Sentences with phrase «wealthy aristocracy»
Smaller government, and low taxes, just means that an obscenely wealthy aristocracy appears to fill the gap.
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Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.
Charles is introduced to aristocracy in the wealthy Catholic Marchmains and their lovely palatial home Brideshead.
Fleming had grown up in the embrace of the British aristocracy: educated at Eton and Sandhurst, the scion of a wealthy banking family.
As the master of Mount Vernon, Washington's marriage to the wealthy Martha Dandridge Custis placed him among the elite of the Virginia aristocracy.
By the way, this is how the paper aristocracy has made most of its wealth over the last few centuries, and how those banking families originally became wealthy.