Franklin, now in his eightieth year, was the Nestor of the assembly, covered with honors from home and abroad for his science and his political experience and sagacity,a man who received more flattering attentions in France than any American who ever visited it; one of the great savants of the age, dignified, affable, courteous, whom everybody admired and honored.

But it seems that as he advanced in years, in experience, and in honors, Adams became more and more imbued with aristocratic ideas,like Burke, whose early career was marked for liberal and progressive views, but who became finally the most conservative of English statesmen, and recoiled from the logical sequence of the principles he originally advocated with such transcendent eloquence and ability.

De Gersay intending his son to fill a high position in society and public honors, sent him to this school, where he was received and put upon the same footing as other youth of high birth, and was duly trained with them in all the arts and accomplishments of refined society.

Are you ashamed to avow a sensibility which honors humanity?" "Cease, Chevalier," said Ninon, raising her hand in protest, "the right to claim my liveliest friendship rested with you, I thought you worthy of it.

But the fact is, that just in proportion as the honors and privileges which the laws accord to women, exceed the amount which nature gives, is there a diminution in the number of women who really participate in these privileges; and all the remainder are deprived of their natural rights by just so much as is given to the others over and above their share.

So the King sent forth proclamation to all the courts of that nation that a great tournament was to be held and that great rewards and great honors were to be given to the best knight thereat.

It only remained to bury Cloudy Sky, with all the honors due to a medicine man.

For this and his other actions while absent from the city many honors of all sorts were voted none of which he would accept, save the founding of a temple to Fortuna Redux, (this being the name they applied to her), and that the day on which he arrived should be numbered among the thanksgiving days and be called Augustalia.

For these reasons Augustus first sent Drusus against them: he joined battle with a detachment of theirs that met him near the Tridentine mountains, and speedily had them routed; for this exploit he received the honors belonging to prætors.

For this reason no one else among his peers (so I am inclined to think) was permitted to do this, but they enjoyed merely the ornament of triumphal honors.

For these achievements the senate voted him a triumph, but Augustus did not allow him to hold it, granting him instead the triumphal honors.

Coming to Rome he was made aedilein the consulship of Quintus Aelius and Paulus Fabius, though he had already prætor's honors.

And for this thanksgivings and triumphal honors were accorded him.

Her body was carried in procession by her sons-in-law: not all the honors voted to her were accepted by Augustus.

[Footnote 10: The words "certain honors" are supplied on the suggestion of Boissevain.

He and his children received the title of Germanicus and honors in the way of both images and an arch, besides obtaining a cenotaph close to the Rhine itself.

The emperor received the state burial and all the other honors obtained by Augustus.

When he had captured the whole country of Armenia and had won over also many of the kings, some of whom, since they submitted, he treated as his friends, and others, though disobedient, he subdued without resort to arms, [Sidenote:23] the senate voted to him many honors of various descriptions, and they bestowed upon him the title of Optimus, i.e., Excellent.

Various honors were voted him by the senate, among others the privilege of celebrating as many triumphs as he might desire.

On its receipt he obtained among other honors the privilege of celebrating a triumph for as many nations as he pleased.

He had seen many that no other emperor had even set eyes upon, and he assisted practically all of them, giving to some water, to others harbors, or food, or public works, or money, and to still others various honors.

It remains for an affectionate and grateful people, in whose hearts he can never die, to pay suitable honors to his memory.

For rules governing salutes, see "Honors and Salutes," paragraphs 758-765. STEPS AND MARCHINGS.

For rules governing salutes, see "Honors and Salutes.

A spot uncommunicated with may be visited by the honors of famine, and no channel exist for conveying thither the food required.