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Example sentences for "feudalism"

Lexicographically close words:
fetus; fetuses; feu; feud; feudal; feudalistic; feudality; feudatories; feudatory; feuding
  1. I have ranked feudalism under the head of barbarism, rejected every species of political aristocracy, and represented the English constitution as essentially antagonistic to the American, not as its type.

  2. Feudalism protected the feudal aristocracy effectively for a time against both the king and the people, but left the king and the people without protection against the aristocracy, and hence it fell.

  3. Feudalism is alike hostile to the freedom of public authority and of the people.

  4. Under feudalism there are estates, but no state.

  5. And nearly all who hold allegiance is due to the Union at all, hold that it is also due to the States, only that which is due to the United States is paramount, as that under feudalism due to the overlord.

  6. Austria is hard at work in the Roman direction, and finds her chief obstacle to success in Hungary, with the Magyars whose feudalism retains almost the full vigor of the Middle Ages.

  7. The right to govern under feudalism was simply an estate, or property; and as the church could acquire and hold property, nothing prevented her holding fiefs, or her chief from being suzerain.

  8. What then is left but to admit the contention of the Socialist that Socialism has no alternative except the undesirable one of a new feudalism differing from the old only in resting upon an industrial rather than an agricultural basis?

  9. Feudalism as a System of Local Government 151.

  10. The main features of European feudalism were thus transplanted to Asiatic soil.

  11. Attainder not only removed the particular traitor, but disqualified his family for place and power; and the process of eliminating feudalism from the region of government, started by Edward I.

  12. The struggle between the disruptive forces of feudalism and the central power of monarchy ended at last in monarchical triumph; and internal unity prepared the way for external expansion.

  13. They inculcated absolute submission of the son to the father, of the wife to her husband, and of the servant to his master, and in these respects Japanese feudalism was a willing and zealous disciple.

  14. The authority coming from so high and so revered a source did not grow less during the centuries of feudalism which followed.

  15. Thus at one stroke the whole institution of feudalism which had flourished from the time of Yoritomo was cut away.

  16. It must be understood that feudalism existed in Japan before the time of Ieyasu.

  17. We refer to the termination of feudalism by the voluntary surrender of their feudal rights on the part of the daimyƍs.

  18. The principles which he lays down fitted in admirably to the ideas which the historical system of Japanese feudalism had made familiar.

  19. I have already said this was their ostensible plea, but the real reason was his determination to exterminate feudalism and establish democratic institutions as soon as he could bring the different factions into harmony.

  20. Countless thousands of human beings were slaughtered to satisfy the aversion of kings and nobles to the plan of one man who towered above them, and insisted on breaking up the nefarious system of feudalism and kingship by divine right.

  21. Black as Feudalism was, yet the coming of it was inevitable.

  22. What else than Feudalism could have followed upon the breakdown of that great centralized governmental machine known as the Roman Empire?

  23. Practically, therefore, the period of the prevalence of the Confucian ethics and their universal acceptance by the people of Japan nearly coincides with the period of Japanese feudalism or the dominance of the military classes.

  24. Slight modifications were made by individual teachers, and emphasis was laid upon this or that feature, while out of the soil of Japanese feudalism were growths of certain virtues as phases of loyalty, phenomenal beyond those in China.

  25. In 1868, after revolution and restoration, the old order changed, and duarchy and feudalism passed away.

  26. From the twelfth to this nineteenth century feudalism in politics and Buddhism in religion prevailed, though Confucianism furnished the social laws or rules of daily conduct.

  27. In Italy feudalism never attained the strength it did in northern Europe.

  28. Thus Feudalism arose in the ninth and tenth centuries from the absolute wreck of property and hopes.

  29. There is no great character with whom Feudalism is especially identified.

  30. When the need of such an institution as Feudalism no longer existed, then it was broken up.

  31. Christianity teaches the idea of a universal brotherhood; Feudalism suppressed or extinguished it.

  32. Monachism recognized what feudalism did not,--the claims of man as man.

  33. But there was a long and gloomy period before Feudalism ripened into an institution,--from the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the eighth and ninth centuries.

  34. Nor is Feudalism to be condemned as being altogether dark and uninteresting.

  35. But for Feudalism and ecclesiastical institutions the European races might not have emerged from anarchy, or might have been subjected to a new and withering imperialism.

  36. Nor did the Commonwealth of England come to nothing, though in a society not half emancipated from feudalism it was premature, and therefore, at the time, a failure.

  37. Catholicism and Feudalism were the life of the Middle Ages.

  38. Another way by which the Crusades contributed to the decay of feudalism was by favoring the enfranchisement of serfs, even without the consent of their masters.

  39. The democracies succeeded no better than feudalism in regulating the balance between rich and poor.

  40. Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

  41. Feudalism remained a foreign importation, and the feudal aristocracy an alien race, and the common people of France sought protection against both in the Roman jurisprudence and the power of the crown.

  42. The clergy, who had in so many ways served the cause of freedom during the prolonged strife against feudalism and slavery, were associated now with the interest of royalty.

  43. No doubt the Reformation resulted from the relaxation of feudalism and the increased liberties of mind and body which men had begun to relish and enjoy.

  44. The virtues of Feudalism were never more strikingly illustrated than during the brief period in which a handful of knights held Jerusalem against a circle of hostile nations.

  45. As soon as the demand for the abolition of feudalism and for the equality of rights was set on the order of the day it had necessarily to take an ever widening scope.

  46. According to the philosophers, the bourgeois world as it exists is unreasonable and unjust and is destined for the rubbish heap, just as feudalism and all other earlier forms of society.

  47. The Turks first introduced a species of feudalism into the lands which they conquered.

  48. Feudalism had been definitely overthrown and Napoleon's supremacy in the state was one that recognized the popular freedom.

  49. The lingering relics of feudalism had vanished, not only from France but from all Europe, and no monarch or congress could bring them back again.

  50. The note of feudalism which their almost reverential attitudes suggested appealed irresistibly to Macheson's sense of humour.

  51. You will pardon my reminding you, madam, that the days of feudalism are over.

  52. However this may be, there is no germ of industrial feudalism in Cincinnati, there are no great factories or workshops.

  53. Feudalism and the Right of the First Night.

  54. Feudalism and the Right of the First Night 66 3.

  55. During feudalism it was in the interest of the feudal lord that his serfs should become married, for the children became his serfs also, adding to the number of his workers and increasing his income.

  56. I then, further, go on to show how the period of feudalism is succeeded by a second world-historic period.

  57. My dreams of Western feudalism had been co-existent with Eastern feudalism itself.

  58. The charter meant, in a word, the establishment of pure feudalism over a vast region in America.

  59. But in the light of the Company's record it may be questioned whether feudalism was not, after all, the best system for dealing with the Indian races.

  60. From the foregoing it will be understood that the oppression of the peasant, under the feudalism of the Middle Ages, and especially of the later Middle Ages, was viewed by him as an infringement of his rights.


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    Other words:
    absolutism; bondage; captivity; collectivism; communism; control; domination; fascism; federalism; feudalism; imperialism; monarchism; peonage; pluralism; restraint; royalism; serfdom; servility; servitude; slavery; socialism; subjugation; thrall; tyranny; vassalage; villenage