He lamented that he was not sent to college, where if a young man receives no other discipline at least he meets his equals in society and assuredly finds his betters; whereas in Mr. Gandish's studio our young gentleman scarcely found a comrade that was not in one way or other his flatterer, his inferior, his honest or dishonest admirer.

Surely it need not be added, that those who thus tread down their equals, must trample as in a wine-press their defenceless vassals.

Highbury, the large and populous village to which her house, Hartfield, really belonged, afforded her no equals.

Macaulay was not a vain man, nor even egotistical; but he had a tremendous self-consciousness, which annoyed his equals in literary fame, and repelled such a giant as Brougham, who had no idea of sharing his throne with any one,being more overbearing even than Macaulay, but more human.

Yet their very confidence ruined them, for they retreated in a leisurely manner, caring little whether they were overtaken or not, as they had many times worsted the whites, and did not deem them their equals in battle.

Thou hast never disregarded thy equals, and inferiors and superiors.

Though the navigation in this Republic, coastwise, now employs a tonnage equalling that used in all the commerce of any other nation of Christendom, England alone excepted, it was of no great amount at the commencement of the eighteenth century.

The possession of these qualities was the very condition of existence, and they valued them accordingly; but in each one of them they found their equals, and in fact their superiors, among the brutes.

The aristocrat sometimes hated his inferiors; he always hated his equals.

Still fretting in secret over the want of any object on whom to lavish a mother's tenderness, she sought for friendship as a substitute, shutting her eyes to the fact that persons in her rank, as having no equals, can have no friends, in the true sense of the word.

Follow me, then, faithful as hitherto, and I promise you that the world shall not hold your equals in wealth and glory.

Thus, although this feeing of servants may seem at first strange to an American traveller in England, and may occasion him some perplexity and even annoyance, he will soon become accustomed to it; and in making up the balance-sheet of the additional cost on one side and the additional comfort on the other which the system produces, he will come even to the mathematical conclusion, "if to equals you add equals, the sums will be equals.

They joined Mahomet at Sarif, and were forthwith appointed among the Companions, the equals of Ali, Othman and Omar.

[1720]Adrian the Emperor was so galled with it, that he killed all his equals; so did Nero.

He has left few equals behind him: so true, so upright, so steady in his principles, and so winning in his manners.

To demand that the woman one loves should be pure is egotistical: to look for that in a woman which I have not got myself is not love, but worship, since one ought to love one's equals.

Those so ennobled were not reckoned the equals of the higher class.

These did not require such marvellous mathematical powers as made Kepler and Newton immortal,the equals of Ptolemy and Hipparchus in mathematical demonstration,but only accuracy and perseverance in observations.

Do not the nobles of all Italy seek their equals in condition and in the gifts of fortune, in order that their union may be fittingly assorted.

They had achieved a revolution; they had become a political people; they had shewn themselves the equals of England and of France.

For prosperity must sustain an envy equalling itself: but concerning the man of low place the rumour is obscure.

" He regrets that the laws against duels have been ineffectual; and is of opinion, that they can never attain their end, unless the princes of Europe shall agree not to afford an asylum to duellists, and to punish all who shall insult their equals, either by word, deed, or writing.

Lucretia and Portia adorned private life, andexcept in the manner of their respective deathswere model matrons, the equals of their husbands in integrity and understanding.