The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shay's RebellionSilver, Burdett, 1900 - 371 sivua |
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Sivu v - Rebellion. The Duke of Stockbridge was written by Mr. Bellamy in 1879, at the request of the editor of a local paper in Great Barrington, Mass. In the author's mind were already stirring the grave questions which he was soon to propound in Looking Backward, and when he undertook to write a romance of his native Berkshire Hills he chose, not unnaturally, the episode of the revolt of the debtor-farmers in 1786 against their harsh creditors and the aggressive state government. But when Looking Backward...
Sivu v - ... stirring the grave questions which he was soon to propound in Looking Backward, and when he undertook to write a romance of his native Berkshire Hills he chose, not unnaturally, the episode of the revolt of the debtor-farmers in 1786 against their harsh creditors and the aggressive state government. But when Looking Backward was fully written, he had become so convinced of his own duty to be the advocate of the cooperative social system, that in the several remaining years of his life he never...
Sivu 289 - With the beasts of the wood, we will ramble for food, And lodge in wild deserts and caves, And live poor as Job on the skirts of the globe, Before we'll submit to be slaves, brave boys, Before we'll submit to be slaves, etc.