 | Arminianism - 1849 - 700 pages
...and constantly sending down members to mingle with the people. Any gentleman might become a Peer. The younger son of a Peer was but a gentleman. Grandsons of Peers yielded precedence to newly-made Knights. The dignity of knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligence... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...and constantly sending down members to mingle with the people. Any gentleman might become a peer. The younger son of a peer was but a gentleman. Grandsons...who could attract notice by his valor in a battle or a siege. It was regarded as no disparagement for the daughter of a duke, nay, of a royal duke, to espouse... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...and constantly sending down members to mingle with the people. Any gentleman might become a peer. The younger son of a peer was but a gentleman. Grandsons...who could attract notice by his valor in a battle or a siege. It was regarded as no disparagement for the daughter of a duke, nay, of a royal duke, to espouse... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...and constantly sending down members to mingle with the people. Any gentleman might become a peer. The a siege. It was regarded as no disparagement for the daughter of a dnke, nay, of a royal duke, to espouse... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...and constantly sending down members to mingle with the people. Any gentleman might become a peer. The younger son of a peer was but a gentleman. Grandsons...a good estate, or who could attract notice by his valour in a battle or a siege. It was regarded as no disparagement for the daughter of a duke, nay,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 850 pages
...and constantly sending down members to mingle with the people. Any gentleman might become a peer. The younger son of a peer was but a gentleman. Grandsons...reach of any man who could by diligence and thrift realise a good estate, or who could attract notice by his valour in a battle or a siege. It was regarded... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...and constantly sending down members to mingle with the people. Any gentleman might become a peer. The younger son of a peer was but a gentleman. Grandsons...reach of any man who could by diligence and thrift realise a good estate, or who could attract notice by his valour in a battle or a siege. It was regarded... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 550 pages
...The younger son of a peer was but a gentleman. Grandsons of peers yielded precedence to newly-made knights. The dignity of knighthood was not beyond...a good estate, or who could attract notice by his vator in a battle or a siege. It was regarded as no disparagement for the daughter of a duke, nay,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 560 pages
...The younger son of a peer •was but a gentleman. Grandsons of peers yielded precedence to newly-made knights. The dignity of knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could, by dihgence and thrift, realize a good estate, or who could attract notice by his valor in a battle or... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 664 pages
...m\\ constantly sending down members to mingle with the people. Any gentleman might become a peer. The younger son of a peer was but a gentleman. Grandsons of peers yielded precedence to newly-made knights. The dignity of knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligence... | |
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... of all hereditary aristocracies the least insolent and exclusive. It had none of the invidious character of a caste. It was constantly receiving members from the people, and constantly sending down members to mingle with the people. Any gentleman... 
