英语词汇“landed gentry”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

They invited various relatives and friends, who took the train out from the city, and all the landed gentry from the neighborhood, without overlooking the town notables. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s from yangban stock, her people are the Korean landed gentry, and she finds this open talk of figures awkward, unnecessary. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The landed gentry and the aristocrats hunt, you see, and we liberal middle classes fume about it. We want to take their silly little toys away.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I say this, I am not merely drawing attention to the fact that our generation had a less snobbish attitude as regards which employers were landed gentry and which were 'business.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Best of all is her demonstration that the supposedly demure, sheltered novelist knew all about the profiteering imperialism that subsidised the leisure of her landed gentry. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z

Such was the trajectory of his life that he became a sort of landed gentry long before that. Readers recommend: songs about change 2010-12-17T00:01:03Z

And while much of the landed gentry who founded the nation were intellectuals and aesthetes, the frontier myth resonates much more loudly. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

The wilderness resorts of old, which tried to reproduce the lifestyle of the landed gentry, have been supplanted by a raft of quirky rentals. Going Backcountry, Three Ways 2013-05-17T18:47:13Z

Mr Doyle turns outward to show how important America’s civil war was to the rest of the world: liberty and democracy defeated slavery and the landed gentry. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The picture of enervated, early-20th-century landed gentry seems intended to conjure up Chekhov. Betrayals and Barristers: Broadway’s New Dramas 2013-10-29T09:45:58Z

“Anna Karenina” for hot takes on the sexual politics of the Russian landed gentry? In ‘Luster,’ a Young Woman Moves in With Her Lover — and His Family 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Born in Ukraine in 1882 into one of many families of landed gentry who settled there following the partition of Poland, his personal drama was part of a larger story about old Europe after 1918. Karol Szymanowski: chasing beauty 2010-04-15T22:00:00Z

It seems that Ms. Kincaid’s description of Antigua, of a nation run by foreign landed gentry, may not be so dated after all. Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

In one of the novel’s political subplots, Mr. Brooke, Dorothea Brooke’s uncle and guardian, who is a comfortable member of the landed gentry, decides to run for office under the banner of Reform. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Unlike Washington and Jefferson, Hamilton was not born into the landed gentry. Museum Review: Alexander Hamilton?s Renovated Grange - Review 2011-09-15T22:35:12Z

In “Middlemarch,” Mr. Brooke wants Reform without too much reformation; he does not really want an alteration in the balance of power in the legislature between the landed gentry and the new industrial centers. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Deliberate overtones of Chekhov abound in this period portrait of the discontented members of a 1917 landed gentry family unraveling in the face of personal turmoil and the global ravages of World War I. Sharr White's 'Snow Geese' gets an assured West Coast premiere 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Interest was not forthcoming, but his drawings attracted abundant commissions to paint the horses of landed gentry. Review: Paintings by George Stubbs Travel to the Met 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

“Northern Catholics were a persecuted people, those in the south were more like landed gentry,” said Rev. Gary Toman, Catholic chaplain at Queens University. Irish Catholics flee the church 2013-03-26T23:09:00Z

Mr. Darcy-in-real-life’s slim, sloping shoulders were often found in the landed gentry at the time, with strong legs and “well modeled thighs a sign of virility, a good fencer and horseman.” Mr. Darcy, You’re No Colin Firth 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Having read theorists whose ideas underlie the movement, Mr. Brooke is inclined to ideas of liberalism, but, being a comfortable member of the landed gentry, his instincts are less than disruptive. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

PBS has yet to announce an air date for the drama about landed gentry and their servants, but it's expected to return in January 2013. PBS fall schedule offers U.K. hits, US history 2012-05-15T22:46:04Z

On one hand, the Calvinist capitalists who worshipped industry, and on the other, the clergy-allied landed gentry who saw work as man’s curse. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z

Most philanthropy also comes from business people now; it's not the landed gentry anymore. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z

In the eastern fields of Stepney, close to Whitechapel station, she finds aristocrats and landed gentry who desired open fields and country estates yet enjoyed proximity to the City. More than just getting from A to B 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

He told NBC News last week that Reddit was considering allowing users to vote out moderators who led the protest, comparing them to “landed gentry” who were thwarting the site’s democratic ethos. Thousands of Reddit Communities Stay Dark as App Policy Protest Continues 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

In the writings of the time, the white landed gentry very explicitly talked about the need to use guns to repress Black power. How the Gun Became Integral to the Self-Identity of Millions of Americans 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

“They have become well-heeled landed gentry, exactly in remote parts of the American West on land nobody wanted.” Alone in a New World With Vast Open Space, and Sheep 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

What used to be thought of as simply a “landed gentry pile of land” now operates like a corporation, she said. King Charles Inherits Untold Riches, and Passes Off His Own Empire 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

There, lawns were an early means of displaying conspicuous wealth among the landed gentry, said Christopher Sellers, a history professor at Stony Brook University who has written about lawns in the United States. In Los Angeles, the Grass Isn’t Always Greener This Year 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

At this point in the life span of “Downton Abbey,” it’s not even attempting to critically consider this wealthy, white aristocratic dynasty of landed gentry with which it concerns itself. ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ review: A throwback in more ways than one 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

He had no ties to the landed gentry or to the customs of a particular place. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z

And with each coded clue he leaves behind for the Batman to find, it becomes increasingly clear that he’s building to something much larger than any one member of Gotham’s landed gentry. The Batman is young, dumb, and full of soft-spoken ennui 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

“A pirate’s life for me” says an otherwise mild-mannered member of the landed gentry in the new action comedy “Our Flag Means Death.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Killing Eve,’ the SAG Awards, the State of the Union and more 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

Almost 200 years ago, in England, the right to vote was the domain of property owners and the landed gentry — about one in six men. Opinion | Radical Ideas Need Quiet Spaces 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

He said while Darwin came from a wealthy background, and had the might of Cambridge University and the landed gentry behind him, Wallace's upbringing was very different. Forgotten discoverer of natural selection honoured by Bill Bailey 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

“The Importance of Being Earnest” A member of the landed gentry creates a false identity to temporarily escape his societal obligations in Oscar Wilde’s riotous Victorian-era satire. 'Hamilton' in L.A., sing-along 'Sound of Music' at the Bowl: Your best weekend bets 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

In Britain, the family made the unlikely transition to landed gentry, and ran a farm in Bedfordshire. Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into "misogynistic" new hire 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

"The days when it was dominated by inherited wealth, the landed gentry and mass of largely white, middle-aged and elderly men, are changing," says Watts. Rihanna rockets onto Sunday Times Rich List 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

The CEO is the king, the board and senior executives are the courtiers and landed gentry, and the workers are the serfs. 3 theories that explain Trump’s approach to Putin and Russia. Which makes the most sense? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The shimmering black-and-white cinematography by Mart Taniel tracks the connections among a village's wolves and witches, landed gentry and scrabbling farmers. Estonian fantasy 'November' finds light in the darkness 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

When the Constitution was first written, women were in some ways property of the landed gentry. Mark Bradford on making art in post-shock phase of the Trump era and how comics channel this moment 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

Of course, one could have issues with landed gentry - but it goes with territory. Selling Airborne Opulence to the Upper Upper Upper Class 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

He is elected now - and suddenly, he is like a landed gentry. A New Coalition With Merkel? Not So Fast 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Built by the region’s landed gentry, the homes feature original Gustavian furniture alongside walls painted with folkloric motifs or papered with delicate floral patterns. WSJ. Magazine’s October Cover: Fairy-Tale Looks for an Adventurous Fall 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

In the Revolutionary era, business leaders were merchants, landed gentry and Benjamin Franklin-style entrepreneurs and inventors. Analysis | Inside the call where CEOs found their moral compass and steered away from Trump 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Although the drama of the hit ITV reality show, Love Island, seem far removed from the landed gentry Austen depicted, the personalities portrayed, even now, are similar. Why is Jane Austen trending 200 years after her death? - BBC News 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

He worries that society may be effectively returning itself to a state akin to pre-emancipation, when the vote was reserved for landed gentry. The rise of political apathy in two charts 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

The key settings are Cambridge in all its ancient academic glory, a large, upper-middle-class home in suburban London and the ever-so-slightly crumbling mansion of Wiltshire landed gentry. 'Maurice': Unconventional love, conformity and isolation amid Britain's privileged classes 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

This is the modern equivalent of hungry, threadbare peasants wielding torches and pitchforks, storming the gates of the landed gentry. Growing frustrations are fueling a populist uprising 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The odds are stacked against her, with horse racing typically the purview of the landed gentry, and an expensive endeavor at that. Underdog 'Dark Horse' is cute but underwhelming 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

But in an age of social media, short attention spans and Love Island, what makes a woman who wrote about the 18th Century landed gentry so enduringly popular? Why is Jane Austen trending 200 years after her death? - BBC News 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

The drama was a success for the U.K.’s Channel 4 when it aired earlier this year, drawing some comparisons to “Downton Abbey” and its portrait of England’s landed gentry facing 20th-century disruption. ‘Indian Summers’ brings the heat to PBS’ ‘Masterpiece’ 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

The drama was a success for the U.K.'s Channel 4 when it aired earlier this year, drawing some comparisons to "Downton Abbey" and its portrait of England's landed gentry facing 20th-century disruption. Power, desire and the end of British empire are combustible in PBS drama 'Indian Summers' 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

The landed gentry, the high-born, the educated and established—they didn’t come here. Donald Trump’s Appeal—and Its Limits 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

That thrived under the patronage of the landed gentry between the wars, was revived under Communism, but is now withering on the vine. Missing the old Gypsy orchestras 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Not unlike the scenes in TV's Downton Abbey, the fight to save the country home was a very real concern for the landed gentry in the face of heavy taxation. Who holds the keys to our mansions? 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

On special occasions landed gentry would organise meals for their workers, and Christmas dinner would be seen as an opportunity to stock up on calories at the expense of the rich. Christmas menus: turtles to turkeys 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Europe's landed gentry have taken generations to perfect the sneering attitude that to spend money ostentatiously is somehow vulgar. China's controversial philanthropist 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

While people do hate the idea of a landed gentry with huge trust funds—think of the 1 Percent owning more than a third of all wealth—that’s not actually what’s driving the troubling trends. Piketty's Capital: An Economist's Inequality Ideas Are All the Rage 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

He relies heavily on the wisdom of ancient philosophers, such as Pliny the Elder, melded with the contemporary and practical silviculture practised by the landed gentry. In retrospect: Sylva 2014-03-13T17:20:24.852Z

As money becomes pooled into ever fewer hands, the idle landed gentry make ever more money. Obamacare and inequality: A healthy dose of redistribution 2014-01-29T17:29:55Z

The surrounding streets and squares of Knightsbridge have long harbored pieds-a-terres, occasional residences for the very rich, but in the old days the owners were landed gentry, old money, English. Inside London's Most Expensive Address 2014-01-03T08:05:26Z

Since its founding in 1912, the party was led by learned men, landed gentry and nobility who were black, yes, but who were very much in their own class of blackness. When I met Mandela 2013-12-05T21:46:00Z

To remove that financial support for MPs, the deputy PM argued, would turn the clock back 150 years by turning politics into a hobby for the landed gentry. Clegg defends energy bill expenses 2013-11-07T10:53:12Z

Lady Plymouth was quite active within the Red Cross and, like a lot of landed gentry in the war, they opened up their home to help. 'Hidden' gems give WWI insight 2013-07-21T11:39:51Z

Hitler built the Wolf’s Lair as his headquarters on the Eastern Front; it covered over 600 acres of remote woodland that was once the site of estates for the landed gentry of Prussia. Ketrzyn Journal: Restoring the Walls, and History, at a Hitler Command Post 2012-09-18T01:40:05Z

Whiteness of paper and blackness of type suggested that Walker & Son periodically renewed this aristocrat among auction announcements—perhaps to kindle a selling spirit among the landed gentry, a notoriously conservative and hold-tight class. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z

When the bulk of the landed gentry could barely read and write, and divided their time between fox-hunting and guzzling. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z

Wealth was not unevenly distributed, and though the patroon system had created in New York a landed gentry, this class was small, and its influence was only one of many. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z

He remembers his duty to the landed gentry, and on his return from his unsuccessful quest remains several days to enjoy the squire's hospitality. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z

He knew no god but the god of the landed gentry. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z

In these societies the ruling class of England, the lay professions and landed gentry mingling with the clergy, has been bred. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z

The reader will remember that the term "squatter," with us, means roughly the landed gentry; in its original sense the word has no meaning now. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z

But it was not the peasants, or the peasants' friends—it was the small landed gentry who were the first to feel the effects of the Emancipation Act, and to raise the standard of revolt. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z

We, in the Northland, looked to our landed gentry to stand by us, lead us, and face the British King who aims to turn us into slaves. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z

To it he seemed in his later life to have transferred the greater part of his hatred of the landed gentry. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z

Justices and landed gentry leagued with “the Owlers” to rob, to smuggle, and defraud the customs. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z

The landed gentry, under the samurai in rank, though wealthier, and generally in charge of village affairs and in control of lesser farmers and peasants, were also found numerously in the domains. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z

A writer of that time described these Cavaliers as "of the best material in England"—the nobility, the clergy, the landed gentry and officers in the King's army. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z

But this is the situation that confronts us here this day on the frontier: We appealed to the landed gentry of Tryon. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z

A majority of prosperous industrial towns and fee farmers, led sometimes by lords or old landed gentry, were Puritans. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z

That lady had been a Miss Rivers, and her family ranked among the oldest landed gentry in the kingdom. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z

Lever has never been popular with Nationalist politicians, though, as a matter of fact no one ever exhibited the extravagance and recklessness of the landed gentry in more glaring colours. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z

The landed gentry had inherited a fine sense of patriarchal responsibility. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z

God knows what we have endured these last few years from the landed gentry of Tryon!—what we have put up with and stomached since the first shot was fired at Lexington! The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z

About 4/5 of the land was in the hands of 7,000 of the nobility and landed gentry due in part to estate tails constructed by attorneys to favor hereditary interests. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z

The boomers' claims on the national income and assets are in addition to the City bankers and landed gentry. Baby boomers are Britain's secret millionaires 2011-02-28T06:59:00Z

Our landed gentry's horizon does not extend far beyond the price of corn in summer, beyond l'ombre and sleighing parties in the winter. Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z

He regarded them as an intrusive nuisance which had to be seen only to be disowned by the landed gentry of England. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z

He knew, also, as well as I, in which cause would flash the swords of the landed gentry of County Tryon. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z

His notorious sympathy with the peasantry further alienated the official classes and landed gentry, and his campaign against enclosures brought him into conflict with the strongest forces of the time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z

For the most part, today's plutocrats are not a leisured, landed gentry of inherited wealth. How super rich left rest behind 2011-02-02T10:31:25Z

Massachusetts and Connecticut congratulated him on his conduct, and in the province of New York he was generally approved; but he had the misfortune to be opposed by the Roman Catholics and the landed gentry. Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York 2011-01-17T03:00:47.770Z

Of their landed gentry, some went into exile. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z

Where is the landed gentry of County Tryon at this very hour? The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z

In exchange for this an incompetent and inferior landed gentry was established in Ireland. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z

The landed gentry took politics for their business, and if the voter could draw attention to what he conceived to be a grievance, the landowner decided whether any remedy should be applied. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z

In my young days the people with means were the landed gentry and the nobility. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z

There was no lack, say apologists of the Irish Parliament, of useful legislation on subjects with which a landed gentry was qualified to deal. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z

Through the 19th century in Europe and the U.S., there was no need conceptually to separate unemployment and poverty—for everyone except the landed gentry, not working basically meant being poor. The Jobs Number's Messy Reality 2010-12-16T22:00:00Z

She also understood that the establishment wasn't just the landed gentry, but institutions hungry for power at the expense of ordinary citizens. Rupert Murdoch's inaugural Margaret Thatcher lecture 2010-10-21T19:00:00Z

Corrupt town constituencies were to be preserved in the constitution in order that the landed gentry might preserve their monopoly of politics against the men of commerce. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z

During colonial times, British occupiers imported polo to their homeland, where it became a favorite pastime of the landed gentry. Learning to Play Polo 2010-03-11T23:06:00Z

Alarmed by the non-renewal of the anti-Socialist law, and by the conclusion of commercial treaties which made great concessions to German industry, the landed gentry and the Conservative party became alienated from the new chancellor. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo"

The family has, since the 14th century, belonged to the landed gentry, and many members had held high office in the kingdom of Prussia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea"

At Galvin House she was the recognised authority upon anything and everything concerned with royalty and the titled and landed gentry. Patricia Brent, Spinster

Just as the old Tories had held that the landed gentry were the natural leaders of the nation, so the new Whigs paid the same tribute to the upper and middle classes combined. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z

Polo remains wildly popular in India, Argentina, Britain, and Dubai, among other countries, where, thanks to tourist-friendly schools and resorts, it is no longer the exclusive province of the landed gentry. Learning to Play Polo 2010-03-11T23:06:00Z

Aunt Letitia said she was glad to be able to assure Lord Maythorne that the Falconers were an ancient race, and had been landed gentry for generations. Under the Mendips A Tale

Since the great black day of a generation previous, never had there been such a crash, so many landed gentry, so much paper profit sunk into such absolute loss. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident

He had persuaded the Duke that the time was come when, by a little timely flattering, the whole landed gentry of Ireland were in his hands. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience

In the meantime the landed gentry and the manufacturers exaggerated rather than diminished the old idea of individualism, and neglected or resisted every proposal which tended to restrict competition. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z

The Chambellans were an old Yorkshire family, which once had held a high place among the landed gentry of the county. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852

They were largely provincial lawyers and rural landed gentry, conservative and clerical, who felt that too much importance had been usurped by the Parisian Government of National Defence. A History of the Third French Republic

The lesser nobility, including the landed gentry, was reduced to the level of free peasants; the peasantry itself was placed in virtually complete serfdom; and cultural activity became almost nonexistent. Area Handbook for Romania

Among the former there was a considerable sprinkling of the landed gentry of the neighbourhood, monarchists and legitimists to a man, some of whom did not even condescend to honour the Emperor with a salute. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections

It was the provision made by landed gentry for their daughters, and they exacted in return an equally suitable settlement from the expectant husband. Maids Wives and Bachelors

When it was over we would all go back to our places in the world and touch our hats to them, the landed gentry of mankind. Command

Helen felt that her irate fellow countrywoman was metaphorically hurling large volumes of the peerage, baronetage, and landed gentry at the unhappy conductor’s head. The Silent Barrier

"Indeed," Baron Haer said, his nostrils high in that attitude once perfected by grandees of medieval Spain, landed gentry of England, Prussian Junkers. Frigid Fracas

The landed gentry, the small squires, the lawyers and the doctors, and the tradespeople who pandered to their prejudices and fattened on their patronage, were slow to say a word in favour of a Dissenter. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations

The seats of the nobility and landed gentry are called Herregaarde. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

The landed gentry had barges rowed by slaves. The Flying Stingaree

They may have been humble scions of the Hamertons, of Hamerton, Yorkshire, a branch of whom were among the landed gentry near the Scottish border; but at Horncastle they were engaged in trade. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time

The landed gentry wish us to remove our dam, saying that if we don't they won't be worth a d—n. Law and Laughter

With the object of checking these outrages, night patrols were established, dragoons were kept in readiness to put down tumultuous meetings, and magistrates and clergymen and landed gentry were all at their wits’ ends. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations

His office, which he called "Chambers," as if it was an old house in the country, was in Cork Street; his clients were landed gentry, bankers, peers and sons of peers. Love and Lucy

These people and a dozen others formed the landed gentry—a gentry otherwise landed since. The Paliser case

He’s to give parties for the Dublin doctors and the smaller landed gentry.” The Red Hand of Ulster

The landed gentry got a verdict in their favour at the last Lincoln Assizes, but find themselves little the better, as we have appealed, and our dam still reigns triumphant. Law and Laughter

To come from our aristocracy and landed gentry to our middle class. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864

But the fact remains that your mother came from what is sometimes called 'the landed gentry' of England, and the estates there, or property, descend to eldest sons differently than property does in this country. Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer

His position is not essentially different from that of the average landed gentry in the Middle Age, not only in Italy, but all over Europe. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome

They settled in Cardington, upon the Howard estate, and for the next seven years led the uneventful life of landed gentry of the times. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

It is a serious attack on the interests and privileges of the landed gentry. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers

He can give you a high position among the landed gentry of England.” Her Mother's Secret

Many had vast estates, farms, acres on acres of game parks, and lived like the landed gentry of old England. The Reckoning

The prejudices of the landed gentry were met by a steady effort to reduce the land-tax, whose pressure was half the secret of their hostility to the Revolution that produced it. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767

The landed gentry and the professions of the Church, the army, and the law were strongly on the king's side. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration

Meanwhile it looks as if the Socialist ideal of driving our landed gentry into the workhouse is already being realised. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914

The right of the Crown to force knighthood on the landed gentry was revived, in order to squeeze them into composition for the refusal of it. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660

"We of the landed gentry of Tryon County make as little of New York as New York makes of us!" The Reckoning

He is coming to ravage the realm, wipe out the landed gentry, and divide their estates among the peasantry. The Day of Wrath

Nevertheless, the Rockingham and Grenville parties took advantage of the dissatisfaction of the landed gentry, acted together in a factious spirit, and defeated the government proposal by 206 votes to 188. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration

This sovereign of the soil was a fair specimen of the landed gentry of Virginia. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Land will not be wanting, for it is round the great towns, and round Paris especially, that the parks and pleasure grounds of the landed gentry are to be found. The Conquest of Bread

They doubted the wisdom of a republican miner being allowed to enter a legislature composed of aristocracy and landed gentry! The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century

During the latter half of the century it became a fashion for landed gentry to have engravings made of their country seats, and antiquarian publications with illustrations were produced. Masters of Water-Colour Painting

The Celt had no objection in the world to pledge successive glasses to these names, which he had no doubt belonged "to fery respectaple persons," probably to the chief landed gentry of his entertainer's neighbourhood. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author

The Farquaharsons were landed gentry in Virginia when these aristocrats were still grinding snuff. The Tyranny of Weakness

There were county assemblies for social and judicial purposes, but in each a few prominent people in the neighborhood managed affairs and perpetuated their privileges, as among the landed gentry of England. Society Its Origin and Development

They are not regarded as heretics, but as representing an interest which is opposed to the dominant class of the landed gentry. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century

The book is a presentment of old ante-reform manners among the landed gentry at their worst. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections

But it was in the island of Skye that classical learning was the most general, and there an extraordinary degree of intelligence and acquirement prevailed among the landed gentry. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.

Local institutions, supported by a landed gentry, check them; hence their love of centralisation and their hatred of unpaid magistrates. Sketches

Believe me, a large number of these landed gentry, who pay the penalty of their old family memories, are beyond help. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag

With this transfer of the balance of economic power came a good deal of rivalry between the manufacturers and the landed gentry, the latter becoming more and more Tory, the former more and more Radical. The Rise of the Democracy

His poetry is the quintessence of æsthetic voluptuousness, such as was evolved on the soil of the sybaritism of the landed gentry in the circles of the '40's of the nineteenth century. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections

The landed gentry and the great junk owners have their town houses here. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma

At Romford, I boasted to you that my children should ally themselves with the landed gentry of the country, and see the result! Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852

From that time onwards the smaller landowners, yeomen and squires with small holdings, begin to disappear and the landed gentry become practically supreme. The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918

To the Protestant citizens of London was now added a Protestant landed gentry. The Age of the Reformation

His people were people of mark among the landed gentry of their county, and were well-to-do even for their position. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891

It is lighted with petroleum lamps, and is badly drained and sewered, but possesses some important buildings, and contains many fine residences belonging to the landed gentry. Roumania Past and Present

The squatting class in Australia correspond to the landed gentry of England. Town Life in Australia

Berenice could not get out to do her deeds of charity among the suffering poor; nor could the landed gentry of the neighborhood make calls upon the young stranger. Ishmael Or, In the Depths

The same causes that keep the landed gentry out of Parliament keep them, although not to the same degree, out of local politics. The Framework of Home Rule

He might be landed gentry, but he was no tiller of the soil, and he secretly looked down on his elder brother for personally cultivating the family acres. Kit of Greenacre Farm

Improvidence and fermage have sounded the knell of the old landed gentry. Roumania Past and Present

He warned and rebuked the landed gentry and the princes. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12

Dublin is generally much more brilliant under a Tory viceroy, inasmuch as nine-tenths of the Irish peerage and landed gentry support that side of politics. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873

And Herodotus to the animal kingdom is what Domesday Book is to the landed gentry. The Congo and Coasts of Africa

The immense majority of the pedigrees of the landed gentry," says a well-known officer of arms, "cannot, I fear, be characterised as otherwise than utterly worthless. Love Romances of the Aristocracy

And despite severe wounds, survived long after the war, a heavy pecuniary sufferer by the cause which, with most of the landed gentry of New York, he had espoused. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam

And this example of beauty, gentleness and excellence was to come from the landed gentry of England—ye gods! Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors

What is it to me that they hate the Church and hate the landed gentry; that they are jealous of the nobility, and have shipping shares instead of manufacturing businesses in the Midlands? Back to Methuselah

Junker, a name given in Germany to the younger members of the aristocracy, or of the landed gentry, as representing a reactionary party in modern politics. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge

And money could yet be only got from the barons, the nobility, or at least the landed gentry, because the people, the agricultural laborers or serfs, villeins, owned no land. Popular Law-making

To the West Indies went out representatives of the landed gentry from every county in England. The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago

This friend and the journals were his oracles, and their influence he digested in morsels of political economy, so introduced into his pamphlets as not to offend the landed gentry of the neighbourhood. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829

The resistance of the landed gentry, which many of these schemes had originally to encounter, had now completely given way, and, instead of opposing canals, they were everywhere found anxious for their construction. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain

The manufacturer, banker, and captain of industry have practically displaced a hereditary landed gentry as the immediate directors of social affairs. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education

Do you talk in that familiar manner of one of the landed gentry of England? The Woman in White

Besides portrait painting, my father was much employed in assisting the noblemen and landed gentry of Scotland in improving the landscape appearance of their estates, especially when seen from their mansion windows. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography

When they saw the trouble they were in, they cut the rope, and at the same time they cut off Lazaro's hopes of ever becoming one of the landed gentry. The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself

Though obviously they were not university men, they seemed to belong to what in America would be called the landed gentry, and yet I had felt myself on terms of undoubted equality with them. Ruggles of Red Gap

Miss Emery, of Petersfield, was quite good enough for the landed gentry of this quiet region. The Golden Calf

There were naval people, military, commercial, landed gentry, clerical, royalty, and beer. The Heavenly Twins

His chief employment was in designing and erecting new mansions, principally for the landed gentry and nobility. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography

She had lived so long out of England, over thirty years now, that she had forgotten the sweet relations that prevailed there between the aristocracy or landed gentry and their inferiors. Crowded Out! and Other Sketches

But there are a good many of our landed gentry in Russia exactly like this. A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I

To imagine the consequence of depriving the English landed gentry of their revenues would not enable one to realise exactly what a similar privation signified to the Japanese samurai. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series

The 'county' is the county families—landed gentry—very ancient and swagger and all that —much more so than the titled people often. The Nest Builder

There were incendiary fires on various estates and farms belonging to the landed gentry. The Created Legend

There were, first of all, the landed gentry. First and Last

Tennyson's father was a clergyman, holding his appointments from a member of the landed gentry; his mother was peculiarly gentle and benevolent. A History of English Literature

This determination produced "Waverly," whose success gave birth to Scott's desire to be numbered among the landed gentry of the country. The Prose Marmion A Tale of the Scottish Border

In 1642 civil war broke out between the Puritans, on one side, and the king, nobles, landed gentry, and adherents of the Church of England, on the other. Halleck's New English Literature

The landed gentry upheld the Corn Laws and used the word "commercial" as an epithet. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers

In Virginia a wealthy class of landed gentry came to be an increasing power in the political history of the country. History of American Literature

The mass of lesser barons had been separated from the greater barons, and had been merged in the landed gentry who were represented by the knights of the shire in the House of Commons. The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution

Mr. Baron was one of the few of the landed gentry in the region who was not known by a military title, and he rather prided himself on the fact. Miss Lou

The central administration shared the loot with its local representatives and with the indigenous elites - the church and the feudal landed gentry. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

His parents belonged to the landed gentry, but who yet were poor enough so they ever felt the necessity of work and economy. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers

His case, indeed, was only one of thousands of others in England, where adventurers and war-profiteers were ousting the landed gentry. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo

Though he bore a name already distinguished in the annals of the English landed gentry, he had to make his own fortune under conditions of some difficulty. Percy Bysshe Shelley

In number the landed gentry in the House far surpass any other class. The English Constitution

What would be his civic functions and social status among the county families and landed gentry? Ulysses

Its leaders were the landed gentry—men of elegance, and not far behind their European contemporaries in the culture of the day. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground

His family was not of the landed gentry, but he received some education, and then, like Washington and many other adventuresome young men of the day, became a surveyor. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond

But though the principle of no occupation overruled all class distinctions, the Stoics were mainly derived from the landed gentry. The Country House

But I do not believe that these families have the least corporate character, or any common opinions, different from others of the landed gentry. The English Constitution

Forty agents went down into the country, and announced to the landed gentry of every shire the approach of the golden age of high rents and low interest. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4

At the porch he met two of the landed gentry, one of whom he knew. War and Peace

"Because in twenty or thirty years your landed gentry won't be here in any case." Virgin Soil

General, later the Baron, Marbot, came from a family which might be described as landed gentry. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot

The old Cavalier party, the great majority of the landed gentry, the clergy and the universities almost to a man, began to draw together, and to form in close array round the throne. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1

The people in it are landed gentry, and they will begin to ask me questions, and to busy themselves about me. Poor Folk

The man drank a mouthful humbly, and Smilash continued, "Here's to the glorious landed gentry of old England: bless 'em!" An Unsocial Socialist

Well, do you think that such a landed gentry is impossible among us? Virgin Soil

One such army had held dominion in England; and under that dominion the King had been murdered, the nobility degraded, the landed gentry plundered, the Church persecuted. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1

He had with him the Church, the Universities, a majority of the nobles and of the old landed gentry. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1

"The Carters also," I murmured, "are landed gentry." Dolly Dialogues

The clergy trembled for their benefices; the landed gentry for their abbeys and great tithes. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1

It should be added that those classes which were peculiarly distinguished by attachment to the throne, the clergy and the landed gentry, had peculiar reasons for regarding the Church of Rome with aversion. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1

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例句	landed gentry They invited various relatives and friends, who took the train out from the city, and all the landed gentry from the neighborhood, without overlooking the town notables. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s from yangban stock, her people are the Korean landed gentry, and she finds this open talk of figures awkward, unnecessary. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “The landed gentry and the aristocrats hunt, you see, and we liberal middle classes fume about it. We want to take their silly little toys away.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When I say this, I am not merely drawing attention to the fact that our generation had a less snobbish attitude as regards which employers were landed gentry and which were 'business.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Best of all is her demonstration that the supposedly demure, sheltered novelist knew all about the profiteering imperialism that subsidised the leisure of her landed gentry. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Such was the trajectory of his life that he became a sort of landed gentry long before that. Readers recommend: songs about change 2010-12-17T00:01:03Z And while much of the landed gentry who founded the nation were intellectuals and aesthetes, the frontier myth resonates much more loudly. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z The wilderness resorts of old, which tried to reproduce the lifestyle of the landed gentry, have been supplanted by a raft of quirky rentals. Going Backcountry, Three Ways 2013-05-17T18:47:13Z Mr Doyle turns outward to show how important America’s civil war was to the rest of the world: liberty and democracy defeated slavery and the landed gentry. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The picture of enervated, early-20th-century landed gentry seems intended to conjure up Chekhov. Betrayals and Barristers: Broadway’s New Dramas 2013-10-29T09:45:58Z “Anna Karenina” for hot takes on the sexual politics of the Russian landed gentry? In ‘Luster,’ a Young Woman Moves in With Her Lover — and His Family 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Born in Ukraine in 1882 into one of many families of landed gentry who settled there following the partition of Poland, his personal drama was part of a larger story about old Europe after 1918. Karol Szymanowski: chasing beauty 2010-04-15T22:00:00Z It seems that Ms. Kincaid’s description of Antigua, of a nation run by foreign landed gentry, may not be so dated after all. Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z In one of the novel’s political subplots, Mr. Brooke, Dorothea Brooke’s uncle and guardian, who is a comfortable member of the landed gentry, decides to run for office under the banner of Reform. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Unlike Washington and Jefferson, Hamilton was not born into the landed gentry. Museum Review: Alexander Hamilton?s Renovated Grange - Review 2011-09-15T22:35:12Z In “Middlemarch,” Mr. Brooke wants Reform without too much reformation; he does not really want an alteration in the balance of power in the legislature between the landed gentry and the new industrial centers. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Deliberate overtones of Chekhov abound in this period portrait of the discontented members of a 1917 landed gentry family unraveling in the face of personal turmoil and the global ravages of World War I. Sharr White's 'Snow Geese' gets an assured West Coast premiere 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Interest was not forthcoming, but his drawings attracted abundant commissions to paint the horses of landed gentry. Review: Paintings by George Stubbs Travel to the Met 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z “Northern Catholics were a persecuted people, those in the south were more like landed gentry,” said Rev. Gary Toman, Catholic chaplain at Queens University. Irish Catholics flee the church 2013-03-26T23:09:00Z Mr. Darcy-in-real-life’s slim, sloping shoulders were often found in the landed gentry at the time, with strong legs and “well modeled thighs a sign of virility, a good fencer and horseman.” Mr. Darcy, You’re No Colin Firth 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Having read theorists whose ideas underlie the movement, Mr. Brooke is inclined to ideas of liberalism, but, being a comfortable member of the landed gentry, his instincts are less than disruptive. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z PBS has yet to announce an air date for the drama about landed gentry and their servants, but it's expected to return in January 2013. PBS fall schedule offers U.K. hits, US history 2012-05-15T22:46:04Z On one hand, the Calvinist capitalists who worshipped industry, and on the other, the clergy-allied landed gentry who saw work as man’s curse. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z Most philanthropy also comes from business people now; it's not the landed gentry anymore. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z In the eastern fields of Stepney, close to Whitechapel station, she finds aristocrats and landed gentry who desired open fields and country estates yet enjoyed proximity to the City. More than just getting from A to B 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z He told NBC News last week that Reddit was considering allowing users to vote out moderators who led the protest, comparing them to “landed gentry” who were thwarting the site’s democratic ethos. Thousands of Reddit Communities Stay Dark as App Policy Protest Continues 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z In the writings of the time, the white landed gentry very explicitly talked about the need to use guns to repress Black power. How the Gun Became Integral to the Self-Identity of Millions of Americans 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z “They have become well-heeled landed gentry, exactly in remote parts of the American West on land nobody wanted.” Alone in a New World With Vast Open Space, and Sheep 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z What used to be thought of as simply a “landed gentry pile of land” now operates like a corporation, she said. King Charles Inherits Untold Riches, and Passes Off His Own Empire 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z There, lawns were an early means of displaying conspicuous wealth among the landed gentry, said Christopher Sellers, a history professor at Stony Brook University who has written about lawns in the United States. In Los Angeles, the Grass Isn’t Always Greener This Year 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z At this point in the life span of “Downton Abbey,” it’s not even attempting to critically consider this wealthy, white aristocratic dynasty of landed gentry with which it concerns itself. ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ review: A throwback in more ways than one 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z He had no ties to the landed gentry or to the customs of a particular place. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z And with each coded clue he leaves behind for the Batman to find, it becomes increasingly clear that he’s building to something much larger than any one member of Gotham’s landed gentry. The Batman is young, dumb, and full of soft-spoken ennui 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z “A pirate’s life for me” says an otherwise mild-mannered member of the landed gentry in the new action comedy “Our Flag Means Death.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Killing Eve,’ the SAG Awards, the State of the Union and more 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Almost 200 years ago, in England, the right to vote was the domain of property owners and the landed gentry — about one in six men. Opinion \| Radical Ideas Need Quiet Spaces 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z He said while Darwin came from a wealthy background, and had the might of Cambridge University and the landed gentry behind him, Wallace's upbringing was very different. Forgotten discoverer of natural selection honoured by Bill Bailey 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z “The Importance of Being Earnest” A member of the landed gentry creates a false identity to temporarily escape his societal obligations in Oscar Wilde’s riotous Victorian-era satire. 'Hamilton' in L.A., sing-along 'Sound of Music' at the Bowl: Your best weekend bets 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z In Britain, the family made the unlikely transition to landed gentry, and ran a farm in Bedfordshire. Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into "misogynistic" new hire 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z "The days when it was dominated by inherited wealth, the landed gentry and mass of largely white, middle-aged and elderly men, are changing," says Watts. Rihanna rockets onto Sunday Times Rich List 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The CEO is the king, the board and senior executives are the courtiers and landed gentry, and the workers are the serfs. 3 theories that explain Trump’s approach to Putin and Russia. Which makes the most sense? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The shimmering black-and-white cinematography by Mart Taniel tracks the connections among a village's wolves and witches, landed gentry and scrabbling farmers. Estonian fantasy 'November' finds light in the darkness 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z When the Constitution was first written, women were in some ways property of the landed gentry. Mark Bradford on making art in post-shock phase of the Trump era and how comics channel this moment 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Of course, one could have issues with landed gentry - but it goes with territory. Selling Airborne Opulence to the Upper Upper Upper Class 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z He is elected now - and suddenly, he is like a landed gentry. A New Coalition With Merkel? Not So Fast 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Built by the region’s landed gentry, the homes feature original Gustavian furniture alongside walls painted with folkloric motifs or papered with delicate floral patterns. WSJ. Magazine’s October Cover: Fairy-Tale Looks for an Adventurous Fall 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z In the Revolutionary era, business leaders were merchants, landed gentry and Benjamin Franklin-style entrepreneurs and inventors. Analysis \| Inside the call where CEOs found their moral compass and steered away from Trump 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Although the drama of the hit ITV reality show, Love Island, seem far removed from the landed gentry Austen depicted, the personalities portrayed, even now, are similar. Why is Jane Austen trending 200 years after her death? - BBC News 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z He worries that society may be effectively returning itself to a state akin to pre-emancipation, when the vote was reserved for landed gentry. The rise of political apathy in two charts 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The key settings are Cambridge in all its ancient academic glory, a large, upper-middle-class home in suburban London and the ever-so-slightly crumbling mansion of Wiltshire landed gentry. 'Maurice': Unconventional love, conformity and isolation amid Britain's privileged classes 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z This is the modern equivalent of hungry, threadbare peasants wielding torches and pitchforks, storming the gates of the landed gentry. Growing frustrations are fueling a populist uprising 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The odds are stacked against her, with horse racing typically the purview of the landed gentry, and an expensive endeavor at that. Underdog 'Dark Horse' is cute but underwhelming 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z But in an age of social media, short attention spans and Love Island, what makes a woman who wrote about the 18th Century landed gentry so enduringly popular? Why is Jane Austen trending 200 years after her death? - BBC News 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z The drama was a success for the U.K.’s Channel 4 when it aired earlier this year, drawing some comparisons to “Downton Abbey” and its portrait of England’s landed gentry facing 20th-century disruption. ‘Indian Summers’ brings the heat to PBS’ ‘Masterpiece’ 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The drama was a success for the U.K.'s Channel 4 when it aired earlier this year, drawing some comparisons to "Downton Abbey" and its portrait of England's landed gentry facing 20th-century disruption. Power, desire and the end of British empire are combustible in PBS drama 'Indian Summers' 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The landed gentry, the high-born, the educated and established—they didn’t come here. Donald Trump’s Appeal—and Its Limits 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z That thrived under the patronage of the landed gentry between the wars, was revived under Communism, but is now withering on the vine. Missing the old Gypsy orchestras 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Not unlike the scenes in TV's Downton Abbey, the fight to save the country home was a very real concern for the landed gentry in the face of heavy taxation. Who holds the keys to our mansions? 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z On special occasions landed gentry would organise meals for their workers, and Christmas dinner would be seen as an opportunity to stock up on calories at the expense of the rich. Christmas menus: turtles to turkeys 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Europe's landed gentry have taken generations to perfect the sneering attitude that to spend money ostentatiously is somehow vulgar. China's controversial philanthropist 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z While people do hate the idea of a landed gentry with huge trust funds—think of the 1 Percent owning more than a third of all wealth—that’s not actually what’s driving the troubling trends. Piketty's Capital: An Economist's Inequality Ideas Are All the Rage 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z He relies heavily on the wisdom of ancient philosophers, such as Pliny the Elder, melded with the contemporary and practical silviculture practised by the landed gentry. In retrospect: Sylva 2014-03-13T17:20:24.852Z As money becomes pooled into ever fewer hands, the idle landed gentry make ever more money. Obamacare and inequality: A healthy dose of redistribution 2014-01-29T17:29:55Z The surrounding streets and squares of Knightsbridge have long harbored pieds-a-terres, occasional residences for the very rich, but in the old days the owners were landed gentry, old money, English. Inside London's Most Expensive Address 2014-01-03T08:05:26Z Since its founding in 1912, the party was led by learned men, landed gentry and nobility who were black, yes, but who were very much in their own class of blackness. When I met Mandela 2013-12-05T21:46:00Z To remove that financial support for MPs, the deputy PM argued, would turn the clock back 150 years by turning politics into a hobby for the landed gentry. Clegg defends energy bill expenses 2013-11-07T10:53:12Z Lady Plymouth was quite active within the Red Cross and, like a lot of landed gentry in the war, they opened up their home to help. 'Hidden' gems give WWI insight 2013-07-21T11:39:51Z Hitler built the Wolf’s Lair as his headquarters on the Eastern Front; it covered over 600 acres of remote woodland that was once the site of estates for the landed gentry of Prussia. Ketrzyn Journal: Restoring the Walls, and History, at a Hitler Command Post 2012-09-18T01:40:05Z Whiteness of paper and blackness of type suggested that Walker & Son periodically renewed this aristocrat among auction announcements—perhaps to kindle a selling spirit among the landed gentry, a notoriously conservative and hold-tight class. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z When the bulk of the landed gentry could barely read and write, and divided their time between fox-hunting and guzzling. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Wealth was not unevenly distributed, and though the patroon system had created in New York a landed gentry, this class was small, and its influence was only one of many. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z He remembers his duty to the landed gentry, and on his return from his unsuccessful quest remains several days to enjoy the squire's hospitality. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z He knew no god but the god of the landed gentry. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z In these societies the ruling class of England, the lay professions and landed gentry mingling with the clergy, has been bred. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z The reader will remember that the term "squatter," with us, means roughly the landed gentry; in its original sense the word has no meaning now. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z But it was not the peasants, or the peasants' friends—it was the small landed gentry who were the first to feel the effects of the Emancipation Act, and to raise the standard of revolt. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z We, in the Northland, looked to our landed gentry to stand by us, lead us, and face the British King who aims to turn us into slaves. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z To it he seemed in his later life to have transferred the greater part of his hatred of the landed gentry. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Justices and landed gentry leagued with “the Owlers” to rob, to smuggle, and defraud the customs. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z The landed gentry, under the samurai in rank, though wealthier, and generally in charge of village affairs and in control of lesser farmers and peasants, were also found numerously in the domains. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z A writer of that time described these Cavaliers as "of the best material in England"—the nobility, the clergy, the landed gentry and officers in the King's army. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z But this is the situation that confronts us here this day on the frontier: We appealed to the landed gentry of Tryon. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z A majority of prosperous industrial towns and fee farmers, led sometimes by lords or old landed gentry, were Puritans. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z That lady had been a Miss Rivers, and her family ranked among the oldest landed gentry in the kingdom. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z Lever has never been popular with Nationalist politicians, though, as a matter of fact no one ever exhibited the extravagance and recklessness of the landed gentry in more glaring colours. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z The landed gentry had inherited a fine sense of patriarchal responsibility. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z God knows what we have endured these last few years from the landed gentry of Tryon!—what we have put up with and stomached since the first shot was fired at Lexington! The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z About 4/5 of the land was in the hands of 7,000 of the nobility and landed gentry due in part to estate tails constructed by attorneys to favor hereditary interests. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z The boomers' claims on the national income and assets are in addition to the City bankers and landed gentry. Baby boomers are Britain's secret millionaires 2011-02-28T06:59:00Z Our landed gentry's horizon does not extend far beyond the price of corn in summer, beyond l'ombre and sleighing parties in the winter. Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z He regarded them as an intrusive nuisance which had to be seen only to be disowned by the landed gentry of England. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z He knew, also, as well as I, in which cause would flash the swords of the landed gentry of County Tryon. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z His notorious sympathy with the peasantry further alienated the official classes and landed gentry, and his campaign against enclosures brought him into conflict with the strongest forces of the time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z For the most part, today's plutocrats are not a leisured, landed gentry of inherited wealth. How super rich left rest behind 2011-02-02T10:31:25Z Massachusetts and Connecticut congratulated him on his conduct, and in the province of New York he was generally approved; but he had the misfortune to be opposed by the Roman Catholics and the landed gentry. Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York 2011-01-17T03:00:47.770Z Of their landed gentry, some went into exile. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Where is the landed gentry of County Tryon at this very hour? The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z In exchange for this an incompetent and inferior landed gentry was established in Ireland. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z The landed gentry took politics for their business, and if the voter could draw attention to what he conceived to be a grievance, the landowner decided whether any remedy should be applied. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z In my young days the people with means were the landed gentry and the nobility. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z There was no lack, say apologists of the Irish Parliament, of useful legislation on subjects with which a landed gentry was qualified to deal. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Through the 19th century in Europe and the U.S., there was no need conceptually to separate unemployment and poverty—for everyone except the landed gentry, not working basically meant being poor. The Jobs Number's Messy Reality 2010-12-16T22:00:00Z She also understood that the establishment wasn't just the landed gentry, but institutions hungry for power at the expense of ordinary citizens. Rupert Murdoch's inaugural Margaret Thatcher lecture 2010-10-21T19:00:00Z Corrupt town constituencies were to be preserved in the constitution in order that the landed gentry might preserve their monopoly of politics against the men of commerce. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z During colonial times, British occupiers imported polo to their homeland, where it became a favorite pastime of the landed gentry. Learning to Play Polo 2010-03-11T23:06:00Z Alarmed by the non-renewal of the anti-Socialist law, and by the conclusion of commercial treaties which made great concessions to German industry, the landed gentry and the Conservative party became alienated from the new chancellor. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" The family has, since the 14th century, belonged to the landed gentry, and many members had held high office in the kingdom of Prussia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" At Galvin House she was the recognised authority upon anything and everything concerned with royalty and the titled and landed gentry. Patricia Brent, Spinster Just as the old Tories had held that the landed gentry were the natural leaders of the nation, so the new Whigs paid the same tribute to the upper and middle classes combined. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Polo remains wildly popular in India, Argentina, Britain, and Dubai, among other countries, where, thanks to tourist-friendly schools and resorts, it is no longer the exclusive province of the landed gentry. Learning to Play Polo 2010-03-11T23:06:00Z Aunt Letitia said she was glad to be able to assure Lord Maythorne that the Falconers were an ancient race, and had been landed gentry for generations. Under the Mendips A Tale Since the great black day of a generation previous, never had there been such a crash, so many landed gentry, so much paper profit sunk into such absolute loss. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident He had persuaded the Duke that the time was come when, by a little timely flattering, the whole landed gentry of Ireland were in his hands. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience In the meantime the landed gentry and the manufacturers exaggerated rather than diminished the old idea of individualism, and neglected or resisted every proposal which tended to restrict competition. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The Chambellans were an old Yorkshire family, which once had held a high place among the landed gentry of the county. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 They were largely provincial lawyers and rural landed gentry, conservative and clerical, who felt that too much importance had been usurped by the Parisian Government of National Defence. A History of the Third French Republic The lesser nobility, including the landed gentry, was reduced to the level of free peasants; the peasantry itself was placed in virtually complete serfdom; and cultural activity became almost nonexistent. Area Handbook for Romania Among the former there was a considerable sprinkling of the landed gentry of the neighbourhood, monarchists and legitimists to a man, some of whom did not even condescend to honour the Emperor with a salute. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections It was the provision made by landed gentry for their daughters, and they exacted in return an equally suitable settlement from the expectant husband. Maids Wives and Bachelors When it was over we would all go back to our places in the world and touch our hats to them, the landed gentry of mankind. Command Helen felt that her irate fellow countrywoman was metaphorically hurling large volumes of the peerage, baronetage, and landed gentry at the unhappy conductor’s head. The Silent Barrier "Indeed," Baron Haer said, his nostrils high in that attitude once perfected by grandees of medieval Spain, landed gentry of England, Prussian Junkers. Frigid Fracas The landed gentry, the small squires, the lawyers and the doctors, and the tradespeople who pandered to their prejudices and fattened on their patronage, were slow to say a word in favour of a Dissenter. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations The seats of the nobility and landed gentry are called Herregaarde. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" The landed gentry had barges rowed by slaves. The Flying Stingaree They may have been humble scions of the Hamertons, of Hamerton, Yorkshire, a branch of whom were among the landed gentry near the Scottish border; but at Horncastle they were engaged in trade. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time The landed gentry wish us to remove our dam, saying that if we don't they won't be worth a d—n. Law and Laughter With the object of checking these outrages, night patrols were established, dragoons were kept in readiness to put down tumultuous meetings, and magistrates and clergymen and landed gentry were all at their wits’ ends. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations His office, which he called "Chambers," as if it was an old house in the country, was in Cork Street; his clients were landed gentry, bankers, peers and sons of peers. Love and Lucy These people and a dozen others formed the landed gentry—a gentry otherwise landed since. The Paliser case He’s to give parties for the Dublin doctors and the smaller landed gentry.” The Red Hand of Ulster The landed gentry got a verdict in their favour at the last Lincoln Assizes, but find themselves little the better, as we have appealed, and our dam still reigns triumphant. Law and Laughter To come from our aristocracy and landed gentry to our middle class. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 But the fact remains that your mother came from what is sometimes called 'the landed gentry' of England, and the estates there, or property, descend to eldest sons differently than property does in this country. Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer His position is not essentially different from that of the average landed gentry in the Middle Age, not only in Italy, but all over Europe. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome They settled in Cardington, upon the Howard estate, and for the next seven years led the uneventful life of landed gentry of the times. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History It is a serious attack on the interests and privileges of the landed gentry. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers He can give you a high position among the landed gentry of England.” Her Mother's Secret Many had vast estates, farms, acres on acres of game parks, and lived like the landed gentry of old England. The Reckoning The prejudices of the landed gentry were met by a steady effort to reduce the land-tax, whose pressure was half the secret of their hostility to the Revolution that produced it. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 The landed gentry and the professions of the Church, the army, and the law were strongly on the king's side. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration Meanwhile it looks as if the Socialist ideal of driving our landed gentry into the workhouse is already being realised. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914 The right of the Crown to force knighthood on the landed gentry was revived, in order to squeeze them into composition for the refusal of it. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 "We of the landed gentry of Tryon County make as little of New York as New York makes of us!" The Reckoning He is coming to ravage the realm, wipe out the landed gentry, and divide their estates among the peasantry. The Day of Wrath Nevertheless, the Rockingham and Grenville parties took advantage of the dissatisfaction of the landed gentry, acted together in a factious spirit, and defeated the government proposal by 206 votes to 188. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration This sovereign of the soil was a fair specimen of the landed gentry of Virginia. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac Land will not be wanting, for it is round the great towns, and round Paris especially, that the parks and pleasure grounds of the landed gentry are to be found. The Conquest of Bread They doubted the wisdom of a republican miner being allowed to enter a legislature composed of aristocracy and landed gentry! The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century During the latter half of the century it became a fashion for landed gentry to have engravings made of their country seats, and antiquarian publications with illustrations were produced. Masters of Water-Colour Painting The Celt had no objection in the world to pledge successive glasses to these names, which he had no doubt belonged "to fery respectaple persons," probably to the chief landed gentry of his entertainer's neighbourhood. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author The Farquaharsons were landed gentry in Virginia when these aristocrats were still grinding snuff. The Tyranny of Weakness There were county assemblies for social and judicial purposes, but in each a few prominent people in the neighborhood managed affairs and perpetuated their privileges, as among the landed gentry of England. Society Its Origin and Development They are not regarded as heretics, but as representing an interest which is opposed to the dominant class of the landed gentry. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The book is a presentment of old ante-reform manners among the landed gentry at their worst. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections But it was in the island of Skye that classical learning was the most general, and there an extraordinary degree of intelligence and acquirement prevailed among the landed gentry. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Local institutions, supported by a landed gentry, check them; hence their love of centralisation and their hatred of unpaid magistrates. Sketches Believe me, a large number of these landed gentry, who pay the penalty of their old family memories, are beyond help. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag With this transfer of the balance of economic power came a good deal of rivalry between the manufacturers and the landed gentry, the latter becoming more and more Tory, the former more and more Radical. The Rise of the Democracy His poetry is the quintessence of æsthetic voluptuousness, such as was evolved on the soil of the sybaritism of the landed gentry in the circles of the '40's of the nineteenth century. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections The landed gentry and the great junk owners have their town houses here. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma At Romford, I boasted to you that my children should ally themselves with the landed gentry of the country, and see the result! Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 From that time onwards the smaller landowners, yeomen and squires with small holdings, begin to disappear and the landed gentry become practically supreme. The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 To the Protestant citizens of London was now added a Protestant landed gentry. The Age of the Reformation His people were people of mark among the landed gentry of their county, and were well-to-do even for their position. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 It is lighted with petroleum lamps, and is badly drained and sewered, but possesses some important buildings, and contains many fine residences belonging to the landed gentry. Roumania Past and Present The squatting class in Australia correspond to the landed gentry of England. Town Life in Australia Berenice could not get out to do her deeds of charity among the suffering poor; nor could the landed gentry of the neighborhood make calls upon the young stranger. Ishmael Or, In the Depths The same causes that keep the landed gentry out of Parliament keep them, although not to the same degree, out of local politics. The Framework of Home Rule He might be landed gentry, but he was no tiller of the soil, and he secretly looked down on his elder brother for personally cultivating the family acres. Kit of Greenacre Farm Improvidence and fermage have sounded the knell of the old landed gentry. Roumania Past and Present He warned and rebuked the landed gentry and the princes. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Dublin is generally much more brilliant under a Tory viceroy, inasmuch as nine-tenths of the Irish peerage and landed gentry support that side of politics. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 And Herodotus to the animal kingdom is what Domesday Book is to the landed gentry. The Congo and Coasts of Africa The immense majority of the pedigrees of the landed gentry," says a well-known officer of arms, "cannot, I fear, be characterised as otherwise than utterly worthless. Love Romances of the Aristocracy And despite severe wounds, survived long after the war, a heavy pecuniary sufferer by the cause which, with most of the landed gentry of New York, he had espoused. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam And this example of beauty, gentleness and excellence was to come from the landed gentry of England—ye gods! Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors What is it to me that they hate the Church and hate the landed gentry; that they are jealous of the nobility, and have shipping shares instead of manufacturing businesses in the Midlands? Back to Methuselah Junker, a name given in Germany to the younger members of the aristocracy, or of the landed gentry, as representing a reactionary party in modern politics. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge And money could yet be only got from the barons, the nobility, or at least the landed gentry, because the people, the agricultural laborers or serfs, villeins, owned no land. Popular Law-making To the West Indies went out representatives of the landed gentry from every county in England. The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago This friend and the journals were his oracles, and their influence he digested in morsels of political economy, so introduced into his pamphlets as not to offend the landed gentry of the neighbourhood. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829 The resistance of the landed gentry, which many of these schemes had originally to encounter, had now completely given way, and, instead of opposing canals, they were everywhere found anxious for their construction. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain The manufacturer, banker, and captain of industry have practically displaced a hereditary landed gentry as the immediate directors of social affairs. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Do you talk in that familiar manner of one of the landed gentry of England? The Woman in White Besides portrait painting, my father was much employed in assisting the noblemen and landed gentry of Scotland in improving the landscape appearance of their estates, especially when seen from their mansion windows. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography When they saw the trouble they were in, they cut the rope, and at the same time they cut off Lazaro's hopes of ever becoming one of the landed gentry. The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself Though obviously they were not university men, they seemed to belong to what in America would be called the landed gentry, and yet I had felt myself on terms of undoubted equality with them. Ruggles of Red Gap Miss Emery, of Petersfield, was quite good enough for the landed gentry of this quiet region. The Golden Calf There were naval people, military, commercial, landed gentry, clerical, royalty, and beer. The Heavenly Twins His chief employment was in designing and erecting new mansions, principally for the landed gentry and nobility. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography She had lived so long out of England, over thirty years now, that she had forgotten the sweet relations that prevailed there between the aristocracy or landed gentry and their inferiors. Crowded Out! and Other Sketches But there are a good many of our landed gentry in Russia exactly like this. A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I To imagine the consequence of depriving the English landed gentry of their revenues would not enable one to realise exactly what a similar privation signified to the Japanese samurai. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series The 'county' is the county families—landed gentry—very ancient and swagger and all that —much more so than the titled people often. The Nest Builder There were incendiary fires on various estates and farms belonging to the landed gentry. The Created Legend There were, first of all, the landed gentry. First and Last Tennyson's father was a clergyman, holding his appointments from a member of the landed gentry; his mother was peculiarly gentle and benevolent. A History of English Literature This determination produced "Waverly," whose success gave birth to Scott's desire to be numbered among the landed gentry of the country. The Prose Marmion A Tale of the Scottish Border In 1642 civil war broke out between the Puritans, on one side, and the king, nobles, landed gentry, and adherents of the Church of England, on the other. Halleck's New English Literature The landed gentry upheld the Corn Laws and used the word "commercial" as an epithet. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers In Virginia a wealthy class of landed gentry came to be an increasing power in the political history of the country. History of American Literature The mass of lesser barons had been separated from the greater barons, and had been merged in the landed gentry who were represented by the knights of the shire in the House of Commons. The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution Mr. Baron was one of the few of the landed gentry in the region who was not known by a military title, and he rather prided himself on the fact. Miss Lou The central administration shared the loot with its local representatives and with the indigenous elites - the church and the feudal landed gentry. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters His parents belonged to the landed gentry, but who yet were poor enough so they ever felt the necessity of work and economy. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers His case, indeed, was only one of thousands of others in England, where adventurers and war-profiteers were ousting the landed gentry. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo Though he bore a name already distinguished in the annals of the English landed gentry, he had to make his own fortune under conditions of some difficulty. Percy Bysshe Shelley In number the landed gentry in the House far surpass any other class. The English Constitution What would be his civic functions and social status among the county families and landed gentry? Ulysses Its leaders were the landed gentry—men of elegance, and not far behind their European contemporaries in the culture of the day. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground His family was not of the landed gentry, but he received some education, and then, like Washington and many other adventuresome young men of the day, became a surveyor. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond But though the principle of no occupation overruled all class distinctions, the Stoics were mainly derived from the landed gentry. The Country House But I do not believe that these families have the least corporate character, or any common opinions, different from others of the landed gentry. The English Constitution Forty agents went down into the country, and announced to the landed gentry of every shire the approach of the golden age of high rents and low interest. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 At the porch he met two of the landed gentry, one of whom he knew. War and Peace "Because in twenty or thirty years your landed gentry won't be here in any case." Virgin Soil General, later the Baron, Marbot, came from a family which might be described as landed gentry. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot The old Cavalier party, the great majority of the landed gentry, the clergy and the universities almost to a man, began to draw together, and to form in close array round the throne. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 The people in it are landed gentry, and they will begin to ask me questions, and to busy themselves about me. Poor Folk The man drank a mouthful humbly, and Smilash continued, "Here's to the glorious landed gentry of old England: bless 'em!" An Unsocial Socialist Well, do you think that such a landed gentry is impossible among us? Virgin Soil One such army had held dominion in England; and under that dominion the King had been murdered, the nobility degraded, the landed gentry plundered, the Church persecuted. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 He had with him the Church, the Universities, a majority of the nobles and of the old landed gentry. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 "The Carters also," I murmured, "are landed gentry." Dolly Dialogues The clergy trembled for their benefices; the landed gentry for their abbeys and great tithes. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 It should be added that those classes which were peculiarly distinguished by attachment to the throne, the clergy and the landed gentry, had peculiar reasons for regarding the Church of Rome with aversion. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
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