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according addition ancient animal applied Armorial Arms authors badge Banner Baronets Barons bearer bearing beasts Bend bird Blazon body Bordure borne called centre charge Chief Coat Armour colour common consists contains County Crest Crofton Cross Crown daughter described devices dexter distinguished divided Dukes Eagle Earl Eldest emblem Ensigns Escutcheon especially expressed families Field figures five former four French frequent given gold gules Gwillim half hand hath head heir helmet Heraldry Heralds High Honorable illustration Issue King Knights known latter legs lines Lion Lord marks mentioned nature necessary Nobility noble NOTE Order ordinary ornaments person placed Plate position preceding present Prince proper quarter rank reason regard represented resemblance Royal rule says seen shield showing side signifying sinister sometimes Sons Sovereign style supposed symbol term thereof tincture usually wings
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Page 133 - Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all ; but is under tutors and governors, until the time appointed of the father.
Page ix - The ram which thou sawest having two horns, are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia : and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
Page ix - Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished : and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they. And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets, and the covering of rams...
Page 30 - Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Page ix - ... pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Page xix - ... and a strong body of men-at-arms, for maintaining order, and ascertaining the quality of the knights who proposed to engage in this martial game. On a platform beyond the southern entrance, formed by a natural elevation of the ground, were pitched five magnificent pavilions, adorned with pennons of russet and black, the chosen colours of the five knights challengers.
Page xii - But their destruction, and the Trojans' good? •• Then change we shields, and their devices bear : Let fraud supply the want of force in war. They find us arms.
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Page xv - ... so, in like manner, the holy prophets call kings and empires by the names of the heavenly luminaries ; their misfortunes and overthrow are represented by eclipses and extinction...
Page ix - And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.