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Yet, until he could associate his general principles with some sordid interest, panic of property, jacobinism, &c., he was a mere dinner bell.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

This, indeed, is the moral value of the play at large, and that which places it at a world's distance from the spirit of modern jacobinism.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

She had been married during the æra of jacobinism, and had divorced her husband, because they could not agree.

From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Pinkney, Lt-Col.

The shocking spirit of jacobinism seemed no longer confined to politics.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

If I am asked, how I would be understood in the use of these terms, regicide, jacobinism, atheism, and a system of corresponding manners, and their establishment?

From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund