The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

38 Chapter II land. Here the turning point came in the 1760’s and gives weight to the old idea of an Industrial Revolution setti ...

Aristocracy: The Constituted Bodies 39 men to help them govern. A list of all who served on the councils before the Revo- lution ...

40 Chapter II only 27 families by the name of Pitkin, whereas there were 160 families by the name of Palmer, none of whose offsp ...

Aristocracy: The Constituted Bodies 41 In summary, and here one may agree with Professor Lousse and the corporatist school alrea ...

CHAPTER III ARISTOCRACY ABOUT 1760: THEORY AND PRACTICE To be bred in a place of estimation, to see nothing low and sordid from ...

Aristocracy: Theory and Practice 43 “There is no more certain maxim of politics,” observed Robert Walpole in 1719, “than that a ...

44 Chapter III Parlement of Bordeaux, was active in that parlement in the days of the Regency, and announced his ideas in system ...

Aristocracy: Theory and Practice 45 a body chosen to represent the people, with the two bodies having separate assem- blies and ...

46 Chapter III of one’s rank in society, a desire for recognition and public esteem, an enjoyment of external marks of high posi ...

Aristocracy: Theory and Practice 47 observation, using some of the very language of Montesquieu. “The distinction of ranks and p ...

48 Chapter III treme to another. With difficulty could one today change the means of arriving in positions of government, withou ...

Aristocracy: Theory and Practice 49 was a proper subject of study by gentlemen who must govern the country, because at Oxford “g ...

50 Chapter III writings of all languages it would doubtless be possible to find similar works from all countries in which there ...

Aristocracy: Theory and Practice 51 discourse, having taken from our adversaries the great palladium of their cause.”^15 No one ...

52 Chapter III USES AND ABUSES OF SOCIAL RANK There were, however, certain problems and paradoxes created by the institution of ...

Aristocracy: Theory and Practice 53 military talents and their authority is confined to strictly military affairs, if people acc ...

54 Chapter III sterdam profited from the 3,200 offices at their disposal. In France, in the eigh- teenth century the King no lon ...

Aristocracy: Theory and Practice 55 after the reconquest of central Hungary in 1699, where such families as the Ester- hazys rec ...

56 Chapter III who bought rural acreage often did so only to have a place of residence in the country, or meet the legal qualifi ...

Aristocracy: Theory and Practice 57 There were reformers in the French government who saw this possibility. In 1750 the governme ...