"Insurrection" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that any man who attempted reform would not be sustained. The American Anti-slavery Society having sent tracts denunciatory to slavery throughout the South, and as it was believed that such measures had a tendency to incite the slaves to insurrection, Calhoun brought in a bill subjecting to severe punishment any postmaster who should knowingly receive any such matter for distribution in any State which should pass a law prohibiting the circulation of such. The bill failed on a final ...
— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis
... more clever than honest to put the real cause of Jewish hatred last, since it was a trifle in Roman eyes, and to put first the only thing that Felix would think worth notice. A duller man than he might have scented something suspicious in Jewish officials being so anxious to suppress insurrection against Rome, and probably he had his own thoughts about the good faith of the accusers, though he said nothing. Paul takes up the three points in order. Unsupported charges can only be ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren
... cavalry, and, by maltreating some peaceable saunterers, gave the Parisians a specimen of what they were to expect from the disposition of the court. This inconsiderate galopade, as the French term it, was the first signal of the general insurrection. ...
— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon
... Canadian nationalists who had taken part in an insurrection in Upper Canada on behalf of self-government and who were sent to Van Dieman's Land in convict ships, entered a vigorous protest to ...
— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens
... Fanning, looking grim. "An insurrection is a bad thing, but there was no danger for two lads in the woods, ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
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