The disorders of the preceding year in that city had culminated at Christmas in a riot in which General Duphot had been assassinated; this outrage furnished the pretext desired by the Directory for Revolutionizing Central Italy.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
Therefore he was either ignorant of or he ignored late discoveries of science which had Revolutionizing applicability to the very theories which he was putting forth.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
Finding that the revolutionary spirit did not revive, and that historical societies, which have not lost their moral and economic vitality, had a greater readjusting power against political disturbance than he previously believed, he gave up for the next ten or twelve years the active work of Revolutionizing.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae