The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
718 Chapter XXX Thomas Paine escape to France when he was indicted in 1792. It is argued that Blake’s enigmatic style, both in h ...
Britain 719 Some of Robert Burns’ poems, before his change of sentiment, were of the same character, as in his “a man’s a man fo ...
720 Chapter XXX were over a hundred capital offenses in English law many others were hardly guilty of serious misbehavior. From ...
Britain 721 Charging dues of only a penny a week, the London Corresponding Society within a few months had a membership of about ...
722 Chapter XXX oted, and burnt in effigy “two gentlemen who were obnoxious to them.”^21 Scotch peasants, according to an inform ...
Britain 723 As Britain and France went to war, in February 1793, the radical agitation be- came more intense. The Society for Co ...
724 Chapter XXX subversion of Parliament,” he was far from being mistaken, though he greatly ex- aggerated the degree to which i ...
Britain 725 speaking of that visionary Equality of Property, the practical assertion of which would desolate the world... but th ...
726 Chapter XXX mentary reform might prevent radicalism, and while uninvolved in the popular clubs generally felt for them a tol ...
Britain 727 signed “to excite the poor to seize the landed property of the kingdom.” William Windham asked gentlemen of the hous ...
728 Chapter XXX THE “LEVEE EN MASSE” OF THE PEOPLE OF QUALITY But the government did not have to do it alone. If the liberty of ...
Britain 729 their drift in the direction of “Jacobinism.” In England it was not possible even to modify the game laws. By these ...
730 Chapter XXX ing class, in its war with France and with its own adversaries at home, accepted its liability to taxation.^39 T ...
Britain 731 Except in places like Manchester, where feeling ran high on both sides, the as- sociations went out of existence as ...
732 Chapter XXX ment of character from which his public reputation never recovered. To take an- other example, in 1797 about fou ...
Britain 733 women and violated them in the streets, against the resistance of fathers and brothers who were “inhumanly mangled”; ...
734 Chapter XXX mously, and, when found out, apologized for it as intended only for “the vulgar.” Its tone and message may be ju ...
Britain 735 To recall briefly the well- known tribulations of eighteenth- century Ireland, it seems safe to say that the contras ...
736 Chapter XXX grievances, suffering alike from the insecurities of farm tenancy, from the expense of paying tithes to an alien ...
Britain 737 and gentry were outvoted by a more militant group of Catholic laity. “What pre- vents you,” asked a certain Dr. Ryan ...
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