 He created a plebeian aristocracy and blended it with the patrician oligarchy. He made peers of second-rate squires and fat graziers. He caught them in the alleys of Lombard Street, and clutched them from the counting-houses of Cornhill.  The Contemporary Review - 448 ページ1888全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Walter Sydney Sichel - 1909 - 728 ページ
...Speeches,' Vol. III., p. 497. 158 " Pitt created," observes Disraeli in " Sybil," "a plebeian aristocracy. He made peers of second-rate squires and fat graziers....clutched them from the counting-houses of Cornhill." One of these " fat graziers " recommended as " worth a baronetcy," was sent up on approval and rejected... | |
 | Edward Porritt - 1909 - 656 ページ
...and blended it with the patrician oligarchy.1" " He made peers," again to quote Lord Beaconsfield, " of second-rate squires and fat graziers. He caught...clutched them from the countinghouses of Cornhill"." Creations and promotions were thus unprecedently numerous notwithstanding that, as early as 1780, the... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1912 - 468 ページ
...purpose, lie still endeavoured partially to effect it by a circuitous process. He created a plebeian aristocracy and blended it with the patrician oligarchy....declared that every man with an estate of ten thousand a-year had a right to be a peer, he sounded the knell of ' the cause for which Hampden had died on... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1912 - 498 ページ
...purpose, he still endeavoured partially to effect it by a circuitous process. He created a plebeian aristocracy and blended it with the patrician oligarchy....declared that every man with an estate of ten thousand a-year had a right to be a peer, he sounded the knell of ' the cause for which Hampden had died on... | |
 | George Robert Stirling Taylor - 1921 - 320 ページ
...were scarcely 250 peers in the House: in nineteen years Pitt had added 140 more. As Disraeli said: "He made peers of second-rate squires and fat graziers....clutched them from the counting-houses of Cornhill." He is said to have spent one-sixth of his time dealing with applications for offices and titles. He... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 ページ
...still assembled, and there the thong of the whip still sounds." 5 (Of men ennobled by Pitt). — " He made peers of second-rate squires and fat graziers....clutched them from the counting-houses of Cornhill." (Of Peel). — " He never quotes a passage that has not previously received the meed of parliamentary... | |
 | Herman Jansonius - 1926 - 238 ページ
...party by Sir William "Petty", who made peers of "second-rate squires and fat-graziers", while he also "caught them in the alleys of 'Lombard Street and...clutched them from the counting-houses of Cornhill." 3 A very lucrative business appears to have sprung up in this line, } for in Sybil we read of the large... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1928 - 1032 ページ
...Tout, An Advanced History of Great Britain, p. 590 ; Pollard, Evolution of Parliament, p. 590. ond rate squires and fat graziers. He caught them in the alleys of Lombard Street, and clutched in the counting-houses of Cornhill. When Mr. Pitt, in an age of bank restriction declared that every... | |
 | 1937 - 418 ページ
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