Nobility

,—a titled order of men, so called for their hereditary profligacy of manners, abandoned principles, and infernal depravity. Collect, if you can, in one human form, the associations of insolence, ignorance, pride, ignoble ambition, meanness of the basest kind, sordid viciousness, and every thing which is dishonourable, loathsome, and depraved, and you may form some faint idea of a modern nobleman.