...member of a proud and powerful aristocracy, and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualities which belong to aristocrats. His family pride was beyond that of a Talbot or a Howard Thus the character of the English esquire of the seventeenth century was compounded of two elements...

...says that the English country gentleman " knew the genealogies and coats of arms of all his neighbors, and could tell which of them had assumed supporters without any right, and which had the misfortune to be alderman." On which the better-informed critic exclaims : " There was not...

...member of a proud and powerful aristocracy, and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualities which belong to aristocrats. His family...right, and which of them were so unfortunate as to be great grandsons of aldermen. He was a magistrate, and, as such, administered gratuitously to those...

...member of a proud and powerful aristocracy, and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualities which belong to aristocrats. His family...right, and which of them were so unfortunate as to be great grandsons of aldermen. He was a magistrate, and, as such, administered gratuitously to those...

...Alexander Ross' View of Religions ; and though fools make up the guts of all Macaulay's History of England. the genealogies and coats of arms of all his neighbours,...right, and which of them were so unfortunate as to be great grandsons of aldermen. Nor indeed was his soldiership justly a subject of derision. In every...

...Alexander Ross' View of Religions ; and though fools make up the guts of all Macaulay's History of England. the genealogies and coats of arms of all his neighbours,...right, and which of them were so unfortunate as to be great grandsons of aldermen. Nor indeed was his soldiership justly a subject of derision. In every...

...member of a proud and powerful aristocracy, and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualities which belong to aristocrats. His family...knew the genealogies and coats of arms of all his neighbors, and could tell which of them had assumed supporters without any right, and which of them...

...proud and powerful aristocracy, and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualified which belong to aristocrats. His family pride was...knew the genealogies and coats of arms of all his neighbors, and could tell which of them had assumed supporters without any right, and which of them...

...against the general want of education he sneeringly adds — ' He knew the genealogies and coats-of-arms of all his neighbours, and could tell which of them...had assumed supporters without any right, and which had the misfortune to be great-grandsons of aldermen." — i. 322. There was not one of these ' unlettered...

...and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualities whieh belong to aristoerats. His family pride was beyond that of a Talbot or a Howard. He knew the genealogies and eoats-ofarms of all his neighbours, and eould tell whieh of them had assumed supporters without any...