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The birth of the railways, along with the Victorian gentry's penchant to skate on its frozen lake in winter, transformed the area.

North neglected as Hampshire district tops quality of life survey 2011

Portraits by Joshua Reynolds and Joseph Wright show clear-eyed Augustans full of Johnsonian sense, exquisite manners and grace, while the landed gentry's painter of choice, Arthur Devis, painted married couples at home in charmingly naïve fashion.

Browser's Delight Henrik Bering 2011

Then in the second book, the resiliency of the Commonwealth's institutions is amply demonstrated by the gentry's initially accepting the Swedish invasion with an attitude of "it doesn't matter who's king" (consistent with their republican outlook) and then rising against and throwing out Charles Gustav as soon as it becomes clear that he means to tyrannize them.

Calhoun's Defense of Poland's Unanimity Rule, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

You can see the effects of the gentry's green politics up close in places like the Salinas Valley, a lovely agricultural region south of San Jose.

Death of the Dream 2009

In the post-World War II era, the gentry's model candidate was a man such as Adlai Stevenson, the D.mocratic presidential nominee who lost twice to D.ight D. Eisenhower.

The Democratic Party Could Face an Internal Civil War 2009

The plebeian community acknowledged the gentry's power, but a mask of public deference hid a more subtle culture of resistance and reprisal.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

In the process, plebeians recognized the gentry's political and economic power, but they were also resistant to it, sometimes openly.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

The elite saw themselves as benevolent patrons, and plebeians accepted the gentry's paternalism, but on their own terms: deference was accorded only on a conditional basis, to the degree that it enabled them to extract what they needed for their own advantage and self-preservation.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

Labour has been his political home, but Brown's origins have resulted in a conservatism as real as that seen in the provincial gentry's toryism in past centuries.

Kirkcaldy's tory son Burke's Corner 2007

Labour has been his political home, but Brown's origins have resulted in a conservatism as real as that seen in the provincial gentry's toryism in past centuries.

Archive 2007-09-01 Burke's Corner 2007