burgessdom

In our daily meetings one with another we cried aloud for a great voice to awaken the little folk in Great Britain from their selfish lethargy -- the little folk in high office, in smug burgessdom, in seditious factory and shipyard.

The Red Planet William John Locke 1896

Nowhere has burgessdom had a destiny so vast, so fertile as that which has fallen to it in France.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830

Rollin, was developing the intelligence and lively powers of burgessdom; and Montesquieu, as yet full young, was shooting his missiles in the

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830

France that the people of the commons, the burgessdom, became most completely, most powerfully developed, and ended by acquiring, in the general social body, the most decided preponderance.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830

Brittany possessed neither a Mounier nor a Mirabeau; the noblesse there were numerous, bellicose, and haughty, the burgessdom rich and independent.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830

a popular character; the Jansenists had penitents amongst the great of this world, though none properly belonged to them or retired to their convents or their solitudes; it was the great French burgessdom, issue for the most part of the magistracy, which supplied their most fervent associates.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830