Meanings of ancient regime in английском

On the one side, there is an ancient regime that looks weak.

The ancient regime, so battered by the ram revolution, is more entire than is believed.

He called her "Citizen," and she balked at the ancient regime form of address.

He wanted very much to see Versailles again; he was very fond of the ancient regime.

It won't give them back their ancient regime.

Always through copying the ancient regime.

And if they decide for the knife, I shall go to the guillotine like the gayest Marquis of the ancient regime.

The work was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas.

The popular torrent, after having burst forth against the ancient regime, gradually subsided into its bed; new dykes restrained it on all sides.

Its novelty gave to the policy of Norfolk Island the air of delirium: the disciplinarians of the ancient regime raised their hands with astonishment.

They didn't agree about that, but that was what she liked Versailles for, that you could see the ancient regime had been swept away.

But the ancient regime was unquestionably despotic; and in the hands of ambitious or selfish ministers, liable to be an instrument of injustice and oppression.

Mrs. Clemens asked the young salesman for a copy of Taine's Ancient Regime.

What if the Ancient Regime should return!

Enlightened by his feudal and rural instincts, the old man at once judges both the government and the philosophers, the Ancient Regime and the Revolution.

The best book I have read-Ticknor's "Prescott," Alger's "Future Life," Furness's "Veil Partly Lifted," etc., notwithstanding-isDe Tocqueville's " Ancient Regime and the Revolution."