I must either resign at once, or convene them ministerially and express my dissent, the reasons of which would involve my resignation.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
The keeper of the seals deprived the parliament of Paris of its political attributes, to invest with them a plenary court, ministerially composed, and reduced its judicial competence in favour of bailiwicks, the jurisdiction of which he extended.
"History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814"
F. A. M. Miguet
He was equally careful to conceal her opinions and feelings from me; and while he described England to her as obstinate, and overbearing, and reserved, he described the Empress to me as displeased, disgusted, and indifferent to our concerns; and he was so convinced that, by this double misrepresentation, he had shut up every avenue of success that, at the time when I presented to him the Spanish declaration, he ventured to say to me, ministerially, 'That Great Britain had, by its own haughty conduct, brought down all its misfortunes on itself; that they were now at their height; that we must consent to any concession to obtain peace; and that we could expect neither assistance from our friends nor forbearance from our enemies.
"Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century"
Karl Marx