But other gentry families were of different and more recent origin in respect to land ownership.

The basic unit of the gentry class are families, not individuals.

The gentry society was, therefore, a comparably stable society with little upward social mobility but with some downward mobility.

he shouted, 'gibel a chiv for the gentry cove.

Internal collapse THE MIDDLE AGES Chapter VI: THE HAN DYNASTY (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) 1 Development of the gentry-state 2 Situation of the Hsiung-nu empire; its relation to the Han empire.

Gentry cliques now extended into the provinces and it often became possible to identify a clique with a geographical area, which, however, usually did not indicate particularistic tendencies.

The gentry members in the bureaucracy collaborated closely with one another because they were tied together by bonds of blood or marriage.

Such was the picture of the middle class and those who were ready to support it, a group with widely divergent interests, held together only by its opposition to the gentry system and the monarchy.

In view of this situation it was very difficult for lower class families to achieve access into this gentry group.

In the two other parts the tradespeople and the gentry reside; they have an incomparably better aspect.

Many of the younger gentry retire to the Inns of Court, where they are wholly left to their own discretion.

Sociologically regarded, that dynasty formed merely a transition stage on the way to the Sung dynasty that now followed: the Chinese gentry ruled under the leadership of an upstart who had risen from the ranks, and they ruled in accordance with the old principles of gentry rule.

The very blackguards here are degenerate, the topping gentry stockbrokers; the passengers too many to insure your quiet, or let you go about whistling or gaping,too few to be the fine indifferent pageants of Fleet Street.

Numerous magnates, all the chief leaders of the gentry boasting of enlightenment and patriotism, and imbued with European culture, rallied around Kossuth, until finally the public opinion of the country and the enthusiasm of which he was the centre caused him to be returned, in 1847, together with Count Louis Batthyanyi, as Deputy from the foremost county of the country, the county of Pest.

From Toledo, where she was, she wrote to her brother, "After having been four days without seeing the emperor, when I went to take leave I found him so gracious that I think he is very much afraid of my going; those gentry yonder are in a great fix, and, if you will be pleased to hold firm, I can see them coming round to your wishes.

Since now forsooth most of our gentry crowd into town, abandoning the sickle and the plough and prefer to exercise their hands in the theatre and the circus rather than in the corn field and the vineyard, it has resulted that we must fain buy the very corn that fills our bellies and have it hauled in for us, yea, out of Africa and Sardinia, while we bring home the vintage in ships from the islands of Cos and Chios!

I am not ignorant in the meantime (notwithstanding this which I have said) how barbarously and basely, for the most part, our ruder gentry esteem of libraries and books, how they neglect and contemn so great a treasure, so inestimable a benefit, as Aesop's cock did the jewel he found in the dunghill; and all through error, ignorance, and want of education.

Here, a mighty Chinese gentry faction under the leadership of the Ts'ui family had united with the Taoist leader K'ou Ch'ien-chih against another faction under the leadership of the crown prince.

But the peasants regarded their local unauthorized priests as their natural leaders against the gentry and against gentry forms of religion.

As a whole and for reasons of gentry self-interest, the gentry stood for stability and against change.

This made the police gentry laugh.

Ultimately, in 493-4, the Chinese gentry officials secured the transfer of the capital to Loyang.

Thus the eunuchs generally accumulated great wealth, which they shared with their small gentry relatives.