Sentence examples for enlightened despot from inspiring English sources

Mr Bompard said Voltaire, who lambasted the French monarchy during the Enlightenment for its excesses, approved of her role as an "enlightened despot".

An "enlightened despot," he sought to introduce administrative, legal, economic, and ecclesiastical reforms with only measured success.

Joseph II adopted Maria Theresa's idea of curtailing the privileges of the upper social classes, so as not to conflict with the interest of the state, of which the ruler the "enlightened despot"—was the supreme representative.

He was a 19th-century version of the "enlightened despot," a man intent upon power not so much for its own sake as in order to serve the welfare of his country as he saw it.

The dream of a single agent the enlightened despot, the civilizing imperium, the communist vanguard, the global state is a delusion" (188).

Hence, it is not at all surprising that among the essays presented here are several noteworthy attempts to fill in the gaps in the research concerning the [End Page 296] enlightened despot of Sanssouci.

Mr Lynch argues that both men were enlightened despots.

Maybe this time, enlightened despots won't grind up the peasants in an endless war.

May 5, 1747 Vienna, Austria March 1, 1792 Vienna, Austria Leopold II, (born May 5, 1747, Vienna died March 1 , 1792 Vienna) Holy Roman emperor from 1790 to 1792, one of the most capable of the 18th-century reformist rulers known as the "enlightened despots".

Brought up on the rationalist Encyclopédie and on the writings of the philosophes of the Enlightenment, he remained above all a man of the 18th century, the last of the "enlightened despots".

It wasn't a problem.' Ian McGeechan and Jim Telfer, enlightened despots who allowed the tour captain, Martin Johnson, to impose his quiet, firm personality on the team, were happy to let the players draw up their own pre-tour rules.