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  • Spartacus: Russia's famous Bolshoi Ballet and Orchestra present the story of Spartacus, the slave who led one of the bloody uprisings against the Roman government that became known as the Servile Wars.

    Time Off 2008

  • "Servile" -- that is, work which was formerly done by the slaves.

    Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine Thomas L. Kinkead

  • If they do not do so, if they continue to move only with the dead momentum of the social discipline which we learnt from Germany, there is nothing before us but what Mr. Belloc, the discoverer of this great sociological drift, has called the Servile

    A Short History of England 1905

  • 'Servile' and 'Emolument,' however, though at first they sound very dreadful and very wrong, are only Miltonic-Gibbonian expressions of the general fact that the Frankish Kings had ploughmen in their fields, employed weavers and smiths to make their robes and swords, hunted with huntsmen, hawked with falconers, and were in other respects tyrannical to the ordinary extent that an English Master of

    Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

  • [5] "Servile;" the war with Spartacus, with the slaves and gladiators.

    Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Mr. Minogue, a professor emeritus of political science at the London School of Economics, is the author, most recently, of "The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life" Encounter.

    A New Social Contract Kenneth Minogue 2011

  • Belloc's most important political book was The Servile State.

    Hilaire Belloc was a Liberal MP 2009

  • In fact, far from the small-state low-tax image that the economic right suggest they supported, as a glance at the Servile State link you've given shows, they actually supported punitive taxes on large holdings of wealth in order to ensure distribution of real property.

    Hilaire Belloc was a Liberal MP 2009

  • Mr. Minogue, a professor emeritus of political science at the London School of Economics, is the author, most recently, of "The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life" Encounter.

    Apocalypse Now And Then Kenneth Minogue 2011

  • Darren points out that there are also a number of Spartak clubs Moscow, Sofia, Trnava, named after Spartacus, the slave leader in the Third Servile War against the Romans.

    Which teams are named after fictional characters? | The Knowledge | Barry Glendenning 2011

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