And I am determined that if my husband returns, he shall find not only a great estate to his hand, but an accomplished wife to his mind.
As soon as I saw Count Saxe's face, I knew that something more and better had befallen him than a life interest in a great estate.
At the idea of being charged with Mademoiselle Capello's safety, he looked as if he had just come into a great estate.
The Gentry of Austria, and of all the Emperor's Hereditary Dominions, are so fond of the Title of Count, that the Gentlemen buy and sollicit it as eagerly as if it was a great Estate.
This proceeds from the humane and equal Temper of the Man of the House, who also perfectly well knows how to enjoy a great Estate, with such Oeconomy as ever to be much beforehand.
You shall have the Pleasure of seeing a great Estate fall to you, which you would have lost the Relish of had you known your self born to it.
A long minority, which, in the present times, so frequently disburdens a great estate of all its incumbrances, and restores the family to their ancient splendour, could in those times have no such effect.
The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation, is like the expense of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate.
England purchased for some of her subjects, who found themselves uneasy at home, a great estatein a distant country.
The last of all that was called to be partaker in this treacherous plot was Mr. Francis Tresham, a gentleman of Northamptonshire of great estate, esteemed then worth 3,000l.
It is not many Years ago since Lapirius, in Wrong of his elder Brother, came to a great Estate by Gift of his Father, by reason of the dissolute Behaviour of the First-born.
The mossy gall on the Dog-rose, formed by Cynips rosae; often carried in the pocket as a charm against rheumatism (Great Estate, ch.
Salicaria phragmitis, the Sedge Warbler; from one of its commonest notes resembling that of a sparrow (Great Estate, ch.
Barley which has never been in rick, but has been kept under cover from the first, and is therefore perfectly dry and of high value for malting purposes (Great Estate, ch.
It was the land of opportunity where the servant could become the farmer, the farmer a planter, where the planter, acquiring by skill or happy chance a great estate, thereby entered in with the political and social grandees.
The master of a great estate, enjoying a certain leisure and exercising a political and social influence denied to the average freeman, was set above the mass of the planters much as in England the titled nobility was set above the gentry.
For a poor man this was the chief obstacle to acquiring a great estate; but a rich man was often able to avoid it altogether.
Sir--There was formerly a merchant, who had a great estate in lands, goods, and money.
Him thoughte that his heart would all to-break, When he saw them so piteous and so mate* *abased That whilom weren of so great estate.
My landlady, who of her own accord encouraged the correspondence on all occasions, gave me an advantageous character of him, as a man of honour and of virtue, as well as of great estate.
This proceeds from the humane and equal temper of the man of the house, who also perfectly well knows how to enjoy a great estate, with such oeconomy as ever to be much beforehand.
You shall have the pleasure of seeing a great estate fall to you, which you would have lost the relish of had you known yourself born to it.
She was sister to the Earl of Suffolk, and left a great estate, her jointure to descend to the Duke of Somerset.
A famous cause at the King's Bench between Mr. Fenwick and his wife, which went for him with a great estate.
Mr. Warrington has to conduct a great estate in America: let him see how ours in England are carried on.
A few months or days ago, I was heir to a great estate, and could afford to lose a little money.
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