The Spanish court in the sixteenth century; its rigid, cold formalities; its cruel, bigoted, but proud-spirited grandees; its inquisitors and priests; and Philip, its head, the epitome at once of its good and bad qualities, are exhibited with wonderful distinctness and address.

The system of repairing the fortunes of decayed grandees at the expense of the subjects, by despatching them as tax-assessors and taskwork-overseers to the dependent communitiesthat infallible token of a rotten urban oligarchywas not wanting in Carthage; Aristotle describes it as the main cause of the tried durability of the Carthaginian constitution.

But for sure he is some great foreign grandee.

Then the bits begin to jangle and our horses paw the air, When we vault into the saddle and we grasp the bridle-rein; Of danger we are fearless and for death we do not care, For we fight for good Don Carlos and the grim grandees of Spain.

For in a great person, right worshipful Sir, a right honourable grandee, 'tis not a venial sin, no, not a peccadillo, 'tis no offence at all, a common and ordinary thing, no man takes notice of it; he justifies it in public, and peradventure brags of it, "Nam quod turpe bonis, Titio, Seioque, decebat Crispinum" "For what would be base in good men, Titius, and Seius, became Crispinus.

As soon as the true intentions of the English were known to General Jackson, who had made up his mind to take possession of Pensacola, he wrote to the Spanish governor,a pompous, inefficient old grandee,and demanded the surrender of certain hostile Creek chieftains, who had taken refuge in the town.

HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON, an eminent statesman and philologist, born at Potsdam, elder brother of the preceding; represented Prussia at Rome and Vienna, but devoted himself chiefly to literary and scientific pursuits; wrote on politics and æsthetics as well as philology, and corresponded with nearly all the literary grandees of Germany (1767-1835).

As soon as the true intentions of the English were known to General Jackson, who had made up his mind to take possession of Pensacola, he wrote to the Spanish governor,a pompous, inefficient old grandee,and demanded the surrender of certain hostile Creek chieftains, who had taken refuge in the town.

At the age of seventeen, a principal grandee of the court of Charles sought the hand of the general's child.

The Spanish court in the sixteenth century; its rigid, cold formalities; its cruel, bigoted, but proud-spirited grandees; its inquisitors and priests; and Philip, its head, the epitome at once of its good and bad qualities, are exhibited with wonderful distinctness and address.

He was a splendid type of a young Spanish grandee, tall and lithe of form, with the dark skin and hair of his race.

For those who ask you if you "malt," Who "beg your pardon" for the salt, And ape our upper grandees, By wondering folks can touch Port-wine; That, reader's your affair, not mine I never mess with dandies.