who reigned in the first half of the 9th century.

The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.

In the end, the Fujiwara were destroyed, the old system of government supplanted, and the insei system left powerless as bushi took control of court affairs, marking a turning point in Japanese history.

An old story told that Andrew Jackson had encouraged their romance when they began to court.

This issue came up again in 2002, when Riefenstahl was one hundred years old and she was taken to court by a Roma group for denying the Nazis had exterminated gypsies.

He started his career in the court when he was 15 years old.

Created in 1922 ( although the idea of an international court was several centuries old ), the Court was initially met with a good reaction from states and academics alike, with many cases submitted to it for its first decade of operation.

In 1994 the medieval court and the old town was set on the UNESCO world heritage list.

Thaddeus St. John, a county court judge in Fonda, New York, recalled having seen two old friends, Alexander Merrill and Joseph Russell, traveling with a black man to Washington at the time of the late President Harrison's funeral.

Their modernization aside, in the court the old traditions still prevailed.

The court took evidence from theologian John F. Haught and ruled that " ID is not a new scientific argument, but is rather an old religious argument for the existence of God.

Public disorder regarding the Roses dynasties was always a threat until the 17th century Stuart / Bourbon re-alignment occasioned by a series of events such as the execution of Lady Jane Grey, despite her brother in law, Leicester's reputation in Holland, the Rising of the North ( in which the old Percy-Neville feud and even anti-Scottish sentiment was discarded on account of religion ; Northern England shared the same Avignonese bias as the Scottish court, on par with Valois France and Castile, which became the backbone of the Counter-Reformation, with Protestants being solidly anti-Avignonese ) and death of Elizabeth I of England without children.

The name comes from the Cornish " hen lis " or " old court " and " ton " added later to denote a Saxon manor ; the Domesday Book refers to it as Henliston ( which survives as the name of a road in the town ).

* Winter – Octavian ( thirty-two years old ) takes court at Samos.

** John Donne is appointed as Reader in Divinity at his old inn of court, Lincoln's Inn.

In the second half of the fifteenth century, when the Sforza ruled the city, the old Visconti fortress was enlarged and embellished to became the Castello Sforzesco: the seat of an elegant Renaissance court surrounded by a walled hunting park stocked with game captured around the Seprio and Lake Como.

While in Ravenna, Otto III nominated his his cousin and court chaplain Bruno, who was then only twenty-three years old, and sent him to Rome with Archbishop Willgis of Mainz to secure the city.

His son Edgar, who was then about five years old, was brought up at the English court.

Shōkō-tennō was only 12 years old when he assumed the role of formal head of the Daïri ; but " Go-Komatsu-in " had direction of the court the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi was charged with the general superintendence of affairs.

Shōkō was only 12 years old when he began living in the daïri ; but Go-Komatsu, as a Cloistered Emperor still retained direction of the court and the Shogun was charged with the general superintendence of affairs.

The famous old French and Spanish buildings with their elaborate wrought iron balconies and the narrow streets of the Latin Quarter present an Old World scene.

There will be masses of flowers, reproductions of the handsome old buildings with their grillwork and other things that are typical of New Orleans.

The buildings in the old city originate, on the whole, from building projects during the 16th century, when nearly all the Middle Age period buildings were replaced or expanded.

At Woodside the old station buildings still stand disused, and the original platforms have been replaced by accessible low platforms.

The Dartmoor Prison Museum, located in the old dairy buildings, focuses on the history of HMP Dartmoor.

Bernardi suggested East St. Louis, Illinois, because it was filled with old buildings " that exist in New York now, and have that seedy run-down quality " that the team was looking for.

Since then the bridges have been restored to their original forms using as many of the remaining materials as possible, but the buildings surrounding the Ponte Vecchio have been rebuilt in a style combining the old with modern design.

Zone One is the Historic Center, ( Centro Histórico ), lying in the very heart of the city, the location of many important historic buildings including the Palacio Nacional de la Cultura ( National Palace of Culture ), the Metropolitan Cathedral, the National Congress, the Casa Presidencial ( Presidential House ), the National Library and Plaza de la Constitución ( Constitution Plaza, old Central Park ).

There are 82 buildings or sites in Geneva that are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance, and the entire old city of Geneva is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

She decided to stay in Geneva alone, living first on the lake at Plongeon ( near the present United Nations buildings ) and then at the Rue de Chanoines ( now the Rue de la Pelisserie ) with François and Juliet d ’ Albert Durade on the second floor (" one feels in a downy nest high up in a good old tree ").

" will pull down the Standard Theatre like they have pulled down all the old buildings, theatres, gin-palaces, dosshouses, temples, shops, arcades, cafes and joints that were intimately associated with the mining-camp days of Johannesburg.

It is a cavity nester, preferring holes in cliffs, trees or buildings ; in built-up areas, Common Kestrels will often nest on buildings, and generally they often reuse the old nests of corvids if are available.

The Baixa de Luanda is situated next to the port, and has narrow streets and old colonial buildings.

in the 19th-century, the former fortifications gave way to a ring road that encircles the old town centre, from which the old industrial buildings have been excluded.

Remnants of old farming buildings

As a consequence, under Saudi rule, it has been estimated that since 1985 about 95 % of Mecca's historic buildings, most over a thousand years old, have been demolished.

Unfortunately not a whole lot of very old buildings are left in town: first the Americans carpet-bombed it in February 1944, later the Germans shelled it for about five months after the liberation in September 1944, and finally there were a lot of very rigorous city planners in the 1950s, 60's and 70's who finished what the Americans and Germans started.

Renewal and rediscovery of old liturgical traditions, such as the reintroduction of the Easter Vigil, and, a more structured atmosphere within the Church buildings.

In the innermost parts of the town a wide selection of half-timbered buildings from at least five different centuries are to be found ( including a 14th century structure one of Germany's oldest ), while around the outer fringes of the old town there are wonderful examples of Jugendstil buildings, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Image: Laennec memorial, Necker Hospital, Paris 3. jpg | One of the old buildings of the hospital

You have had these plans of your university made by a great architect, native to our own American soil, who himself had the sense to adapt — not to copy in servile fashion — but to adapt the old Californian architecture to the new university uses, and so we have here a great institution of learning absolutely unique, even in its outward aspect, situated in this beautiful valley with the hills in the background, under this sky, with these buildings, and if this university does not turn out the right kind of citizenship and the right kind of scholarship, I shall be more than disappointed.