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Note: Sons of the Soil is also known as The Peasantry and is referred to by that title when mentioned in other addendums.
Sons of the Soil Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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And he, and his successors, absolutely agreed that the Peasantry needed to be broken up, brutally.
Matthew Yglesias » Israel Deserves Better Defenders Than Andrew Roberts 2010
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S.vage and Civilised Russia, by "W.R." (1877), is an informative work; two largely political tracts by S. S.epniak, Russia under the Tsars (1885) and The Russian Peasantry (1888), contain useful material and interesting bias; and the Memoirs of the celebrated Russian radical, Alexander Herzen (1812-70), give an illuminating insight into the serf mentality.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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‘Croker and Lover’, Yeats had written in 1888, ‘full of the ideas of harum-scarum Irish gentility, saw everything humorised’ Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, ed.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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The end of this tactic is a Fascist Corporatocracy where the working class is changed to the Peasantry.
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Peasantry: Those people who depend on land for their livelihood
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Peasantry: Those people who depend on land for their livelihood
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WBY had edited Fairy and Folk Tales of The Irish Peasantry (1888) and Stories from Carleton (1889).
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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WBY had edited Fairy and Folk Tales of The Irish Peasantry (1888) and Stories from Carleton (1889).
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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WBY had edited Fairy and Folk Tales of The Irish Peasantry (1888) and Stories from Carleton (1889).
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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