Its wealth of territory, its distance from the political influences of older and corrupter nations, and above all the general intelligence of its people, alike contribute to fit it for that noble union of freemen which we call Association.
In the view of these and kindred troubles, the freemen of the province had no light service in their obligations of military duty.
You have already given all the rights of conscience which the freemen could ask, and the demand now is that you surrender your own.
It is the only dictator that freemen acknowledge and the only security that freemen desire.
The cottages in which the serfs and even the freemen resided were wretched hovels.
These meetings consisted of the freemen and landholders and bishops.
The lower order of freemen were called herimans, or inferior thanes; in Latin liberi, or more simply, boni homines, good men.
The archbishop petitioned the king, who issued hiz writ, and summoned the freemen of the county, to take cognizance of the suit.
Theze are elected by thefreemen at large in the whole state.
In modern use, trial by peers iz trial by equals generally; for men are mostly becomefreemen and landholders; but this waz not the primitiv practice; nor was equality the basis of the institution.
Yet in that State it is no question at all; for there is a standing law expressly delegating the whole power of all the freemen to the Legislature.
That the Freemen of a State hav no Right to bind their Representativs in Legisture by their own Instructions.
The freemen might be said to be tried by their equals; but the villeins were not; yet both were tried by their peers; that iz, by the peers of theze inferior courts, who were exclusivly the judges.
All the freemen were bound also to do suit in the lords court, and to attend the folk-mote on the sheriffs summons; but twelv were usually selected to sit az judges in common cases.
Without such a provision, it iz not possible that a body of freemen should hav the reeding necessary to form just notions of liberty and law.
The Latin riters called thezefreemen pares curtis and sectatores, peers of court and suitors.
After three days trial, the freemen gave judgement for the archbishop, and the decision waz final.
Here a distinction iz cleerly made beetween the freemenand the populus; the freemen were the judges, and the bishop or sheriff edocuit jura, proclaimed the decision to the multitude.
Little will it avail to say, that the people acquire the necessary information by newspapers, or other periodical publications: There are not more than two States in the thirteen, where one half the freemen read the public papers.
The population of Athens with its suburbs may perhaps have exceeded half a million; but the number of adult freemen bearing arms did not exceed twenty-five thousand.
The twenty-five thousand Athenian freemen thus enjoyed, on the whole, more undisturbed leisure, more freedom from petty harassing cares, than any other community known to history.
When the Bill was carried up to the Lords, petitions from "the major part of the aldermen" and from the Common Council were again presented, as well as another petition subscribed by certain freemen who objected to parts of the Bill.
City restraining citizens and freemen from disposing of the whole of their personal estates by will.
When at Bath, I frequently met and encouraged the young freemen of Bristol, to take up their freedom by means of weekly subscriptions, a considerable number having already procured their copies as certificates, in this way.
The Sheriff, little Mister Brice, put it to the vote, in the usual way, by a skew of hands, which of us the freemen would have for their member.
I also told them I would immediately form some plan, to enable the freemen to take up their freedom, by means of a voluntary weekly subscription amongst themselves; which plan should be carried into execution without delay.
Freemen as well as slaves (the latter captured in war or bought) were in their service, but the abject poverty of the lower classes of freemen bound them in almost servile dependence on their masters.
The number of freemen polled at this election was 1,765.
Mr. Howorth, in his published address after this result, declares that he was ousted at the election by the votes of “a class of persons having no common interest or common feeling with the freemen and inhabitants of the borough.
Guildhall, in commemoration of his success in confining the franchise of the borough to the freemen only.
THE constituency of the city is no larger now than it was in days of yore, when freemen were made in any quantity at the pleasure of the corporation; often while the election was proceeding.
The committee now wanted to know whether the claims of the freemen were to be contested or abandoned, as in the former case it would be necessary that the city generally should enter into a subscription to provide the sinews of war.
Evesham, distributed one hundred guineas amongst the poor freemen of that borough.
A day or two before the election, a number of freemen presented a requisition to Lord Deerhurst, pressing him to offer himself, which he did.
A meeting was accordingly called in August, at the Hoppole Inn, to protect the rights of the freemen in this matter.
In almost every part of the land, they form an important portion of the freemen of the soil.
Three freemen were being tried at the date of our last information.
All these freemen provided their own horses, and were skilled from their earliest youth in the use of the lasso and bolas.
East, West, and North, the shout is heard, Of freemen rising for the right Each valley hath its rallying word, Each hill its signal light.
We're freemen o' Riddsley, and almost the last of the freemen that has votes as freemen!
While freemen heard this counsel good, His spirit soared to heaven.
The warrior's escutcheon his foes seek to blot, But vain is the effort of partisan bands-- For freemen will render full justice to SCOTT, And welcome him home with their hearts in their hands.
Thus in Germany, freemen and serfs together formed, when fused, the economic and legally unital group of Grundholde, or men bound to the soil.
Of this, there is at this time no question, since at this stage the common freemen would have been powerful enough to prevent the formation of extended landed estates had they known that it would eventually do them harm.
The crown controls the landed magnate so long as the levy of the common freemen of the district is a superior force to his guards, to his “following.
It will then have been proved that among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost.
As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and of great.
And the colony as a whole had also its moot, at which all freemen might attend, and which settled the general affairs of the kingdom.
But as they had slaves, and as these slaves must in many cases have been captives spared in war, we must suppose that such descriptions apply, strictly speaking, to the freemen and chieftains alone.
The class offreemen included originally the priest, the soldier, the merchant, and the husbandman.
Colebrooke’s idea was that the institution of caste was not artificial or conventional, but that it began with the simple division of freemen and slaves, which we find among all ancient nations.
We are lost for ever, and from freemen growne Slaves so contemptible as no worthie Prince, That would have men, not sluggish Beasts, his Servants, Would ere vouchsafe the owning.
This movement had become so powerful by the troubles of the epoch that, had no other current of influence set in, the entire class of freemen must soon have disappeared.
A strong check was thus imposed upon the tendency of freemen to become the vassals of great lords.
The same process took place in the case of great numbers of freemen of a lower class, who put themselves at the service of their more powerful neighbours in return for protection.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "freemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
