This kind of Honour, commonly called Gentry, has been derived from the Antient Germans.
The opinions of the world, both in antientand later ages, concerning the cause of madnesse, have been two.
Clarke tells us that "even in the town of Cambridge, and centre of our University, such curious remains of antient customs may be noticed, in different seasons of the year, which pass without observation.
Yet even this degrading situation had not been assigned to it wholly independent of its antient history.
Ravishing is indeed out of Fashion in this Age; and therefore I am at a Loss for modern Examples; butantient Story abounds with them.
Street and square and river were there-- Where was the antient woe?
Their plays and tableaux in the Antient Concert Rooms in 1900 attracted his attention, and he wrote to the secretary, inclosing with the note copies of two plays that he had written--the dramatic achievements of his late 'teens.
I have already observed, that they retain most of their antient superstitions.
The Metropolitan Church is a very antient Structure, which was burnt down by the Swedes, and is only rebuilt in part.
Judges shall hold office during good behaviour, but they may be removed on address of both houses of parliament.
Unfortunately the fire alluded to has nearly deprived us of a possibility of so doing in London: the most antient specimen there I should suppose to be the ecclesiastical lodgings appendant to Westminster Abbey in Dean's-yard.
The next and last class consists of persons of antient families possessed of large incomes, and the Nobility.
You do not on these occasions read silently in your closet the illustrious acts of antient heroes, who have immortalized themselves by the love they displayed for their country, their parents, their children, &c.
Such are the methods adopted by the London Tradesmen to attract attention, and such the appearance of the lower part of their Houses: indeed, Commodities are now generally used in place of the antient Signs.
And every evening another portion of the same class were delighted with contortions of a different description, which had however the sanction of antiquity; posture-masters are represented in the illuminations of very antient MSS.
Sir William Davenant drew a ludicrous yet true picture of antient London, which follows, and may be perused with double interest after a survey of the above old streets and houses, and their improved successors.
And the Book Yekim said to be written by Fohi, the mostantient Book.
The Capital City of Leao-tum, which is called Xyn-Yam, is a City very fair and pretty intire, it has as yet the Remains of an Antient Palace.
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Among the principal members of antient & Modern confederacies, we find the same effect from the same cause.
A tendency to such encroachments has been sufficiently exemplified, among ourselves, as well as in every other confederated republic antient and modern.
The Heroic period of Antient Greece, the feudal licentiousness of the middle ages of Europe, the existing condition of the American Savages, answer this question.
These observations are verified by the Histories of every country antient & modern.
In all confederated Systems antient & modern the reverse had happened; the Generality being destroyed gradually by the usurpations of the parts composing it.
The idea of annual elections was borrowed from the antient Usage of England, a country much less extensive than ours.
If antient republics have been found to flourish for a moment only & then vanish for ever, it only proves that they were badly constituted; and that we ought to seek for every remedy for their diseases.
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An Essay to Revive theAntient Education of Gentlewomen, London, 1673 (by Mrs. Makin or Mark Lewis).
The excellent design to publish Select Specimens of Antient Sculpture preserved in the several Collections of Great Britain was carried into effect by Messrs.
He was an innocent man, and inherited the social virtues of the antient Milesians.
The state of old maidism was reached at a very early age in those early days; Higginson wrote of an "antient maid" of twenty-five years.
Antient maides" were held in little esteem by him; not one thornback is on his list.
Antient Pistoll, if you see Leekes an other time, Mocke at them, that is all: God bwy you.
God plesse you Antient Pistoll, you scall, 15 Beggerly, lowsie knaue, God plesse you.
The last of these mentions Olen, as the inventor of verse, and the most antient priest of Phœbus.
He was told by an antient [515]priest, that the Grecians were children in science: that they were utterly ignorant of the mythology of other nations; and did not understand their own.
The antient name of Latian Jupiter was P'ur, by length of time changed to Puer.
As oaks were styled Saronides, so likewise were theantient Druids, by whom the oak was held so sacred.
In short, we must look upon antient mythology as being yet in a chaotic state, where the mind of man has been wearied with roaming over the crude consistence without ever finding out one spot where it could repose in safety.
They had symbolical representations, by which these occurrences were commemorated: and the antient hymns in their temples were to the same purpose.
It was, moreover, the name of one of the chief and most antient cities in Syria, said to have been built by Nimrod.
Pocock, many cities in Syria, that retain their antient names.
It was a word of Egyptian original, derived from Petor, the same as Ham, the Iämus of the antient Greeks.
But Marcellinus, who was in those parts under the Emperor Julian, assures us, that these changes and variations were all cancelled: and that in his time the antient names prevailed.
It was an appellation, by which no part of Canaan was called by the antient and true inhabitants: nor was it ever admitted, and in use, till the Grecians got possession of the coast.
King Charles the Second: Descended from ye antient family of Pepys of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire.
This Day's Ceremony of washing Feet is a Custom of antient Standing among the Catholic Princes.
Tis possible that some of the Leaven of the antient Jealousy may still remain among the Citizens; but as to the People of Quality, I don't think them any more liable to that Imputation than our People are.
The antient Dauphins resided at Vienne, which is an Archbishoprick.
The Parliament say, that they are the more justifiable in supporting this antient Prerogative, because they are obliged to it in Conscience, and for the Welfare of the State committed to their Charge.
This is an Abuse which every body confesses, but they are loth to violate antient Privileges.
But we must not forget to observe that our Antient Poets frequently made use of intermixed Rhyme in their Heroick Poems, which they dispos'd into Stanzas and Cantos.
Twas by comparing modern Italy with the idea he had of the antient Romans, which furnished him with the hint of writing his Liberty, in three parts.
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