Word: premier
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...premier baiser rebelle...
Antonelli's face turned as red as the robe that was the emblem of his dignity. He retired, to compose a telegram bearing the news of this last diabolical act instigated by the heretical German premier. As he passed, his eye met the luckless Giacomo, cowering behind a statue. For one second the full flash of the Cardinal's eye was focussed on the unfortunate page. When he went on, the page was no longer there...
...liberal and thoughtful men of all parties, did not suit the Roman Cardinal, who insisted that Trinity and Queen's should be left as they are, and that a new college should be endowed, to be under the exclusive control of the Roman clergy. To such a project the Premier could not have given his support if he had wished; for it would have involved him in the inconsistency of urging the Non-Conforming Scotch and English to disestablish the Episcopal Church in Ireland, and at the same time to recognize the Catholic Hierarchy. So Cardinal Cullen, resolved to accept...