The Most Bitter Foe of Nations, and the Way to Its Permanent Overthrow |
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anarchy ancestry?-look ARISTOCRACY BASED Arragon barrier BETA KAPPA SOCIETY bold brought Buchez called the Vitriolic caste habituated caste of oppressors caste spirit Castile causes centuries chap characteristic Charles the Fifth chivalric civil and political concessions crushed debased debauchery Despotism disintegration Ducs de Bourgogne Ecclesiasticism enfranchised England English erection Europe fight France French Revolution full civil rights give France grapple guarantees Guizot habits of oppression habituated to oppression Hist Histoire History of Spain History shows intrigues Italy King liberty Louis XI lower class Mariana Mazarin modern monarchs nobility noble became nobles chose noxious oppressive caste peace peasantry PHI BETA KAPPA Philip Plains of Volo Poland Polish political rights Republic Richelieu Russia Salvandy serf-mastering serf-owning serfs Sir James Stephens Spain Spanish history Spanish nobility spirit of disunion statesmanship statesmen struggle subject class third estate tion tory traditions of oppression truth turbulence upper caste Vitriolic period YALE COLLEGE
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Page 33 - NY 1 866. 8vo. pp. 28. * f Among the grievances put forth by the nobles at the States General of 1614, one was that the wives of the common people wore too good clothing; another was that an orator of the third estate had dared call the nobles their brothers. Sir James Stephens's Lectures.
Page 32 - Nations have forgotten thai vigorous fighting to gain liberty must be followed by sound planning to secure it. What is this sound planning? Is it superiority in duplicity ! Not at all ; it is the only planning which insists on frank dealing. Is it based on cupidity ? Not at all ; it is based on Right. Is it centered in Revenge? Not at all ; its centre JB Mercy and its circumference is Justice.
Page 32 - ... descendants of European serfs and peasantry. I defy you to find any body of men more degraded and stupid than our ancestors. Do you boast Anglo-Saxon ancestry ?—look at Charles Kingsley's picture in Hereward of the great banquet, the apotheosis of wolfishness and piggishness; or...
Page 32 - Ion thus to be lifted—that there are some races too weak to be thus wrought into a barrier against aristocracy. I deny it For history denies it. The race is not yet discovered in which the average man is not better and safer with rights than without them. Think you that your ancestors were so much better than other subject classes? Look in any town directory. The names show an...
Page 32 - The names show an overwhelmning majority of us descendants of European serfs and peasantry. I defy you to find any body of men more degraded and stupid than our ancestors. Do you boast Anglo-Saxon ancestry ?—look at Charles Kingsley's picture in Hereward of the great banquet, the apotheosis of wolfishness and...
Page 33 - Do'you boast German ancestry ?—look at Luther's letters and see how the unutterable stupidity of your ancestors vexed him. Yet from these progenitors of yours, kept besotted and degraded through centuries by oppression, have, by comparatively...