A History of Italian Unity: Being a Political History of Italy from 1814 to 1871, כרך 1

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Scribner's, 1899
 

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עמוד 367 - It is not mere imperfection, not corruption in low quarters, not occasional severity, that I am about to describe : it is incessant, systematic, deliberate, violation of the law by the Power appointed to watch over and maintain it. It is such violation of human and written law...
עמוד 77 - ... constantly supplied from that source with personal information about suspects. ' While the police harried the people in their daily lives, the Inquisition collected the secrets of the confessional, and launched its spiritual thunders on the unconforming. An edict is extant by the Inquisition-General of Pesaro in 1841, commanding all people to inform against heretics, Jews, and sorcerers, those who have impeded the Holy Office, or made satires against the pope and clergy.
עמוד 18 - Whether persecuted or protected, the Carbonari spread apace through southern Italy. Their democratic and communistic doctrines, their Christian phraseology swept in converts of different parties; their dim power satisfied men who were groping for authority in a state, whose official government commanded no respect; their fantastic symbolism appealed to an uneducated people, traditionally susceptible to the esoteric and mysterious. They started with a high moral ideal: their leaders hoped to purify...
עמוד 148 - ... impossible for Italians of different states to come together without giving something of a national complexion to their meetings. Economic questions suggested a customs' -league, social problems led up to politics, geography to free-spoken talk of Italy. The Scientific Congresses were among the forces that made the new nationalism ; and the Pope and Duke of Modena were wise in their generation, when they forbade their subjects to attend them.
עמוד 53 - According to teachers' testimony, 28 per cent of the boys and 42 per cent of the girls show "very extraordinary ability...
עמוד 242 - Villagers voted under the eyes of the priest, soldiers at their officers' bidding; forgery, pressure, coercion were freely used. Still the result must have surprised all parties. Five hundred and sixty thousand, or 84 per cent. of the electorate, gave their votes, and barely seven hundred were recorded for postponing the question. Making every allowance for the unworthy arts of one party and the disorganization of the other, it showed an overwhelming preponderance in favour of fusion.
עמוד 18 - Carbonaro lodge. They were even tender to the religious orders and the Pope, and sometimes dreamt of a reformed Catholic church that he would lead. Their rules breathed the austerest morality; severe penalties threatened any immoral or dishonourable conduct from a member, and persons of ill-fame were rigorously excluded from the lodges, till, as large numbers thronged for admission, the officers relaxed the strictness of the scrutiny. It is more difficult to say what was their political creed. It...
עמוד 396 - He welcomed with enthusiasm the creation in 1848 of a parliament for Piedmont and of a constitution, which he had, indeed, been one of the boldest to demand. "Italy," he said, "must make herself by means of liberty, or we must give up trying to make her." This belief in parliamentary institutions Cavour held tenaciously all through his life, even when at times they seemed to be a hindrance to his policies. He believed that in the end, sooner or later, the people reach the truth of a matter. He was...
עמוד 357 - ... what I have said may confirm you in the opinions which you have professed, and induce you, as much as in you lies, to substitute the word of God in the school-room of...
עמוד 341 - ... more or less open. It was a time to test the mettle of government and people. Manin and his fellow-Triumvirs had to overlook the commissariat for 100,000 mouths, to embark on the troubled waters of revolutionary finance, and, harder task, to keep in good temper an undisciplined, excitable population, watching the toils grow closer round the crowded city. It needed the firmest and gentlest of hands, but the Venetians were worthy of their leaders. The grave financial difficulties were eased by...

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