Her high estate and rich domains, now the tokens of her thralldom, would then be her joy, since she could give them to Max.

Each estate was a little despotism, and the manager took cognizance of all the misdemeanors committed among his slaves inflicting such punishment as he thought proper.

In 1759, when Edward Rich died without issue, Francis Greville was made Earl of Warwick, with whose descendants the estates have since remained.

Not that she had any passengers or freight for Brandon perhaps, or Brandon for her, but because all these river estates are postoffices and the Pocahontas carries the river mail.

To one, the kingly estate is but a gift blindly bestowed; to the other, 'tis the divine right of excelling merit.

Old Sherwood suspects him for a fool, but his extensive estates are unincumberedhe will approve his suit.

My Estate is seven hundred Pounds a Year, besides the benefit of Tin-Mines.

His own judgment was that the wisest plan would be to order the clergy and nobles to unite in an Upper Chamber, so as in some degree to resemble the British House of Lords; while the Third Estate, in a Lower Chamber, would be a tolerably faithful copy of our House of Commons.

That estate would remain their home, their source of nourishment, the tie linking them together, even if they became dispersed through the world in a variety of social positions.

All the estate which he left is a collection of medals, another of herbs, and a library rated at two thousand crowns; which make it evident that he spent much more upon his mind than upon his body.

Taking the history of France in its entirety and under all its phases, the third estate has been the most active and determining element in the process of Freneh civilization.

Where private trust estates become the cause of disputes and quarrels, between trustees and beneficiaries, the parties thereto may relieve themselves by handing over their burden to the public office.

Real estate and patents are the bases of all wealth.

I have no kith or kin, no ambition, no lust; but this estate is wife, child, everything, to me.

The estate of inheritance, which looks so generous and equitable an arrangement, was a perpetual grievance; for the possessor could neither transmit his property by will nor transfer it by sale.

"Suppose," she said to Mr. Watson, "my present will stands, and after my death the estate becomes the property of Patricia.

The excavation of all these buildings and many others took place in the forties and fifties of last century, and were due to the energy of Mr. John Clayton, the learned and zealous antiquary, in the possession of whose family the estate still remains.

"That lady in Number 37," said the Mordaunt Estate bitterly, "ain't the lady I thought she was.

When, however, he tried to execute it, it turned out that the estate on which he had a lien was a joint family possession, with the shares so inextricably mixed up that he could neither trace the property mortgaged to him nor discover who was liable for the proportion of profit derived from it.

An estate of nearly seven hundred acres, with extensive agriculture, and a large manufactory and distillery, employing three hundred apprentices, and supporting twenty-five horses, one hundred and thirty head of horned cattle, and hogs, sheep; and poultry in proportion, is manifestly a most complicated machinery.

" The noble Philidore falls in love with the rich and beautiful Placentia, but as his estate is no match for hers, he contents himself with entering her service in disguise and performing menial offices for the pleasure of seeing her.

And in case of the branch she favoured dying out, the estate was to revert to his heir-at-lawthe old man's heir-at-law, you know, his nearest of kin.

"My estate is a small body of wild land; my influence extends little beyond this beaver meadow, and is confined to my own household, and some fifteen or twenty labourers; and as for the new rank of which you speak, it is not likely the colonists will care much for that, if they disregard the rights of the king.

It is not another man's opinion can make me happy: but as Seneca well hath it, "He is a miserable wretch that doth not account himself happy, though he be sovereign lord of a world: he is not happy, if he think himself not to be so; for what availeth it what thine estate is, or seem to others, if thou thyself dislike it?"

The Estate my eldest Son is Heir to, is more than he can enjoy with a good Grace.