An Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and Civil; from the First Ages of the World, Thro the Jewish, Grecian Roman Commonwealths, G C.down to this Present Time. To which is Annex'd, The Order of Precedency; with Other Curious Things: Chiefly Extracted from a Valuable ManuscriptC. Rivington, 1718 - 179 pàgines |
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An Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and ... Maurice Shelton,John Randall Visualització completa - 1718 |
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Pàgina 15 - Farther yet defigning to enlarge his City, he call'd all Men indifferently by Proclamation in thefe Words, ( Come hither all ye People) to enjoy an equal Part of the Commonwealth. Yet for all this he fuffer'd not his State, by the promifcuous Multitude that flow'd in, to be turn'd into Confufion and Anarchy, and left without any Order and Degrees, but was the firft who divided the Common-wealth into three diftinft Ranks, viz.
Pàgina 8 - I am not able alone to bear you; 10 the Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. "May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
Pàgina 125 - England, to be the sovereign thereof, and the rest to be fellows and brethren, bestowing this dignity on them, and giving them a blue garter, decked with gold, pearl, and precious stones, and a buckle of gold, to wear daily upon the left leg only ; a kirtle, crown, cloak, chaperon, a collar, and other magnificent apparel, both of...
Pàgina 138 - Knight iu time of War, did carry his shield; but this addition hath not of long time had any relation to that office, but...
Pàgina 143 - ... and regulation thereof, and the putting in execution the laws and ordinances relating thereunto. This court is kept in the hall of the...
Pàgina 120 - ... were altogether brought in by King Richard the Second, and King Henry the Sixth. But our kings descended of the Norman blood, together with the crown of the kingdom, granted an hereditary and successory perpetuity unto honourable titles; such, I mean, as are the titles of earldom, and baronies, without any difference of sex at all, which thing I thought good to make manifest, by the examples of the more ancient times. In the reckoning up whereof, that I may the better acquit and discharge myself,...
Pàgina 178 - Kempis.— The Christian's Exercise; or, rules to live above the World while we are in it, with Meditations, Hymns, and Soliloquies, suited to the several stages of Christian Life, with an Appendix of Letters, Dialogues, Ac., addressed to all true Lovers of Devotion, by Robert Nelson, Esq.
Pàgina 118 - Theyn so thrived, that he served the King, and on his message or journey, rode in his houshold ; if then he had a Theyn that him followed, who, to the King's expedition...
Pàgina 129 - A knight made in the field with the ceremony of cutting off the point of his standard, and making it a banner.
Pàgina 12 - Hoobor your parents. 2. Make oblations of your fruits to the gods. 3. Hurt not living creatures. Cecrops, the second of that name, and the seventh king of Athens, divided his dominions into twelve cities, or large boroughs, compelling his subjects to leave their separate habitations, and unite together for the replenishing of them.1* Their names were these, as they are delivered by Strabo in his description of Attica :c Cecropia, Tetrapolis, Exacria, Decelca, Eleusis, * Oljmpionic.