Convention were proscribed as regicides, when the word Jacobin sent a thrill of horror down every respectable spinal chord, the daughter of. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution A Short History] Reference
The Jacobin is a mystic who has replaced the old divinities by new gods. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Revolution] Reference
Left, which rejected Marxist dogmas of the traditional so-called Jacobin. From Wordnik.com. [The Commanding Heights] Reference
At bottom, the Jacobin is a sectarian, propagator of his own faith, and hostile to the faith of others. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Regime, Volume 2] Reference
So that although the Jacobin is a great reasoner, this does not mean that he is in the least guided by reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Revolution] Reference
One might as well look to find a sane man ready to do battle for the Jacobin, which is all but a convertible term for. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
Constitution, commonly known as the Jacobin Club because of its meetings at a former convent whose Dominican inhabitants had been known in Paris as Jacobins. From Wordnik.com. [Annotations] Reference
Albert Weeks emphasizes a more telling point in the Lenin debate, namely, his debt to the 1870s "Jacobin" Peter Tkachev. From Wordnik.com. [Lenin & 'The Radiant Future'] Reference
The word "Jacobin" was used as a term of reproach for some time. From Wordnik.com. [The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807] Reference
The Jacobin printers and their friends are panic-struck. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
The beauties of the anti-Jacobin are replete with his satire. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
The Jacobin club, the club of the Cordeliers, and the Faubourg St. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
Jacobin papers, and the villains by whom that principal part of the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
Durnouriez attributed the origin of all his misfortunes to the Jacobin. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Many of them were members of the Jacobin club or that of the Cordeliers. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The meditated slaughter was already announced by Chalier to the Jacobin club. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
A century will pass before Lyons will recover itself from this Jacobin purgation. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
Bellemes, advocates in the time of Louis XV, elevated the Jacobin origins of the Martins. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Then a murmur ran through the benches of the Jacobin women, while Cyrène summoned her courage. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
When Hardy and Horne Took, were the priests, what must be the worshippers at the Jacobin shrine?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Orders have been given, by the Jacobin government, for the batteries not to fire on the English ships. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference
The logic was Jacobin, the authority deriving from a perceived mandate to recast time-honored practices. From Wordnik.com. [The Obsolescence of Barack Obama] Reference
At P.ris he was received in the Jacobin club and entered into relations with J.P. Brissot and the Rolands. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Marseilles, which we have seen was intercepted and dispersed with little trouble by the Jacobin general, Cartaux. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Billaud Varennes called the attention of the assembly to the sitting of the Jacobin club on the preceding evening. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Men, women, and children were involved in the massacres which took place at the instigation of the Jacobin chiefs. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
The Jacobin faction of Paris ruled France; and such sanginuary fanatics as Robespierre and Marat carried the sway. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
The place underwent the usual terrors of Jacobin purifaction, and was for a time affectedly called "nameless commune.". From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
"Anti-Jacobin Review," the "London Magazine," and many other periodicals, welcomed the new poet with generous laudation. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
This man was fool enough to quit his master, when he thought his case desperate; yet, in his heart, I believe, he is no Jacobin. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference
Tarquin: the Romans had a well-regulated republic and good laws; and they had neither a Jacobin Club nor a revolutionary tribunal. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
This was an attitude which had few supporters, even in the Jacobin club, and in October Babeuf was arrested and sent to prison at Arras. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
By it he endeared himself to the old regicidal Jacobin party; and they promised to support him in his attempt to mount the imperial throne. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
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