Kennet's Roman Antiquities, Lib. XI, C. 4. Romulus, who founded the institution of the Aruspices, borrowed it from the Tuscans, to whom the Senate afterwards sent twelve of the sons of the principal nobility to be instructed in these mysteries, and the other ceremonies of their religion.

Campanella praises the Turks because they had no hereditary nobility, and conferred honours on men according to their actions.

The King's power and authority was laughed to scorn, the people were pillaged by the feudal nobility, and famine reigned in many districts.

While this cloud was gathering at home, Edward endeavored to secure himself against his factious nobility by entering into foreign alliances.

That semblance of shy affection coloured by regrets for the past and modified by the native nobility of a prince in exileso becoming in a parent to whose bosom a daughter whom he had never seen was suddenly restoredbeing of no more service for the present, was incontinently discarded.

The fury of his massacres and ravages enraged the northern nobility, who might otherwise have been inclined to join him; and William, Earl of Albemarle, Robert de Ferrers, William Piercy, Robert de Brus, Roger Moubray, Ilbert Lacey, Walter l'Espec, powerful barons in those parts, assembled an army with which they encamped at North-Allerton, and awaited the arrival of the enemy.

"Hereditary rank," says Washington Irving, "may be a snare and a delusion, but hereditary virtue is a patent of innate nobility which far outshines the blazonry of heraldry.

His real strength lay, however, in the drama of manners, giving realistic pictures of Russian life among the Russian city classes and the minor nobility.

Their language was every where nearly the same, their customs, laws, institutions, civil and religious; and as the race of the ancient kings was totally extinct in all the subjected states, the people readily transferred their allegiance to a prince who seemed to merit it by the splendour of his victories, the vigour of his administration, and the superior nobility of his birth.

Sweet nobility in reversion, Block, by the commission of his head, conjures you and withal binds you, by all the tricks that pages pass in time of Parliament, as swearing to the pantable, crowning with custards, paper-whiffs to the sleepers' noses, cutting of tags, stealing of torches, cum multis aliistell, Block, what block you have cast in the way of my lady's content! ROB.

These contemplated land grants in huge parcels to a provincial nobility, and a cumbrous oligarchical government with a minimum participation of popular representatives.

The Chou used Shang and other slaves as domestic servants for their numerous nobility, and Shang serfs as farm labourers on their estates.

They were drawn from the staff of the king's chapel, and had their whole training in the administration of the court; and they formed an official nobility who were charged, in common with the secular nobility, with the conduct of the general business of the realm.

She held a court for the reception of all the female nobility of the province.

We know the essential nobility of human life better, and we are better men and women ourselves, because of what he has written.

The ranks on the Aventine speedily thinned; the valiant nobility in conjunction with the Cretans and the slaves stormed the almost undefended mount, and killed all whom they foundabout two hundred and fifty persons, mostly of humble rank.

Independent of the notice with which he was honoured by Charles himself, the poet numbered among his friends most of the distinguished nobility.

Chairs and tables were skilfully carved and inlaid with different woods and, among the wealthier nobility, often decorated with gold and silver.

Here is a nobility worthy to compare with the patience of the praedials.

They were immediately informed that the imperial mind was made up, that the business of the Muscovite nobility was now to arrange that the serf be freed in twelve years, and put in possession of homestead and enclosure.

There was a characteristic nobility and dignity in his plan; it was worthy of him.

It is a turbid, muddled, gothic sort of an affair, without a sweeping outline and with little pictorial nobility.

It is a name which carries with it the attestation of its genuine nobility.

A secular nobility is formed by groups of people, who grudge each other their very lives and fight each other according to the rules of retaliation unmitigated by any more humane feelings.

In this extremity, Ethelred, to whom historians give the epithet of the UNREADY, instead of rousing his people to defend with courage their honour and their property, hearkened to the advice of Siricius, Archbishop of Canterbury, which was seconded by many of the degenerate nobility; and paying the enemy the sum of ten thousand pounds, he bribed them to depart the kingdom.