Estates
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I make over the
estates
themselves, that is to say.
The ease of his situation, and the attentions lavished upon a youth in the actual enjoyment of one of the largest
estates
in the colonies, interfered greatly with his ambitious projects.
Many bore arms in support of the crown, and, by their bravery and exertions, endeavored to secure what they deemed to be the rights of their prince, and their own
estates
from the effects of the law of attainder.
The fact of his having a son in the royal, or, as it was called, the regular army, had very nearly brought his
estates
to the hammer.
"You now have the fruits of rebellion brought home to you; a brother wounded and a prisoner, and perhaps a victim; your father distressed, his privacy interrupted, and not improbably his
estates
torn from him, on account of his loyalty to his king."
As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that, impatient of their perfect state, resolve, as they call it, to take the first good Christian that comes, that run into matrimony as a horse rushes into the battle, I can say nothing to them but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be prayed for among the rest of distempered people, and to me they look like people that venture their whole
estates
in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.
"The name is familiar to me," said he."The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the
estates
extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, and Hampshire in the west.
He had on his
estates
the rights of high and low tribunals.
"And as," continued he, "the duchess whom you saw at the church has
estates
near to those of my family, we mean to make the journey together.
"Well, to let that point pass, it is monstrous to suppose that the title and the
estates
can remain hung up in this way for ever.
"You will allow me to observe, sir, that I have personal interests of the highest importance involved in this matter, I have every reason to believe that there is a conspiracy afoot which will affect my position as heir to Lord Avon's titles and
estates.
There is no knowing how
estates
will go when once they come to be entailed."
"Her daughter, Miss de Bourgh, will have a very large fortune, and it is believed that she and her cousin will unite the two estates."
For your sake," turning to Charlotte, "I am glad of it; but otherwise I see no occasion for entailing
estates
from the female line.
Wickham is the son of a very respectable man, who had for many years the management of all the Pemberley estates, and whose good conduct in the discharge of his trust naturally inclined my father to be of service to him; and on George Wickham, who was his godson, his kindness was therefore liberally bestowed.
"Look here," said he to Neb one day, "I would give you by notarial deed all the
estates
which will come to me some day, if you were a good enough fellow to go, no matter where, and subscribe to some newspaper for me!
To maintain these retainers, and to support the extravagance and magnificence which their pride induced them to affect, the nobility borrowed sums of money from the Jews at the most usurious interest, which gnawed into their
estates
like consuming cankers, scarce to be cured unless when circumstances gave them an opportunity of getting free, by exercising upon their creditors some act of unprincipled violence.
Old Lord Ingram's
estates
were chiefly entailed, and the eldest son came in for everything almost."
And, forgetting that a moment earlier he had warned them against Libitina, he began to tell about Sicily, where he had
estates
and large cultivated fields which he loved.
Consider, then, whether in that case repose in thy Sicilian
estates
would not be preferable to remaining in Rome.
Through Vitelius he offered Tigellinus all his Sicilian estates, and whatever else the man might ask; but Tigellinus, not wishing apparently to offend the Augusta, refused.
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