 ... crushed by the foreign arms of Charles V, and the deceit of the Popes, and we began to lose our national character, and to live as if we were Spaniards, Germans, and French. Then our learned men began to play the buffoon to princes, and to stimulate...  Social and Religious Life of Italians in America - Page 96by Enrico C. Sartorio, Henry Charles Sartorio - 1918 - 149 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William James Linton - Democracy - 1851 - 394 pages
...religious truth was impossible, began to make a market of religion, and to think of themselves, and not of the people whom they ought to have enlightened and protected. And then the People, despised by the literati, betrayed and devoured to the bone by the priests, banished... | |
 | William James Linton - 1851 - 806 pages
...religious truth was impossible, began to make a market of religion, and to think of themselves, aud not of the people whom they ought to have enlightened and protected. And then the People, despised by the literati, betrayed and devoured to the bone by the priests, banished... | |
 | Giuseppe Mazzini - Duty - 1915 - 376 pages
...to play the buffoon to princes, and to stimukte their listless patrons by laughing at everybody and everything. Then our priests, seeing that any application...they ought to have enlightened and protected. And then the people, despised by the learned, deceived and fleeced by the priests, banished from any influence... | |
 | Giuseppe Mazzini - History - 2005 - 369 pages
...to play the buffoon to princes, and to stimulate their listless patrons by laughing at everybody and everything. Then our priests, seeing that any application...they ought to have enlightened and protected. And then the people, despised by the learned, deceived and fleeced by the priests, banished from any influence... | |
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