Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals. . .
There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.
The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation of women, and make her the equal in power and dominion that she was in the beginning.
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.
Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?
Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and dominated by the Canadian Shield. The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.
Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.
As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.
It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.