Nobility
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True enough, some aristocratic heads rolled, but the
nobility
eventually returned to France.
French ministries still occupy the former eighteenth-century palaces of the King and his
nobility.
French Presidents and their elected
nobility
still bask in this decadent aura.
Yet, amidst the news reports over the past few months of financial fraud, bloodshed in India and Gaza, and global economic disasters, one item stood out for its bravery and
nobility.
In the late second century BC, the aristocratic Gracchi brothers tried to bring about a political revolution from within, only to be killed by the conservative
nobility.
But I am beginning to fear that I am living in a state whose politicians are more interested in proclaiming the
nobility
of goals that cannot be achieved.
The French Revolution and the introduction of universal suffrage were aimed as much at ridding France of the corporation of judges as they were at getting rid of the
nobility.
His vision, at least as far as the Western world is concerned, may have been romantic, but it had a certain
nobility.
Instead, the world gaped at the
nobility
of spirit displayed each and every day before the TRC, as victims of gruesome atrocities forgave their tormentors – and even embraced them on occasion.
As Niccolo Machiavelli explains in The Prince, the people, seeing that they cannot resist the nobility, give their support to one man, in order to be defended by his authority.
The Marshals of the
Nobility
were all busy with the elections, and he could not get even the simple matter in connection with the wardship settled.
The Marshal of the
Nobility
for the Province – in whose hands the law placed so much important public business: wardships (such as the one about which Levin was now in trouble), the care of enormous sums of money belonging to the nobility, public school for boys and girls, military schools, elementary education according to the new Law, and finally the Zemstvo – the Marshal of the Province, Snetkov, was one of the old type of nobles.
He always sided with the
Nobility
in everything, openly opposed the spread of popular education, and gave a class character to the Zemstvo, which should have such enormous importance.
It was necessary to put in his place a fresh, up-to-date, practical, and quite new man, and to manage matters so as to extract from the rights granted to the
Nobility
(not as nobles, but as an element of the Zemstvo) all the advantages of self-government which could be obtained from them.
The Session was opened by the Governor of the Province, who in his speech to the nobles told them that in choosing occupants for posts they should show no partiality, but should choose according to merit and for the welfare of the country, and that he hoped the honourable
Nobility
of Kashin would strictly fulfil its duty as it had done in previous elections, and would justify their sovereign's high confidence in them.
On the second and third days matters were dealt with concerning the funds of the
Nobility
and the Girls' High Schools, which, Koznyshev explained, were quite unimportant; so Levin, busy going from place to place on the business he had in hand, did not trouble about them.
The Marshal of the
Nobility
rose and with tears in his eyes thanked the
Nobility
for their confidence.
Replying to the nobles, Snetkov spoke of the confidence and affection of the Nobility, of which he was not worthy, his merit consisting only in his loyalty to the Nobility, to whom he had devoted twenty years of service.
Whether those tears resulted from a consciousness of injustice done him, or from love for the Nobility, or from the strained situation in which he found himself, surrounded by enemies, at any rate his emotion communicated itself.
'The wife ought to be registered as belonging to the Nobility.'
That's what the
Nobility
are for.
The
Nobility
is an obsolete institution which continues to act through inertia.
'He is one of the new Nobility.'
'New if you like, but not the
Nobility.
The other is not work for the
Nobility.
It was not even a failure for him; as he himself said to Nevedovsky, champagne glass in hand, no better representative of the new course which the
Nobility
ought to follow could have been found.
"It was the
nobility
who made the Revolution possible, by their complicity and taste for philosophic novelties.
He felt the need of glorifying these workers, whose odour of wretchedness was now unpleasant to him; he would show that they alone were great and stainless, the only
nobility
and the only strength in which humanity could be dipped afresh.
The gentleness of the man's gaze, the generosity expressed in his facial features, the
nobility
of his bearing, all vanished from my memory.
Generosity,
nobility
of soul, humanity, seemed to her, after a time, to exist only in this young cleric.
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