The full-fledged Cientifico was at once a tremendous landholder and high government official.

Some said he was an impoverished landholder whom Commodus had met by accident when traveling in Northern Italy.

Katrine was not long in discovering these excellences, and, if his boldness had equalled his passion, she would have shown him how little she esteemed the pretensions of the proud landholder or the miserly carpenter.

Assuming that the type of the small French landholder, both rural and urban, had been pretty well developed by the autumn of 1791, the crisis came rapidly, for the confiscations which created this new energy roused to frenzy, perhaps the most formidable energy which opposed it.

But let the coloured man of every race be encouraged to become a landholder and a producer in his own small way.

Hence the Roman landholder comparatively neglected the culture of grainwhich in many rases seems to have been restricted to the raising of the quantity required for the staff of labourers(13)and gave increased attention to the production of oil and wine as well as to the breeding of cattle.

The capitalists no longer lent to the farmer at interest a course, which in itself was not now practicable because the petty landholder no longer aimed at any considerable surplus, and was moreover not sufficiently simple and radicalbut they bought up the farms and converted them, at the best, into estates managed by stewards and worked by slaves.

As the younger boys grew up the deacon had ceased to hire help, and Biah had transferred his services to Squire Jones, a rich landholder in the neighborhood, who wanted some one to overlook his place.

Among the characteristics of those German ancestors of ours are the following: They were very independent; the free landholder was "the free-necked man."

Sportsmanship, sheer sportsmanship, the qualification that, more than any other, commands the respect of your great English landholder, surmounted every obstacle.

Its nameBarnestonis said to perpetuate a Saxon landholder, Berne, so that the foundations of the house are far older than this period.

It was called "The Landholder's Assistant," and was intended, as its name imported, to assist that lucky portion of mankind who possessed the soil of Maryland in their pursuit of knowledge touching the mysteries of patents, warrants, surveys, and such like learning, necessary to getting land or keeping what they had.

"The Landholder's Assistant" supplies all the facts that are wanting in this brief statement.

"No landholder would have been at that expence."Ib., p. 116.

"Thus in England and France, a great landholder possesses a hundred times the property that is necessary for the subsistence of a family; and each landlord has perhaps a hundred families dependent on him for subsistence.

"No landholder would have been at that expense."Id.

The landholder, the clergyman, the mill-owner, the mining agent, have each an opportunity for making precious observations on different sections of the working-class, but unfortunately their experience is too often not registered at all, or its results are too scattered to be available as a source of information and stimulus to the public mind generally.

In Virginia likewise it was the landholder who enjoyed distinction and consideration, who was sent to the House of Burgesses and was bowed and scraped to as his coach bumped along over the miserable roads.

Besides, it was long before the roving and predatory instinct of the barbarian was moderated; and his weaker neighbor was the natural prey of the more powerful landholder, an example not unfrequently set by the king himself.

Each group of colonists and each proprietary landholder had to adopt some method of land tenure whether by free grant or by sale of separate holdings or by leasing to settlers.

We passed a landholder's house on the road, then crossed a range of low mountains and came to the Mission of San Juan (St. John) situated near the foot-hills, overlooking a level, rich appearing extent of valley land with a big vegetable growth all over it; in some places wild mustard which stood thickly and was from four to ten feet high.

The south-western part of the township, with much of two adjoining townships, remained an unbroken forest, belonging to an eccentric landholder who refused to sell it.

Francisco Ramirez, a small landholder, was the president.

The earliest known Washington coat of arms had blazoned upon it "3 Cinque foiles," which was the herald's way of saying that the bearer was a landholder and cultivator, and when Washington had a book-plate made for himself he added to the conventional design of the arms spears of wheat and other plants, as an indication of his favorite labor.

A contemporary said "that General Washington is, perhaps, the greatest landholder in America.