Italian society, particularly those of its dominant class, the urban patriciate. From Wordnik.com. [UNIVERSAL MAN] Reference
Or the Dutch commercial patriciate with that of Phoenicia, Venice, or Catalonia?. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Gothic Fox'] Reference
No one, not even Mrs. Astor, could have turned this tinsel patriciate into a first-rate one. From Wordnik.com. [The Aristocracy and Its Discontents] Reference
To the Amsterdam patriciate the yearly visit of the Queen is a social function full of interest. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Life in Town and Country] Reference
Yet here in Young Caesar is a member of the old patriciate with all the energy and intelligence of a New Man. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
But at first it took on no constant form, because, by not abolishing the patriciate, it left half its work undone. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Contract] Reference
They, too, enhanced the dignity of princes and patriciate and they furthered their very real interests of wealth and power. From Wordnik.com. [UNIVERSAL MAN] Reference
It is indisputable that, apart from the extreme disparity between the two republics, the bourgeoisie of Geneva is exactly equivalent to the patriciate of. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Contract] Reference
He actually -- Morgan -- both sides of his family came to the -- to America before the Revolution, so they were really members of the American patriciate. From Wordnik.com. [Morgan: American Financier] Reference
The trade that had created Venice's empire and sustained it for half a millennium had been abandoned to Greeks, Jews, and smaller families as the patriciate collected its rents. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
As teachers the humanists were often successfully en - gaged in educating the children of princes and of the urban patriciate, many of whom became convinced that their social status required a humanist education. From Wordnik.com. [HUMANISM IN ITALY] Reference
The seventh power was the patriciate, which continued about fifty years. From Wordnik.com. [The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity] Reference
The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
Salona where the deposed Emperor Nepos was slain, during the patriciate of Odoacer. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2] Reference
I was the crowd of poor, of helpless slaves, and I was the whole of the patriciate of Rome. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
The patriciate of Rome had combined with the people to place its destinies in Dea Flavia's hands. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
We are at one in this: the praetorian guard will follow my dictates, the patriciate of Rome will bow the knee to thee. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
Crescentius who had been beheaded by Otto III, having possessed himself of the patriciate, seized the government at Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
In a growing patriciate home had become a weariness, marriage a form, children a trouble, and the decline of motherhood an alarming fact. From Wordnik.com. [Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ] Reference
Its patriciate, its people, its government were not what government or people or patriciate were in other countries of Western Christendom. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Studies from England and Italy] Reference
Nay! if the patriciate of Rome had its will with thee, it would have thee publicly whipped and branded like the arrogant menial that thou art! '. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
Osmond had a high appreciation of this particular patriciate; not so much for its distinction, which he thought easily surpassable, as for its solid actuality. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2] Reference
Bamberg, who called himself Clement II, Henry still asserted his claim to the right of the Roman patriciate, that of control over the nominations to the papal throne. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
It is this simple continuance of the old social organization which the barbarians elsewhere overthrew that explains the peculiar character of the Venetian patriciate. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Studies from England and Italy] Reference
Gilbert Osmond had a high appreciation of this particular patriciate; not so much for its distinction, which he thought easily surpassable, as for its solid actuality. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
During these proceedings ambassadors came from the Latins and Hernicans to offer their congratulations on the restoration of harmony between the patriciate and the plebs. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Vol. I] Reference
The life of the Nuremberg patriciate, now extinct in the control of the city which it builded so strenuously and maintained so heroically, is still insistent in all its art. From Wordnik.com. [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference
Verginia, the daughter of Aulus Verginius, a patrician, had married the plebeian consul, L. Volumnius, and the matrons excluded her from their sacred rites because she had married outside the patriciate. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Vol. II] Reference
With the decline of the empire’s total force the local patriciate in Rome and the other Roman towns re-emerged or unmasked their power. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference
Comte terms them, the patriciate. From Wordnik.com. [Auguste Comte and Positivism] Reference
The seventh, or future one, was the patriciate. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Reformation] Reference
The 'closing of the patriciate'. From Wordnik.com. [Roman History Books and More] Reference
Charlemagne, 236, 305, 320, 325; restores the Western empire, 325, 326, 350-352; patriciate of, 350, 351, also n. From Wordnik.com. [The Revelation Explained] Reference
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