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  • United States, for they went on to imitate the mother country not merely in fighting the French, but in seeking to suppress what they felt to be dangerous "Jacobinical" features of American politics.

    The Wars Between England and America T. C. Smith

  • Jacobins were undertaking: it was 'among the labouring and illiterate part of the people that Jacobinical doctrines had made the smallest progress'.

    Letter 88 2009

  • After initially jumping to the conclusion that this was yet another example of Jacobinical mobocracy in action, I paused on this sentence from the article:In a society where judicial corruption is rampant and ordinary people have few protections in the court of law, an increasing number of Chinese citizens are turning to the Internet to fill in society's perceived legal and moral blind spots.

    Cyber Vigilantism or Civil Society? 2006

  • Kim Jin-hong, hopes to win the country back after five years of Jacobinical rule by the "Participatory Government" of Pres.

    My Kind of Neocons 2006

  • I do not approve of the principles of the family: they are Jacobinical. '

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • On the contrary, all the scandalous insinuations, and licentious remarks, with which the Jacobinical foreign journalists had filled their pestiferous pages, relative to our hero and his friends in Italy, and which had found their way into the most thoughtless and depraved of our own newspapers, were preserved for his lordship's immediate amusement.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

  • In La Vendée, one of the departments of France, an insurrection broke out against the Jacobinical government, in 1793.

    Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

  • But they heard also the less pleasing tidings, that Henriot, having effected the dispersion of those citizens who had obstructed, as elsewhere mentioned, the execution of the eighty condemned persons, and consummated that final act of murder, was approaching the Tuilleries, where they had held their sitting, with a numerous staff, and such of the Jacobinical forces as could hastily be collected.

    Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

  • The clergy in the early part of the nineteenth century were brought up in foreign seminaries, where passive obedience to the established order was inculcated, and where, as was natural in such places, a horror of the Jacobinical principles of the French revolution created among them an antagonism to any violent agitation, which admittedly or not drew its inspiration from that source, but the names of Dr. Doyle of Kildare, of

    Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell

  • Mr. Avenel's fingers itched to knock the tinker's villainous hat off his Jacobinical head, but he repressed the undignified impulse by thrusting both hands deep into his trowsers 'pockets.

    Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

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