Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Overture "Poet and Peasant" Suppe...
...leading article of the Atlantic for May is "European Peasants as Immigrants" by Professor N. S. Shaler. The author considers elaborately the nature of European peasants showing that they are in general of a character much beneath what is to be desired in an American citizen. The reasons of their inferiority are explained in a simple and satisfactory way, and the conclusion is reached "That the American commonwealth would never have been founded if the first European colonists had been of peasant stock. It is doubtful whether it can be maintained if its preservation comes to depend upon such...
There was also a mass of anonymous ballads, dealing with battle and murder and love and Nature. These ballads were many of them very remarkable. Through them there comes the ring or freedom and the quiet sincerity of peasant life. They sing of the hardihood of noble Scotland...
...Irish peasant had not the slightest title to the land he lived on, or the things he possessed. It was a condition which parliament was unable or indifferent to refute. Attempts to remedy his condition applied only to the future rent, not to existing arrears...
...agreed to unite and form a democracy. A constitution was adopted from Norway; the state was divided into four parts, and the latter into thirty nine parishes equally distributed over the island. Its population consists of three classes, the priest chieftain, common free man, who kept slaves, and the peasant. Its religion was native until Christianity was introduced...