patronage

• It was a worthy and honorable kind of patronage, and bestowed only as the great abilities of the recipient vindicated his claim to it. —  Sketches and Studies
• Incidental to this, Congress ordained that political rights should not be restricted in the Territories on account of race or color The manifest evils of unrestricted Executive patronage--the bane of American politics--early enlisted the efforts of the Thirty-ninth Congress to provide a remedy. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• [26] It has been made evident that Chapman had first submitted these poems to the Earl of Southampton in an endeavour to win his patronage, and failing to do so dedicated them to Roydon and attacked Shakespeare in the dedications, where he refers to him in the capacity of reader to the Earl of Southampton, and imputes to his adverse influence his ill-success in his attempt. —  Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
• The imperial officers cared not in what direction his patronage was turned, and their nominees experienced and praised his generous discretion The impressions of devout men were usually favorable to Arthur: he told them his objects and trials with apparent humility and devotion. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
• The landed proprietors too rose against a scheme for the abolition of lay-patronage, which was favoured by the Convention, and predicted an age of confiscation. —  History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683

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