Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best class of people, came to Virginia. These Cavaliers made the reputation of Virginia, and from them many of our most distinguished families have traced their descent. Sir William Berkeley, a Royalist of the Royalists, was elected governor. After the Restoration his government became tyrannical in the extreme. An aristocrat himself, he had no sympathy with the common people. With the assistance of a group of wealthy planters he attempted to get rid of popular elections. Having in 1660 got an assembly to his liking, he did not dissolve it for sixteen years. The effect of this abuse...
...bearing of an aristocrat, with the convictions of a radical. He had, besides, a literary man's memory,- he could illustrate anything with an appropriate anecdote. No man can retain such power as he possessed for any length of time without being materially changed; he himself said that his life was not wholesome, as he had a constant craving for opposition. Like most of the prohibitionists, he had difficulty in keeping his desire for opposition and controversy out of lectures when there was no call for them. He had difficulty in drawing the line in after life between the reformer...
...Bourget's view that Renan is an intellectual aristocrat borne out by facts...
Renan was intellectually an aristocrat. He looked down on all inferiors and be lived that man should not attempt any good deed unless he could be sure of moving the whole mass of people. This made him scornful of all ordinary...