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I imagine that in that second millennium B. C., in the early centuries of Kali-Yuga, you had a warrior class with their bards, inspired with high Bushido feeling, with chivalry and all that is fine in patricianism but no longer under the leadership of Adept Princes; the esoteric knowledge was now mainly in the hands of the Priest-class.
The famous thief-taker might have stood for what was latest in fashionable dress, with every detail of hat and glove and cravat and boot worked out. There befell no touch of vulgarity; the effect was as retiringly genteel as though the taste providing it belonged to a Howard or a Vere de Vere and based itself upon ten unstained centuries of patricianism.
But on the whole, says Mahaffy I think rightly there was something sordid, grasping, and calculating: noblesse oblige made little appeal to them was rather foreign to their nature. Patricianism did exist; in Sparta; perhaps in Thebes.
So greatly had the state of things been changed that that portion of the burgesses which had once possessed exclusively the right of voting was thenceforth, under the usual form of taking votes binding for the whole burgess-body, no longer so much as asked the question. The Later Patricianism The struggle between the Roman clans and commons was thus substantially at an end.
Daintily moulded in figure and face, every feature instinct with a certain delicate patricianism, that testified to genuine "blue blood," there was withal a melting tenderness about the parted lips that softened the regal contour of one who, amid the universal catalogue of feminine names, could never have been appropriately called other than Regina.
To understand rightly the history of Rome in the fifth and sixth centuries, we must never overlook this sulking patricianism; it could indeed do little more than irritate itself and others, but this it did to the best of its ability. Some years after the passing of the Ogulnian law a characteristic instance of this sort occurred.
But neither of these courses was adopted; the narrowness of mind and short- sightedness, which are the proper and inalienable privileges of all genuine patricianism, were true to their character also in Rome, and rent the powerful commonwealth asunder in useless, aimless, and inglorious strife. Secession to the Sacred Mount
Gwynn; it discovered in him treasures of patricianism and a well-bred elegance. Since society insisted upon the enthronement of Mr. Gwynn, it would have been impolite, nay narrow, on my part to object. Besides, I recognized in it the essence of democracy and as an American rejoiced. 'By all means, said I, 'society shall have its excellent way. I can give it little, but I can give it Mr. Gwynn."
Here at last, it would seem, simple manhood is to have a chance to play his stake against Fortune with honest dice, uncogged by those three hoary sharpers, Prerogative, Patricianism, and Priestcraft. This influence and this fear alike bear witness to the energy of the principles at work here. We have said that the details of New England history were essentially dry and unpoetic.
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