Nobles
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nobles · influential citizens · powerful nobles · the noblest
in the texts
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The noble class identified, with kings and wealthy freeholders, as responsible for undermining England's liberties.
By what force, fraud, and conspiracy, on the part of kings, nobles, and “a few wealthy freeholders,” these pillars have been prostrated in England, it is designed to show more fully in the next volume, if it should be necessary.
Cyropaedia
The elite men around Cyrus, both useful and dangerous, whom he binds to court through attendance, gifts, competition, and honor.
Accordingly, the nobles came to Cyrus’s court with their horses and their spears, for so it had been decreed by the best of those who with him had made the conquest of the kingdom.
They passed a resolution that the nobles should always be in attendance at court and be in readiness for whatever service Cyrus wished until he should dismiss them.
And when he had distributed among the noblest the most beautiful garments, he brought out other Median robes, for he had had a great many made, with no stint of purple or sable or red or scarlet or crimson cloaks.