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  • And by-and-bye we have to consider what such an institution as 'this Empire Club of ours stands for, namely, the imperium in imperio idea -- not the idea that we are going to tie ourselves on as a tail-end of a next door neighbour for the sake of trading expectations; not the idea that we are going to be an independent something or other, before we have the means of maintaining that independence.

    Canadian Assimilation 1913

  • States an imperium in imperio, voting together, under ecclesiastical guidance, for objects different from those which actuate the Protestant and Puritanic sections of the people.

    The Southern Nation and the Northern Union 1862

  • And are we not all by this time fully convinced that the Empire prestige which has come to us as if by, birthright, has to be made to develop, under the Providence of God and international quietude-not into a congeries of stand aloof enervating ethical segregations that ever lead to a loss of communal influence-but as an imperium in imperio, a veritable nation, sharing in all the rights and privileges of a consolidated Empire, and giving sanction to the grand and glorious future that is coming to it, with every kind of patriotic effort on our own part to mature it.

    Canadian Assimilation 1913

  • But if he will not acknowledge the superiority of their spiritual over his temporal, nor even admit their imperium in imperio, which is the least they will compound for, it becomes meritorious not only to resist, but to depose him.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Otros dicen que fue la gripe porcina que aterrizó en Venezuela, mientras que algunos argumentan que fue obra del imperio.

    Global Voices in English » Venezuela: Conflict Between the Media During Earthquake 2009

  • Es cierto que se necesitan cambios, pero bajo el imperio de la las leyes no a la fuerza, como quiere imponer el presidente Zelaya una nueva constitucion, siguiendo el ejemplo de Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador (lo quieren hacer en Nicaragua) a simple vista se miraba bello el panorama, ahora en esos paises estan arrepentidos por que se van ha instaurar dictaduras.

    Global Voices in English » Honduras: Political Crisis Over Controversial Referendum 2009

  • To violate that principle and create governments within a government imperia in imperio would inevitably bring conflicts of authority and, ultimately, civil war.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • To violate that principle and create governments within a government imperia in imperio would inevitably bring conflicts of authority and, ultimately, civil war.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • To violate that principle and create governments within a government imperia in imperio would inevitably bring conflicts of authority and, ultimately, civil war.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • In the Apologus to his translation of Plato's De regno, dedicated to Montefeltro on 6 January 1482, Marsilio Ficino plays on the duke's name, describing in a witticism that Federico was known as "a fide regia fideregum" and "ab orbis imperio Orbinatem ducem" by superior intelligences and as "Federicus Urbinas dux" by men. 137

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

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