 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1771 - 506 pages
...and doctors in the three learned profeffions. ESQ.UIRES and gentlemen are confounded together by fir Edward Coke, who obferves', that every efquire is a gentleman, and a gentleman is defined to be one gut arma gfrit, who bears coat armour, the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family: in like... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Droit - 1791 - 516 pages
...men, during .:lc .ives L: their fathers. Esqyirr, ESQUIRES and gentlemen are confounded together by Cr Edward Coke, who obferves *, that every efquire is...gentleman, and a gentleman is defined to be one qui arma gerit, who bears coat armour, the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family : in like manner... | |
 | 1793 - 524 pages
...in all writs, &c. Efquires and geutlcmen are confounded together by fir Edward Co'ce, who obfeives, that every efquire is a gentleman, and a gentleman is defined to be one qui агтя gift!, who bears coat-armour, the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family. ' It is,... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...lad the heralds rank all colonels, ferjeants at law, and doctors in the three learned profeffiohs. 8. Efquires and gentlemen are confounded together by...gentleman, and a gentleman is defined to be one qui arma gerit, " who bears coat-armour ;" the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family : in like... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1800 - 414 pages
...• ' & B • «..'•.•// r- ipg ing to the ftatute i Hen. V. c. 5. be deflgnated by his »yftery or trade, in all writs, &c. Efquires and gentlemen...gentleman, and a gentleman is defined to be one qui arma gerit, who bears coat-armour, the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family. " It is, indeed,"... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...ESQUIRES and gentlemen are confounded together by sir Edward Coke, who observe' sa, that every esquire is a gentleman, and a gentleman is defined to be one qui arma gerit, who bears coat armor, the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family : in like manner... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...learned profeflions. 8. Efquires and gentlemen are confounded together by Sir Edward Coke ; who oblerves, that every efquire is a gentleman, and a gentleman is defined to be one qui arma g erit, "who bears coat-armour;" the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family : in like... | |
 | A. W. Winkelmann - English language - 1816 - 514 pages
...French, and Scutfcr or Armiger (ie armour-beater) in Latin. Sir Ed. Coke observes, that every Esquire is a Gentleman, and a Gentleman is defined to be one, qui arma gerit , who bears a coat of armour; the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family. It is... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 378 pages
...Esquires and gentlemen are confounded together by Sir Edward Coke, who observes, that every esquire is a gentleman, and a gentleman is defined to be one...the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family : in like manner as civil nobility among the Romans was founded in the //,•.•, imagiman, or having... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 376 pages
...Esquires and gentlemen are confounded together by Sir Edward Coke, who observes, that every esquire is a gentleman, and a gentleman is defined to be one qui arma gerit, who bears coat-armour, the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family : in like manner... | |
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... the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family ; in like manner as civil nobility, among the Romans, was founded in the jus imaginum, or having the image of one ancestor at least, who had borne some curule office. 
