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...political events of the nineteenth century is most closely connected with the French Revolution of 1848, Professor Milyoukov explained the theories and influence of three great leaders of that period--Herzen, the powerful writer and deep thinker, his impulsive friend Bakoonin, and the novelist Tourguenev. Herzen, an aristocrat by birth, but later a "repentant nobleman," ashamed of his own high position, maintained the attitude of the early nihilists. He sympathized with those independents who could not take for their own the worn out moralities, laws, customs and traditions of a long-established society. In his positive belief he made three...
...story free from serious defects is "The Aristocrat." As it stops when its logical end is reached, it has the unusual distinction of leaving something to the Willing imagination of the reader. "Nathaniel," though rather fantastically improbable, is interesting and clever. "Fog and Sunlight," "Old Humphry's Spook" and "Samuel" are all of the bad dream variety and are all of the bad dream variety and are inferior in treatment because their authors had nothing...
...best class of people, came to Virginia. These Cavaliers made the reputation of Virginia, and from them many of our most distinguished families have traced their descent. Sir William Berkeley, a Royalist of the Royalists, was elected governor. After the Restoration his government became tyrannical in the extreme. An aristocrat himself, he had no sympathy with the common people. With the assistance of a group of wealthy planters he attempted to get rid of popular elections. Having in 1660 got an assembly to his liking, he did not dissolve it for sixteen years. The effect of this abuse...
...bearing of an aristocrat, with the convictions of a radical. He had, besides, a literary man's memory,- he could illustrate anything with an appropriate anecdote. No man can retain such power as he possessed for any length of time without being materially changed; he himself said that his life was not wholesome, as he had a constant craving for opposition. Like most of the prohibitionists, he had difficulty in keeping his desire for opposition and controversy out of lectures when there was no call for them. He had difficulty in drawing the line in after life between the reformer...
...Bourget's view that Renan is an intellectual aristocrat borne out by facts...