Sentence examples for inheritance of his from inspiring English sources

Even harsher than attainder was the doctrine of corruption of blood, by which the person attainted was disqualified from inheriting or transmitting property and his descendants were forever barred from any inheritance of his rights to title.

Yet we also feel that the range of his sympathies is contoured by the inheritance of his world view.

For a while, he succeeded in a difficult maneuver: accepting the inheritance of his father's movement while distancing himself from the loonier aspects of his father's ideology.

In 1245 John de Balliol became overlord of Kirkcudbrightshire through the inheritance of his wife, Devorgilla, daughter of Alan, lord of Galloway.

Her goal is to get her reluctant, frigid husband back between the sheets and to conceive a child, thereby clinching Brick's inheritance of his father's kingdom.

The more he wrote, the more a streak of sentimentality began to emerge, in part an inheritance of his cowboy writings.

The New Yorker, November 20 , 1926 P. 17Anecdotes about James K. Hackett, the Shakespearean actor: his elation at the success of his "Macbeth", his use of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor title, his indifference to the problem of an actress for Lady Macbeth's part; his inheritance of two million dollars and his dinner to his creditors.

An inheritance of $10,000 from his mother, coupled with his steady income from publications and his early planning, made retirement easier.

Nothing innate in the psychic make-up of man no inherent flaw in his nature, no inheritance of original sin prevents his being perfected, or at least radically ameliorated, once the social structure that shapes character can be properly reordered.

Pyne's fortune is most often explained with broad references to either his success as a commercial lawyer in New York or his inheritance of a large estate from his grandfather, Moses Taylor, usually described in his capacity as a successful merchant and founding president of a New York bank.

In 1833, upon his inheritance of wealth following the deaths of his father and uncle, Bentham turned his full attention to botany.