Well merits the distinguished patronage under which it appears.
And, since the greatest privileges of the patronage of the Indias are pontifical concessions, how can they be used against the power of him who concedes them, who necessarily must be relatively greater?
But what has rendered his name more famous than intermarrying with the families of Van Tromp or De Ruyter, is his patronage of Rembrandt--in the same way that Lord Southampton's name is ennobled by his patronage of Shakspere.
The neighbourhood of the Rhine was now given up for the city of Amsterdam, where he set up his easel in the year 1628, under the patronage of the Burgomaster Six, and other wealthy admirers of the fine arts.
Seeking no favors because of our color or patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice and ask for an equal chance.
A Negro lawyer, doctor, dressmaker, music teacher, hair dresser and mechanic do well in some instances, because they receive patronage from the whites.
Under these conditions, have our business and professional men done their best to attract and hold the patronage of our people, or have they been content to drift along and catch whatever may come their way?
It is not true that the business patronage of the Negro is confined to his own race, nor is it true that he is a cringer, and solicits patronage among the whites because of the fact that he is a colored man.
While occasionally a few Negroes may get patronage from the other clans and tribes it is nevertheless true that as a general rule the aim is to keep the trade in the family, as it were.
In order to inspire the confidence and reasonably expect the patronage sought, there must be merit in the claims of the seeker.
As I have intimated above, there are few fields for operation in the North for Negroes, regardless of their ability to succeed, for there are few cases where Negro patronage is not limited to the Negro population.
Hence, to induce Negro patronageof Negro enterprises and professional men, there must be cultivation of the social sentiment of the Negro community by all possible means.
A larger part of this property and money will be turned into business channels as fast as the race, by its patronage and support, evidences its desire to advance this business movement.
No man should expect or receive patronage solely because he is black; for your patron, besides generally being poor, is also black, and might as justly look for favors of you upon that score as you of him.
This, I take it, is the reason why we find educated Negroes, as a rule, bestowing their patronage upon business enterprises and professional men of other races rather than upon their own representatives in the same vocation.
Wherever the right of patronage does not exist, or has been discontinued for a certain time, parish priests shall be appointed by the bishop.
Peruvians, by granting to their presidents the same right of patronage which was formerly enjoyed by the Kings of Spain.
I could only conceive this singular behavior to arise from a consummate self-conceit assuming the vulgar airs of patronage and protection.
I have already more than once spoken of the disgusting air of patronage which he assumed toward me, and of his frequent officious interference with my will.
From the beginning we have had adequate self-supporting resources in Loanda from the Portuguese patronage of our schools, and have now, but at present we lack the teaching corps requisite.
Coming up to town in 1754, under the patronage of Pitt, he succeeded in gaining the confidence of the Court, and was, with Dr.
Emboldened by good luck in his own country, and possibly finding the patronage of the impoverished aristocracy of an Irish province did not yield him a sufficient income, he determined to try his fortune in England.
When he was a young man (ere he had won the patronage of Queen Anne, and the friendship of Swift and Pope), he settled at Dorchester, and endeavoured to get practice in that salubrious town.
For that same night a grand operatic concert was announced, under the patronage of an aspiring clique, in another part of the town.
Spottswood states, in his List of Religious Houses in Scotland, that the Priory of the May, originally put under the patronage of All Saints, was subsequently consecrated to the memory of St. Adrian.
Brummell, though not possessing thepatronage of a secretary of state, had the power of making men's fortunes.
Intelligent, cultured men could not realize remunerative incomes by their pen; so the political chiefs of those days came forward and extended official patronage to them in a manner which was often princely and munificent.
Flattery and royal patronage were the ruin of Congreve so far as his after fame is concerned.
In order to invest it with a more definitely religious sanction, Tilak placed it under the special patronage of the most popular deity in India.
There must be no touch of patronage in the attempt.
Secret societies place their murderous activities under the special patronage of one or other of the chief popular deities.
The movement was placed under the special patronage of Kali and vows were administered to large crowds in the forecourts of her great temple at Calcutta and in her various shrines all over Bengal.
Although the boding words of Bridgenorth sometimes occurred to Lady Peveril's mind, she did not suffer them to weigh with her in opposition to the advantages which the patronage of the Countess of Derby secured to her son.
He wrote a great deal that was serious and even sublime, and, mending his ways, secured the patronage of the Marquis of Buckingham, the prime minister, who opened the doors of the House of Commons for him.
Perhaps the funniest quarrel was about the patronage of the diocese.
The church was under thepatronage of the Chapter of Grasse.
For thirteen years the country resounded with the clash of arms and laboured in the rough and tumble of civil warfare: hence an atmosphere the least congenial to the cultivation and patronage of high art.
Committee to confer with the Lord Treasurer, concerning the Kings gift of Patronage of Lanerk, and to advise with the Committee for dangers upon the Kirks interest therein.
Commission to present an Overture to the Parliament, that Presbyteries may plant the Kirks which are of the patronage of the forfaulted and Excommunicate Persons.
Hadington that by his pretence to the Patronagehe do not obstruct so good a work, Ib.
And if the vacant Kirk be of a Patronage disponed by His Majesty since the 3.
We long ago passed beyond the modest notion of "protecting" the industries of the country and moved boldly forward to the idea that they were entitled to the direct patronage of the Government.
Smaller Southern communities held their own with New York and Philadelphia in the patronage of the stage, while surviving Puritan prejudice made New England an arid field for the drama until well into the next century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patronage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
