Sentences with phrase «bands of peasants»
Bands of peasants, armed and on the move, were taking over control of part of the Black Forest in the south - west, by the middle of August.
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But Croce did not «go to the people,» did not wish to become a «national» element (just as the men of the Renaissance — unlike the Lutherans and Calvinists — were not «national» elements), did not wish to create a band of disciples who... could have popularized his philosophy and tried to make it into an educative element, starting in the primary school (and hence educative for the simple worker or peasant, i.e., for the simple man of the people).
The peasants who have now banded together in Swabia have formulated their intolerable grievances against the rulers in twelve articles, and have undertaken to support them with certain passages of Scripture... the thing that pleases me most... is that they offer to accept instructions... Since I have a reputation for being one of those who deal with the Holy Scriptures here on earth, and especially as one whom they mention and call upon by name in the second document, I have all the more courage and confidence in openly publishing my instruction.