Aristocracies have their faults, but they outlast every other kind of government, and therefore are objects of reverence to all who love order.
Yet it is not the less true thataristocracies sometimes do behave with a rashness that cannot be paralleled from the histories of democracies and despotisms.
Aristocracies are cautious and prudent, and indisposed to risk present advantage in the hope of future gain.
The conclusion drawn by aristocrats and their admirers is, thataristocracies are the most enduring of all the polities known to men, and that they are so because aristocrats are the most prudent and cautious of men.
In aristocracies resting upon birth the very fact that the rulers regard themselves as superior to the masses makes it difficult for them to view questions from the standpoint of the people at large.
Monarchies and aristocraciestend toward democracy, and republics tend to become more and more democratic in their forms and methods.
Aristocracies with beards on their chins will find other work to do than amuse themselves with trundling-hoops.
The last Partridge of England shot and ended: Aristocracies with beards on their chins.
The patrician families became extinct, as the feudal families did, and as all aristocracies must.
But kings do rule, and surely all have not been virtuous; and that aristocracies have ruled with the very minimum of that quality, the subject of our tale sufficiently shows.
In the latter we find aristocracies and democracies blended in the same generic appellation.
The taint of old aristocracies is yet pervading all parts of our society.
The aristocracies of the Old World claim that their only labor should be that of the brain; and they keep their physical system in order by violent exercise, which is made genteel from the fact only that it is not useful or productive.
In fact, the whole world and its aristocracies have been shaken by too many earthquakes of late to leave walls standing high enough to keep youth from overlooking and overstepping them.
What aristocracies we have are clubs or cliques gathered by a community of tastes, and recruited individually.
All the aristocracies of the middle ages were founded by military conquest: the conqueror was the noble, the vanquished became the serf.
Aristocracies are infinitely more expert in the science of legislation than democracies ever can be.
In Aristocracies Rulers sometimes endeavor to corrupt the People.
And, indeed, aristocracies are often carried away by the spirit of their order without being corrupted by it; and they unconsciously fashion society to their own ends, and prepare it for their own descendants.
Most people in the world have to work, most aristocracies to govern The English gentleman of the eighteenth century farmed his estates, acted as a magistrate, took part in politics.
Indeed, liberty in this sense is so far from being identical with equality, that many of those who have been foremost in its defense have been members of aristocracies and holders of slaves.
The quarrel with Great Britain would hardly have ended in war, had the landed and commercial interests, those little aristocracies which had hitherto controlled colonial politics, been free to conduct it in their own fashion.
The only aristocracies which have manifested high governing capacities, and acted on steady maxims of policy through many generations, are those of Rome and Venice.
But they have been, without any exception, aristocracies of public functionaries.
To begin with the aristocracies best known to most of us, the noble families of modern and mediæval Europe sprang, as a whole, from the Teutonic invasion of the Roman Empire.
Education is more potent against oligarchies andaristocracies than dynamite bombs.
It is a fact of common knowledge in history that aristocracies cannot long survive when free education is permitted among all classes of people.
The "Hatti" or "Khatti" had constituted military aristocracies throughout Syria and extended their influence by forming alliances.
Military aristocracies of Aramaeans, Elamites, and Chaldaeans held sway in various parts of the valley, and struggled for supremacy.
It is possible that this obscure kingdom embraced diverse ethnic elements, and that it was controlled in turn by military aristocracies of Sumerians, Elamites, Kassites, and Arabians.
Although the leaders of invasion may have formed military aristocracies in the cities which they occupied, it was necessary for the great majority of the nomads to engage their activities in new directions after settlement.
The Doric aristocracies of the Peloponnesus were opposed by their Ionic subjects, or by Ionic States rising in importance with the growing commerce and wealth of the Asiatic cities.
In one respect only was its policy an aggressive one,--in interfering on the side of the aristocracies against the despots who took up the cause of the common people against their noble oppressors.
Foremost of these was that first and most fatal characteristic of all aristocracies based on oppression--the erection of a substitute for patriotism.
Every Aristocracy passes through one, and most Aristocracies through both of two historic phases.
When man undertakes to place woman behind him, to assume the reins of government and to govern for her, he is an aristocrat; and all aristocracies are not only unjust, but they are harmful to the progress of society.
They scouted the venerable old dogma of the divine right of kings and titled aristocracies to rule the submissive multitude.
To show that our Rebel States are aristocracies or oligarchies might suffice.
But this strict definition embraces aristocracies and oligarchies.
But this, again, must be rejected, as leaving aristocracies and oligarchies in the category of republics.
Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society.
In the French revolution of July, 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart.
If the first duty is held to be obedience to authority and the preservation of order, as in the case of aristocracies and monarchies of the patriarchal type, there is no safety for the liberties either of individuals or of religion.
In the West, where there were no sacred books requiring trained interpreters, the priesthood acquired no preponderance, and when the kings were overthrown their powers passed to aristocracies of birth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aristocracies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
