It was no less envied by the old landed interests,--partly for the same reasons that rendered it obnoxious to the people, but much more so as it eclipsed, by the splendor of an ostentatious luxury, the unendowed pedigrees and naked titles of several among the nobility.
Burke describes the envy of the nobility towards the wealth of the newly rich, which overshadowed their own status.
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