 | Juvenal - 1802 - 574 страници
...less than a farthing, and making, in all, about fifteen-pence of our money. As this is the first place in which the names of patron and client occur, it may not be amiss to say a few words en the relative situations of two classes of men, which comprehended nearly all the citizens of Rome.... | |
 | Juvenal - 1806 - 578 страници
...custom was done away, and a little basket of meat given to each of them to carry home. Nero (Su«t. xvi.) ordered a small sum of money to be distributed...nearly all the citizens of Rome. A patron then, was a mait of rank and fortune, under whose care the meaner people voluntarily put themselves, and, in consequence... | |
 | Joseph Adams - 1807 - 208 страници
...and as their appearance adds another proof of the analogy between the vaccine and variolous poisons, it may not be amiss to say a few words on the subject. There is no reason to doubt that the secondary eruptions remarked by Dr. Woodville at the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1812 - 506 страници
...by writers who are in die habit of finding most things wrong in the conduct of their own government, it may not be amiss to say a few words on the history of the claim in ques* don; which, as we have already stated, so far from being a new claim... | |
 | Anonymous - 1812 - 512 страници
...by writers who are in the habit of finding most things wrong in the conduct of their own government, it may not be amiss to say a few words on the history of the claim in question ; which, as we have already stated, so far from being a new claim... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 556 страници
...known to have actually occupied. It scarcely seems necessary to enlarge on a story so familiar; but it may not be amiss to say a few words on the treatment which this tragedy has received. Not content with accumulating upon it all the ignorant abuse... | |
 | Perse, Juvénal - 1817 - 596 страници
...the Emperours, this laudable custom was done away, and a little basket of meat given to each of them to carry home. Nero (Suet, xvi.) ordered a small sum...denominated his clients. The patron assisted his client wiih his influ-. ence and advice, and the client, in return, gave his vote to his patron, when he sought... | |
 | Juvenal - 1817 - 496 страници
...pieces something less than a farthing, and making in all about fifteen-pence of our money. As this i* the first passage, in which the names of patron and...denominated his clients. The patron assisted his client wiih his influence and advice, and the client, in return, gave his vote to his patron, when he sought... | |
 | 1819 - 792 страници
...said enough to awaken the meditations of our readers on the poetical character of our peasantry. Yet, it may not be amiss to say a few words on the difference of poetical feeling and genius in an agricultural and pastoral state of life, — exemplified... | |
 | 1819 - 782 страници
...said enough to awaken the meditations of our readers on the poetical character of our peasantry. Yet, it may not be amiss to say a few words on the difference of poetical feeling and genius in an agricultural and pastoral state of life, — exemplified... | |
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As this is the first passage, in which the names of patron and client occur, it may not be amiss to say a few words on the relative situation of two classes of men, which comprehended nearly all the citizens of Rome. 
