An account of the Revolt
will be found in section 4 of chapter 5 of his "Short History of the
English People." The phrases in verses 3 and 5 were catchwords among the
revolters.
{36} After dismissing the peasants with the formally written
acknowledgment of their freedom and rights, Richard II. with an army of
40,000 followers avenged himself and his lords by ruthless and prolonged
massacres over the whole country.
{38} Who owns, and rack-rents, some of the vilest slums in London, and
is beautifully aesthetic in private life.
{39a} The French.
{39b} "Voe victis!" woe to the conquered--the motto of the Gauls in Rome
as of the modern Civilization of Land and Capital.
{44} France.
{45} In Pere-la-Chaise, the famous Parisian cemetery, the Communists
made a desperate stand, but were overcome and the captured ones shot.
And Morny's vaulted tomb was close at hand, and Balzac smiled his animal
cynicism from his bust. Victims, murderer, and commenting Chorus, all
were there.
{46} A part of Paris.
{49} The New Model is the name by which is known that reorganization of
the Roundhead Army, without which Cromwell saw that the Cavaliers could
not be conquered. No one was permitted in its ranks who did not
thoroughly believe in the Cause for which it fought.
{66} This graveyard, one side of a gully, which suddenly expands and
leaves its base large enough for the local race-course, is in summer one
of the loveliest spots on earth. Hindoos, Protestants, Catholics, and
Mahommadan have their separate portions. Here in regimental or
individual tombs are the record of noble lives thrown away in the
iniquity of the English relations with China.
{69a} The Russian tea-urn.
{69b} In China the system of Trades Unions is admirable.--Coolie is the
generic term in the East for labourer.
{70} This is one of the three well-known colossi of Gautama, the Buddha.
The same type of proud patience marks this embodiment of the suffering
East, wherever we meet it.
{76} Dr Moorhouse came out to Melbourne as bishop in the Church of
England there in 1876. He almost immediately took the position of the
leading religious personality in Australia. To a rare geniality he added
the gifts of a "scholar" and a "gentleman," both real and both as modern
as yet seems permitted to the old caste and religion. He achieved an
influence over men of all denominations, and of none, that was quite
phenomenal, and might have be
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