6 sentences with “aristocrat”

An increasing number of formerly free Athenian citizens thus found themselves enslaved to pay their debts to an aristocrat.

A slogan of the time, "Adams who can write/Jackson who can fight", captured the contrast between Adams the aristocrat and Jackson the frontiersman.

One additional conservative figure who lived a generation later than Burke and de Maistre deserves particular attention: the French aristocrat Arthur de Gobineau (1816 - 1882).

The Athenian leader in charge during the transition to this phase was Pericles (495 - 429 BC), an aristocrat who dominated Athenian politics but who fell short of seizing power as previous tyrants had done.

Perhaps the most perceptive commentator on American democracy was the young French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville, who was sent to the United States by the French government to report on American prison reforms.

Washington modeled his behavior on that of the Roman aristocrat Cincinnatus, a representative of the patrician or ruling class, who had also retired from public service in the Roman Republic and returned to his estate to devote himself to agricultural life.