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To no class indeed could the selfishness, the corruption, the factiousness, and the administrative inefficiency of the ruling order be more utterly odious.

From History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 by Green, John Richard

The accusation does not appear to have been quite untrue, for Vespasian, who was a very moderate emperor, thought it necessary to banish nearly all the philosophers from Rome on account of their factiousness.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

It is no innate factiousness, as flighty critics of French affairs sometimes imply, that has made civil equality the passion of modern France.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John

It may be remembered that all the governors of the period agreed in reprobating the factiousness and pettiness of Canadian party politics.

From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by Morison, J. L. (John Lyle)

The Assembly continued, notwithstanding the war exigencies of the times, in their factiousness, as their persistence in some measures was considered.

From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles