Nobility
.—Acquired nobility is a disease which is made to pass in the blood. “The nobility, which is and always will be the nursery and hot-bed of the satellites of Despotism, has found in its crimes its own punishment.”
Mirabeau.
.—Acquired nobility is a disease which is made to pass in the blood. “The nobility, which is and always will be the nursery and hot-bed of the satellites of Despotism, has found in its crimes its own punishment.”
Mirabeau.
Entry taken from Political Dictionary, edited by Charles Pigott from prison and printed in 1795.