patriciate

Example Sentences

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He has nowhere written that territorial riches were the exclusive appanage of the patriciate.

From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Stephenson, Andrew

Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans in the year eight hundred; and so the patriciate terminated.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David

The oligarchical rule was so severe, that a patrician marrying a woman of the lower class forfeited his right to participate in the government, and deprived his offspring of the patriciate.

From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Goldoni, Carlo

In a growing patriciate home had become a weariness, marriage a form, children a trouble, and the decline of motherhood an alarming fact.

From Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ by Bacheller, Irving

He tried to revive the patriciate; he wanted to have, cooperating with him, a governing class with the ancient sense of responsibility and turn for affairs.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth