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| | Chapter X. Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour, and Worthiness. Hobbes, Thomas. 1909-14. Of Man, Being the First Part of ... |
 | | And the issue of these lords is the great and ancient gentry, which for the most part bear living creatures, noted for courage and rapine; or castles, battlements, belts, weapons, bars, palisadoes, and other notes of war; nothing being then in honour but virtue military. |
 | | All which, by an observing reader, may be found in such ancient histories, Greek and Latin, as make mention of the German nation and manners in their times. |
 | | Which titles of duke, count, and marquis, came into the empire about the time of Constantine the Great, from the customs of the German militia. |
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