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  • And as the merchant cities of Italy crashed when trade slipped from their hands on the discovery of the new route to the Indies by way of the Cape of Good Hope, so will there come times of trembling for such nations as have failed to grasp the prize of world-empire.

    THE QUESTION OF THE MAXIMUM 2010

  • The world-empire, which is an earthly reflection of Heaven, is pictured in this poem as an androgynous human body.

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • I was in touch with great souls who exalted flesh and spirit over dollars and cents; and to whom the thin wail of the starved slum-child meant more than all the pomp and circumstance of commercial expansion and world-empire.

    THE UNIVERSITY 2003

  • The world-empire, which is an earthly reflection of Heaven, is pictured in this poem as an androgynous human body.

    Pontifex 2005

  • The settlement of world-empire in the seemingly everlasting Roman dominion and the infiltration of oriental attitudes toward divine monar - chy favored a philosophical development building on

    FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968

  • That which more than all else operated to prevent Germany from becoming a powerful, closely-knit nation, was the adoption by the German rulers of an unfortunate policy respecting a world-empire.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

  • -- The scheme of Otto respecting a world-empire was a grand one, but, as had been demonstrated by the failure of the attempt of Charlemagne, was an utterly impracticable idea.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

  • "The world-empire I dream of is a new German Empire which shall enjoy on all hands the most absolute confidence as a quiet, peaceable, honest neighbour -- not founded by conquest with the sword, but on the mutual confidence of nations aiming at the same end."

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • A common zeal for the violent overthrow of the world's existing non-Socialist governments, in order to set up a world-empire of Socialism, is the major feature of the Socialist Party's unity with the Moscow plotters and incendiaries.

    The Red Conspiracy Joseph J. Mereto

  • Germany in this war, and that the people need only abandon their world-empire ambitions while securing safety in the heart of Europe and

    The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe Various

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