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"High-handedness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was the scene of homicide and empoisonment. Italy presented the spectacle of a nation armed against itself, not to decide the issue of antagonistic political principles by civil strife, but to gratify lawless passions—cupidity, revenge, resentment—by deeds of personal high-handedness. Among the common people of the country and the towns, crimes of brutality and bloodshed were of daily occurrence; every man bore weapons for self-defence, and for attack upon his neighbor. The aristocracy and the upper classes of the bourgeoisie lived ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds |
Words linked to "High-handedness" : snobbism, imperiousness, contemptuousness, disdainfulness, domineeringness, hauteur, snobbishness, pride, superciliousness, hubris, high-handed, superiority, superbia, condescension, snobbery, overbearingness |
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