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The king introduced some of his most significant reforms as an advertisement of his own ever more puissant authority.
The book was dedicated to: "the most high, puissant, and redoubted prince, Henry VIII, King of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith".
Why should there not be intelligent and puissant beings distinct from those perceptible to senses?
When he died, he left his kingdom to the queen, my mother, who is also a princess, the daughter of another puissant monarch of the sea.
Milton's notion of England as a "noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep"
A lotus in bloom, an emblem of purity and beauty, is at the bottom, and a "lion puissant" surmounts it.
By his death in 1905, he had assembled a seemingly puissant empire of two iron furnaces, extensive ore mines, and two railroads.