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A story "too tedious to relate at large"?: Response to the Levellers, 1647-1653 by Margaret Sampson is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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Amongst all the Engines of Dissention, there hath been none more powerful in all Times, than the fixing Names upon one another of Contumely and Reproach,...such things ever begin in Jest and end in Blood, and the same word that maketh the Company merry, grows in time to a Military Signal to cut one anothers Throats. George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer, 2nd edition, 1689, Preface, A2r. Despite the volume of scholarship which the Leveller movement has attracted, we still know surprisingly little about what contemporaries thought of Leveller ideas -no doubt because the pamphlet literature has little to say on the subject. 1 This scarcity of material may itself be of significance, lending support 1 The pamphlets I have been able to discover are as follows:
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- Author
- Margaret Sampson
- Publisher
- Project MUSE; Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ISSN 1832-8334)
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)