The guests were generally the notabilities of the small towns and villages of his circumscription,mayors, farmers, and small landowners.

Circumscription N. circumscription, limitation, inclosure; confinement &c (restraint) 751; circumvallation^; encincture; envelope &c 232. container (receptacle) 191.

Circumscription N. circumscription, limitation, inclosure; confinement &c (restraint) 751; circumvallation^; encincture; envelope &c 232. container (receptacle) 191.

He cannot drive into his fancy the circumscription of truth to our corner, and is as hardly persuaded to think their old legends true.

If it is difficult and in some cases practically impossible to fix the limits of species, it is still more so to fix those of genera; and those of tribes and families are still less susceptible of exact natural circumscription.

Enough has been said to show that the circumscription of aristocratic privilege and the diffusion of material luxury did not precipitate the millennium.

Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Cæsar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.

For the maintenance of ministers they settled a certain portion of their lands; and a district, through which each minister was required to extend his care, was, by that circumscription, constituted a parish.

The Assembly likewise refused to take into account the population of the circumscriptions (outlying districts) in fixing the number of its representatives; the seneschalty of Poitiers, which numbered seven hundred thousand inhabitants, was not to have more deputies than the bailiwick of Dourdan, which had but eight thousand.

You are no longer a citizen of the world: but your "unhoused free condition is put into circumscription and confine."

X. There remains but one more division of the Animal Kingdom for our consideration, the most limited of all in its circumscription,that of Species.