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He allowed the triumphal honours only to those who were of quaestorian rank, and to some of the equestrian order; and bestowed them without regard to military service. And instead of the quaestors, whose office it properly was, he frequently ordered that the addresses, which he sent to the senate on certain occasions, should be read by the consuls.
So the accident had served as a lesson, and the fallen pride was not wasted in its effect upon the ambitious equestrian. Thanksgiving had passed with few of the girls leaving college, as special permission was required for that privilege, and now the holiday season was imminent.
In traversing La Grande Place, I was attracted to a kind of military vehicle, by the voice of plaintive distress appealing for my succour, reiterating the word compatriote. On approaching, I beheld a handsome and interesting-looking female, in equestrian costume; by her side were two servants, and two very fine saddle-horses.
Whether or not Saint Gaudens was right in his contention that the proper place for his equestrian statue of General Sherman was on the Riverside Drive by Grant's Tomb, without that gilded bronze figure of heroic size and the Winged Victory leading before, the Plaza would not be quite the Plaza.
When we reached the spot where she was waiting, she urged her horse to the side of the road with the equestrian dexterity for which she was famous, and which to Henriette seemed marvellous. "Amedee," she said, and the name in her English pronunciation had a fairy-like charm.
XI. He presented the people with a great number and variety of spectacles, as the Juvenal and Circensian games, stage-plays, and an exhibition of gladiators. In the Juvenal, he even admitted senators and aged matrons to perform parts. In the Circensian games, he assigned the equestrian order seats apart from the rest of the people, and had races performed by chariots drawn each by four camels.
The Proletariate and the Equestrian Order under the Restoration While the restored government was thus careful thoroughly to eradicate the germs of improvement which existed in the Gracchan constitution, it remained completely powerless in presence of the hostile powers that had been, not for the general weal, aroused by Gracchus.
For the execution of this measure decemvirs with a special jurisdiction and special -imperium- were to be nominated, who were to remain five years in office and to surround themselves with 200 subalterns from the equestrian order; but in the election of the decemvirs only those candidates who should personally announce themselves were to be taken into account, and, as in the elections of priests, only seventeen tribes to be fixed by lot out of the thirty-five were to make the election.
So the family moved into a little house on an alley, half a mile away from the shipyard it was an awful long way to carry chips. The second calamity that came into the life of little Bertel was when he was eight years old. He and several companions were playing about the King's Market, where there was an equestrian statue of Charles the Twelfth.
Very soon others were at the game, and many have played it well since." In a pleasant little book entitled The Young Ladies' Equestrian Manual, written by a lady and published in 1838, we read, "No lady of taste ever gallops on the road.
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