The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
318 Chapter XIII others had fought, the Poles formed an impression of revolution on a worldwide scale. The abbé Switkowski, a fo ...
The Lessons of Poland 319 “The nobility by itself,” said Niemcewicz, “is incapable of defending the country against the ambitiou ...
320 Chapter XIII the drafting of the new law.^18 Rights for burghers were to be burgher rights, and to depend on affiliation wit ...
The Lessons of Poland 321 Poland, and it reveals, on the one hand, how remote from its authors’ minds was the idea of abolishing ...
322 Chapter XIII In France the revolutionaries, who had now been remaking France for two years, at first hailed the Polish revol ...
The Lessons of Poland 323 lately published his Reflections on the Revolution in France. He now took the oc- casion to show what ...
324 Chapter XIII neither serfs nor Jews had obtained any rights. “I suppose that no one,” he said, “can seriously argue that the ...
The Lessons of Poland 325 even in England, there were few towns where each property- owner could actually cast a vote for counci ...
CHAPTER XIV THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: THE ARISTOCRATIC RESURGENCE The Monarchy might become an aristocracy of magistrates, as contr ...
The Aristocratic Resurgence 327 the Hapsburg monarchy, over three times those of Russia, Prussia, Spain, or the Dutch Republic, ...
328 Chapter XIV which had had irresistible attractions for the upper classes offered after 1789 at- tractions equally irresistib ...
The Aristocratic Resurgence 329 Michelet it was brought on by centuries of misery and oppression of the common people. Others, c ...
330 Chapter XIV the end of the eighteenth century. They do not explain the form which this distur- bance took. They explain ever ...
The Aristocratic Resurgence 331 called democrat.... What has this revolution produced? What do the words aristo- crat, liberty, ...
332 Chapter XIV really existed. The key words of the Revolution were not always misunderstood by the revolutionaries, nor were t ...
The Aristocratic Resurgence 333 turned local oligarchs out of office. These events were so uniform and so nearly si- multaneous ...
334 Chapter XIV councils of grave old men, for since most of them owed their position to family the average age was surprisingly ...
The Aristocratic Resurgence 335 servant, who had in mind a general reconstruction of the French government and economy. He wishe ...
336 Chapter XIV Such appeals to an historic constitution should remind the reader of the pro- tests in the Hapsburg empire again ...
The Aristocratic Resurgence 337 counteroffensive, in which they acted as spokesmen for the nobility as a whole, for nobility as ...
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