 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 1874 - Počet stránok 640
...lay beyond ; of it we will say a word here. We will call it the Aristocracy of the Parvenus — as, indeed, the general public did. Official position,...aristocracy was " fast," and not averse to ostentation. 296 SOCIETY CUSTOMS. The aristocracy of the Antiques ignored the ariotocracy of the Parvemis ; the... | |
 | Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - 1880 - Počet stránok 648
...lay beyond ; of it we will say a word here. We will call it the Aristocracy of the Parvenus — as. indeed, the general public did. Official position,...aristocracy was " fast," and not averse to ostentation. is- ]/ 296 SOCIETY CUSTOMS. The aristocracy of the Antiques ignored the aristocracy of the Parvenus... | |
 | Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - 1890 - Počet stránok 626
...lay beyond; of it we will say a word here. We will call it the Aristocracy of the Parvenus — as, indeed, the general public did . Official position,...ostentation. The aristocracy of the Antiques ignored the ariotocracy of the Parvenus ; the Parvenus laughed at the Antiques, (and secretly envied them.) There... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1915 - Počet stránok 349
...a place in it, and carried his family with him, no matter whence they sprang. Great wealth gave a 9 man a still higher and nobler place in it than did...aristocracy of the Parvenus; the Parvenus laughed &i the Antiques (and secretly envied them). There were certain important "society" customs which one... | |
 | Shelley Fisher Fishkin - 2002 - Počet stránok 330
...no matter whence they sprang. Great wealth gave a man a still greater and nobler place. ... If the wealth had been acquired by conspicuous ingenuity,...pleasant little spice of illegality about it, all the better."91 The group Twain and Warner championed was the aristocracy of "the middle ground," who were... | |
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Parvenus — as, indeed, the general public did . Official position, no matter' how obtained, entitled a man to a place in it, and carried his family with him, no matter whence they sprang. Great wealth gave a man a still higher and nobler place in it... 