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    peasantry


    1. feelings: they were necessary for trade, which enriched the rulers through tax revenues and made goods available to the peasantry, but proselytizing Christianity carried with it hatred against Jews as “killers of Christ” and also the stigma of being “other” in a culture newly unified under a single religion


    2. devotion among the peasantry in many Aryan countries, but the more


    3. In the opinion of many deeply thinking men, it has signally failed in Ireland, and it is certainly altogether unsuited to the illiterate and fanatical peasantry of Muhammadan Bengal


    4. I’ll press the ever-bolder peasantry into obeisance, and the honor of Family Kessant will rise above the mire wherein the King now wallows as a pig in slop


    5. They would be trapped in a seething mass of adolescent peasantry


    6. You will enlist the peasantry to protect the vineyards and secure the forefront of the walls


    7. We were forced into collectivization of agriculture, destroying the country’s peasantry, which made up about eighty percent of the population as a way of life


    8. And lounging and commenting all day on their hot-lotion-toddies, the Conversationalists and Lingerie Parachutists, with their reading room pleasantry and hobbies, mention and list not only their love of Liquorice-wheat and peasantry, but of laughing sickness, milestones and the fee


    9. When we see priesthoods making gain, or seeking for power, by deceiving the ignorant peasantry with pretended miracles,—when we see kings and statesmen entering upon unjust wars, and sacrificing thousands of lives to haughty temper, guilty ambition, or lust of power,—when we see professors of false religion and unprincipled rulers conspiring together to torture to death the martyrs of truth, as we read in the pages of history, till heaven itself calls for retribution,—does not conscience judge that if God shall 'take vengeance, on such men hereafter, He will, as Judge of all the earth, do right? But if God will do rightly in judging the great criminals of history, He will also surely do rightly in judging till men according to their works


    10. The nobility and the gentry were permitted no such laxity, but it was routinely overlooked among the peasantry

    11. realize you’re ruining the peasantry of the entire county?”


    12. They say it ruins the peasantry


    13. For him to say he knew the peasantry would have been the same as to say he knew men


    14. Just as he liked and praised a country life in comparison with the life he did not like, so too he liked the peasantry in contradistinction to the class of men he did not like, and so too he knew the


    15. He never changed his opinion of the peasantry and his sympathetic attitude towards them


    16. ‘That never could be so with the Russian peasantry; we’ve no power over them,’ answered the landowner


    17. In fact, he’d obviously been a little dubious, initially, about having Crystal Sky under his command, given the younger baron’s reputation as a liberal who’d actually been known to suggest—hypothetically, of course—that a free peasantry might actually be preferable to serfs permanently and legally bound to the soil


    18. Today, the Bédardists are philosophers and educators, both at the university level and among the peasantry, although they also retain their function as Safehold’s mental health experts and councilors


    19. It was the very busiest working time, when all the peasantry show an extraordinary intensity of self-sacrifice in labor, such as is never shown in any other conditions of life, and would be highly esteemed if the men who showed these qualities themselves thought highly of them, and if it were not repeated every year, and if the results of this intense labor were not so simple


    20. Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry

    21. Special ‘agitprop’ units went into the Russian countryside, setting up their projectors and screens inside tents and inviting the local peasantry in for a glimpse of the future through crude animations with a simple communist message


    22. I fear that the boat is not any better for the accident, the peasantry tell us that after she got upon smooth water


    23. There were very few resident landlords in the neighborhood and also very few domestic or literate serfs, and in the lives of the peasantry of those parts the mysterious undercurrents in the life of the Russian people, the causes and meaning of which are so baffling to contemporaries, were more clearly and strongly noticeable than among others


    24. Kvass is of various sorts: there is the common kvass of fermented rye used by the peasantry, and the more expensive kvass of the restaurants, iced and flavoured with various fruits


    25. The announcement that the provinces occupied by the Grande Armée would be retained by France, and that the nobility and officials would, under no circumstances, be allowed to return, encouraged the peasantry in some districts to assist in provisioning the invading army


    26. In vain were detachments sent into the forests where the peasantry were concealed with their cattle:—the men returned empty-handed


    27. Sergey Ivanovitch used to say that he knew and liked the peasantry, and he often talked to the peasants, which he knew how to do without affectation or condescension, and from every such conversation he would deduce general conclusions in favor of the peasantry and in confirmation of his knowing them


    28. Just as he liked and praised a country life in comparison with the life he did not like, so too he liked the peasantry in contradistinction to the class of men he did not like, and so too he knew the peasantry as something distinct from and opposed to men generally


    29. "That never could be so with the Russian peasantry; we've no power over them," answered the landowner


    30. Was not this, perhaps, what Konstantin Aksakov meant when he spoke of the high degree of culture of our peasantry?

    31. There are a good many “contemplatives” among the peasantry


    32. Of the peasantry few went into the cell, though there were crowds of them at the gates of the hermitage


    33. “How could I tell I had hit on a clever one? I am always ready to recognize intelligence in the peasantry


    34. Our mild governor had left the affairs of the province a little out of gear; at the moment we were threatened with cholera; serious outbreaks of cattle plague had appeared in several places; fires were prevalent that summer in towns and villages; whilst among the peasantry foolish rumours of incendiarism grew stronger and stronger


    35. The Russian peasantry is still held together somehow by the Russian God; but according to the latest accounts the Russian God is not to be relied upon, and scarcely survived the emancipation; it certainly gave Him a severe shock


    36. We shall penetrate to the peasantry


    37. Liputin, Shigalov, and the authority on the peasantry supported this plan; Lyamshin said nothing, though he looked approving


    38. "It is," answered Liputin and Tolkatchenko (the authority on the peasantry)


    39. Tolkatchenko, who was arrested in the neighbourhood ten days after his flight, behaves with incomparably more decorum; he does not shuffle or tell lies, he tells all he knows, does not justify himself, blames himself with all modesty, though he, too, has a weakness for rhetoric; he tells readily what he knows, and when knowledge of the peasantry and the revolutionary elements among them is touched upon, he positively attitudinises and is eager to produce an effect


    40. PETER NIKOLAEVICH SVENTIZKY’S views of the peasantry had now changed for the worse, and the peasants had an equally bad opinion of him

    41. He refused it, and made up his mind to buy an estate with the money he had, to marry, and to devote himself to the peasantry, helping them as much as he could


    42. But, besides it, the contents are always significant,—significant, because they deal with the most important class of Russia, the peasantry, which Seménov knows as only a peasant, who himself lives the hard life of a peasant, can know


    43. Thus did the Hebrew prophets and the ancient Christians regard art; thus it was, and still is, understood by the Mahommedans, and thus is it still understood by religious folk among our own peasantry


    44. Many of them had arisen from the ranks of the peasantry to become superintendents of noblemen’s estates


    45. It happened that among the serfs there were some very treacherous people who would falsely accuse their fellows of wrong-doing and sow seeds of discord among the peasantry, whereupon Michael would become greatly enraged, while his poor subjects began to live in fear of their lives


    46. At the same time the peasantry of Yásnaya Polyána would be relieved of the too heavy burden of supporting the passing unemployed described by Tolstoy in his article


    47. If the peasantry was anywhere to be neglected and despised, where should it be rather than in proud, aristocratic Spain, and yet, to place beside Shakespeare's Bottoms and Slys, Cervantes has given us the admirable Sancho Panza, and has spread his loving humor in equal measure over servant and master


    48. Are we to believe that the yeomen of England, who beat back the Armada, were inferior to the Spanish peasantry whom they overcame, or is it not rather true that the Spanish author had a deeper insight into his country's heart than was allotted to the English dramatist? Cervantes, the soldier and adventurer, rose above the prejudices of his class, while Shakespeare never lifted his eyes beyond the narrow horizon of the Court to which he catered


    49. During the whole of their residence in the country, all around them and beside them, that summer toil of the peasantry has been going on, of whose fatigues, no matter how much we may have heard, no matter how much we may have heard about it, no matter how much we may have gazed upon it, we can form no idea, unless we have had personal experience of it


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    "peasantry" definitions

    the class of peasants