Lloyd thought, as she looked at the picture, long and admiringly,--the picture of a patrician face with great dark eyes and a wealth of dusky hair.
This was bad enough, but it was made worse by the type of men whom the directors, all of whom belonged to the patrician regent-families, sent out to fill the posts of governor-general and the subordinate governorships.
Corruption reigned everywhere; and the patrician oligarchy, by keeping for themselves and their relations all offices of profit, grew rich at the same time that the finances of the State fell into greater confusion.
The patriciancorporations were abolished and replaced by provisional municipal assemblies.
How long did I not fawn upon you, from the proud patrician down to the shoemaker and the pepper-seller, around whose necks you hang the magisterial insignia, like halters around asses?
In many of them there had been for more than a century a struggle between the old patrician families and the democratic gilds.
In the 14th century a narrow patrician council selected from the Richerzeche, with two burgomasters, was supreme.
No, sire, for his patrician pride would have prevented his complying, and I should have had my pains for my trouble.
However, he once asked me if I had been insulted by a patrician in Venice, whether I should have called him out immediately.
It was esteemed highly honorable for a Patrician to have numerous clients, both hereditary and acquired by his own merit.
The Patrician order consisted of those families whose ancestors had been members of the Senate.
No one could pass from a Patrician family to a Plebeian, or from a Plebeian to a Patrician, unless by that form of adoption which could only be made at the comitia curiata.
The period of the subjection of the ecclesiastical to the ducal and patrician powers followed.
If the truth were known, it would doubtless appear that rich plebeians grew too prominent in their affectation of patrician show on the Grand Canal, and required a wholesome snubbing.
But the patrician mother was with difficulty brought to listen to the tying of this love-knot.
Some of this mysterious unction would distill itself into the unconsecrated ichor of the rest of the family, and Kate, as well as himself, would be part of the patrician caste.
It was an insult, as well as a menace, to have the patrician palace of disloyalty flaunting its grandeurs among a people loyal and devoted, whose sons and brothers were battling for the Union.
Kate was soon led to see that the Spragues had none of the patrician pretension her father attributed to them.
Chief of the dissidents was Elisha Boone, who, by virtue of longer tenure, vast wealth, and political precedence, divided not unequally the homage paid the patrician family.
The patriciancaste of the city still held its own, aided by the helot hand of slavery.
Just then it happened that the patrician of Venice, Francesco Gritti, one of our best and liveliest pens, translated Piron's tragedy of Gustavus Vasa from the French.
Moise, when a friend came up and asked me in a whisper whether I had heard of the fatal accident to the patrician Paolo Balbi.
I turned to resent the affront, and found myself facing the patrician Cavaliere Andrea Gradenigo, who gazed fixedly at me, and then exclaimed: "Pray pardon me!
I perceived that he took me for a Venetian patrician of that name, but I vainly strove to disabuse him.
It took the humour of our literary club, and I dedicated it to a patrician of Venice, Daniele Farsetti, to whom I also gave the autograph, without retaining any copy for my own use.
They may be found scattered through public galleries and private collections, adorning the walls of patrician palaces, or thrust away in corners of country-houses.
Take this affair as you choose, it earned for me the estimable good-will of the patrician Bragadino, caused me to sojourn three days and three nights in an inn, and gave me occasion to relate one of my innumerable contretemps.
He was dining at the house of the patrician Giuseppe Lini at S.
The patrician Bragadino has been made Patriarch of Venice to-day," was the man's reply.
Is it only instinct, come down from some patrician ancestor of gallant ways and kind, or have you watched and caught the knack from the noble scholar who is your ideal of all that is manly?
Its outline, long and supple and graceful, spoke of patrician origin.
In this latter case, too, the companions of the patrician are punished only as he himself is.
Yes, she was very pretty--a delicate patrician beauty which Vixen had never seen before.
Her own world, the little patrician but narrow world behind the throne, whispered and shrugged its shoulders.
He was patrician before all else, and fiercely tenacious of patrician rights--fiercely proud of his name and possessions.
She had no desire to shine, no consciousness of her own beauty; for the French girls at Madame Marot's had been careful not to tell her that her pale patrician face was beautiful.
A woman of middle height, with a fine figure, a wealth of fair hair, and an aquiline nose of the true patrician type, her admirers said.
All eyes were upon him and his patrician partner as he led her across the richly-chalked floor.
To-night, in soft whispered accents, will I once more essay to win the hand of the proud beauty whose ancient patrician name will add a lustre to my own too new nobility.
The city had always been the centre of the patrician families, the patron of the trading libertini and other dependants.
At the same time the economic difficulty was aggravated by a new patrician or commercial greed; and once more the land question--the absorption of property into a few hands instead of its free exchange--led to lasting social demoralization.
At a very early date, however, the patrician families acquired possession of much of it and held it at a low rental, and thus the natural outlet for a conquering farmer race was monopolized by one class, the richer clan-families.
To his we may also add the name of Santarelli, a patrician of the same country, and who died at Rome.
Without counting the ancient titles of consul and præter, which were still preserved, and the new title of patrician which was given by special favor.
But there were great plebeian families who were bent on being the equals of the patrician families in dignity, as they were in riches and in importance.
They had not even the right of intermarrying with the patrician families.
He safe, they unrevenged, to the disgrace Of the surviving, tame, patrician race!
To Lucius Sextius, the patrician colleague assigned was Lucius Æmilius Mamercinus.
We would sooner dispense with our patrician magistrates, than they with their plebeian.
That on the expulsion of the kings, patrician magistrates were appointed, and subsequently, after the secession of the people, plebeian magistrates.
Upon this he began to draw up his plans with his son-in-law, having attached to himself Lucius Sextius, an enterprising young man, and one to whose hope nothing was wanting but patrician descent.
From which quarter if any alarm of danger be heard, did it please them that the state, left without a patrician magistrate, should be taken by surprise?
No one of the commons would offer violence to a patrician maiden; such lust as that belongs to the patricians.
An attempt made at home by the dictator, to have the election of twopatrician consuls, brought the government to an interregnum.
Together with this taste for display we find in other patrician families at the beginning of this century far higher aims in life.
This fetching home took place with a splendour which made an epoch in the patrician circles of Frankfort.
The following letters from two ladies will introduce us into this patrician family; they are printed in the Frankfort archives of J.
The patrician must have been born so--must have sprung from the purple of certain fixed families.
He was to be charged by the Patrician Tribune with having put Roman citizens to death in opposition to the law.
Pompey, without Cæsar to direct him, found the arrogance of the Patrician Tribune insupportable.
