Noun

A bastard no kyngdom]] suld hald Bot if he it wan... Of tirant or of [[Saracen, Sarazin.

A tyraunt þat]] was kyng of [[Sicily, sysile.

To proue]] him Tyrant , this reason may suffice, That Henry [[liveth, liueth still.

The reappearance of tyranny [in the 4th century BC] had many reasons... one of the main causes was the development of antagonism between rich and poor; tyrants came to power exploiting a social and political imbalance within the state.

Ancient Greek tyrannies appeared once more in great numbers with the breakdown of the polis in the period from the fourth to the second centuries [BC]. These later tyrannies tended to rely on a more narrow class base and to use a brutal military rule, and thus writers could use the words tyrant'' and ''tyranny , with their modern connotations of evil and cruelty, to describe them accurately.

Princes, þat]] is,... tirauntis of [[world, warld.

The sonys]] of Yrael, and of the [[king's, kyngus bloode, and the children of tyrauntis .

Cassius... set tyrants over all Syria.

To hom]] [[withsaid, wiþsede strong tirant & wilde.

Whan]] a Kyng rulith his Realme onely to his own profytt, and not to the good of his Subgetts, he [[is, ys a Tyraunte .

Tyrannes ...be but Gods]] scourges which he will cast into the [[fire, fyre when he hath done with them.

I am the Sonne]] of Marcus Cato, hoe.
A Foe to Tyrants , and my [[country's, Countries Friend.

They [ to play the tyrant , and which rendered English liberty, as they thought, far inferior to that which the constitutions of their own States secured.

Ore]] louerd helpe weren alle is [[few, fon!

A plague vpon]] the Tyrant that I [[serve, serue

a sad tyrant , as my friends the Democrats sometimes are.

Attache]] þo tyrauntz ...And fettereth fast falsenesse...And gurdeth of gyles [[hid, hed.

That strang]] [[unmerciful, vnmercifull tyrand [Death].

I was a blasphemar, and a persecuter, and a tyraunt .

A pike (called the tyranne of fishes).

O dissembling Curtesie! How fine this Tyrant Can tickle where she wounds?

Public opinion, the greatest tyrant of these times.

The Tyrant ... The courage of this little Bird is singular.

The lesser tyrants' (''Tyrannulæ'') are spread over the whole of America, where they represent the true flycatcher... The ' tyrants are bold and quarrelsome birds, particularly during the season of incubation.

Tyrant or Tyrant-bird, Catesby applied it solely to...the King-bird..., but apparently as much in reference to its bright crown...as to its tyrannical behaviour to other birds.

Noun

And the essential value and power of Democracy' consists in this,—that it combines, as far as possible, power and organization ; THE SPIRIT, MANHOOD, ''is at one with'' THE BODY, ORGANIZATION. [....] ' Democracy is Government by the People.

The period, that is, which marks the transition from absolutism or aristocracy to democracy will mark also the transition from absolutist or autocratic methods of nomination to democratic methods.

A century ago there was in the Old World only one tiny spot in which the working of democracy could be studied. A few of the ancient rural cantons of Switzerland had recovered their freedom after the fall of Napoleon, and were governing themselves as they had done from the earlier Middle Ages[...]. Nowhere else in Europe did the people rule.

Everyone who wanted to speak did so. It was democracy in its purest form.

In 1900 not a single country had what we would today consider a democracy : a government created by elections in which every adult citizen could vote.

As states of the human spirit democracy , righteousness, and faith have much in common and may be cultivated by the same means...

It must further be admitted that he provided a successful interpretation of democracy' in its philosophic aspects when he conceived '''democracy''' as a general outlook on the universe... In Bakunin's conception of ' democracy as religious in character we trace the influence of French socialism.

The spirit of democracy' means, above all, liberty of choice for human beings... ' democracy , in both its individual and collective forms, is the main engine of the eternal human striving for justice and prosperity.