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He who would practise such absurd sansculottism as this would have to resort to the severest seclusion, and plainly enough we cannot approve of such fanaticism.
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon
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The French Revolution with its sansculottism, its untold horrors, ended perforce in a despotism, and it was not without cause that an English thinker treated of our emancipation act as "Shooting Niagara."
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Museum, for sansculottism in its most aggressive and hideous forms raged not far from the Jardin des Plantes, then just on the border of the densest part of the Paris of the first Revolution.
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It is time that the respectable and religious portion of our community should be aroused to the alarming inroads of foreign Jacobinism, sansculottism, and infidelity.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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They were compelled by law to adopt the usages of _Gallia Braccata_, and sansculottism made a penal offence.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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It is time that the respectable and religious portion of our community should be aroused to the alarming inroads of foreign Jacobinism, sansculottism, and infidelity.
The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855
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The duke of Brunswick, at the head of a large army, invaded France to restore Louis XVI. to the throne, and save legitimacy from the sacrilegious hands of sansculottism.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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To cast old clothes aside before new clothes are ready -- this does not mean progress, but sansculottism, or
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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"withering scorn," no heart "blighted" ere it has safely got into its teens, none of the drawing-room sansculottism which Byron had brought into vogue.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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