deputation

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And five-sixths of the majority belong to these countries, In the Congregation of June 20 the Deputation put up one of its members, Bishop d'Avanzo of Calvi and Teano, to speak.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

In the Deputation House hangs the Catalan painter Fortuny's "Battle of Tetu�n," unfinished, with a dashing rainbow-hued charge of horsemen that stirs the memory of Spain's grand forays into Africa.

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle

Meanwhile the Jesuit Franzelin had received orders from the highest authority to revise afresh the formula adopted by the Deputation, with which Schrader is said to be very ill satisfied.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

Let the Deputation prove to us that it has really been always the belief of the Church that the Pope is everything and the Bishops nothing.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

Lord de Grey asked several questions as to the instruction which the blind received, and said he would carefully consider the representations made to him by so important and influential a Deputation.

From Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind by Martin, Frances