Nationalist leaders had now the chance of leading a combination of all sane elements in the Landowning and land-cultivating classes.
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn
They do not represent the Landowning and the farming interests, both of which detest them; they do not represent the artisans and industrial workers, who have expressly formed themselves into unions in order to fight them, and who have only been able to maintain their rights by so doing; they do not represent the labourers and peasants, who are ground under their heel.
"The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife"
Edward Carpenter
Certainly he was of the old Landowning class, and in his refined features and delicate little hands and feet gave evidence of good blood, but the marks of degeneration were equally plain; he was an effeminate, futile person, and not properly to be ranked with the patriarchs.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson