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| | Glossems on Historical Events, Conditions and Movements: "Jacobites" and "Jacobins." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | "Jacobins soon became the common nickname given, not only to those who had admired the dawn of the French liberation, but to those who were known to have any taste for any internal reform." Edmund Burke, in 1795, was to ask the question: |
 | | For this purpose the Jacobins have resolved to destroy the whole frame and fabric of the old societies of the world, and to regenerate them after their fashion. |
 | | The word Jacobin was originally, grammatically, an adjective used in the French language, frère jacobin, or, in English, jacobin friar. |
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