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...m only I would be understood to address myself, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the daylight, or to point out to the judicious those recommendations of my labours which they must necessarily anticipate from the perusal of the title-page....

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... the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the daylight, or to point out... ...came a resident in the family of her foster-son, assisting in the domestic duties, and receiving all marks of attention and regard from the heads of t... ...ern and sinister expression, might well be termed handsome, looked the old feudal baron extremely well. Sir Frederick Langley was placed on his right ... ... long passed away under the changes introduced by war and mutual ravage. A feudal castle had arisen on the ruin of their cells, and their chapel was i... ...rance, and had been frequently used as the cem- etery of the family of the feudal lords, as well as formerly of the monastic brethren. But it looked d...

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...tou- rage, aligned themselves in their places and took up the pow- ers and duties of local government in perfect order and with- out embarrassment. Th... ...menable to public opinion. The test of moral character and devotion to the duties of good citizenship are ignored in the laws, because the courts can ... ... loyalty to the people, and a rev- erence for God that gives weight to the duties and responsi- bilities of citizenship. M. De T ocqueville found in t... ...nt. Napoleon, “The mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream,” had abolished feudalism and absolutism, made monarchs and dynasties obsolete, and substit... ... dusty chambers, to appear at the court of the monarch, by the side of the feudal barons in their ermine and their mail. Whilst the kings were ruin- i... ...all his Court, into the dust. As soon as land was held on any other than a feudal ten- ure, and personal property began in its turn to confer influ- e... ...ommunities in- troduced an element of democratic liberty into the bosom of feudal monarchy; the invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the n... ... generation? Is it cred- ible that the democracy which has annihilated the feudal system and vanquished kings will respect the citizen and the capital... ...hip was the nucleus round which the local interests, passions, rights, and duties collected and clung. It gave scope to the activity of a real politic...

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...equire that to every commencement of a very weighty relation, imposing new duties, there should be a cor- responding and ceremonial entrance. The new ... ...igion. This was the period in which the clergy thought too little of their duties, but too much of their professional rights; and if we may credit the... ...e equity we must admit—not that the Brit- ish nation had fallen behind its duties, (though naturally it might have done so under the religious torpor ... ...or prevalent at the original era of manufacturing extension,) but that the duties had outstripped all human power of overtaking them. The efforts, how... ...ing the writer as entitled to the homage of his reader, as if he were some feudal superior, they hold him little better than an actor bow- ing before ... ...ittle better than an actor bow- ing before the reader as his audience. The feudal relation of fealty [fidelitas] may subsist between them, but the pla... ...ions of sleep, or of yawning. Having thus, upon our knees as it were, done feudal hom- age to our great suzerain, the reader—having propitiated him wi... ... meet with the elementary state, growing and as yet imperfectly rooted, of feudalism. Here, too, we behold in their incunabula, forming and arranging ... ...elvets, or to apricate and refresh old gouty systems and old traditions of feudal ostentation, which both alike suffered and grew smoke-dried under to...

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...werful chieftains of the Northmen who conquered Gaul and estab- lished the feudal system there. Never had Carol bent his head before King or Communes,... ...ly meant no shadow of imagi- nary office; it had been a post of honor with duties to dis- charge. Their fief had always been their domain. Provincial ... ...the month of October 1800 that Chesnel brought the Marquis back to the old feudal castle, and saw with deep emotion, almost beyound his control, his p... ...pressed passion in it, the dignity of her move- ments, the saintly life of duties fulfilled,—all this touched and awed me. Children are more susceptib... ...nation must needs picture Mlle. Armande standing there, like the spirit of feudalism. I can never read old chronicles but she appears before my eyes i... ...e Marquis asked himself what a man of seventy should do at court; and what duties, what office he could discharge there? The noble and high-minded d’E... ...feriors, people with whom he had nothing in common, towards whom he had no duties. They were defeated and conquered enemies, whom he need not take int... ...readful to see. They understood each other. The poor father, the flower of feudal honor, must die with all his illusions. A compact of silence and dev... ...de Civil made an end of the parch- ments, exactly as cannon made an end of feudal castles. When you have some money, you will be very much more of nob...

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...erling, in September 1634, at Wormes, in the Palz: Dis- charged in several duties and observations of service, first, under the magnanimous King of De... ...gns of impatience. At the gate of the castle another terrible spectacle of feudal power awaited him. Within a stockade or palisade, which seemed latel... ...apestry of his private apartment. Such communications were frequent in old feudal castles, as they gave the lord of the fortress, like a second Dionys... ... safely reached the apartment of the Marquis. [The precarious state of the feudal nobles introduced a great deal of espionage into their castles. Sir ... ...e daughter of Aiah, seemed engaged in watching and mourning the victims of feudal injustice and cruelty. The woman started at his voice, but immediate... ...g German wars, superseded what may be called the natural discipline of the feudal militia. The Scottish Lowland militia, therefore, laboured under a d... ...“you’ll find Loyalty’s Reward, since you call him so, practised in all the duties of the field, —but I must just hint to you, that at this time, in Sc...

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...h sanctimonious theory. But while they talked, above their heads I saw The feudal warrior lady-clad; which brought My book to mind: and opening this ... ...othic ruin and a Grecian house, A talk of college and of ladies’ rights, A feudal knight in silken masquerade, And, yonder, shrieks and strange experi... ...ans of the vale. Agreed to, this, the day fled on through all Its range of duties to the appointed hour. Then summoned to the porch we went. She stoo...

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...ove their chariots on the wrong side of the Roman wall. We have passed the feudal system; they are not yet clear of the patriarchal. We are in the thi... ...riod of communism. And this makes them hard to understand. To us, with our feudal ideas, Samoa has the first appear- ance of a land of despotism. An e... ... a chief and to fondle a favourite child. Men like us, full of memories of feudalism, hear of a man so addressed, so flattered, and we leap at once to... ...ere was found an American clerk in Apia, William Blacklock, to perform the duties of the office with remark- able ability and courage. The three names... ...erhaps no diplomatist; he was certainly no law- yer; but he discharged the duties of his office with the con- stancy and courage of an old soldier, an... ...ffering humanity, their time was too short for the multiplicity of pitiful duties. In Mrs. de Coetlogon, and her helper, Miss T aylor, the merit of th... ...ly by German doctors. In the progressive decivilisation of the town, these duties of humanity became thus a ground of quarrel. When the Mataafa hurt w... ...nd all that is most considerable in Sa- moan politics, except the opposite feudal party of the T upua. And in the temptation brought to bear on Mataaf... ...n in so far answerable as he was at the moment absent from the seat of his duties; and the blame falls on Baron Senfft von Pilsach, president of the m...

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...ed man, There thought upon their own gray tower, Their waving woods, their feudal power, And deemed themselves a shameful part Of pageant which they c... ...er Scott III. These drew not for their fields the sword, Like tenants of a feudal lord, Nor owned the patriarchal claim Of Chieftain in their leader’s... ...ng Lewis took With deep respect and altered look, And said: ‘This ring our duties own; And pardon, if to worth unknown, In semblance mean obscurely ve... ...my skill, than in the manner of the champion of chivalry, who performs his duties only on rare and solemn occasions. I was in any case conscious that ... ... Scott says: “James was, in fact, equally attentive to restrain rapine and feudal oppression in every part of his dominions. ‘The King past to the isl... ...shed man, Who thought upon his own gray tower, The waving woods, his feudal bower, And deemed himself a shameful part Of pageant that he c... ...ds and Borders was of a dif- ferent nature, and sometimes at variance with feudal prin- ciples. It flowed from the Patria Potestas, exercised by the c...

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...erruption, “I told him that I should not have thought of one exempted from feudal service in the camp, by our noble Knight, being deficient in his due... ...ated with great severity, in order to obtain from him a recognition of the feudal superiority of the Clarenhams; and though the success of the royal p... ...horse that had been brought for his use, turned back to his own melancholy duties. The body of Sir Reginald was raised from the ground, and placed on ... ...the wardship of the person of Arthur himself, both in right of his alleged feudal superiority, and as the next of kin who was of full age. Again was h... ...dly, disdaining to take notice of the latter part of this speech. “ As his feudal superior, and his nearest relation of full age,” replied Clarenham. ... ...ng on me, who, though I be a plain man, trust I understand somewhat of the duties of mine office.” “I sleep not until I have learnt what is committed ...

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...urth of August, when new Faith rose suddenly into miraculous fire, and old Feudality was burnt up, men remarked that Mirabeau took no hand in it; that... ...5, 86 (29th September, 7th November, 1789).) A man of per- haps inveterate Feudalisms; of stratagems; too often visible leanings towards the Royalist ... ...lief. Let an august National Assembly make a Fourth-of-August Abolition of Feudality; declare the Clergy State-servants who shall have wages; vote Sus... ...tablest for us is Baron Jean Baptiste de Clootz;—or, dropping baptisms and feudalisms, World-Citizen Anacharsis Clootz, from Cleves. Him mark, judicio... ...epartments, Clergy about to be remodelled, Popular Soci- eties rising, and Feudalism and so much ever is ready to be hurled into the melting-pot,—migh... ...c terror, consider what your military mob will be, with such a conflict of duties and penalties, whirled be- tween remorse and fury, and, for the hot ... ...ter was cooled down. Not so, however: Lameth, proceeding to his senatorial duties, in the decline of the day, is met in those Assembly corridors by no... ... Blacks, felt, for his share too, that Insurrection was the most sacred of duties. So the tricolor Cockades had fluttered and swashed only some three ... ...rec- tion of Women! Gouvion quitted the Legislative Hall and Parliamentary duties, in disgust and despair, when those Galley-slaves of Chateau-Vieux w...

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...ncern its own land. Many of these towns were once the capitals of a little feudal State,—a county or duchy conquered by the crown or divided among man... ...y. One of the towns in which may be found the most correct likeness of the feudal ages is Guerande. The name alone awak- ens a thousand memories in th... ...ists, thinkers who have visited the slopes on which this splendid jewel of feudality lies proudly posed to command the flux and reflux of the tides an... ...t of Croisic. This fascinating little town is therefore the Herculaneum of feudality, less its winding sheet of lava. It is afoot, but not living; it ... ...lin replaced the three guns and the sabres in their places, these words of feudal simplicity:— “The barons did not all do their duty.” Then, having ki... ...he had to prepare it for herself; a woman capable of accomplishing all the duties, even the most painful, of hu- manity, strong under necessary privat... ...d she has taught me.” “Y ou knew the essential things when you learned the duties taught us by religion,” replied the baroness. “Ah! this woman is fat... ...eenly felt the value of independence, and was conscious of disgust for the duties of maternity. It is necessary to give these details to explain the a... ... is not to be. What can you, my fine nephew, put in the scale against such duties? Is it that actress at Les T ouches?” “What?” said the baron; “how c...

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... the protec- tion of any of the petty kings in their vicinity, accepted of feudal offices in his household, or bound themselves by mu- tual treaties o... ...ng the Norman soldiers, and the immediate personal dependants of the great feudal nobles. But to give their conversation in the original would convey ... ...intrude *Negro Slaves. 16 Ivanhoe upon the halls and bowers of an ancient feudal castle. The Prior mingled in the sports of the field with more than ... ...holy city, are found travelling at such a distance from the scene of their duties, can you wonder that a peaceful peasant like me should decline the t... ...the two rival na- tions seldom failed to call forth; but, recollecting the duties of hospitality, he suppressed further show of resentment, and, motio... ...Athelstane of Coningsburgh, and with such a train as would set outlaws and feudal enemies at defiance.—I drink to you, Sir Prior, in this cup of wine,... ...ws, who, driven to despair by the op- 61 Sir Walter Scott pression of the feudal nobility, and the severe exercise of the forest laws, banded togethe... ...r quarters; the Jews, it is well known, being as liberal in exercising the duties of hospitality and charity among their own people, as they were alle... ...was made that Prince John, suddenly called by high and pe- remptory public duties, held himself obliged to discontinue the entertainments of to-morrow...

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...profound, he was considered to have a spe- cial aptitude for the laborious duties of an examining judge. So an examining judge he remained during the ... ...ms of men of rank, and, in opposition to his own professed ideas as to the duties of the nobility, he has joined a commercial undertak- ing, for which... ...ugh I am a judge, I am but a man; I may be wrong— tell me so. Remember the duties imposed on me by the law, and the rigorous inquiries it demands, whe... ...il: quite a new era. Regarded as a relic of that great institution know as feudal- ism, M. d’Espard deserved respectful admiration. If he be- lieved h... ...peak without fear. It is unnecessary to assure you that lawyers know their duties, and that in such cases the profoundest secrecy—” “Monsieur,” said t...

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...e shoulders to an altitude expressing the various con- temptuous shades of feudal coxcombry, stuck one leather- ruffled arm in his side, and jolted of... ...o rise without her. Gottlieb’s voice could not awaken her to the household duties she loved to perform with such a dole- ful visage. She heard him ope... ...t, consequently, as much as his robber nature boiled over the bound of his feudal privileges. Often had the Baron held his own against sieges and re- ...

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...ite the same thing), by the air of London. As soon, therefore, as official duties, atten- dance on Parliament, or the prosecution of any of his plans ... ...take the life of a young man who perhaps respectably discharged the social duties, and render his family miserable; or he might lose his own;—no pleas... ...en given at that early period when women were not deemed capable to hold a feudal grant; because, according to Les coustusmes de Normandie, c’est h ’h... ... to quote at full length, because a woman could not serve the superior, or feudal lord, in war, on account of the decorum of her sex, nor assist him w... ...hat is, in pulling off the king’s boots after an engagement, which was the feudal service by which 88 Waverley he held the barony of Bradwardine. ‘No... ...ctable; and while few men were more attached to ideas of chieftainship and feudal power, he was, for that very reason, cautious of exhibiting external... ... their consultations, but, moreover, sup- plied funds for the waste of his feudal hospitality, which the discontinuance of his pay might have otherwis... ...nglish translation, which I have attempted, of a part of the original. The duties of the tea-table seem to be concluded, and, as the evening is deligh... ... the most acute pain, namely, their own occa- sional transgressions of the duties which it was the business of his life to recommend. Thus it was a co...

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...le on humanity, it did so, I felt, in discharge of its own more peremptory duties. Upholding the morality of the mail, a fortiori I upheld its rights;... ...ost its privilege of imperial precedency, and astonished weak minds by the feudal powers which I hinted to be lurking construc- tively in the charters... ...nt identification for his person, in the discharge of his important public duties. But the coachman, and especially if his place in the series did not... ... of a more permanent significance. But, since then, the colossal figure of feudalism was seen standing, as it were 71 Thomas De Quincey on tiptoe, at... ... happi- ness as the end of life. Cicero was the author of De Officiis, “Of Duties.” 9 9 ASTROLOGICAL SHADOWS: misfortunes due to being born under an u... ...s,” concludes Cox in Encyclopedia Britannica, “were the breaking up of the feudal system, the abolition of serf- dom, the supremacy of a common law ov... ... sands of Frenchmen were assassinated.”—HART. 74 10 THE COLOSSAL FIGURE OF FEUDALISM, ETC.: The English yeomen at Crecy, overpowering the mounted knig... ...ish yeomen at Crecy, overpowering the mounted knights of France, took from feudalism its chief support,—the superiority of the mounted knight to the u...

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...ath a roof worthy of the stable wherein Jesus Christ was born, the hardest duties of motherhood were fulfilled cheerfully and without consciousness of... ... his clerk, another hapless wretch who was scarcely able to understand his duties. The old cure had died at the age of seventy, and his curate, a quit... ...this should be effected without resorting to the pitiful shifts of customs duties and prohibitions. Industries must work out their own salvation, comp... ... All this is taken very seriously. Any one who was slack in fulfilling his duties after the death of the head of a family would have no one at his own... ...ded our country, the Franks who divided the land among themselves invented feudal privi- lege as a safeguard for property. The hundred or the thou- sa... ...h a view to defending the rights gained by con- quest. The duration of the feudal system was co-existent with the restriction of Privilege. But when t... ...sion of a society, but by which no society can entirely exist; in Germany, feudal class distinctions would be fostered; and here, in France, popular l... ...loftier morality than that of the Epicureans, and a sterner sense of man’s duties, Zeno and the Stoic philoso- phers prescribed suicide in certain cas...

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...give time for a little tranquillity before the commencement of James’s new duties. As soon as this intelligence arrived, Mrs. Frost removed herself, M... ...ow you coincide in my determination that he shall never interfere with the duties of my office.’ ‘You do not imagine that he wishes it?’ ‘I know he wi... ...ir, I am much obliged to you, but no offers shall induce me to forsake the duties of my calling.’ ‘You mistake, if you think I want anything unclerica... ...ry sorry for her,’ said James; ‘but it can’t be helped. I cannot resign my duties here for the sake of living depen- dent on a suitable allowance.’ ‘A... ...sioned to swell the vanity of Cheveleigh, neglecting my vows, forsaking my duties—’ ‘Y ou unreasonable man! Is there no way in this whole world for yo... ... family knew rather less about their own ser- vants’ hall than they did of feudal establishments five hun- dred years ago. Still, Isabel, in her super... ... so many wounds to the little maiden, bred up by Jane in the simplicity of feudal reverence and affection for all that bore the name of Frost Dynevor.... ...ession of Cheveleigh than did his sister. These were days of change and of feudal feeling wearing out; but James, long as he had pretended to scorn ‘b...

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...ons of good-will and security; and this was particularly so in the ancient feudal ages, in which, as the manners of the period had assigned war to be ... ...and the demure, solemn, decorous assiduity with which he now performed the duties of hospitality. When their meal was ended, the hermit, who had not h... ... pages or squires—not even a solitary warder—was placed by the em- blem of feudal power and knightly degree. If its reputation defended it not from in... ...primi- tive structure—a shepherd and his flock. All this internal chain of feudal dependance is artificial and sophisticated; and I would rather hold ... ...onarch, to be in effect restrained and curbed by the will of as many proud feudal barons as hold land under the Assizes of Jerusalem. [The Assises de ... ...usalem. [The Assises de Jerusalem 125 Sir Walter Scott were the digest of feudal law, composed by Godfrey of Boulogne, for the government of the Lati... ...r women, in as great confusion as herself, were unable to render her those duties which were indispensable to her levee. Calm, composed, only pale as ... ...then to forget frivolous distinctions. “Suffer ye the Lady Edith to do the duties of your attendance? Seest thou, Edith, they 186 The Talisman can do... ..., and your time, and your 191 Sir Walter Scott sphere. At present we have duties in which you cannot be our partner.” “Thou hearest, Edith,” whispere...

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...n a volcanic coronet of light. The empire of the day broke into a thousand feudal baronies of burning coal. The minor streets across the valley picked... ... apropos of an advertisement for “stevedores” that I did not know what the duties of a stevedore might be, but that I was apt and willing to learn—and... ... Wells pealing to Lord Redcar as the ground landlord, and, as it were, our feudal chief, and pointing out to him that his se- curity for his rent was ... ...ough the pri- vate ownership of land that had resulted from the neglect of feudal obligations in Britain and the utter want of political foresight in ... ...toll and homage to one of them. They had practi- cally no relations and no duties to the nominal, municipal, or national Government amidst whose large... ...versal baseness of those times at last altogether evaded and escaped their duties, did it obtain, but the “new countries,” as we called them then—the ... ...o leave me alone and sore hearted, to go on at once with these steely cold duties of the wider life. I felt new born, and naked, and at a loss. “Work!... ...hand patted the firm gold-flecked strength of hers, as it went by upon its duties with the coverlet. “She is a good girl to me,” said my mother one da...