It is probable however that not a single Roman Catholic freeholder ventured to approach the hustings.
Among his political works the Freeholderis entitled to the first place.
It is pleasing to reflect that the only revenge which Addison took was to insert in the Freeholder a warm encomium on the translation of the Iliad, and to exhort all lovers of learning to put down their names as subscribers.
In the same year in which the Drummer was acted, and in which the first numbers of the Freeholder appeared, the estrangement of Pope and Addison became complete.
Steele was dissatisfied with his friend's moderation, and though he acknowledged that the Freeholder was excellently written, complained that the ministry played on a lute when it was necessary to blow the trumpet.
Every freeholder in the county had several tracts left at his door.
He was a freeholder because he was a freeborn member of the state; and not a freeborn member of the state because he was a freeholder; for this last would be an absurdity.
Every freeholderin the county was obliged to attend it; and should he refuse this service, his possessions were seized, and he was forced to find surety for his appearance.
Every member of the state was therefore a freeholder; and every freeholder was a member of the state.
The qualification of a freeholder is, therefore, much lower in Queen Anne's days than in those of Henry VI.
After this, he adds an ingenious question upon the apparently parallel case of a freeholder swearing himself worth 40s.
Let us suppose then a New York freeholder and voter of this class, confiding in the guarantee given by the Federal constitution removes into Ohio.
As freeholder he voted himself chairman of the meeting; as sheriff he produced the writ and receipt for election, read the writ and the oaths against bribery at elections; as sheriff he administered the oaths of supremacy, &c.
When the day of election arrived, Mr. Bannatine was the only freeholder present.
No sooner did one freeholder announce his preference for Marshall than another gave his suffrage to Clopton.
It was said derisively that he was defeated, although every freeholder in the State had voted for him.
The supreme executive power and authority of the State were vested in a governor, who must be a freeholder and chosen by the ballots of freeholders possessed of one hundred pounds above all debts.
The man declared his determination to imitate the example of his patron; but as the struggle drew nearer, a degree of excitement was produced to which it was only necessary to allude: and the freeholder did not escape its effects.
In England, where the right to vote is based on property and not person, the feme sole freeholder has exercised her right all along.
Lyle, it was determined that a feme sole freeholder may claim a vote for Parliament men; but if married, her husband must vote for her.
He makes no parade of logic; he is only a plain freeholder like the mass whom he addresses, though he knows twenty times as much as many writers of more pretension.
The whole policy of Roman war and conquest rested, like the constitution itself, on the basis of the freehold system; as the freeholder alone was of value in the state, the aim of war was to increase the number of its freehold members.
This being true, the freeholder and householders, other than those mentioned in the quoted section, were empowered to vote without reference to sex and all without regard to age or color.
As the polling went on, each freeholder came before the sheriff when his name was called and was asked by the sheriff how he voted.
Between the Beaver Dam and the north east fork of Goose Creek no freeholder in this precinct.
In 1563 Mr. John Benson, of Baisbrowne, who was a freeholder and probably a cloth merchant, desired to be buried "in the queare in the parish church of gresmire as neare where my wife lyethe as convenientlye may be.
If a Freeholder is exempt, eo nomine, it will be impossible to go on with the pressing service.
There is no knowing a Freeholder by sight: and if claiming that character, or even showing deeds is sufficient, few Sailors will be without it.
Of my procuring the meeting, he very much approved, but he declined to give his attendance, or to interfere; his reason was, that he was neither a freeholder nor a resident in the county.
He is a freeholder of the county of Hants, and in consequence attended the meeting at Winchester.
This was most infamous, and was resented by every upright and honest freeholderin the county.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "freeholder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
