Political crimeD. Appleton and Company, 1898 - 355 pages |
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18th Fructidor accused acts adversaries ambition Anarchism Anarchists assassins assemblies authority become Cæsar capitalists caused Christian Cicero citizens committed condemned confiscated conscience coup d'état Court courtiers criminal Danton death declared demagogues Deputies desire doctrine Duke Duke of Guise electors Emperor enemies false favour flatterers France French Girondins Government happiness hatred Histoire honour humanity immoral interest Jacobins judges justice kill King Lamennais liberty Louis XIV Machiavelli magistrates massacres Mdme means Memoirs ment Minister moderate moral murder Napoleon nation oppressed Paris Parliament party passions peculation pensions persecute persons philosophers pillage pleasure Plutarch political corruption politicians popular pretext princes prisoners Ravachol recourse régime religion Republic Revolution revolutionary tribunal rich Robespierre Roman safety Saint says Senate September massacres slaughter social Socialists society soldiers sophisms sovereign Tacitus Terror Thucydides tion to-day tyrant victims violent votes wars wish working-men wrote
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Page 194 - And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away : so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Page 222 - ... ministers who managed the legislature in the only way in which it could be managed is gross injustice. They submitted to extortion because they could not help themselves. We might as well accuse the poor Lowland farmers who paid black mail to Rob Roy of corrupting the virtue of the Highlanders, as accuse Sir Robert Walpole of corrupting the virtue of Parliament.