carbonari

Besides which he had already dipped into the conspiracies of the French "carbonari"; he had been arrested, and released for want of proof; and finally, as he called the newspaper proprietors to observe, he had lately grown a mustache, and needed only a hat of certain shape and a pair of spurs to represent, with due propriety, the Republic.

The Illustrious Gaudissart Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Besides which he had already dipped into the conspiracies of the French "carbonari"; he had been arrested, and released for want of proof; and finally, as he called the newspaper proprietors to observe, he had lately grown a mustache, and needed only a hat of certain shape and a pair of spurs to represent, with due propriety, the Republic.

Parisians in the Country Honor�� de Balzac 1824

A revolutionary dictatorship was also foreshadowed in the minimum program of Mazzini's republican party, and this led to a rupture between Young Italy and the socialist elements of the carbonari.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

Filippo Buonarroti, the Florentine, friend and biographer of Gracchus Babeuf, a man who at one time played a heroic part in the French Revolution, 319 and who had had opportunities for direct observation of the way in which the victorious revolutionists maintained inequality and endeavoured to found a new aristocracy, resisted with all his might the plan of concentrating the power of the carbonari in the hands of a single individual.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

For this reason Buonarroti opposed the armed rising organized by Mazzini in 1833, issuing a secret decree in which he forbade his comrades of the carbonari to give any assistance to the insurgents, whose triumph, he said, could not fail to give rise to the creation of a new ambitious aristocracy.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

If we get to shooting, wild as the country is, some one is sure to hear it, and then -- why then it's the same thing, only different, as they say: caged by law, or killed by _carbonari_.

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

Jesuits and absolutists were once more masters, and reaction again alternated with conspiracy, risings, desperate carbonari plots.

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880

Count Regniati, an Italian, and the jolliest fellow in the world "-- he adds this as a set-off against his nationality, which may, he evidently thinks, suggest secret societies, daggers, carbonari --" married my Aunt.

Happy-Thought Hall 1876

How can they can be got together, I marvel -- priests and philosophers, legitimists, and carbonari!

Lothair Benjamin Disraeli 1842

But networks of liberals - Italian carbonari, Freemasons, English Radicals - continued to operate underground, communicating across societies and providing a common language for dissent.

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