imperium in imperio

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The populace of the country was now organized, and an imperium in imperio formed, which, from its privacy and the numbers of which it consisted, was truly alarming.

From The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed In an Address to the People of England, in Which It Is Proved by Incontrovertible Facts, That the System for Some Years Pursued in That Country, Has Driven It into Its Present Dreadful Situation by Anonymous

It is, in fact, an imperium in imperio and its conflict with the state is inevitable.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph

They form a kind of imperium in imperio.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX by Sparks, Jared

He did not, however, disguise his fundamental opposition to Ultramontanism, that intellectual and social imperium in imperio, with its basic hostility to the free scientific spirit.

From Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch by Huxley, Leonard

In theory and to a considerable extent in practice, the Brahmans and their gods are not an imperium in imperio but an imperium super imperium.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir