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Teach them about the detestable things that their ancestors did.Abandon your detestable practices. You are not to defile yourselves with Egypts idols.You are not to follow the statutes of your ancestors, observe their ordinances, or be defiled by their idols. I am the LORD your God.Ezekiel 20:5-19 ISV
— Ancestors god
I am a gentleman, though spoiled i the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came in with the Conqueror.Richard Brome, The English Moor, Act II. 4.
— Ancestors men
A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.Samuel Butler, Characters, A Degenerate Nobleman.
— Ancestors man
Odiosum est enim, cum a prætereuntibus dicatur:—O domus antiqua, heu, quam dispari dominare domino.It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. Cicero, De Officiis 44 B.C., CXXXIX.
— Ancestors grace
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.
— Ancestors grace
I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.William Congreve, Love for Love, Act II, scene 1.
— Ancestors love
DAdam nous sommes tous enfants, La prouve en est connue, Et que tous, nos premier parents Ont mené la charrue.Mais, las de cultiver enfin La terre labourée, Lune a dételé le matin, Lautre laprès-dinée.De Coulanges, LOrigine de la Noblesse.
— Ancestors men
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.Daniel Defoe, The True-Born Englishman, Part I, line 372.
— Ancestors art
Born in a Cellar, * * * and living in a Garret.Samuel Foote, The Author, Act II, scene 1, line 375.
— Ancestors living
Say, when the ground our father Adam tilld, And mother Eve the humble distaff held, Who then his pedigree presumed to trace, Or challenged the prerogative of place?
— Ancestors mother
Few sons attain the praise of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace.Homer, The Odyssey, Book II, line 315. Popes translation.
— Ancestors grace
Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis; Est in juvencis, est in equibus patrum Virtus; nec imbellem feroces Progenerant aquilæ columbam.The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sires; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove. Horace, Carmina, Book IV. 4.
— Ancestors peace
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sires; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.
— Ancestors peace
My nobility, said he, begins in me, but yours ends in you.Iphicrates. See Plutarchs Morals. Apothegms of Kings and Great Commanders. Iphicrates.
— Ancestors man
Ah, ma foi, je nen sais rien; moi je suis mon ancetre.Faith, I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor. Junot, Duc dAbrantes, when asked as to his ancestry.
— Ancestors faith
Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo, Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus.Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? Juvenal, Satires, VIII. 1.
— Ancestors family
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
— Ancestors family
Sence Ive ben here, Ive hired a chap to look about for me To git me a transplantable an thrifty femly-tree.James Russell Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2d series, No. 3, III.
— Ancestors
Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg. Rudolph was the founder of the Hapsburg family.Napoleon to the Emperor of Austria, who hoped to trace the Bonaparte lineage to a prince.
— Ancestors hope
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,—the only good belonging to him is under ground.Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters.
— Ancestors man
Nam genus et proavos et quæ non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco.Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. Ovid, Metamorphoses, XIII. 140.
— Ancestors amor
That all from Adam first begun, None but ungodly Woolston doubts, And that his son, and his sons sons Were all but ploughmen, clowns and louts.Each when his rustic pains began, To merit pleaded equal right, Twas only who left off at noon, Or who went on to work till night.Matthew Prior, The Old Gentry.
— Ancestors god
On garde toujours la marque de ses origines.One always retains the traces of ones origin. Joseph Ernest Renan, La Vie de Jésus.
— Ancestors race
Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. Sallust, Jugurtha, LXXXV.
— Ancestors men
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
— Ancestors light
Qui genus jactat suum Aliena laudat.He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another. Seneca the Younger, Hercules Furens, Act II. 340.
— Ancestors you
The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs.Sydney Smith, Lady Hollands Memoir, Volume I, p. 244.
— Ancestors memoir
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.Robert Louis Stevenson, Memories and Portraits.
— Ancestors memories
Tis happy for him that his father was born before him.Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation, Dialogue III.
— Ancestors happy
From yon blue heavens above us bent,The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howeer it be, it seems to me Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.Alfred Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Stanza 7. The Grand Old Gardener in 1st Ed..
— Ancestors faith
As though there were a tie, And obligation to posterity! We get them, bear them, breed and nurse. What has posterity done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to grip of noose?John Trumbull, McFingal, Canto II, line 121.
— Ancestors trust
Bishop Warburton is reported to have said that high birth was a thing which he never knew any one disparage except those who had it not, and he never knew any one make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.Richard Whately, Annotation on Bacons Essay, Of Nobility.
— Ancestors war
Rank is a farce: if people Fools will be A Scavenger and Kings the same to me.John Wolcot, Peter Pindar. Title Page, Peters Prophecy.
— Ancestors people
He stands for fame on his forefathers feet, By heraldry, proved valiant or discreet!Edward Young, Love of Fame, Satire I, line 123.
— Ancestors love
They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt, instead of their discharge.Edward Young, Love of Fame, Satire I, line 147.
— Ancestors love
My tutor I have already mentioned, Marcus Porcius Cato who was, in his own estimation at least, a living embodiment of that ancient Roman virtue which his ancestors had one after the other shown. He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about.
— Ancestors war

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