But when, upon the opening of Cæsar's will, it was found that he had left every Roman citizen a considerable legacy, and they beheld the body, as it was carried through the Forum, all mangled with wounds, the multitude could no longer be kept within bounds.

At the age of twenty he received a legacy of a few pounds; and soon after, having saved a little money, married a good and true woman, who helped him much throughout life.

At his death, in 1441, he bequeathed Caxton a legacy of twenty marksa large sum in those daysand an honorable testimony to his fidelity and integrity.

The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inherit so rich a legacy.

Such people, if they had dreamt that an unknown friend had left them 100,000l., would feel disappointed if he awoke and found a legacy of 90,000l.

A rich merchant had a fair wife; according to his custom he went to travel; in his absence a good fellow tempted his wife; she denied him; yet he, dying a little after, gave her a legacy for the love he bore her.

When I consider the legacy, so to speak, which this dear friend used to say he should bequeath to me, this language seems to prevail in my heart:"Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise.

These constitute a legacy of which all nations should be proud.

Octavius therefore sold what remained of his uncle's property, raised money on his own credit, and paid all legacies with great exactness.

They had not expected legacies from the old lady, or any advantage to themselves.

His successor, Narayan Athavale, known for his inimitable style of writing, kept up Gadkari's legacy.

Do you mean to say that my father has told you that he intends to clog his legacy with the burden of a wife?

[Sidenote: Proposal of Gracchus to distribute the legacy of Attalus.]

At an age when other boys are sporting in the fields or murmuring in the school, I was contriving some new method of paying my court; inquiring the age of my future benefactors; or considering how I should employ their legacies.

(3) In exempting legacies below a certain amount. (4) In having rates progressing with the size of the legacy; (this feature is less general, but is prominent in most of the later laws).

He saw that Colonel Clifford would extort not only Walter's legacy, but what the lawyers call the mesne profits, that is to say, the interest and the various proceeds from the fraud during fourteen years.

Couldn't that little lawyer man to whom she went every month at Bedford, to fetch her legacy moneycouldn't he lend it her, and keep her money till it was paid?

I ache to see his nubbly features ("nubbly" is a portmanteau word and exactly describes them) and the hair that no brush can persuade to lie straight, and to hear the broad accenta legacy from a nurse who hailed from a mining village in Lithgowwhich is such a trial to his relatives I have no illusions about Peter's looks any more than he has himself.

Three girls, howeverthe two eldest sixteen and fourteenwere an awful legacy for a mother to bequeath, an awful charge rather to confide, to the authority of a conceited, silly father.

"In that case why shouldn't he have incorporated the legacy in the will?" countered Tutt sharply.

[Footnote 15: Here insert specific legacies and devises.]

" To this latter proposition Sampson acquiesced with pleasure; he was delighted with the prospect of once more seeing his young shipmate, whose mysterious allusions to the Sea-flower he could now comprehend; but as to himself receiving so liberal a legacy, he was not prepared to look upon the proposition as favorably.

Perchance some book-buyer need be told that the above is a book to live byan invaluable legacy of a parish priest to his brethren and the world.

He ceases to be an executor and he loses a legacy of some seventy thousand pounds.

That we have greatly improved on the opinions and practices of our ancestors, is quite as certain as that there will be occasion to meliorate the legacy of morals which we shall transmit to posterity.