Mr. Belloc sees in the feudal system strongly administered from a centre, with the villein secured in his holding and the townsman controlled and protected by his guild, if not a perfect, at least a solidly successful polity.
I, for one, had not come provided with any successful Regents with whom to counter this generalization; and when I came to think of it, it was quite true.
We all know that as a matter of fact the Revolution was, upon the whole, successful in imposing its view upon Europe.
The progress of the Middle Ages was a progress towards unity, less successful but more spontaneous than that which was achieved under the compelling hand of the Roman armies.
He had been Regent," said Belloc with forbearance, "and in all the Middle Ages there is no example of a successful Regent.
In this he is quite in the tradition of the only country of quite successful revolutions.
A recrudescence of the early independence of the landowners was felt in the reign of Henry II, while under John it blazed out into successful revolt.
These are successful books for children, of a great popularity, and may be read with considerable pleasure by elder persons.
As you say, John, we want to get clear away without a suspicion reaching the Dutchman, and we shall feel all the more successful if we contrive that not one of our tribe is overlooked and left behind for the pirates to kill.
Mr. Henty undoubtedly possesses the secret of writing eminently successful historical tales; and those older than the lads whom the author addresses in his preface may read the story with pleasure.
That being the case, they will make strenuous efforts to resist us, for they have existed for a century and more and no one has ever been successful in repressing them.
He heard, faintly, the encouraging shouts of Boots and Jim as they cheered for a successful takeoff.
He was a personable specimen of the clever and successful manufacturer.
Millicent was preoccupied with her successful performance at the concert; and Ethel and Fred had had a brilliant idea.
Duty demands the attempt, and successful or unsuccessful, it shall be made.
When the water is not too deep jigging with unbaited hooks proves successful when fish are plentiful.
The baby of the mud hut is a charming young lady, a graduate of a school in the United States, and the successful member of a useful profession.
When Captain Kean lost his life a few years later the sealing fleet lost one of its most successful masters.
He is one of the best known and most successful masters of the great sealing fleet.
If I am successful I am permitted to go free, and so are my fellow-hostages.
I am satisfied, whatever your opinion may be of me or of my people, that you will return if you say you will, successful or otherwise.
Maeterlinck has been most successful in preserving the spirit of the original where he has translated into rhyme instead of prose, for here the exactions of the French verse have forced him to a greater freedom.
The successful scientist does not, like a shopper, look over one by one all available samples and pick out what he wants.
Of course everybody was very happy, now that they were returning homeward from a voyage successful beyond parallel in history, and even Rovinski was beginning to assume an air of gratified anticipation.
His victories have been attributed to Warwick, but it is noticeable that he was as successful over Warwick as he had been over the Lancastrians, against whom Warwick originally fought.
The most successful mink hunting is done during the day by having your dog along and following the banks of creeks, lakes, ponds, etc.
On the question of the proper age at which to begin training a hound, a successful Minnesota trainer takes issue with those who advise taking the pup to field at eight or ten months of age.
If your efforts are not successful and you are in danger of losing one or more good dogs, write a specialist.
The following directions for perfecting the rabbit dog, are from the pen of an experienced and successful Ohio hunter.
This type of dog, either pure bred or crossed lends himself readily to deer, wolf, fox or rabbit chasing, and is especially successful if hunted in company with good trailers.
Trigg's dogs, Trigg, is the most successfulhound breeder in the United States today.
But he has evidently laboured con amore, and his efforts are successful to a degree.
Behind every successful revolutionary movement there stands another, representing one negation more than its predecessor.
The successful performance of your "Faust" has pleased me immensely.
I do not venture to say that I expect a successful issue, but one thing I shall gain in any case, and that the most necessary of all, viz.
The reader will at once have anticipated that the prisoners were Maso and his companions, who had been more successful in escaping from their keepers, than fortunate in evading the attempts to secure their persons a second time.
They escorted two of their number who had been pronounced the most skilful and successful in cultivating the vineyards of the adjacent côtes.
Maso felt the eagerness of one who had already been successful beyond his hopes, and, in his desire to catch some guiding signal, he leaned forward, till the rolling lake washed into his face.
Even thy purse is empty, though known to be a successful and desperate trifler with the revenue, in all those states where the entrance duty is enforced.
The punishment of the dynamiter--successful or unsuccessful--should be severe, but it should be solemnly inflicted after due process of law.
Up to the present time (1914) the Union-Labor party has four times beensuccessful in San Francisco mayoralty elections.
Thus with the supporters of the prosecution overwhelmingly successful at the Republican and Democratic primaries, there was grave danger that their purposes would be set aside by political manipulation.
The "System" at San Francisco had taken the usual precautions which ordinarily ensure it against successful opposition, or even question.
But the result, so far as the Democratic and Republican parties were concerned, was overwhelmingly successful for the prosecution.
He was at the close of successful prosecution of these cases, when invited by Rudolph Spreckels, Phelan and others, to participate in the prosecution of the San Francisco graft cases.
Had there been no San Francisco graft prosecution, there would, in 1910, have been no successful political uprising in California.
The reception to the fleet was thus carried to successful conclusion without the assistance of the graft defense element.
Doctor Coles has made, we think, the most successful attempt at an English translation of the hymn that we have ever seen.
Another attempt, perhaps not an entirely successful one, but still a significant attempt, has been made in this country to produce a contemporaneous drama.
Once out of the Emperor's reach, all thought of the particular duty in hand was instantly abolished, and superseded by a successful effort to establish a new nation, which in time resolved itself into Japan.
Where she took up and fed her soul upon John Wesley's conclusions, the boy found himself involved in John Wesley's perplexities, and struggling in desperate wrestle with the haunting shapes to which John Wesley had given successful battle.
They make their successful generals Presidents; they give dinners to Morphy and banquets to Cyrus Field.
The same peculiarity is observable in all experiments with the moving tables or rapping spirits, which are more successful when accompanied by constant music.
The greatest advances of science have always consisted in some successful formulation, in clear, abstract, and communicable terms, of what was instinctively known long before, and of thus making it the permanent property of humanity.
It is permissible, therefore, to ask whether accident leads the discoverer, or the discoverer accident, to a successfuloutcome in scientific quests.
Educational competition is excluded, for all successful attempts at improvement are impossible unless undertaken or permitted by the State.
Lagrange characterises this principle as precarious and is rejoiced at James Bernoulli's successful attempt, in 1681, to reduce the theory of the centre of oscillation to the laws of the lever, which appeared to him clearer.
What should we think of a people that would force its youth a thousand years from now, by years of practice, to master the tortuous or bombastic style of some successful lawyer or politician of to-day?
Content with such flowers as came in her way, and not aiming at what was beyond her reach, she has been successful in her pursuit.
He was a farmer, and did not think of the qualifications necessary to a successful merchant.
They arrived in London in the evening, and after a surprisingly successful search for their luggage at Waterloo, managing not to lose anything, got into a cab, and drove to Penelope Mansion.
Jasmine hoped that if she were very successful she might be able to buy a little present apiece for both her sisters.
Hannah returned to Devonshire on the following morning very well pleased with her successful expedition.
The events in the three years that are preserved include a successfulraid upon the negroes, and the construction of ships and gates of cedar-wood which must have been brought from the forests of the Lebanon.
All over Egypt there was a feeling of unrest, and the well-meant but not very successful efforts of the British to improve the state of things were making them very unpopular.
These successful campaigns were probably not very costly, and prisoners, plunder and tribute poured in from them to enrich Egypt.
In March 1892 Colonel Kitchener succeeded General Sir Francis Grenfell, and four years later began his successful reconquest of the Sudan.
He was successful in bringing the various churches of the Presbyterian order into closer touch with each other, and unwearying in his efforts to promote education for his countrymen.
The Carmathians were gradually forced to retreat from Egypt and then from Syria by some successful engagements, and by the judicious use of bribes, whereby dissension was sown among their leaders.
His short reign was marked by some fairly successful incursions into Armenia, and the recovery of the fortresses Marash and Tell Hamdun, which had been retaken by the Armenians.
In September 1896 a skirmish at Hafir, with similarly successful tactics, gave the British commander the possession of Dongola.
