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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LORD. The title of Lord, is as common as the title of Lady Even a Duke is not always called My Lord Duke; a Marquess, seldom, if ever, My Lord Marquess; My Lord Earl, has never I think been used, nor are Viscounts and Barons at all distinguished in company. So that my Lord and your Lordship, may fairly be said to be in use, from the first Marquess in the king's dominions, to the Lord Mayor of York, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Lord Rectors, Lord Register, Lord Advocate of Scotland, 8cc. 8cc. andc. of whose honours and distinctions I do certainly not mean to speak with the slightest disrespect, but only in the way of illustration. By persons much conversant with the world; much in the way of great company; the confusion would scarcely be understood or acknowledged: in courtly companies the difference of rank is generally too well known, to require any further discrimination, but it is surprising how very little of these matters is known a stepbelow the rank of nobility. Nay, I can venture to assert, that few even of the nobility are heralds. I have been in the way of seeing persons of the highest rank, puzzled by some of the simplest questions concerning their own titles, families, privileges, and armorial bearings; I seldom meet with any persons, not conversant with the great, who know even the coronets of the Peers, one from another; and yet heraldry is very easy to learn, and I can venture to say, would be found to be a continual source of amusement. Perhaps many of our greatest Lords, are not aware, that to be proper Lords, they are bound to be liberal and charitable, to deal out their bread to the hungry, and satisfy the empty soul: we are told by certain Lexicographers, (for Mr. Horne Tooke seems to have decided otherwise) that just ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217006408 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021700640X |
| Weight | 0.62 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.43 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 186 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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