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Naked, black, bruised, and bleeding, covered with hair on our faces and parts of our bodies mine, of recent growth, stubby and stiff our appearance would have justified almost any suspicion. But we hammered again on the door, and I set forth our pedigree and plight in as few words as possible.
In the year 1030 he made the frequent but adventurous pilgrimage to Rome, from which he is called, in the pedigree of his house, an Trostain, or the cross-bearer. The greatest obstacle, however, to the complete ascendency of Donogh, arose in the person of his nephew, now advanced to manhood.
Her suitor's name was almost an historical one, for it stood high in the home-annals of Scotland. And the new laird, who had always a vague sense of injury in the lack of an illustrious pedigree of his own to send forward, was not un willing that a man more justly treated than himself should supply the SOLATIUM to his daughter's children.
By this name of 'legends' the annual commemorations of the faith and patience of God's saints in persecution and death were originally called; these legends in this title which they bore proclaiming that they were worthy to be read, and from this worthiness deriving their name. An inquiry into the pedigree of 'dunce' lays open to us an important page in the intellectual history of Europe.
Although a family may have no children, it does not die out unless there has been a failure to adopt a son or daughter, and an extinct family may be revived by the legal appointment of someone to take the family name and worship at the family shrine. The family pedigree, therefore, does not describe the actual ancestry, but only the nominal, the fictitious. There is no deception in this.
Now, if you turn to the long and elaborate pedigree of the ancient family of the Horseleighs of Clyfton Horseleigh, you will find no mention whatever of this alliance, notwithstanding the privilege given by the Sovereign and head of the Church; the said Sir John being therein chronicled as marrying, at a date apparently earlier than the above, the daughter and heiress of Richard Phelipson, of Montislope, in Nether Wessex, a lady who outlived him, of which marriage there were issue two daughters and a son, who succeeded him in his estates.
This is the highest and most noble; he hath the honour, the life, and glory that is lasting. In his controversy with the Strict Baptists, he chides them for reviling his ignoble pedigree: 'You closely disdain my person because of my low descent among men, stigmatizing me as a person of THAT rank that need not be heeded or attended unto. He inquired of his father 'Whether we were of the Israelites or no? for, finding in the Scripture that they were once the peculiar people of God, thought I, if I were one of this race, my soul must needs be happy. This somewhat justifies the conclusion that his father was a Gipsy tinker, that occupation being then followed by the Gipsy tribe.
She gave an exclamation of delight. "Oh! father, look." "We know our friends," said young Johnston. "Dat we does. She 's de on'ies one as bet on him," asserted old Robin. "Dat young lady knows a good hoss." "Who is that boy?" asked Mr. Newby, as the horse was led away. "A green country boy with a pedigree," said a low voice at his shoulder. "Where does he come from!"
These learned men who flourished in the golden reign of Elizabeth must have thought the Irish very easily imposed upon if they imagined they could give ear to such a fabrication, at a time when each great family had its own chronicler to trace its pedigree back to the very source of the race of Miledh.
When he went to Rome it was not as a mere individual who had to carve out his own career, but as a man of honour in his own country, a representative of a considerable local interest, and the possessor of both a noble pedigree and an ample fortune.
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