Nobles
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nobles · influential citizens · powerful nobles · the noblest
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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.
And when this became apparent, Cyrus is said to have remarked:
Even in this man, Croesus, said Cyrus, we have one treasure-house already.
But these contests also stirred up contentions and jealousies among the nobles.