Word: merciless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lazy in idleness. Every colonist was now made a small independent landholder. New and desirable immigrants began to arrive and the colony extended its limits. A very harsh code of laws was put into force. To the upright, Dale was a friend and helper; toward the depraved he was merciless. An alliance with the Indians was cemented by the romantic union of the princess Pocahontas and the young Englishman, John Rolfe...
...church, and lived his whole life as an inferior ecclesiastic. He was extremely poor, extremely proud, and exceedingly wroth at the wickedness of the world. His one work, "Piers the Ploughman" is a keen and daring satire on the state of society and religion in England, full of merciless sarcasm and incisive irony in the dissoluteness of the clergy and the vanity...