proletaries

Of 15,000 proletaries slain in a battle, scarce fifteen are recorded in history, or one alone, the General perhaps, and after a while his and their names are likewise blotted out, the whole battle itself is forgotten.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

In opposition to this very insignificant Faubourg St. Germain was a group of a dozen rich families, those of retired millers, or former merchants; in short a miniature bourgeoisie; below which, again, lived and moved the retail shopkeepers, the proletaries and the peasantry.

Ursula 2006

Especially good are its pictures of the different classes in Germany, such as the nobility, the peasantry, the industrious middle class, and the proletaries.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

He makes no distinction between the proletaries who live by the soil, and those who live by working in connection with manufactures and mechanical trades.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

Herodotus phrases it, and commenced that alliance with the proletaries of the North which has proved so profitable to Southern leaders.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

The chapter on the "proletaries of intellectual labor," gives any thing but a flattering account of the literary classes on the continent.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries, every one of their vices being the excess or acridity of a virtue.

The Conduct of Life (1860) 1856

Gaudissart, grandson of all the Gaudissarts, vile proletaries of ancient birth, his forefathers.

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Honor�� de Balzac 1824

The bulk of the laws and their spirit should tend to enlighten the people as much as possible — the people that had nothing — workmen, proletaries, etc. — so as to bring the greatest number of men to that condition of well-being which distinguished the intermediary mass; but the people should be left under the most puissant yoke, in such a way that the individual units might find light, aid, and protection, and that no idea, no form, no transaction might render them turbulent.

Balzac 2003

The bulk of the laws and their spirit should tend to enlighten the people as much as possible -- the people that had nothing -- workmen, proletaries, etc. -- so as to bring the greatest number of men to that condition of well-being which distinguished the intermediary mass; but the people should be left under the most puissant yoke, in such a way that the individual units might find light, aid, and protection, and that no idea, no form, no transaction might render them turbulent.

Balzac Frederick Lawton