It never asks for exceptions or privileges for fear of exciting jealousy.
The privileges their ancestors had earned in blood and care became automatic rights.
For one who had enjoyed only a field hand's privileges for improvement, he was not to be despised.
Would it not be the dearest of privileges to be able to see Margaret, perhaps every day, perhaps for hours at a time?
The rumors that it was a vast socialistic organization, without private property, with equal sharing of all privileges, were never confirmed.
Then it was provided that any minister who had been ordained after the Presbyterian fashion might, without reordination, acquire all the privileges of a priest of the Established Church.
Without waiting instructions from England and with poignant memory of Oregon, Governor Douglas at once clapped on a licence of twenty-one shillings a month for mining privileges under the British crown.
We were formed, under his superintendence, in principles of religion, honour, and industry; and the rest was left to our own moral sense, to our own comprehension of the duties and privileges of our station.
This species of inequality consists in the different privileges, which some men enjoy, to the prejudice of others, such as that of being richer, more honoured, more powerful, and even that of exacting obedience from them.