The result tended to show it was relatively close by.
All political institutions tended toward despotism.
At the same time his paternal despotism tended to emasculate the Tuscan character.
This, however, did not mean that he paid no attention to the practical application of science nor that he despised knowledge which tended to use.
There he gives himself out for a minstrel, Tantris, and as such is tended and healed by Queen Iseult and her daughter of the same name.
